Dems try to protect hurricane voters

[truthpusher]

http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/news/politics/13005417.htm

Posted on Wed, Oct. 26, 2005
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Democrats try to protect hurricane voters
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Associated Press
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WASHINGTON - Concerned that political operatives may try to manipulate the battered Gulf region's voting process in upcoming elections, House Democrats on Wednesday asked the Justice Department to vigilantly defend the rights of people displaced by recent hurricanes.

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California and several other high-ranking congressional Democrats sent a letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales outlining their concerns about the possible purging of voter rolls, lost and damaged voting equipment and displaced residents' voting rights in their new locations.

The Democrats paid particular attention to the mass displacement of poor and minority New Orleans residents. New Orleans has been a Democratic bastion in a Republican-leaning state.

"We fear these New Orleans residents, as well as victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, may encounter politically engineered obstacles" when voting, the letter said. "It is our expectation that the Voting Section of the (Justice Department's) Civil Rights Division will be especially vigilant for the foreseeable future."

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complete story: http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/news/politics/13005417.htm

[SoKalKyle]

1. That's why they were moved to Texas

Where they can do little political damage in an overwhelmingly Repub state -- if not in '06 surely in '08

[Blaq Dem]

2. I don't think they'll let them vote at all

the ones who vote democtrat will have a tought time. By next year at this time they'll probably still be living in shelters. Republicans are go ing to throw up all kinds of obstacles.

It's going to get ugly.

[bluestateguy]

3. Indeed, these concerns need to be addressed

If nothing else, because their rights as citizens need to be protected, but having said all that, national Democrats need not worry too much: those states were never going to be swing states in 2008 and Louisiana does not have major elections in 2006, and more white people in Mississippi (Republicans) were displaced than black people.

Don't distort what I said. I support what Pelosi is doing and we need to be vigilant about tomfoolery by the people who control the elections. I only said that the national implications are not going to be disastrous.

[Ian David]

7. Can we start a new city for them in Ohio or Florida?

A nice, close swing-state somewhere.

[Coastie for Truth]

4. Another thing we Dems/Progressives have to do

is "embed" ouselves into the Mass Disaster Voluntary Relief organizations. -- Just like the old fashion Big City "machine" Democrats did 70 years ago. It works.

How do you think Rev. Cecil Williams of San Francisco's Glide Methodist Church operates - with significant opposition from Gubernator Boobengrabber.

We have to be as cynical as the Repukes.

[Moderator]

5. kick

[Judi Lynn]

6. Democrats ask Justice Dept. to look out for displaced hurricane voters

October 27, 2005 12:20 PM

Democrats ask Justice Dept. to look out for displaced hurricane voters

WASHINGTON (AP) - Concerned that political operatives may try to manipulate the battered Gulf region's voting process in upcoming elections, House Democrats on Wednesday asked the Justice Department to vigilantly defend the rights of people displaced by recent hurricanes.

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California and several other high-ranking congressional Democrats sent a letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales outlining their concerns about the possible purging of voter rolls, lost and damaged voting equipment and displaced residents' voting rights in their new locations.

The Democrats paid particular attention to the mass displacement of poor and minority New Orleans residents. New Orleans has been a Democratic bastion in a Republican-leaning state.

"We fear these New Orleans residents, as well as victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, may encounter politically engineered obstacles" when voting, the letter said. "It is our expectation that the Voting Section of the (Justice Department's) Civil Rights Division will be especially vigilant for the foreseeable future."
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