Yesterday I went to vote here in Ohio and the Cuyahoga County election official told me I needed a mask in order to enter the school gym to vote. Reports of this same trampling of our Constitutional rights are coming from every corner of the country. Make no mistake about it, the mini-Fauci’s are now coming after our right to vote.
?Democrats say voter ID laws are a form of “voter suppression,” but they don’t seem to have any problem with turning voters away from the polls if they aren’t wearing a mask.
Before the polls even opened on Tuesday, Democrats all over the country must have known they were in trouble, because they resorted to transparent voter suppression tactics by trying to prevent people from casting their ballots unless they were willing to submit to unlawful mask mandates.
Nobody is under any delusions about which voters are affected. It’s no different than if Republican poll workers refused to let people vote if they showed up in a Prius or came in wearing a man-bun.
It’s a blatant violation of individual liberty, and it’s against the law. Voting is a fundamental right, but imperious poll workers thought they could disenfranchise their fellow citizens because they had a name tag and a clipboard.
When they tried to do it to me in Ohio, they didn’t have the backbone to actually stop a Marine from voting based on a made-up rule. In light of the fact that I was the only unmasked voter in the polling place, though, it’s clear that they either bullied others into submission or actually succeeded in preventing them from voting. That’s what happened in New York City and Virginia, according to first-hand accounts of voters who were told that they wouldn’t be allowed to vote if they didn’t mask up.
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Very simply, they are not allowed to do this. In Virginia, the problem was so prevalent that the state Department of Elections felt compelled to put out a disclaimer reminding poll workers that they are not allowed to turn voters away for not wearing a mask. Shockingly, the department also had to point out that poll workers cannot make unmasked voters use curbside voting or “hold up the line to vote based on whether voters are wearing masks.” The fact that they had to mention those specific situations indicates that poll workers were doing just that.
The hypocrisy is glaring. The dead can vote, but the unmasked can’t. No ID, no problem, but no mask, no vote.
But the hypocrisy, galling as it is, isn’t even the truly frightening part. It’s not difficult to imagine where this is heading. How long until we’re being told to produce proof of COVID-19 vaccination before being admitted to polling places?
During the recent gubernatorial recall election in California, some poll workers reported that training videos instructed them to write “COVID” on the ballots of voters who used curbside voting because they did not wish to submit to mask requirements inside polling places. Voters who used curbside voting because they were elderly or infirm, meanwhile, received the innocuous designation “VWD” for “voter with disabilities.” Chances are, the people who came up with the distinction didn’t even see anything wrong with it, because they viewed people who could not or would not wear a mask as some kind of threat, or else didn’t view them as worthy of casting a ballot.
The same thought process was clearly underlying the efforts to disenfranchise unmasked voters in Ohio, New York, and Virginia on Tuesday.
We can’t let that sort of thinking take root. It’s downright un-American to deprive someone of their fundamental right to vote based on something as trivial as whether they have a piece of cloth covering their nose and mouth.
Next time you encounter a Democrat getting up on their high horse about how election integrity laws are a form of “voter suppression,” remind them of the very real voter suppression that took place in the 2021 elections.
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