The Right to Vote Means Right to Vote in Timely Fashion

So, more than 200 years in, we still haven't figured out how to ensure every American equal access to the polls?

Mind you, if there is truth to the assertion that Hispanics and African-Americans were more than twice as likely as whites to endure long lines this past November, someone is going to wonder if it was set up that way on purpose. Corruption? Yes, if someone purposefully made it harder for some to vote than for others, that would be corruption.

It might be that there was no corruption, though. It might be that there were even-handed reasons that it ended up that whites didn't wait so long (maybe, even the survey got it wrong), but even if there are even-handed explanations, six or seven hours is wrong. Six or seven hours should not be happening. It is still wrong to let such lines ever occur.

Do whatever you want to have vote-by-mail, early voting, and maybe even online voting, but the polls open on election day should still be staffed and organized so that no one waits more than, oh, say, 15 minutes.

The right to vote means the right to vote in a timely fashion.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/11/08/1165531/poll-finds-minorities-democrats-faced-longer-voting-lines/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/us/politics/waiting-times-to-vote-at-polls-draw-scrutiny.html?_r=0