'Truly, caucusing is 'Iowa nice' voter suppression.' 6 voters on how the process disenfranchises them, and why the Iowa caucuses should be canceled
, McCoy McDeid believes those efforts are insufficient, pointing to the party’s wait in hiring a staffer devoted to accessibility until days before the caucuses are to take place. One voter, she noted, who submitted an accommodation request for transportation to his caucus site as well as his need for a chair to sit in, was merely told to bring a “tailgating” chair with him.
“Accessibility isn’t just a disability issue, it’s also a person of color issue,” she said. “It affects anyone who doesn’t fit what the Iowa Democratic Party currently values as its voters.”Paula Findley Linnevold, 71, Social Worker The caucuses should be available online for everyone. I’m a clinical social worker. My clients are elderly and disabled. There is no transportation or assistance for them in participating.The caucus process is just not fair to a large group of us. The elderly, for instance, if you aren’t able to get out. My grandmother is a good example of this. My grandfather died a couple weeks ago and she doesn’t feel she can manage getting there and back at night in the snow. That’s exclusionary for her.
I’m pro-choice, I believe in women’s rights, gay marriage. If I could caucus, it’d probably be Bernie. I thought it was great that he protested during the civil rights movement and against segregation in the 1960s.I live in a rural area. The fact that we have to declare our votes publicly is a huge deterrent for many people in my area. Our turnout is typically low. I know that there are people who get pressured by neighbors or family members to vote a certain way.
The thing that irks me is, because so much of this is about health care, Social Security—those things apply directly to me, and to veterans who have disabilities. Those are the people that should be the biggest majority of people who are caucusing, because this political change is what affects us directly the most. It will affect able-bodied people eventually, but this affects us right now.
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