The family of a Canadian national who supported Donald Trump’s plans for mass deportations of immigrants say they are feeling betrayed after federal agents recently detained the woman in California while she interviewed for permanent US residency – and began working to expel her from the country.
“We feel totally blindsided,” Cynthia Olivera’s husband – US citizen and self-identified Trump voter Francisco Olivera – told the California news station KGTV. “I want my vote back.”
Cynthia Olivera, a 45-year-old mother of three US-born children, thus joined a growing list of examples contradicting the Trump administration’s claims that the immigration crackdown it has spearheaded since the president’s return to the Oval Office in January has prioritized targeting dangerous criminals.
Well, Canadian, obviously a commie with the healthcare etc
I have an issue with this.
An abuseive family member could coerce you to delegate your vote to them.
With secret ballots you can’t find out how someone voted.
But with this “delegation”, even if you have secret ballots, they’ll say “If I don’t get X number of delegated votes, something bad happens”. They don’t need to know who you delegated to, they just need to know that the number of delegated votes they themselves receives in a tally is equal to the number of people there is in the household.
Hmm, you’re right, that is definitely a problem. The best solutions I can think of would be-
Voter coercion laws. If nothing else make it at least illegal to do exactly that, so abusers can be held accountable.
Maybe limit who can receive delegations in some way. Like making the status of being a delegate carry responsibilities, requiring a small curriculum and civil service so that only people who genuinely care about being representatives pursue that path rather than any average asshole who might coerce their peers and family into giving them more personal voting power.