I have been inconvenienced

desert dude

Well-Known Member
I got my California ballot in the mail a couple of days ago and was surprised to discover that I had to spend thirty minutes darkening the circles next to my choices. Surely, I should be allowed to dictate my choices from my chaise lounge. What of those who can't read, or wield a #2 pencil? They are utterly disenfranchised. Women and minorities hit hardest!

Then, to add injury to insult, I had to apply a stamp to ensure delivery to the vote counters by the postal service. Yes, you read that right, I had to pay a POLL TAX to the US postal service to vote. On top of all that, I had to register to vote before I was granted the privilege of a ballot, I am sure they required some sort of ID before they allowed me to register but I can't recall the details of that.

I am disenfranchised!
 

NoDrama

Well-Known Member
You right wing crazies scoff at the levy of a poll tax. Me today, you tomorrow.
Lets not forget, poor people can't afford postage, they gotta sell nearly $25 in food stamps for one "forever" stamp from the stamp dealer in the alley. Would these right wing clowns really want a family of four to starve for a month just so they can have the "Right" to vote? Does no one realize that USPS does not accept EBT?
 

desert dude

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It gets worse. My dog, Pete, was having trouble filling out his ballot, that opposable thumb disability, so he instructed me to fill out his ballot for him. I asked him how he wanted to vote and he gave me one of those "how can you be so dense" looks and said he wanted to vote the straight Democratic ticket. I pointed out that there were a few Freedom-Loving libertarians that he might consider but he replied that he "didn't want to waste his vote, and besides he was anxious to get some of that free dog food he heard the panderers talking about", so in the end I had to mark the straight D line for him. He rightly objected to the poll tax and also is offended that he has to have a license.

Democracy is crumbling.
 

schuylaar

Well-Known Member
I got my California ballot in the mail a couple of days ago and was surprised to discover that I had to spend thirty minutes darkening the circles next to my choices. Surely, I should be allowed to dictate my choices from my chaise lounge. What of those who can't read, or wield a #2 pencil? They are utterly disenfranchised. Women and minorities hit hardest!

Then, to add injury to insult, I had to apply a stamp to ensure delivery to the vote counters by the postal service. Yes, you read that right, I had to pay a POLL TAX to the US postal service to vote. On top of all that, I had to register to vote before I was granted the privilege of a ballot, I am sure they required some sort of ID before they allowed me to register but I can't recall the details of that.

I am disenfranchised!
 

desert dude

Well-Known Member
I knew it was only a matter of time till this poll tax went mainstream!


http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/10/18/justices-allow-texas-use-new-voter-id-law/

"The greatest threat to public confidence in elections in this case is the prospect of enforcing a purposefully discriminatory law, one that likely imposes an unconstitutional poll tax and risks denying the right to vote to hundreds of thousands of eligible voters," Ginsburg wrote in dissent.
 

UncleBuck

Well-Known Member
are you arguing against local jurisdictions making their own rules?

you need some type of top down, one size fits all, federal government solution?

what are you, some type of homosexual communist?

looks like contra costa county is not contra the costas.
 
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