Ohio Republicans Outlaw Kindness at the Polling Place
July 5, 2011 at 4:48 PM Leave a comment
I tell you, Republicans are masters at coming up with even the most minute ways to screw people:
Last week, the GOP-led [Ohio] House passed an election law overhaul without the highly restrictive voter ID provision. However, the House tweaked the bill to weaken a law mandating poll workers to direct voters in the wrong precinct to their correct voting location. Under the new language, a poll worker need not direct a voter to where they are eligible, adding that “it is the duty of the individual casting the ballot to ensure that the individual is casting that ballot in the correct precinct.”
Of course, the real reason for this law isn’t to encourage individual responsibility, it’s to suppress the vote of people who are likely to vote Democratic.
It also makes it illegal to simply be a kind, helpful, fellow citizen. It legalizes — requires, actually — that poll workers be asshats.
I swear, the society the Republicans are trying to create is not one I want to live in.
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