Maybe he wants the Card Check curtains!

Chuck Schumer seems pretty concerned about voter privacy … when it comes to his home state.  Earlier this month, Senator Schumer raised a stink about new voting booths for the optical-scan balloting New York will adopt, claiming that the new booths do not have a proper curtain to shield voters from prying eyes in the voting process:

Despite the millions of dollars spent to replace New York’s century-old voting machines, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer says one critical thing is missing: a curtain.

Reacting to complaints by voters from several counties, Schumer is asking the state Board of Elections to make sure voters have the same privacy with new optical scan machines as they had with the old, mechanical lever devices. That means making sure there’s a curtain to keep anyone else from seeing a voter cast a ballot.

Funny, but Schumer doesn’t seem nearly as concerned with voter privacy when it comes to Card Check.  Schumer has spent all year trying to find 60 votes for the Orwellian-named Employee Free Choice Act, a bill that would mean curtains for the secret ballot in union organizing elections — and not the kind of curtains that Schumer insists New York provide other voters.  It would kill the secret ballot altogether, and the union bosses would get to see every vote cast for or against the union in such elections.

If Schumer is so concerned about voter privacy, perhaps he can start by rejecting Card Check.  Otherwise, perhaps his constituents should be forced to forgo their ballot-station curtains in Schumer’s next election in order to understand what Schumer wants to impose on workplaces all around the country.

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