11 of America's Worst Places to Vote (or Try)
We used to think the voting system was something like the traffic laws - a set of rules clear to everyone, enforced everywhere, with penalties for transgressions; we used to think, in other words, that we had a national election system. As it turns out, except for a rudimentary federal framework, US elections are shaped by a dizzying mélange of inconsistently enforced laws, conflicting court rulings, local traditions, various technology choices, and partisan trickery. Mother Jones provides a list - partial, but emblematic - of American democracy's more glaring weak spots.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090406Z.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090406Z.shtml
rudkla - 4. Sep, 16:21
