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7 Ways to Beat the Ballot Bandits

Thu, 08/09/2012 - 18:31 — Dave Culver
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  • Don’t wait until Election Day to find out you have the wrong ID, your registration’s “inactive,” (9.9 million of you) or you’re on some creep’s challenge list.
  • Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About Voter ID Laws
  • Voter ID laws aim to disenfranchise

Greg Palast, OpEdNews

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(August 6, 2012) 1. Don't Don't Don't Mail In Your Ballot
For those of you who mailed in your ballot, please tell me, what happened to it? You don't know, do you? I can tell you that in the last election, half a million absentee ballots were never counted, on the flimsiest of technical excuses. And when they don't count, you don't even know it. Worse: Tens of thousands of ballots are not mailed out to voters in time to return them -- in which case you're out of luck. Most states won't let you vote in-precinct once you've applied to vote absentee. Every time I hear of a voter going "absentee" to avoid computer screens, I want to "go postal."

2. Vote Early -- Before the Ballot Bandits Wake Up
Every state now lets voters cast ballots in designated polling stations and at county offices in the weeks before Election Day. Do it. Don't wait until Election Day to find out you have the wrong ID, your registration's "inactive," (9.9 million of you) or you're on some creep's challenge list. By Election Day, if your name is gone or tagged, there's little you can do but hold up the line.

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Related:

Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About Voter ID Laws, Suevon Lee, ProPublica

  • We've taken a step back to look at the facts behind the laws and break down the issues at the heart of the debate.
  • Suppress the Vote!
  • Policy Brief on the Truth About “Voter Fraud” Analysis

Voter ID laws aim to disenfranchise, Betsey Piette, Workers World 

  • It is being called the new “poll tax” levied as a requirement for voting in parts of the United States.
  • Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About Voter ID Laws
     

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