Thousands of voters in the upcoming New Orleans municipal elections face disenfranchisement.
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National civil rights groups are concerned that displaced persons may not know how the absentee ballot process works, or will be unable to receive ballots because of moving between temporary housing arrangements.
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While absentee ballots (and assistance with them) are probably the only answer for displaced N.O. residents, the absentee system is the part of the voting process most open to fraud.
Recent discoveries in Wise County, Virginia, where a corrupt “city hall” in one town applied falsely for absentee ballots for a number of people who didn’t usually vote in city council elections, intercepted the ballots at the local post office and “voted them” for the unsuspecting “voters” are just one more object lesson.
I guess there really isn’t much of an alternative for those displaced by Hurricane Katrina, though.