Action | 2014 Absentee Material Omissions |
Stage | Proposed |
Comment Period | Ended on 7/21/2014 |
I worked for may years as an Elections Officer in Fairfax County and never encountered any problem about a street identifier or confusion about the proper identification of which generation in a household was voting.
I believe that adding such obstacles to voting is unnecessary and further restricts the franchaise.
I have also worked for some 17 years helping Americans living abroad to vote absentee. This is a considerable electorate and adding the street ientifier and generational identification requirement would make access to the ballot box by overseas voters even more difficult than it is already.
The State Board of Elections should be searching for ways to expand the franchaise to strengthen our democracy rather than impose obstacles to citizen participation in our governance.