by #ChrisMcKenna in #lohud:

"The state Board of Elections sounded the alarm last week, warning New Yorkers that people posing as county election workers had been confronting voters at their homes and falsely claiming they committed crimes because of how their names appeared in a statewide voter database.

“'We are extremely alarmed by these actions,' Raymond Riley III, the state board's co-executive director, said in a statement then. 'These individuals are impersonating government officials in an effort to intimidate voters based on inaccurate and misleading information.'”

https://archive.ph/2st8Y

#NewYork #elections #VotingRights #voting #voters

Interesting change of perspective from Sir Robert Buckland, who brought in voter ID in the UK and then found it was actually very difficult to do fairly: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/11/voter-id-in-england-led-to-racial-and-disability-discrimination-report-finds

Will be interesting to see where this goes next.

#uk #voting #democracy

Voter ID in England led to racial and disability discrimination, report finds.

“The current voter-ID system is, as it stands, a ‘poisoned cure’ in that it disenfranchises more electors than it protects.”
#UKPol #UKPolitics #ToryGovt #Elections #Voting #England #Discrimination #disenfranchisement
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/11/voter-id-in-england-led-to-racial-and-disability-discrimination-report-finds?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Its now clear that #VoterID requirements in local election caused impediments to #voting along #racial lines & also impeded voting by the #disabled.

The review suggests Voter ID is a 'poisoned cure' to a minor problem; but of course, this was not a bug, but a feature of the policy.

As I said, #RishiSunak is criticising #China for interfering with #democracy in the UK, mainly because that's the #Tories job!

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/11/voter-id-in-england-led-to-racial-and-disability-discrimination-report-finds

#nzpol #NZTwits #NewZealand #Voting

Overseas Voting in the New Zealand General Election begins September 27th.

I have a goal. I literally want to be the first person to cast my vote, digitally signed with a witness, as soon as ballot papers are available.

I am in the electorate of Dunedin, and I plan to vote two ticks Green this election.

Francisco Hernandez is the candidate for Dunedin I most support, and the Greens have earned my trust and vote through their mahi.

Good luck and vote!

Maldives election
Campaigners face second round
Voters decide fate

#maldives #presidentialelection #voting #votersdecide #haiku #poetry

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/tropical-maldives-heads-polls-closely-watched-by-india-china-2023-09-09/

Here is a great discussion on swing states in U.S. elections.

#ProtectDemocracy #SaveDemocracy #PackSwingStates #MoveToASwingState #democracy #USpolitics #news #SwingStates #elections #voting

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-are-the-swing-states-of-the-future/

If voting didn't matter, the Republicans wouldn't be trying so hard to keep you from doing it.

#USPol #Republicans #voting

The thing I love about #voting in Norway, is that I can vote on. Party that my colleagues sees as completely lunatics, and still they’re response is: “Did you #vote ? … Good on you!” #voting should be encouraged. Even if someone insist on voting for “The standing in the back and looking stupid party”

Aha, the #Tories are exploring ways of cutting non-pension #benefits in the run up to the next #election to give #JeremyHunt the fiscal headroom to cut #taxes.

For anyone who has ever argued that #voting has little effect, the higher incidence of voting among pensioners seems to give them a degree of 'protection' unavailable to other classes of people in need of state support;

and don't forget, the #tripplelock will ensure state pension rises will nearly match #inflation, unlike most #wages

Just went #voting in #Norway for #kommunevalget2023.

The voting day is on Monday 11.09.
#advancevote is possible since 10.08. until today.

That's A WHOLE MONTH where I can turn up at any station that I pass by and cast my #vote.
One Month, anytime, where ever I want.

Don't let them tell you things like that are 'not possible'.
It is, they just don't want it.

#votingrights #votersuppression #valg2023 #valg23

#Lowbudget #MAGA #propaganda network @oann and dipshit reporter @chanelrion last week reached a settlement with former #Dominion #Voting Systems executive Eric Coomer, who had sued for #defamation in #Colorado after the channel had falsely accused him of being an agent of #Antifa who had rigged the #2020election against #PresidentTrump. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed.

https://nationalzero.com/2023/09/05/oan-settles-with-former-dominion-executive/

Judges reject #Alabama’s #congressionallines, will draw new districts to increase #Black #voting power

https://ground.news/article/judges-reject-alabamas-congressional-lines-will-draw-new-districts-to-increase-black-voting-power_65a2e1

Voting in North Carolina faces some big changes with a Republican-backed bill
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/02/1197252802/north-carolina-voting-legislation

#Voting #NorthCarolina #USPol #Politics #Fediverse #Mastodon

Excited this morning to go & early vote in our mayor/council runoff election! I love that our voices really matter in local elections. Even more excited though to be biking to vote as a group with other cyclists! @timcoffman & I made some bike spoke cards to share bc bikes deserve bling. #voting #politics #Nashville #BikeTooter

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@GaryRLundberg

#Voting isn't really voting if it's done under the threat of a lynching. I shouldn't have to say this in the United States of America. But it's 2023.

This is interesting, but I would say it’s wrong in most of the details.

Basically, what if America had the Israeli proportional voting system?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27qtRp5-XVE&ab_channel=J.J.McCullough

#politics #voting

Not surprisingly, voters as a whole don't seem to apply the same, um, SOUL-CRUSHING IMPORTANCE to crushing #woke #teachers, #LGBTQ -friendly curriculum, or the hopes and lives of #trans kids in school, as, say, #GOP politicians and pundits do. Support for such #culturewar issues is higher among #Republicans, but even there, the polling doesn't show this focus as a grass roots groundswell.

Now, if that just translated into actual #voting ...

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-poll-shows-massive-backlash-to

#CivicCoding-InnovationCamp. Hört sich #spannend an. Ist es auch! 🌟 Bestimme mit, an welchen gemeinwohlorientierten KI-Fragestellungen die Teilnehmenden weiterarbeiten sollen. Wie? Über das Online-#Voting auf unserem Webportal 👇
https://civic-coding.de/angebote/meldungen/nachbericht-republica-workshop