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My blank mail-in ballot for the coming election arrived recently at my Florida home, but it's way too difficult to handle. My vote is being suppressed!
First of all, they expect me to walk to a mail box to send in my ballot to be counted. Good Lord! Why aren't they sending someone around to my house to pick it up?!
Secondly, when I looked at the instructions for filling out the ballot they were clearly meant to suppress the minority vote. Even though the ballot and instructions were in English and Spanish. What about Gaelic, my ancestors native tongue? This is offensive. This is not equity!
The complexity of the instructions is an arrow directed at people of color. I mean, you've got to put the completed ballot into a secrecy envelope that is inserted into the mailer. As if that's not complicated enough, you've got to remember to sign and date it. Far too complex for a person of color to understand.
Just requiring me to sign it is offensive. They're going to use my signature to see if it is identical to the signature on my voter registration signature. What right does anyone have to question my honesyt? Just think of how many people, especially people of color, will forget to do it thereby invalidating my ballot.
The demand that my mailed-in ballot must be received before 7 p.m. on voting day surely is disenfranchisement. I demand that I have the right to vote when, where and how I vote.
It's a threat to democracy.
