Three States Accused of Illegally Purging Voter Lists

[livvy]

Michigan's SOS is a piece of work. Be sure to read the part, "Michigan's Secretive Approach", on the second page. We tried in the last election to get a Dem, Macomb County's Clerk, elected, but she lost. I wonder how many of the purged would have voted for her.


Three States Accused of Illegally Purging Voter Lists

By Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet

Posted on July 25, 2008, Printed on July 26, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/92695/

Election officials in a handful of states appear to be ignoring the federal law dictating the way registered voters may be purged from voter rolls, civil rights attorneys say.

National voting rights groups have contacted officials in Kansas, Michigan and Louisiana in recent weeks because those states appear to be purging registered voters after election officials found duplicate names and birthdays of people on their voter lists and in out-of-state databases, such as driver's license records.

The states are assuming that a more recent driver's license or voter registration in another state indicates that the voter has relocated, meaning the voter registration tied to their prior address is no longer valid. While purging voters who move, die or are imprisoned is a routine part of managing elections, the federal law governing purges -- the National Voter Registration Act -- lays out a multiyear process of trying to contact voters to confirm a change of address before deleting them from voter rolls.

The election attorneys say the NVRA process seeks to err on the side of protecting voting rights and cannot be circumvented by what appears to be a duplicate voter registration.


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http://www.alternet.org/democracy/92695/three_states_accused_of_illegally_purging_voter_lists_/

[hobbit709]

1. I like this one

"We follow the state law that was adopted by our state Legislature," said Jacques Berry, press secretary for Louisiana Secretary of State Jay Dardenne, a Republican. "It supersedes the NVRA."

SINCE FUCKING WHEN DOES STATE LAW SUPERSEDE FEDERAL LAW?
It certainly didn't under the recent Supreme Court ruling on Medical Marijuana laws

[opihimoimoi]

2. They seem to err on their side...meaning, they will do what they want. Bad Move

Criminals...they should get jail time...

[Benhurst]

3. As expected. Better prepare yourselves for

"And heeeeeeeeeeeeere's Johnny!" on January 20th, 2009.

Why didn't our "leaders," including Pelosi, Reid, Clinton and Obama, address the theft of the last two presidential elections and work to make sure it never happened again?

[glowing]

4. Because that looks like sore losers.. and I think everyone agrees that

there was theft that informs themselves of anything.. Those who don't.. well, they don't understand until they show up to vote and they cannot because they have been purged. The only way Obama can fight this is by signing many new voters up to vote and by encouraging them to get to the voting booth on election day.. even if that means every single vollunteer driving all over the place to get anyone anywhere they need to be.. and to encourage those who have state's with early voting to use it and use it as a way so as to NOT discourage people from leaving the a heavy line because they are due for a meeting or to pick up the kids from school.

This is the only way to get it all back.. engage more people than the Republicans can pretend to even steal... Have vollunteers at the precincts to report on any problems (there will be many).

[applegrove]

5. I like your frog signature line.

[livvy]

6. Thanks. I'm rather attached to the green grouch myself.

:hi:

[Triana]

7. Pfft! I bet there's more than three of them that are illegally purging voter rolls. n/t

[crimsonblue]

8. Kansas...

we're #3! Uggggggggggghhhhh. :puke:

[Wilms]

9. Kick and all. n/t

[Sancho]

10. The registration fix is already done in Florida...

Our SOS was on TV this weekend, and it is obvious that thousands will be "ineligible" to vote. It takes weeks to get registered, and even then you have to produce a picture ID and document with a signature to vote. If you are in a retirement home, you "may or may not" have a legal permanent address. If you don't have a US birth certificate, you may or may not be allowed to register. If you name is "similar" to a felon, your vote will be discarded. It can't get worse, but there is no national attention to what is about to happen.

Jeb purged many Democrats, and now registration is a nightmare. Even if registered, you might show up and be turned away. Even if you vote, the machines, tabulators, and vote counters will almost always report a close win by the GOP candidate.

As long as the election supervision is rigged, the election is rigged. In a truly lawful country, Katherine Harris and Jeb Bush would be in jail.