Election Reform, Fraud, & News Sunday 09/24/06 A Most Sinister Scheme

[freedomfries]

Election Reform, Fraud, & Related News Sunday 09/24/06

"This is the most sinister scheme I've ever seen and it is going on nationwide." (Former D-GA Gov. Roy Barnes)

"The right to vote is a fundamental right of citizenship. It, like the integrity of the voting process itself, goes to the very core of our democracy. Without the right to vote, there is no democracy."
(Judge T. Jackson Bedford in his court injunction striking down the GA voter ID law)




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1. GA: Voter ID ploy stands on lame fraud claims

Voter ID ploy stands on lame fraud claims

Cynthia Tucker
Atlanta-Journal Constitution
September 24, 2006
http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/tucker/stories/2006/09/23/0924edtuck.html
:patriot:

Republican leaders have discovered a grave threat to American democracy that most of us apparently had not noticed: Everywhere, in big states and small, red enclaves and blue, bustling metropolises and rural hamlets, impostors are flocking to the polls to vote under false pretenses. Apparently, the nation has been overrun by fake voters.

What else would explain the GOP's insistence on using its power to ram through requirements that voters show government-issued photo IDs at the ballot box?

Voter ID ploy stands on lame fraud claims

Voter ID law's ugliness can't be disguised

Last week, the GOP-dominated House passed a measure requiring voters to show government-issued photo IDs to vote in federal elections by 2008.

"Americans should have their votes counted, and not negated by an illegal alien," said U.S. Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.)

Similarly, Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue and his state Republican colleagues have backed a stringent state requirement for government-issued photo IDs. (Last week, Fulton County Superior Court Judge T. Jackson Bedford struck down Georgia's voter ID law, ruling it violates the state's constitution. The state said it will appeal.)

Announcing a plan this month to crack down on fraudulent documents, Perdue said, "It's simply unacceptable for people to sneak into the country illegally on Thursday, obtain a government-issued ID on Friday ... and go to vote on Tuesday."

http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/tucker/stories/2006/09/23/0924edtuck.html

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2. GA: Full Text of Injunction against the GA Voter ID Law

"Unconstitutional" one more time:

Here is the link to the full text of the court injunction
by Judge T. Jackson Bedford Jr. striking down the Georgia voter ID law:

http://www.votetrustusa.org/pdfs/Georgia_Folder/State%20Injunction.pdf
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3. CBBP Survey: Voter ID Bill Could Disenfranchise 11 Million Voters

Survey indicates House Bill could deny voting rights to millions of U.S. Citizens: Low-Income, African American, and Rural Voters at Special Risk

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Robert Greenstein, Leighton Ku, and Stacy Dean
September 22, 2006
Thank You beanconess!

http://www.cbpp.org/9-22-06id.htm

On September 20 the House passed a bill (H.R. 4844) that would, starting in 2010, effectively deny the vote to any U.S. citizen who cannot produce a passport or birth certificate (or proof of naturalization). Although the bill’s supporters present it as a measure intended to prevent non-citizens from voting, the bill’s main impact will be on U.S. citizens themselves. A national survey finds that approximately 11 million citizens currently lack the required documents. A substantial number could have difficulty obtaining or affording them.

The national survey, conducted in January 2006 by Opinion Research Corporation and sponsored by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, also indicates that the bill would affect certain groups disproportionately (see Figures 1 and 2) — including people with low incomes, African Americans, the elderly, people without a high school diploma, rural residents, and residents of the South and Midwest. Substantial numbers of these and other citizens could potentially be disenfranchised by the bill.

New Rules Would Effectively Require All Voters to Present Passport or Birth Certificate

Under current rules, U.S. citizens who are registered voters can demonstrate their identity by producing one of several kinds of documents, including a photo ID, a current utility bill, or a current bank statement. (Non-citizens are not permitted to vote in federal elections.) The new House bill, in contrast, would require all U.S. citizens who have completed the voter registration process to present a photo ID in order to vote in federal elections in 2008. Then, starting in the 2010 elections, all voters would be required to present a photo ID that proves the voter is a U.S. citizen. Persons who vote by mail would have to mail in a copy of the required documentation along with their completed ballot.
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Under a 2005 federal law commonly known as the Real ID Act, starting in 2008 states must require citizens applying for driver’s licenses to prove their citizenship.

http://www.cbpp.org/9-22-06id.htm

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20. GA: Election board vote means no photo ID required in November

Election board vote means no photo ID required in November

Doug Gross, AP
Macon Telegraph
September 23, 2006

http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/politics/15588473.htm

ATLANTA - After two years of battles at both the courthouse and the state Capitol, a law requiring photo ID at the polls will not be enforced when Georgians vote for governor, lieutenant governor and other state races in November.

A judge's rebuff this week of the Republican-backed plan, which would have pared down the forms of identification a voter can show from 17 to 6, was the latest in a two-year series of legal setbacks for the effort.

While the state's election board said Friday that it would not ask a higher court to rule on their appeal before the Nov. 7 election, top Georgia Republicans were saying that it may take a constitutional amendment to finally get the law enforced.

Fulton County Superior Court Judge T. Jackson Bedford Jr. on Tuesday rejected the state's latest attempt to require voters to present a government-issued photo ID at the polls.

A majority of the state's election board said Friday they disagree with the ruling, but that it's too close to Election Day to try to get the decision changed by a higher court.
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The new law took effect July 1, but its enforcement has been blocked by three separate state and federal judges during the state's July primaries and August runoffs.

"This restores the law to how it was two years ago," said David Worley, who is the only Democratic appointee on the Republican-controlled panel and cast the only vote against the appeal. "Everybody who was entitled to vote then is entitled to vote now."

http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/politics/15588473.htm

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4. NAT: House of Shame: Final Vote Results for Voter ID Roll Call

Final Vote Results for HR 4844 Roll Call
228 to 196, 4 Dems among them!
September 20, 2006
Thank You Greeby!

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2006/roll459.xml
H R 4844 YEA-AND-NAY
BILL TITLE: Federal Election Integrity Act of 2006


Yeas Nays NV
Republican 224 3 3
Democratic 4 192 5
Independent 1
TOTALS 228 196 8

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2006/roll459.xml
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28. OR: Chasing phantom fraud

Chasing phantom fraud

Register-Guard Editorial
September 24, 2006
http://www.registerguard.com/news/2006/09/24/ed.edit.voterid.0924.p1.php?section=opinion

The House of Representatives, desperate to give Americans an election-year reason to believe it has taken steps to combat illegal immigration, approved a bill Wednesday requiring that voters provide photo identification and proof of citizenship before casting ballots.

The bill would throw sand in the gears of Oregon's vote-by-mail system in an effort to solve a nonexistent problem.

To comply with the Federal Election Integrity Act, Oregon voters returning their mail-in ballots would have to include a photocopy of their driver's license, passport or other government-issued form of identification.

Secretary of State Bill Bradbury calls it the "Oregon Copier Acquisition Act." Democratic Rep. Peter DeFazio, who voted against the bill, raised privacy concerns: Many voters would be reluctant to stuff copies of their identity documents into envelopes and put them in the mail, without knowing who would review them or whether they'd be filed or shredded.
...

http://www.registerguard.com/news/2006/09/24/ed.edit.voterid.0924.p1.php?section=opinion

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5. TX: New suit challenges election fraud law

Suit challenges election-fraud law
Democrats say it targets minorities; AG's office stresses vote integrity

Dallas Morning News
Associated Press
September 24, 2006

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/DN-voterfraud_22tex.ART.State.Edition1.3f623bd.html

The state attorney general is using a 2003 law about mail-in ballots to intimidate elderly, disabled and minority voters who typically favor Democrats, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday by the Texas Democratic Party.

The lawsuit aims to overturn parts of the Texas Election Code that criminalize people who help voters with their mail-in ballots.

The defendants are Secretary of State Roger Williams and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, a pair of Republicans accused by Democrats of selectively targeting blacks, Hispanics and old people through a voter fraud task force.

The statutes in question make it illegal for anyone other than voters to possess their own mail-in ballots. That prevents political parties and community activists from helping voters mail their ballots, a "common practice by individuals, political parties and other organizations ... to maximize voter turnout," the lawsuit reads.
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"A lot of the cases we are looking at, the ballots have not been tampered with and people have not coerced other people into voting," said Amber Moon, a Texas Democratic Party spokeswoman. "These are community activists trying to help their friends and neighbors vote."

Besides the state Democratic Party, the other plaintiffs are six individuals, including a 78-year-old woman in Fort Worth who uses and wheelchair and needs help voting, according to the lawsuit.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/DN-voterfraud_22tex.ART.State.Edition1.3f623bd.html

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6. KY: Judge To Decide On State Voter Rolls Purge

Judge To Decide On State Voter Rolls Purge

WCPO.com
September 23, 2006

http://www.wcpo.com/news/2006/local/09/23/ky_voters.html

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) -- A judge will decide within the next three weeks whether people can be taken off voter rolls in Kentucky if they're registered to vote in other states.

Secretary of State Trey Grayson says his office purged more than 8,000 people from the state's voter rolls in April because they had registered in other states.

Board of Elections lawyer Katie Dunnigan is asking that the case be dismissed.

She says any legitimate Kentucky voter whose name was improperly removed was permitted to vote after showing election workers proof of residency.

http://www.wcpo.com/news/2006/local/09/23/ky_voters.html

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7. CA: SoCal voters switched to GOP without their knowledge

SoCal voters switched to GOP without their knowledge

SFGate News
September 26, 2006

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/09/21/state/n140112D74.DTL&type=politics

Riverside, Calif. (AP - 09-21-06) --


Dozens of voters were registered as Republicans without their knowledge in Riverside and San Bernardino counties, The Press-Enterprise of Riverside reported Thursday.


The newspaper analyzed voter registration cards collected in late 2005 and early 2006 and found at least 37 that appeared to involve unauthorized changes of a voter's party. Only 19 of 60 people contacted by the newspaper said they were aware their party registration had been changed to Republican.


The newspaper said it appeared many of the unauthorized changes were made by signature gatherers who received a bonus for each new GOP registration.


"Unbelievable," said Larkin Hammond of Yucaipa, a Green Party member who was reregistered with the GOP after he signed a clean water petition in December.


"It really makes me angry," said Hammond, a naturalist for San Bernardino County. "This is a democracy, and we're supposed to choose what party we want to be registered as and here's somebody choosing for me."

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Many of the signatures in the campaign were gathered through a paid service, John Burkett Petition Management. His employees gathered 50,000 voter registration cards last year.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/09/21/state/n140112D74.DTL&type=politics

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8. NAT: Evangelical voters more jaded in 2006

Evangelical voters more jaded in 2006

Rose French, AP
Edge Boston
September 23, 2006
Thanks livvy!
203 articles on the subject this week-end

http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ci=108&ch=news&sc=glbt&sc2=news&sc3=&id=15125

Christian conservatives, traditionally a reliable Republican constituency, aren’t necessarily a GOP gimme this time around. There is an undercurrent of concern that some evangelicals, unhappy that the GOP-led Congress and President Bush haven’t paid more attention to same-sex marriage and other "values" issues, may stay home on Election Day or even vote Democratic.

"Conservative Christians are somewhat disenchanted with Republicans," said Kenyn Cureton, vice president for convention relations with the executive committee of the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest Protestant denomination with nearly 16 million members. Religious conservatives are unhappy the Republican-led Congress hasn’t paid enough attention to "values issues," he said, noting that even a push this summer against same-sex marriage came too late.

"It has not escaped our notice that they waited until just a few months from the November elections to address our agenda," Cureton said.

Jonathan Gregory, 38, a deacon at Grace Baptist Church in Bethpage, Tenn., said he may not vote GOP this fall, even though he considers himself a Republican and has voted for President Bush. "I will vote conservative across the board, depending on the candidates’ stance on abortion, gay marriage, and their support of the military," Gregory said.

http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ci=108&ch=news&sc=glbt&sc2=news&sc3=&id=15125

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9. CA: New machines, new forms of distrust

New machines, new forms of distrust

The Valley Chronicle
Thomas D. Elias
September 24, 2006


http://www.thevalleychronicle.com/articles/2006/09/22/opinion/06elias.tx

Many conspiracy-theory believers who maintain that manipulation of voting machines in Ohio produced President Bush's re-election in 2004 plainly feel that Republicans are the only ones who have benefited from such alleged conniving.

But the annals of election fraud are full of allegations about Democrats, too, from the days of dead people voting in Chicago to the Tammany Hall era in New York City and more.

So there's a lesson for Republicans in today's conspiracy theories: If the charges of tampering with computerized voting machines have even an iota of truth to them, any alleged GOP chicanery will surely soon be matched by Democrats.

Which leads us to this year's elections in California. There was only one race in the state's primary election that had true national significance: the run to replace disgraced and ousted Republican Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham in San Diego County's 50th Congressional District.

In that strongly Republican area, former Rep. Brian Bilbray narrowly defeated Democrat Francine Busby, and conspiracy theorists on the Democratic side have been outraged ever since.

Their chief complaint: San Diego County voting registrar Mikel Haas sent large numbers of voting machines home with precinct election workers for days - even as much as one week - before the election. The machines, made by Diebold Election Systems, have proven vulnerable to corruption in independent tests and were certified for use in California only under stringent rules designed to counter potential problems.

http://www.thevalleychronicle.com/articles/2006/09/22/opinion/06elias.txt

[Peace Patriot]

23. The framing in this Valley Chronicle op-ed seems "freeperish" in the

opening paragraphs (above). You have to read to the end to get to Mr. Elias' point, which is an endorsement of the old system of PAPER BALLOTS, HAND-COUNTED! See **.

"...the critics claim machines can be programmed to falsify votes, even to the extent of spewing 'paper trails' that say one thing while a machine records completely different electronic results. Voters, they note, can review paper trails to make sure they match intended votes, but still can't read the electronic innards of a computer.

"The defense McPherson has set up against this possibility is a hand count of one percent of all precincts in the state, with paper trails counted at randomly selected precincts. Some statisticians say that's a large enough sample to ensure honesty; others maintain it's only one-tenth the sampling needed to be sure the overall count is not doctored.

"It's a dispute sure to rage on for years, as counties become more and more dependent on electronic voting machines.

**"So far, only Democrats are complaining, because Republicans have won every close election where the disputed machines were used. But the moment a Democrat triumphs in an important, narrow contest, count on Republicans to bleat even louder.

**"Which is why Black Box Voting has a point when it suggests that 'In a sane world, these machines would be recalled.'

**"Can't do that, say most election officials, because a return to purely paper ballots and hand counting would mean election gridlock.

**"And yet, returning to a system almost everyone trusts might just be worth all the trouble, even if it meant results were delayed a day or two, so long as it restored the basic trust so essential to American democracy."

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24. right on PP!

thanks for quoting the important part!
FF

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10. MD: Gov. Ehrlich offers poll fix for November - Absentee ballots

Ehrlich offers poll fix for Nov.
Absentee ballots might restore trust, governor suggests

Melissa Harris
Baltimore Sun
September 22, 2006

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-te.md.voting22sep22,0,7203335.story?coll=bal-local-headlines

Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. said yesterday that "one option" for boosting confidence in the state's election system would be the widespread use of absentee ballots in November, but he stopped short of calling on voters to abandon the electronic-voting components beset by errors during last week's primary.

Top aides to the governor said Ehrlich would include the absentee-ballot call in a series of speeches he gives over the next few weeks. But in an interview, Ehrlich was less committal.

"It's one option being discussed," Ehrlich said. "It's paper, so it can be counted and can be recounted, and it eliminates some of the issues that we might have on general election day. But that's just one option at this point."

Local elections representatives and Democratic officials said the governor's proposal was impractical and costly - not what is needed to correct the human errors, no-show poll judges and poor training that disrupted voting last week.
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http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-te.md.voting22sep22,0,7203335.story?coll=bal-local-headlines

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11. WaPo Op-Ed: If Paper Ballots Restore Trust In Elections, Let's Switch

If Paper Ballots Restore Trust In Elections, Let's Switch

Marc Fisher
Washington Post
September 21, 2006

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/20/AR2006092001876.html

Well into the second decade of the television era, the machines still conked out, a lot. "TV's on the fritz again," folks would say. There was such a thing as a TV repairman, who would come to your house. Now, TVs work.

Here in the relatively early stages of the computer era, these vastly more complex machines still lock up and shut down. Yet we're so enraptured by computers' power that we want them to do everything -- even handle the sacred core of our democracy, voting.
But the machines aren't yet reliable, at least not 100 percent. Maryland voters learned this firsthand in last week's primary, and now the state has less than seven weeks to gin up a credible, smooth general election.

The obvious solution, as Gov. Bob Ehrlich said yesterday, is to put the machines in the closet (actually, returning them to the store is an even better idea; does anybody in Annapolis still have that receipt for $106 million?) and go back to paper ballots. The governor bemoaned flaws in the Diebold electronic poll books that Maryland used for the first time last week to check in voters: "Technology is a wonderful thing, but clearly, given their apparent inability to function appropriately -- when in doubt, go paper, go lower technology."
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I asked the state's elections administrator, Linda Lamone, whether Maryland wasn't just a bit too quick to adopt electronic voting. Doesn't the computer at your desk ever freeze up on you?

"No," she replied.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/20/AR2006092001876.html

[Peace Patriot]

25. I have to ask: What the hell is WRONG with the Democratic Party in MD?!!

Are we seeing an example of Democratic Party collusion and corruption on Bushite-Corporate control of our elections with TRADE SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code, and virtually no audit/recount controls, in these extremely insecure and inside hackable e-voting machines? Is THAT what's going on? I DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS!

The REPUBLCAN governor is calling for ABSENTEE BALLOT VOTING to prevent crapass, insecure, hackable Bushite-Corporate e-voting machines from causing an election train wreck?! And the Democratic officials are saying "HUMAN ERROR" and "POOR TRAINING" are the problem??!!

Somebody explain this to me. The MD Democrats sound like our Diebold shill Secretary of State Bruce McPherson in California (appointed by Schwarzenegger after our good Sec of State Kevin Shelley was "swift-boated" out of office for suing Diebold and trying to protect our right to vote). The MD Dems sound like Diebold shills themselves. Well, we've seen them in CA Dem Party. I don't want to believe that the MD Repub governor is right, and the MD Dem Party is wrong, but that's sure what it looks like. In Colorado, the Dems are saying the opposite: Vote Absentee! And that's what I'm saying, too....

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Bust the Machines--Vote by Absentee Ballot this November!

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[BeFree]

27. That's my kind of republican...

...probably the last good republican left in America! Imagine that the guy understands this problem better than our own party members. Whodathunkit?

Absentee Ballots: Have heard from a few folks far, far away, that they hear the message about voting AB as the best way to send the "No Machine" message to the election officials. The idea is spreading!

Here's an added thought, Peace Patriot, one that came from WYVBC as posted on this board some time ago: When voting on paper and you have a chance to write in the name of a candidate, write in "Paper Ballots". That way the ballot will have to be read by some "body" and in so doing will add that little extra something to your message.

Wouldn't it be cool to see that "Paper Ballots" wins a few elections?

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12. NYT: Officials Wary of Electronic Voting Machines

Officials Wary of Electronic Voting Machines

Ian Urbina
New York Times
September 24, 2006
Thanks kpete!

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/24/us/politics/24voting.html?hp&ex=1159070400&en=298fa45bfb12e669&ei=5094&partner=homepage

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 — A growing number of state and local officials are getting cold feet about electronic voting technology, and many are making last-minute efforts to limit or reverse the rollout of new machines in the November elections.

Less than two months before voters head to the polls, Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. of Maryland this week became the most recent official to raise concerns publicly. Mr. Ehrlich, a Republican, said he lacked confidence in the state’s new $106 million electronic voting system and suggested a return to paper ballots.

Dozens of states have adopted electronic voting technology to comply with federal legislation in 2002 intended to phase out old-fashioned lever and punch-card machines after the “hanging chads” confusion of the 2000 presidential election.

But some election officials and voting experts say they fear that the new technology may have only swapped old problems for newer, more complicated ones. Their concerns became more urgent after widespread problems with the new technology were reported this year in primaries in Ohio, Arkansas, Illinois, Maryland and elsewhere.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/24/us/politics/24voting.html?hp&ex=1159070400&en=298fa45bfb12e669&ei=5094&partner=homepage

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13. NH: Cell Phone Campaign to Register Voters

Cell phone campaign hits snag

Melanie Asmar
Concord Monitor, NH
September 23, 2006

http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060923/REPOSITORY/609230361/1043/NEWS01

Former Virginia governor Mark Warner, founder of cell phone giant Nextel, showed an auditorium full of Concord High School students yesterday how to register to vote via text message.

Launching a national voter registration drive, Warner told them to send the message "Warner" to number 75444 and they'd be e-mailed a registration form.

"We made, just with this today, a little bit of political history," Warner said to the teenagers, whose phones beeped in confirmation.

But because of the way New Hampshire registers voters, the system won't work exactly the way he described. Instead of being sent a registration form, would-be voters in New Hampshire and two other states will be sent a message directing them to their nearest ballot clerk, one of the only ways Granite State voters can sign up.

So why launch the text-message drive in New Hampshire? Jerome Armstrong, Warner's internet strategy adviser, said the plan all along was to unveil the system this week. And, he added, Warner happened to be in New Hampshire, which he called one of the most politically active states in the country.
"New Hampshire voters are much more engaged," said Adam Conner, another member of Warner's internet team. "They're engaged New Hampshire-ites."

http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060923/REPOSITORY/609230361/1043/NEWS01

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15. Rock the Vote: 2006 Voter Registration Deadlines

2006 Voter Registration Deadlines

2006 Election General VR Deadline In-Person VR (if Different) Primary Election

Alabama 7-Nov received by 10/27 6-Jun
Alaska 7-Nov received by 10/8 22-Aug
Arizona 7-Nov received by 10/9 12-Sep
Arkansas 7-Nov received by 10/9 23-May
California 7-Nov received by 10/23 6-Jun
Colorado 7-Nov postmarked by 10/9 10/24 8-Aug
Connecticut 7-Nov postmarked by 10/24 8-Aug
D.C. 7-Nov postmarked by 10/10 12-Sep
Delaware 7-Nov received by 10/14 12-Sep
Florida 7-Nov postmarked by 10/10 5-Sep
Georgia 7-Nov received by 10/10 18-Jul
Hawaii 7-Nov received by 10/9 23-Sep
Idaho 7-Nov postmarked by 10/13 EDR 23-May
Illinois 7-Nov received by 10/10 21-Mar
Indiana 7-Nov postmarked by 10/10 2-May
Iowa 7-Nov received by 10/28 10/23 6-Jun
Kansas 7-Nov received by 10/23 1-Aug
Kentucky 7-Nov received by 10/11 16-May
Louisiana 7-Nov received by 10/9 30-Sep
Maine 7-Nov received by 10/17 EDR 13-Jun
Maryland 7-Nov received by 10/17 12-Sep
Massachusetts 7-Nov received by 10/18 19-Sep
Michigan 7-Nov postmarked by 10/10 8-Aug
Minnesota 7-Nov received by 10/17 EDR 12-Sep
Mississippi 7-Nov postmarked by 10/7 6-Jun
Missouri 7-Nov received by 10/11 8-Aug
Montana 7-Nov postmarked by 10/10 6-Jun
Nebraska 7-Nov postmarked by 10/20 10/27 9-May
Nevada 7-Nov received by 10/8 10/17 15-Aug
New Hampshire 7-Nov received by 10/28 EDR 12-Sep
New Jersey 7-Nov received by 10/17 6-Jun
New Mexico 7-Nov postmarked by 10/10 10/13 6-Jun
New York 7-Nov received by 10/13 12-Sep
North Carolina 7-Nov postmarked by 10/13 2-May
North Dakota 7-Nov none 13-Jun
Ohio 7-Nov received by 10/10 2-May
Oklahoma 7-Nov postmarked by 10/13 25-Jul
Oregon 7-Nov postmarked by 10/17 16-May
Pennsylvania 7-Nov received by 10/10 16-May
Rhode Island 7-Nov received by 10/7 12-Sep
South Carolina 7-Nov received by 10/7 13-Jun
South Dakota 7-Nov received by 10/23 6-Jun
Tennessee 7-Nov postmarked by 10/8 3-Aug
Texas 7-Nov postmarked by 10/10 7-Mar
Utah 7-Nov postmarked by 10/8 10/25 and 10/28 27-Jun
Vermont 7-Nov received by 10/30 12-Sep
Virginia 7-Nov postmarked by 10/10 13-Jun
Washington 7-Nov postmarked by 10/7 10/23 19-Sep
West Virginia 7-Nov postmarked by 10/17 9-May
Wisconsin 7-Nov postmarked by 10/18 EDR 12-Sep
Wyoming 7-Nov received by 10/9 EDR 22-Aug

http://www.rockthevote.com/2006-voter-registration-deadlines.php

[MsMagnificent]

14. K & R!

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16. MCM on OpEdNews: How to Make Sure You're Registered to Vote

How to Make Sure You're Registered to Vote

Mark Crispin Miller
OpedNews.com
September 21, 2006

http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_mark_cri_060921_how_to_make_sure_you.htm


Dear Progressive Leader,

Democrats.com has built a revolutionary new system to help voters check their voter registration quickly and easily. To prevent any more stolen elections, we want to encourage *every* voter to "google" their voter registration in September, while there is still time to submit a new
registration form.

http://mydem.org

And between now and Election Day we hope to add various online tools to make sure every Democratic vote is Registered, Cast, and Counted. If you have ideas on possible tools we could build, send them my way!

We are now looking for organizational partners who will help us encourage voters to use our tools. Our initial partners are:
* Working Assets online voter registration (www.GoVote.org )

* Progressive Democrats of America (www.PDAmerica.org)

I hope we can find ways to work together!

Bob Fertik

Are YOU registered to vote?

Are you SURE??

You may THINK you're registered and go to the polls on Election Day - and be shocked to discover your name is not on the eligible voter list.

Make sure they haven't removed YOU - "google" your voter registration!

http://mydem.org

http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_mark_cri_060921_how_to_make_sure_you.htm

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17. New "Pollworkers for Democracy" Project. Over 1,000 sign up in first days!

Posted by IndyOp
Thank you!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x450485

Pollworkers for Democracy urges anyone who's not nailed down to pledge, right now, to work the polls with us this November. (And get paid.)
http://www.pollworkersfordemocracy.org/
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Because you – the informed, the concerned, the online – are needed in the front row seats on Election Day. You'll be helping voters, assisting elections officials, taking firsthand notes, and leaving with a new understanding of American elections.
http://www.pollworkersfordemocracy.org/

It's easy! Select your state and you will be directed to a sign up page.

SIGN UP LOCALLY
You'll receive information on how to look up your local election official and apply for a pollworker position, when you Pledge to Pollwork.
TIP: We suggest applying for a pollworker position as an individual citizen, rather than as a member of any organization.

WATCH & READ
Take a look in the meantime at the clear and powerful "Help America Vote..ON PAPER," an 18-minute election integrity film by filmmakers EON Media at Google Video here. Browse the extensive election integrity resources at www.VoteTrustUSA.org, and sign up for their excellent weekly newsletter here.

WHY POLLWORKING, WHY DEMOCRACY?

Having a flood of informed citizens like yourself take part in running elections locally is key to recovering a more transparent and accountable democracy, in alliance with the elections officials who want to see votes counted accurately, and voter confidence restored.. The observations you make on Election Day will be collected through an online survey, and will be part of a national Election Incident Reporting Database supporting informed reform, media outreach, and other efforts where needed.

So can you give a day to democracy?
http://www.pollworkersfordemocracy.org/

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18. CO; The Power of Purple - Unaffiliated Voter Registrations on the Rise

The power of purple: More unaffiliated suburbanites vote 'for the person' - not the red or blue

Stuart Steers
Rocky Mountain News
September 23, 2006

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/elections/article/0,2808,DRMN_24736_5015623,00.html

Summer Lawless, a Republican voter, keeps a playful eye on her boys -Bradley, 4, left, and Easton, 2 - at the Jefferson County Open High School in Lakewood, which has become an important area for swing voters in this year's elections. For the most part, Denver's suburbs are neither Republican red nor Democratic blue - but solidly purple. Lawless supports President Bush and believes the war in Iraq is justified.

Denver's populous suburban counties are in a state of flux, with changing political allegiances that have the potential to alter state politics. A surge in unaffiliated voter registration means that Denver's suburbs are now neither Republican red nor Democratic blue, but solidly purple.
At least for the most part.

Recent voter registration figures show that the number of Republican voters has declined during the past two years in every suburban county, while the number of unaffiliated voters has increased. The percentage of Democrats has remained roughly the same in most counties.

The percentage of voters who don't sign up with either party has jumped to 36 percent in Adams County, 39 percent in Boulder County, 36.3 percent in Broomfield and 32.8 percent in Jefferson County.

It's these suburban unaffiliated voters who will determine who becomes governor and which party controls the state legislature and the bulk of Colorado's congressional delegation.
...
"People like to think of the suburbs as wealthy, white and Christian - that's not the case at all," said Republican political consultant Katy Atkinson. "The suburbs have become very diverse.

"The conventional wisdom about the suburbs may be wrong."

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/elections/article/0,2808,DRMN_24736_5015623,00.html

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19. NYT Editorial Slams Voter Suppression and Electronic Voting

Keep Away the Vote

New York Times Editorial
September 21, 2006
Thanks Apollo11!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x450185

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/21/opinion/21thu1.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

One of the cornerstones of the Republican Party’s strategy for winning elections these days is voter suppression, intentionally putting up barriers between eligible voters and the ballot box. The House of Representatives took a shameful step in this direction yesterday, voting largely along party lines for onerous new voter ID requirements. Laws of this kind are unconstitutional, as an array of courts have already held, and profoundly undemocratic. The Senate should not go along with this cynical, un-American electoral strategy.

The bill the House passed yesterday would require people to show photo ID to vote in 2008. Starting in 2010, that photo ID would have to be something like a passport, or an enhanced kind of driver’s license or non-driver’s identification, containing proof of citizenship. This is a level of identification that many Americans simply do not have.

The bill was sold as a means of deterring vote fraud, but that is a phony argument. There is no evidence that a significant number of people are showing up at the polls pretending to be other people, or that a significant number of noncitizens are voting.

Noncitizens, particularly undocumented ones, are so wary of getting into trouble with the law that it is hard to imagine them showing up in any numbers and trying to vote. The real threat of voter fraud on a large scale lies with electronic voting, a threat Congress has refused to do anything about.

The actual reason for this bill is the political calculus that certain kinds of people — the poor, minorities, disabled people and the elderly — are less likely to have valid ID. They are less likely to have cars, and therefore to have drivers’ licenses. There are ways for nondrivers to get special ID cards, but the bill’s supporters know that many people will not go to the effort if they don’t need them to drive.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/21/opinion/21thu1.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

Thanks for postingApollo11!

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21. PA: Voter registration drive aims at Latino community

Voter registration drive aims at Latino community

Christina Kristofic
Evening Sun Reporter, PA
September 24

http://www.eveningsun.com/localnews/ci_4389982


Amelia Contreras, front, co-chair of the Adams County Latino Services Task Force, and volunteer Remigta Sandoval dress up a poster to help promote a voter registration drive in Gettysburg.

In the 11 years that Amelia Contreras has worked in social services in Adams County, she's seen Hispanic immigrants come to the area with nothing.

She's helped them find jobs, homes, food and mattresses.

Now she wants to help those who are legal citizens exercise their right to vote. And she wants to help those who are illegal immigrants to become legal citizens.

"We that are already citizens need to advocate for the ones that came after us," Contreras said. "We're going to get educated about the candidates. We already know some people we want to get out of office."

Contreras and several volunteers spent Saturday preparing a voter registration drive for local Latinos. The drive is part of a coordinated national effort by Latino noon to 4 p.m. today, they will have a table with information about citizenship classes and voter registration set up on the front porch of Manos Unidas, next to St. Francis Xavier Church on West High Street, Gettysburg. They are expecting more people to come before and after the Spanish Mass at 12:30 p.m.

Contreras said she already knows which Latinos are legal citizens and expects them to register to vote today.

"If they don't come, we'll go and visit them," she said.

http://www.eveningsun.com/localnews/ci_4389982

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22. Have a great day!

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26. You, too, freedomfries! And thanks for all this great info!

Much appreciated!

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29. KNR for the un dieing vigilance of the ERD Volunteers