ACLU Wins Big in Michigan - Ohio's Latest - Suit for Observers & "Dial Up" Provisional Ballots

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ACLU Stops Illegal Voter Purges in Michigan

Voting in Michigan isn’t easy or even possible for some. ACLU’s
fight for voting rights moves forward with a big win. Image cc

Secretary of State’s “One Stop Voter Caging” Ends

The state of Michigan was a de facto and de jure one stop voter caging operation

Michael Collins
“Scoop” Independent News

Judge Karen Nelson Moore of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued an order that ends the Michigan Secretary of State’s unlawful purging of voters from the registration rolls (court decision). The decision also orders Michigan officials to restore the registration status of 5,500 identified citizens who had been unlawfully removed previously.

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Michigan ACLU Legal Director Steinberg remarked:

“There are lawmakers in Michigan and elsewhere who purposely make it difficult for students to vote. This victory reaffirms the principle that states are not free to ignore federal laws that prevent disenfranchisement.”

Michigan’s Former One Stop Voter Caging Program

Republican partisans use voter caging to challenge and remove legitimate voters from the registration rolls. Project Vote defines voter caging succinctly

More: http://usacoup.scoop.co.nz/?p=905

Ohio: Suit Filed for Election Observers
"Dial Up" Provisional Ballots, and a Comment>

Michael Collins

(Wash. DC) With the help of the Ohio Election Justice Campaign (OEJC), Robert Owens, Independent candidate for Attorney General and Delaware County, Ohio attorney filed suite Friday, Oct. 31 in Delaware Common Please Court to open up the presidential election to independent observers. The OEJC alone has observers at polling places in 87 of Ohio's 88 counties to document events and encourage fair and legally compliant elections. But Delaware County is saying no to these citizen witnesses.
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Stark County, Home of the "Dial Up" Provisional Ballot

North Canton, Ohio, located in Stark County, is the home of Premier Election Systems. The elections division of Diebold changed its name but continues as a wholly owned subsidiary.

Paddy Shaffer discovered a pre-election policy that guarantees a provisional ballot for voters who simply call the county board of elections and request the location of their precinct. Shaffer discovered this policy during an Oct. 29 conversation with a county elections worker. Shaffer asked for confirmation that the sentence below was what the elections employee said. She was told that this was the statement made and the policy of the county board of elations:

"Anyone that calls their Board of Elections office to find out where they are to vote gets flagged and when they vote they will vote a provisional ballot."

MORE: http://tinyurl.com/62nxjb

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