Voting rights groups decry error days before elections that will determine which party controls the state legislature

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    1 year ago

    That is important to keep in mind to make aure their rights arent stepped on.

    The chance of that happening is not an argument against the guarantee that they cannot vote who they want when they lose the right altogether. Hell, one of the arguments against women getting the right to vote in the US was that they would be forced to vote in step with their husband, which of course ignored all the single women on top of just being a reason to make it easier to vote anonymously.

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      1 year ago

      This one is a great point.

      And then it means there should be a combined effort both to elevate voting restrictions and inspect obvious points of abuse.

      It’s not easy to ask the gov do that if it was elected with these conditions. But maybe a civil iniciative to oversee the process then?

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        1 year ago

        Holding the government accountable is far more likely to be successful with a positive outcome than private individual stuff like pollwatchers who exist to undermine the system.

        If a group wants to improve things, they should be supporting the efforts of election officials to have fair elections.