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Federal Judge Says No Right To Secret Ballot, OKs Barcoded Ballots
doug141 writes "A Colorado county put bar codes on printed ballots in a last minute effort to comply with a rule about eliminating identifying markings. Citizens sued, because the bar codes can still be traced back to individual voters. In a surprise ruling, Denver U.S. District Judge Christine Arguello said the U.S. Constitution did not contain a 'fundamental right' to secret ballots, and that the citizens could not show their voting rights had been violated, nor that they might suffer any specific injury from the bar codes."
> Yeah - try applying those bolded words to elections in the US and you're RAAACIST!!!!
Because you are. The idea that voter fraud is any real problem is just a clansman fantasy. That's not the real problem. The real problem is that voter turnout pathetically low.
The fact that a clansman like you wants to put barriers in front of those that want to encourage greater voter participation is the real problem.
More participation does more to negate the imagined harm of voter fraud then any other action you could take. It also doesn't require the intentional or unintentional disenfranchisement of any rightful voter.
Participation is the problem, not "fraud".
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.