How to stop the next Melowese Richardson
True the Vote – Catherine Engelbrecht
– 7/22/2013
America has three big problems that prevent us from
improving the state of our elections: an apathetic electorate, a lax electoral
process, and chronic political correctness. Stated another way, most
American voters don’t really value their vote. This is evidenced by our
abysmal rate of voter turnout. In fact, our voter turnout rate ranks dead
last when compared to any other industrialized nation in the world.
When you don’t value
something there’s no incentive to improve it; so there it sits, weaknesses
plainly on display for the all the Meloweses of the world. Increasingly
lax standards in our election process inevitably produce increasingly
unreliable results. And the few conversations that are had about how to
shore up these weaknesses are immediately seized upon by certain politicians
and special interest groups as fuel to further divide us based on drummed up
race and class based narratives, stifling communication and leading to further
voter disconnect. It’s a vicious cycle, but it can be fixed if citizens
wake up, stand up, and refuse to settle for a broken system.
The first, easiest, most
meaningful fix is to volunteer; to serve inside the polls, or help review
absentee ballots, or help register voters. A study conducted by Pew
Research in 2008 showed that our country had only half the necessary number of
election workers. Since then things have only gone downhill. Add to
that the fact that the average volunteer is 72 years old
Does photo voter ID help
prevent election fraud crimes? Absolutely. Are voter ID laws
critically necessary? Absolutely. But they wouldn’t have stopped
Melowese. Her crimes were made possible by gaining the absentee ballot system; yet
another weak link in our elections.
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