One of the things that our parents taught my sister and me was the importance of voting. They did this by example. They always voted.
So with only a couple of exceptions that I can recall, I’ve voted in every election since I’ve become eligible.
Whenever I hear of people who don’t vote, it always makes me angry. It seems to me that voting ought to be one’s duty as a citizen of a democratic society.
Then again, I hear about so-called “low information” voters (I’d call them idiots, but never mind) who base their vote for president on things that the president actually has no control over, like the price of gas. Oh wait, actually this president did exercise some control over the price of gasoline, didn’t he? But then again, this current Republican president is the exception to just about every rule.
Anyway, this is all simply an introduction to This Week in Freudenfreude: Nobody’s Gonna Paint Baby Into a Corner about three different cases of voters who made sure that Republican politicians or anything else didn’t take away their right to vote:
We shall start in Mississippi, where a woman named Kayla Murchison Fowler was among the tens of thousands of voters purged from voter rolls based on information derived from credit histories. She voted by affidavit, and then called the number on the card she was given, to check to make sure her vote would be recorded. The phone number was disconnected, so she moved on to the website listed on the card. It was offline. She then drove to the office of the Madison County Circuit Clerk, only to find it closed for renovations. She then used some serious Google skills to figure out where the temporary Madison County Circuit Clerk office was located, and then drove there. The employees working there were disinterested, so Fowler shared a few… insightful words about how her ballot better be counted, or she’d be on the phone with the ACLU. The next day, she got confirmation that her ballot had been accepted.
Read the whole thing and find out what the pictures on this post are all about.