I may have just been denied my right to vote.

[DrWeird]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=900848&mesg_id=900848


The RNC has been going around under the guise of a non-profit organization registering votes and then trashing those forms registering democrat.

There's been a bunch of voter registration drives on campus where I registered to vote a couple of weeks ago. I just called up my county election office to see if I was registered, I was not.

The deadline to register was yesterday.

Somebody's going to pay.

[Emboldened Chimp]

1. ALWAYS register at the Post Office...

[Rose Siding]

2. Tell the RNC

Tell them you had registered as a "Democrat" but had been persuaded to vote for Bush and can they get you registered. Couldn't hurt :shrug:

[MallRat]

3. Can you still get down to the county election office & register in person?

Don't let them win.

[mopinko]

4. correct me if i am wrong

but if you know exactly where and when you registered, the person responsible for this felony should not be that hard to find.
did they give you any info on charges or appeals?

[arcane1]

5. oh my fucking god...

ok, not MY god, but still

this is crazy. Totally NOT unexpected, but crazy nonetheless

my head just may explode

[unfrigginreal]

6. If you don't mind going public get on the airwaves

local stations and contact cable and network news. They'll pick this story up if they have a victim.

[cally]

7. You have been given an opportunity

Contact the media and go down to the registrar and ask to register to vote. Explain the sitution and ask for a remedy for the illegal acts by the group. Ask that they accept your registration and others like you and wait for a court to decide. Ask the Dem party to request a court intervention to require an extension of the deadline. Remember, Dems have the lawyers this time. Let's use them.

[crispini]

21. THIS is good advice. (by cally)

Deal directly with registrar's office. they are the ones that have the power to register you to vote. Take media, take Democratic party backup in the form of LAWYERS. Get on the phone and start calling your local D party office. Call the media. Make it into a NEWS EVENT. You can have fun with this.

Fight. Keep us updated.

[genius]

8. Check with the registrar and report that you registered and when and where

EVeyone who recently registered and is unsure of whom they registered with needs to do this. I've been registered for years and we checked our registration a couple of weeks ago just to make sure there was no tampering. I registered for absentee status directly with the Registrar of Voters twice and they have no record of it.

[movie_girl99]

10. in my state

where I was a registrar there was a perforated place on the bottom of the card that acts like a receipt. It has the registrars number on it. Do you have anything like that?

[Ravenseye]

9. I'm sorry

I hope you can sort this out.

My wife and I were worried about making sure we were registered properly so we did it at the DMV while we were in town. Then we called over a week before the registration deadline to the county registrar to confirm that we were registered.

I've got my voter card now, so I'm happy.

Still, it's just bs that this happened to you. Did you get any kind of receipt or anything when you registered on campus? What was the name of the organization?

[Zorra]

11. Any possibility they were caught on video? n/t

[info being]

12. Call a lawyer

[yewberry]

13. I know this doesn't help

but if it were me, I'd report it to www.nov3.us/ and I'd call the FEC.
This is scary stuff.

[sandnsea]

14. aw hell

Which campus? My kid registered in Monmouth, goddammit. I'm going to have to have him make sure he actually got registered. Let's start a list. Mother fuckers.

[DrWeird]

15. Oregon State.

I'm searching my apartment for the receipt.

[sandnsea]

16. Corvallis

Same area. Damn. I'll call him this evening, he's got classes and track training until 6. I also know a kid here in Florence who I think was working for that group. Trying to track him down and get him to go public with what he knows.

[Mandate My Ass]

17. Egads.

Michael Moore was encouraging people who think they've been scammed either on voting or registering to vote should call 1 866-OUR VOTE.

It might be worth a shot. Hope all works out.

[merh]

18. Call your Secretary of State's office and Attorney General's office

and the FBI - the FBI is currently investigating this fraud (there is a thread with the article out of Las Vegas on this).

The company that registered voters in Vegas was largely funded by RNC and has left the state (non-payment of rent) and Reno has had similar complaints. (Company is Voters Outreach)

[kimchi]

19. A kick for voting.

And yes, this is an opportunity. Call the number, call the FEC, call anyone who will listen. We can't roll over this time; we have to FIGHT!

[barb162]

20. this happened to me once; it is maddening

in my case I was voting at the same address, same polling place for about five years, always voting,never missing an election. SO this city council and school bond thing came up and they didn't have me on their poll sheets. So I went home and got my voting card, went back there with it and they said sorry you are not on our list. ANd they wouldn't let me vote!!!! I called the County election board and all these other places and they basically said well the vote is counted, blah, blah, blah.

[Booster]

28. Maybe a dumb question, but on the back of my voter

summary the "voter bill of rights" says "you have the right to cast a provisional ballot if your name is not listed on the voting rolls"; what is a provisional ballot and why isn't it offered when missing names appear at the polling places?

[barb162]

32. good point, but when I was standing there arguing with them after

showing them the valid up-to-date card, they just would not let me vote. These two judges are just going through their computer list and I was not on that list for some reason. No one ever mentioned a provisional ballot and I never thought of asking for one. I was SO mad I can't even tell you. Now I always vote Dem and I am in a hugely GOP area and maybe that was their way of showing me a thing or two. I just don't know. But when you show them your driver's license and that card with the same address along with the precinct number and everything printed out.... I am still mad about it just writing this. It can happen again in a few weeks.

[crispini]

22. And, THIS year EVERYBODY

should be able to cast a provisional ballot if you think you are registered to vote and are not on the lists at the polls. This is according to Help America Vote Act. So it's national.

[Cleita]

23. Now that's dirty dealing.

Not only do the above suggestions, especially any legal voting venue, like the Secretary of State, but contact someone with a national forum, like a journalist (Molly Ivins f'instance) or Al Franken or Randi Rhodes.

[Love Bug]

24. You can ask for a provisional ballot at your precinct

Here's a chart by state:

http://www.electionline.org/site/docs/html/provisional_ballots.htm

[treading_water]

25. I just called the OR secretary of state office - elections div

Here is the web site:
http://www.oregonvotes.org/index.htm

Here is the phone number:
1.866.673.8683

The person I talked to said that there wasn't really anything a person can do, because the elections office has no way of validating that you actually registered prior to the cutoff date. The final registration date is set by statute.

She did say that it was being investigated.

Here are a couple of related news articles:
http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=71805
http://www.oregonlive.com/newsflash/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-8/1097647496301300.xml&storylist=orlocal

I think your best bet is to call and get added to the investigation. It would be really good if you can find that receipt.

[treading_water]

27. Maybe this is the company?

A story on dKos:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/10/13/15534/960

[Rose Siding]

30. OR has a Governor and a legislature

They could correct this wrong by extending the registration time.

[treading_water]

33. Bill Bradley is a dem

I'm sure he's not going to take trashed Dem registrations laying down.

[proud patriot]

26. sue under the RICO act

IMO

[WoodrowFan]

29. call the aclu

here's the URL..

http://www.aclu-or.org/


and the Democratic Party of Oregon/.


http://www.dpo.org/

[nebula]

34. The RNC knows the ACLU can't do a thing about it

neither can or will the FBI, or anyone else. That's why they don't even care that their RNC name is prominently attached to this company. That's how arrogant they've become. They essentially are the FBI, the Supreme Court, etc.

The only answer is voter education and awareness of the potential for voter fraud and how to avoid becoming victimized by it. The kind of voter awareness and education that the incompetent DUMBOcratic leadership should have been working to raise long before the very last minute.

[DebJ]

31. This definitely needs to be in your local paper, and everyone

who registered through them needs to call voter registration.