AP: NAACP challenges Louisiana voter purge (by GOP Secretary of State)

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The Repub Sec. of State claims they are checking names and dates of birth. Why not check Social Security Numbers also? This is the same "purge" crap that Florida pulled to assist Bush & Co. by knocking innocent folks off the voter rolls due to shoddy criteria. They act like they do not have access to SSN's to make exact matches.

Louisiana is gonna turn from Blue to Red just like that.


" NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A purge of Louisiana voters believed to have registered in other states following Hurricane Katrina was challenged Thursday in a civil rights suit filed by the NAACP.

In the federal court action, the NAACP contends that the purge has already begun without the necessary pre-approval of the U.S. Department of Justice. Because of its history of racial discrimination before the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, voting changes in Louisiana and other Southern states must be approved by federal officials.

On June 15, Secretary of State Jay Dardenne announced that his agency was mailing notices to 53,554 voters saying they must give up their registration in other states or risk losing the right to vote in Louisiana. Dardenne said the state had compared Louisiana voter roles with those of other states and identified people with identical names and dates of birth."

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