Monday, June 29, 2015

States With No Write-In Voting


Thanks to Richard Winger of Ballot Access News for this post.

As Richard says "Voting is Speech".

There are five states that do not allow write-in voting: Hawaii, Louisiana, Nevada, Oklahoma, and South Dakota.

These states are saying, that the content of a voter's vote determines whether it can be expressed, or some views can and others can not.

The Supreme Court in 1992, upheld Hawaii's ban, Burdick v Takushi.

Richard says "Write-in bans prohibit votes for candidates who are not strong enough to get on the ballot. Therefore, they prohibit a voter from expressing their support for weak candidates."

We both agree that the court should re-examine and overturn.











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