Yesterday I went to vote here in Ohio and the elections official in Cuyahoga County told me I needed a mask to enter the school gymnasium to vote. Reports of the same trampling on our constitutional rights are coming from every corner of the country. Make no mistake, the mini-Faucis are now attacking our right to vote.
“Democrats claim voter ID laws are a form of ‘voter suppression,’ but they don’t seem to have any problem turning voters away from the polls if they don’t wear a mask.
Even before polls opened on Tuesday, Democrats across the country must have known they were in trouble as they resorted to clear voter suppression tactics in an attempt to prevent people from casting ballots unless they were willing to comply with an unlawful mask mandate.
No one has any illusions as to which voters this applies to. This is no different than if Republican poll workers didn’t let people vote if they showed up in a Prius or showed up in a man bun.
This is a gross violation of individual freedom and is contrary to the law. Voting is a fundamental right, but powerful poll workers thought they could disenfranchise their fellow citizens because they had a name tag and a clipboard.
When they tried to do this to me in Ohio, they didn’t have the backbone to actually stop a Marine from voting based on made up rules. However, in lithe of the fact that I was the only unmasked voter at the polling station, it is clear that they either bullied others into submission or actually succeeded in preventing them from voting. According to firsthand accounts of voters who were told they wouldn’t be able to vote if they didn’t wear a mask, that’s what happened in New York and Virginia.
Simply put, they are not allowed to do this. In Virginia, the problem was so widespread that the state Department of Elections felt compelled to issue a statement reminding election workers that they must not turn away voters for not wearing a mask. Shockingly, the department also had to point out that poll workers cannot force unmasked voters to vote curbside or “hold their ballots in line based on whether voters are wearing masks.” The fact that they had to mention these specific situations indicates that poll workers were doing just that.
The hypocrisy is blatant. The dead can vote, but the unmasked cannot. No proof, no problem, but without a mask there is no voice.
But the hypocrisy, while irritating, isn’t even the scariest part. It’s not strenuous to imagine where this is going. How long before we will be asked to provide proof of Covid-19 vaccination before being allowed into polling stations?
During the recent California gubernatorial election, some poll workers reported that training videos instructed them to write “COVID” on their ballots for voters who voted curbside and did not want to comply with mask requirements at polling places. Meanwhile, voters who voted curbside because they were elderly or infirm were given the innocuous designation “VWD,” meaning “voter with a disability.” Chances are the people who came up with this distinction didn’t see anything wrong with it because they viewed people who couldn’t or wouldn’t wear a mask as a threat or didn’t see them as worthy of respect. casting a vote.
The same thought process clearly underpinned Tuesday’s efforts to disenfranchise unmasked voters in Ohio, New York and Virginia.
We cannot allow this way of thinking to take root. Depriving someone of their basic right to vote based on something as inconsequential as whether they have a piece of cloth covering their nose and mouth is downright un-American.
The next time you see a Democrat getting up on his high horse and claiming that election integrity laws are a form of “voter suppression,” remind him of the very real voter suppression that took place in the 2021 election.
