Dodge City, Kansas's only polling place moved to outside city limits - Polidicks

https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article220557195.html DODGE CITY After the ACLU objected to Dodge City’s single, out-of-town polling place, the local official in charge of elections forwarded to the state an ACLU letter asking her to publicize a voter help line. “LOL,” she wrote in an email to Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s office. As Election Day approaches, concerns are being raised in Kansas over voting rights and access to the polls. The movement and elimination of some polling places is sparking fears that casting a ballot may be more difficult for some this year. Nowhere are worries greater than in Dodge City, where residents must leave town if they want to vote on Election Day. The city has drawn national scrutiny over voting rights since Ford County Clerk Debbie Cox — citing construction — moved its only polling location to a building south of the city limits. The site can’t be reached by sidewalks and is separated from much of the city by train tracks. Sixty percent of the town’s residents are Hispanic. Interviews with Dodge City residents, local officials and activists show a city divided over the polling site move. Some dismiss the controversy as overblown and driven by outsiders, while others say the situation points to real problems with voter access. But Dodge City isn’t the only controversy to jolt the state’s election system this year. In Wyandotte County, officials face criticism for having five precincts in Argentine — a neighborhood in Kansas City, Kan. with a large Hispanic population — vote at a building that includes a police station. And in Barton County in western Kansas, the county clerk is cutting the number of polling places, citing costs. The decision has produced some complaints. Kansas has lost more than 100 polling places over the past few years, even as the number of registered voters has risen by more than 46,000. One study released this fall by researchers at Northern Illinois University ranked Kansas the 9th hardest state to vote in. A review by MIT gave Kansas a low ranking among states when it comes to election system performance. Rick Hasen, an election law expert at the University of California, Irvine School of Law, said he had “never heard of a single polling place for so many people, and located so far away from those people and away from public transportation.” “It’s outrageous,” he said. Much of Dodge City’s Hispanic population is concentrated in the southern part of the city, and for a few residents the Expo Center may actually be closer than the old polling site. But there is no bus route, or sidewalk, to the location. To get there on foot from town, you must cross a state highway. Advance voting will also be offered downtown on Saturday, Nov. 3, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. And on Oct. 30 and Nov. 1, voting will last until 7 p.m. In addition, Dodge City Mayor Kent Smoll announced this week that the city will offer free rides to the Expo Center on Election Day.

You can really feel it moving

I guess it had get the fuck out of Dodge

Kris Kobach is the great architect of vote suppression in the US, Trump wants him in his Cabinet if he loses the election.

Republicans are against democracy and anyone who votes/voted for them are complicit in this, I can't image such a blatant attack against voting in any "free" country. It's not just this, but all the shit republicans have done.

Republicans created a cult, and like most cults the leaders just want power. A decade of propaganda has warped reality for dozens of millions of Americans

https://i.imgur.com/m4y8VwI.jpg

The amount voter suppression is shaking the very foundations of the Internet

When will this be considered treason

When Democrats take power and introduce federal oversight of elections. Would have to pack the SCOTUS first for federal oversight to not be struck down as unconstitutional

Looks like the article is trying to follow it.

This is some wild shit. It's an atrocity that it isn't illegal. I just voted in a (granted, municipal) election that had dozens of voting places, one of which being a 3 minute walk from my home.

Polling place where I live got moved from the local community center to a building that's like a four minute drive out of town. Majority minority country as well.

voter suppression intensifies

America seems to have this weird obsession with making voting as difficult as possible. Australia is much like Canada, eg on election day you can vote at virtually any public school or community centre in your local area. Just go there, tell the election official your name, date of birth and address, they verify that and then give you a pencil and paper ballot and away you go to the voting booth.

No, just the Republican party. Why? Because them getting elected is reliant on democracy being subverted. There's a reason that this obsession with making voting difficult straight up doesn't happen in blue states.

And our federalist system makes it really hard to get federal oversight of elections, the FEC's basically just a campaign spending recordbook that doesn't have power.

good so he can be put on the stand in the house and have his fucked up methods scrutinized by the full investigative power of congress

A concentrated propaganda effort to make the populace understand the merits of the government's position. Ultimately, it is for their own good. +100% governing ethics attraction

Shitheads pushing for this are the ones who should've had letter bombs and violence directed their way. Fucking parasites are a direct threat to democracy and the r nstion as a whole.