Registering to Vote

For John, BLUF:  Is this just whinging Progressive propoganda from the Woke cybabies in the Newsroom of The New York Times, or is this real reporting.  How do we judge that?  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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COVID-19 changed how we vote. It could also change who votes.

From The Boston Globe, by New York Times Reporter Michael Wines, 14 June 2020.

Here is the lede plus three:

In a normal election year, volunteers from the Columbus, Ohio, chapter of the League of Women Voters would have spent last weekend at the Columbus Arts Fair, pens and clipboards in hand, looking to sign up new voters among the festival’s 400,000 or so attendees.

This is not a normal election year.

“There are absolutely no festivals this summer,” said Jen Miller, executive director of the league’s state chapter. “We don’t have volunteers at tables.  We don’t have volunteers roving with clipboards.  Obviously, we’re just not doing that.”

Neither is pretty much anyone else.  First, the COVID-19 pandemic upended how people vote, forcing a big shift to mailed-in ballots in primary elections nationwide.  Now it is taking aim at who can vote — the millions of people who would ordinarily register or update their registrations in a presidential election year.

This article is a mixed bag.  Of course voter registration is down—we have the WuFlue.  And, of course, people are learning how to use the Internet to register to vote.

However, the article doesn't mention the impact of George Floyd Demonstrations and the accompanying riots and looting.  In fact, I am not sure the NYT Newsroom would even acknowledge this as a factor or that rioting and looting actually exist.  That is the problem with the defenesgtration of an Editor for countenancing the alterntive view of a US Senstor.  We now have to ask if views are being suppressed.

Then there is the fact that we didn't even have a paragraph insert to talk about Massachusetts.  My suggestion is that when a big operation like The New York Times is distributing articles for others to publish they should have small optional paragraphs of state or regional interest.

I would grade this article as a "Fail".

Oh, and make sure you are registered to vote.  We have an important election coming up.  Be a mench and do the right thing.

Regards  —  Cliff