WT? on Veracifer
Thursday, November 29th, 2007
I spent some time on the horn Tuesday with the fantastic Raleigh-Elizabeth Smith as the subject of Veracifier’s “Wednesday Interview.” I also saw her and Veracifier producer Mark Boxser last night at the CNN/YT debate. You can read the interview - and all about WT? - here.
Raliegh told me she had some personal experience with our broken voting system. “I was in Alabama in November of 2004. And I remember how on Election Day, it rained. And in rural Alabama, if you don’t have a car, there’s no way to get to the polls. It’s not like you can just hop on a bus and go. You just can’t vote.” To read my response, and rest of the interview, head over to the Veracifier blog.
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November 29th, 2007 at 1:02 pm
A quick Google search shows that Alabama does, in fact, have absentee ballots:
http://www.madisoncountycircuitclerk.org/absentee.htm
Any qualified elector of this State may vote an Absentee ballot, provided they meet the requirements
( 17-10-1 et seq, Code of Alabama), as contained in the application.
* Out of the county or the state on election day.
* Physically incapacitated and not able to vote in person on election day.
* Work a required workplace shift which has at least ten (10)
hours that coincide with the polling hours at regular polling place.
* A student at an educational institution located outside the county
of permanent residence and therefore unable to vote at usual
polling place on election day.
* Member of, or a spouse of a member of, the armed forces of the
United States or otherwise entitled to vote by absentee pursuant to
the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act, 42 U.S.C. 1973ff.
* An election officer at a polling place which is not regular polling place.
November 29th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
Jordan, correct. But this is not a “no-excuse absentee ballot” which can help if you don’t meet one of the above criteria for requesting an absentee ballot.