NYT: MSM Covers Election Fraud-Disenfranchisement

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I predicted that when * went below 35% (way back 2 or 3/05) MSM would cover electoin fraud. Well, last week MSNBC-Newsweek did a story on e-voting security problems. I was close but "MSN" does not equal "MSM." Today the NYT made it's loyal readers proud and coveered the new disenfranchisement, which is just the old disenfranchisement...squelch the vote by reducing voters...bet they're mostly poor, minority...Democrats. No more nonsense from quislings on the public payroll who are not committed to real democracy. Thanks NYT!!!

May 30, 2006
Editorial

Block the Vote

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/30/opinion/30tue1.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
In a country that spends so much time extolling the glories of democracy, it's amazing how many elected officials go out of their way to discourage voting. States are adopting rules that make it hard, and financially perilous, for nonpartisan groups to register new voters. They have adopted new rules for maintaining voter rolls that are likely to throw off many eligible voters, and they are imposing unnecessarily tough ID requirements.

Florida recently reached a new low when it actually bullied the League of Women Voters into stopping its voter registration efforts in the state. The Legislature did this by adopting a law that seems intended to scare away anyone who wants to run a voter registration drive. Since registration drives are particularly important for bringing poor people, minority groups and less educated voters into the process, the law appears to be designed to keep such people from voting.

It imposes fines of $250 for every voter registration form that a group files more than 10 days after it is collected, and $5,000 for every form that is not submitted — even if it is because of events beyond anyone's control, like a hurricane. The Florida League of Women Voters, which is suing to block the new rules, has decided it cannot afford to keep registering new voters in the state as it has done for 67 years. If a volunteer lost just 16 forms in a flood, or handed in a stack of forms a day late, the group's entire annual budget could be put at risk.

In Washington, a new law prevents people from voting if the secretary of state fails to match the information on their registration form with government databases. There are many reasons that names, Social Security numbers and other data may not match, including typing mistakes. The state is supposed to contact people whose data does not match, but the process is too tilted against voters.

[Doctor_J]

1. I posted this at Eds

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=103&topic_id=214069&mesg_id=214069

Combine, mods?