Re:Voting in France: Paper ballots, cast in person; no machines
by scythe on Friday April 08, 2022 @10:41AM
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>"strict limits" on proxy voting
The US doesn't allow proxy voting in elections at all. Furthermore, it was banned to deliberately disenfranchise illiterate people in some cases:
>In Alabama, the Perry County Civic League's members' assisting illiterate voters by marking a ballot on their behalf was deemed "proxy voting" and "voting more than once" and thus held to be illegal.
The US doesn't allow proxy voting in elections at all. Furthermore, it was banned to deliberately disenfranchise illiterate people in some cases:
>In Alabama, the Perry County Civic League's members' assisting illiterate voters by marking a ballot on their behalf was deemed "proxy voting" and "voting more than once" and thus held to be illegal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_voting#United_States
Talk about a false equivalence.