Yes. But it’s not WE who are disenfranchising someone who couldn’t follow the law and spell Lisa Moo Cow Ski’s name correctly. That person disenfranchised themselves.
We have laws for a reason. Once you open the door to “voter intent,” there’s literally no end to it. “Intent” is a subjective thing. That’s why laws are passed in the first place—to create an orderly process. Law is essential to a civil society. It’s supposed to create a firm foundation so that everything doesn’t need to go to a judge.
If you believe minor misspellings should be counted, then pass a law that specifically defines the process. For example, you could write the law to allow one letter to be incorrect. That way, there would then be no question that “Lisa Murkowsky” is a valid vote. Those changes, of course, should only be applied to future elections.
Of course, legal anarchists will probably have their way with this election. It seems the thing to do. If someone doesn’t like a process, simply take it to a sympathetic judge to have it overturned. In the short term, Lisa will have her win. So what if she has to rape the civil society in the process, eh?
Excellent points.
“Of course, legal anarchists will probably have their way with this election. It seems the thing to do. If someone doesn’t like a process, simply take it to a sympathetic judge to have it overturned. In the short term, Lisa will have her win. So what if she has to rape the civil society in the process, eh?”
And the rule of law, the abuses of the US Constitution on down, suffers another blow, while we stand by and allow it to happen under, as you say, ‘the thing to do.’
Out country will not survive this. Eventually America as we knew her, will bleed to death. Death by a thousand cuts against the rule of law, against the social contract, against the US Constitution.
We must fight against this and all other legal insanities that assault our once great nation.