My Experience with Voter Suppression
“I’m NOT Dead!”
A s we approach Election Day, there is much effort to ensure that all who wish to do so have the opportunity to vote. I have never missed an opportunity to vote and this year would be no different. Like so many Americans, I had requested my ballot to be delivered by mail the first day we could make the request. We’ve all heard the issues with the Postal Service and difficulties with ballots being received. Talking among my neighbors, I’ve found that members in a household sent requests in at the same time, only to have one receive a ballot and the other in the same house not receive it for days or in two cases, a week or more later, for no apparent reason!
I have been waiting … and WAITING for the arrival of my ballot. In checking online it said “Processing” for quite some time and then finally, about two weeks ago the status was changed to “Ballot Sent.” So I thought it would only be a few more days for my ballot to be delivered. But NO, that hasn’t been the case. So now, in just a few days, early in-person voting will begin in my home state of Maryland, and I still have yet to receive my ballot. I knew if I went to vote early, they would see a ballot had already been issued to me and I’d have to vote with a provisional ballot, something I did NOT want to do. In a conversation with my local Board of Elections office, the mystery of my…
