[EL] Crowd-sourcing: Taxonomy of charges of vote suppression

[Lillie Coney]

Physical endurance (elderly, pe-existing medical conditions and their ability to stand for hours in long lines)
Financial Resources (proof of identity, proof of citizenship documents required to acquire voter ID document)
Access to information (mobile technology and non-mobile sources)
Planning that accounts for unforeseen events (hurricanes Katrina and Sandy)
Election rule literacy ( how to vote straight party, rules around ID requirements, polling location, etc
Provisional voting 
Voting (sufficient number of machines, ballots, typos, ballot design, human factors)
Absentee balloting (pre-filled request applications, assistance in casting ballots in nursing homes, care facilities (assure voter choice)




On Nov 17, 2012, at 11:07 AM, Edward Still <still at votelaw.com> wrote:

> I am trying to put together a taxonomy of charges of vote suppression tactics. I am not trying to decide whether there is or not vote suppression, but just classify the charges and/or tactics. Here is what I have so far (with a few minutes of brainstorming):
> 
> Restrict registration
>    Substantive restrictions
>    Procedural impediments
> Purge registration
> Restrict absentee and early voting
>    Substantive restrictions
>    Procedural impediments
> Restrict or impede voting at the polls
>    Private action
>       Intimidation
>    Official actions
> Provisional ballots
>    Procedural
>    Substantive
>    Don't count wrong-precinct votes (is this substantive or procedural)
>    Require strict compliance with parts of form that should be checked by on-site polling officials
> 
> Please give this a few minutes of thought and add some points to the outline. Thanks. (You can reply publicly or privately to still at votelaw.com.) 
> 
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