https://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2010/05/10/going-postal/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usFri, 12 Jun 2026 19:33:15 -0400<![CDATA[Texas Watchdog describes the case of a political activist who turned the task of &#8216;helping&#8217; the poor, illiterate and homebound into a small moneymaking enterprise by making a few minor adjustments to ballots she was helping others fill.  A self-described politiquera recounted how she would fill out mail-in ballots for her favored candidate whatever the illiterate person she was &#8216;assisting&#8217; wanted.  Filling out somebody&#8217;s ballot for them seems like an activity that is just asking for trouble. But efforts to make it a misdemeanor to help more than one person fill out the ballots failed to pass. Additional efforts along the same lines were met with a suit from the Texas Democratic Party alleging they attempted to roll back the Voting Rights Act, a Civil Rights era piece of legislation which prohibited imposing literacy tests on voters.]]>Mon, 10 May 2010 17:23:51 -0400<![CDATA[Richard Fernandez]]>https://pjmedia.com/richard-fernandez/2010/05/10/going-postal-n189772