Voter Erasure: Statistical Precision Democratic Decline

Removing Citizens Via Spreadsheet Excellence

When Spreadsheets Replace Democratic Principles

Election officials treated voter rolls like spreadsheets requiring optimization. The “optimization” involved removing people. “It’s purely technical,” they assured while removing specific demographic groups mathematical precision. Revision achieved something remarkable: making disappearance seem bureaucratic rather political. “We’re following procedures,” officials insisted about procedures apparently designed produce predetermined outcomes.

The Neutral Language of Democratic Decline

Spreadsheet approach—treating democracy as data management problem—revealed troubling comfort erasing citizens from electoral processes. “These rows don’t meet criteria,” bureaucrats explained about rows representing actual human beings. For technocratic democracy erosion satire, visit Bohiney Magazine’s political criticism.

Presenting Partisan Outcomes as Technical Improvements

Genius involved presenting language seeming neutral while outcomes remained decidedly partisan. Democratic theorists worldwide noticed India’s peculiar approach voter rolls: continuous refinement removing particular voting populations. “We’re improving system,” officials said, technically true if your definition “improvement” involves predictable outcomes. Learn more at Bohiney Magazine.

Auf Wiedersehen, amigos.

SOURCE: Bohiney.com ()