Vote Suppression in Houston
Oct. 26th, 2008 01:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
omorkaScholars and Rogues has a summary of local vote suppression in its usual guise as "prevention of voter fraud".
I find the current division of partisan voting concerns - the Republicans convinced that thousands of people who are not allowed to vote will do so, the Democrats concerned that thousands of people who are supposed to be allowed to vote will not get to exercise the franchise - really rather disturbing, given the Republican party's historical origins. Isn't it more democratic (small d) to default on the side of allowing people to vote? I'm always shocked that the Republican approach of assuming that registrations are invalid doesn't get more bad press than it does.
I find the current division of partisan voting concerns - the Republicans convinced that thousands of people who are not allowed to vote will do so, the Democrats concerned that thousands of people who are supposed to be allowed to vote will not get to exercise the franchise - really rather disturbing, given the Republican party's historical origins. Isn't it more democratic (small d) to default on the side of allowing people to vote? I'm always shocked that the Republican approach of assuming that registrations are invalid doesn't get more bad press than it does.
