Election Officials in Three States Tell College Students They Can't Vote

[BridgeTheGap]

Washington - Colorado Democrats accused a Republican county clerk Wednesday of falsely informing Colorado College that students from outside the state could not register to vote if their parents claimed them as a dependent on their tax returns.

At a news conference in Colorado Springs, Democrats also criticized Robert Balink, the El Paso County clerk and recorder, who was a delegate to the Republican National Convention, for taking other steps they said would dampen voting by college students, who are expected to heavily favor Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

"When election officials spread false information about who is eligible to vote and remove, not add, polling places, we need to be concerned that eligible voters will be denied their right to vote," said Pat Waak, chairwoman of the Colorado Democratic Party.

Balink issued a statement saying his office had misinterpreted state law and "mistakenly published information that was incorrect."

http://www.truthout.org/092508J

[BlooInBloo]

1. Do you have a link other than truthout?

[Native]

3. TO always has links to the original docs

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/election2008/story/53024.html

[BlooInBloo]

4. "TO always has links to the original docs" - BWAHAHAHA!!!

Thanks for that link, though!

[guruoo]

8. It was right above the photo - 'View source document'

[BlooInBloo]

11. I don't doubt that.

[guruoo]

5. Here...

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/310/story/53024.html

[sinkingfeeling]

6. Here's one, but why don't you like Truthout?

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/election2008/story/53024.html

[BlooInBloo]

7. Thanks for the link! (and just google up "24 business hours")

[guruoo]

9. Nobody's perfect, Bloo.

[BlooInBloo]

10. Very true, but very irrelevant.

[guruoo]

12. I see you have a blog. Congratulations.

[rateyes]

2. He didn't make a mistake. He committed a crime. And, he should

have to go to all those college campuses and retract his statement.

Bastard. Damned fucking bastard.

[Joe Chi Minh]

13. Those individuals need to be jailed, now, or at some future date.

Just so long as they know there will be dire repercussions for them in the future. Even if it means enacting new, retroactive, election-fraud laws.

Election fraud and its attendant crimes come second only to lynching in the scale of crimes in US history.

[Doctor_J]

14. Prison for him and everyone like him next year

Federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison for every last GOP vote thief