We list many remedies in the lawsuit -- from asking the counties to correct these errors over major media, to pushing back the registration deadlines, to simply making sure the polls don't run out of crossover ballots. There is an even better remedy. It just requires some thought and some social action.
The quick fix that everybody can do is vote now, either by mail or in person. Don't wait and find out about problems on the last day. We have early voting in California -- not publicized by the major media.
The polling booths in the basement of San Francisco City Hall are empty and silent. They will be jammed, however, on Election Day. Independents can step up and ask for a crossover ballot -- but only if they know to ask. The poll workers are trained not to tell them of the option!
Disenfranchisement is a terrible thing. It's been going on in the South forever. We're finally getting a look at it in places like Brooklyn, where 126,000 were purged from the rolls shortly before the New York primary. A 14% drop of Democrats in five months? Right before the primary?
Brooklyn is where Bernie grew up. Independents couldn't vote in the New York primary, but they couldn't exactly take the vote away from Democrats ... unless they were purged from the rolls.
Purges of adversarial voters are not just done by Karl Rove. They are done by forces of political power, exercised by people who make up the rules and then enforce the rules they made up. If the elections officials aren't vigilant or allow ambiguous language to creep in or worse, thousands of votes are affected.
Some of this conduct is incompetent. Some of it is criminal. All of it has to stop.
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