Showing posts with label New Mexico. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Mexico. Show all posts

Friday, October 5, 2012

Voter Suppression 101

These reports out of New Mexico seem familiar to trends in Massachusetts elections the past few years. 

Partisan training of poll workers and observers to enforce a non-existent Voter ID law? Check.

Harassing Hispanic voters while trying to enforce non-existent English only laws?  Check.

Unfounded accusations of the trained election officials rigging the elections?  Check.

Overstepping their role as observers and interfering with voters?  Check.

Widespread and highly inaccurate purging of the voter rolls?  Check.

Looks like Activate Worcester is merely taking a page from the True the Vote playbook without any actual proof of wrongdoing in Massachusetts.





Despite glowing paeans to the brilliance of Activate Worcester in GoLocalWorcester, the only thing Activate Worcester has been able to accomplish to date is 'poll worker training,' a small amount of fundraising, and robocalls/mailings in an attempt to suppress the vote of "welfare recipients and disenfranchised people" because of the presence of "extreme left candidates" in this year's elections.


Sounds like this group doesn't understand democracy and voting rights, just like the GOP in New Mexico.