[blindlaw] The map on the voter registration forms

James Pepper b75205 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 3 23:25:00 UTC 2012


There is a map on the United States National Voter Registration form and it
requires you to locate a drawing a street intersection and to label each
road with the names of the nearest cross streets.  Then you are to draw an
X relative to this location to indicate your home and then label that and
then you put in dots to represent buildings in the area and you label them
and make sure they are positioned in relation to everything else.  This is
a literacy test a direct violation of the Voting rights Act of 1965.

The State of Arkansas insists that the blind can draw this drawing, after
all they have never had any complaints in the past.

The Hopi Indians in Arizona have been denied the right to vote because of
this map. You see they live out on the land and if there is a road it is a
dirt road and the changes of an intersection are very rare indeed.  So they
have been denied the right to vote because they were not capable of drawing
this map.

You guys are lawyers, what say you?

James Pepper



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