Arresting Scott Walker

[Pryderi]

Are Scott Walker and other GOP-led states violating 1993 NVRA?

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/07/25/277592/walker-closes-dmvs/
Gov. Scott Walker’s administration is working on finalizing a plan to close as many as 10 offices where people can obtain driver’s licenses in order to expand hours elsewhere and come into compliance with new requirements that voters show photo IDs at the polls.

Is anyone checking to make sure that voter registration forms are available in OTHER offices BESIDES the DMV? Link to the NVRA aka "Motor Voter"

http://www.eac.gov/assets/1/workflow_staging/Page/27.PDF

Voter registration agencies
(a) Designation
(1) Each State shall designate agencies for the
registration of voters in elections for Federal office.
(2) Each State shall designate as voter registration
agencies—
(A) all offices in the State that provide public
assistance; and
(B) all offices in the State that provide
State-funded programs primarily engaged in
providing services to persons with disabilities.
(3)(A) In addition to voter registration agencies
designated under paragraph (2), each State
shall designate other offices within the State as
voter registration agencies.
(B) Voter registration agencies

A story about the DOJ NOT enforcing NVRA from 2008.

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/03/voter-suppression-at-justice-d.php
At issue was the DOJ’s enforcement of key provisions within the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), which was passed by Congress in 1993 to increase participation in federal elections. Committee members attempted, with little success, to get Agarwal to explain why DOJ has spent the lion’s share of its resources to pressure states to purge voters rather than ensuring their rights.

“Rights on paper are not the same as rights in fact,” intoned Congressman Jerrold Nadler of New York. “For that we need vigorous enforcement.”

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Congresswoman from South Florida, cited alarming statistics about voter registration decreases documented in Unequal Access: Neglecting the National Voter Registration Act, 1995-2007, a report written by Project Vote and Demos. The report found that voter registrations generated from public assistance agencies within that period had declined by 79 percent, despite the NVRA’s specific requirement that states offer the service in agencies that help the disadvantaged.

[midnight]

1. Powerful statement. “Rights on paper are not the same as rights in fact,”

[trueblue2007]

2. yeah i say arrest his butt and throw him in jail.

[Pryderi]

3. There should at least be an investigation by the DOJ. n/t

[Enthusiast]

6. LOL!

Not this DOJ. They won't even look at obvious crimes unless it suits their purpose. Voter suppression does not serve the Obama Administration's purpose. I think we should ask ourselves why.

[Blue Owl]

4. His brand of stink belongs in the klink

n/t

[Pryderi]

5. Are there anybody in Wisconsin that has checked to see if there are voter registration forms in

Public Assistance Offices?

[Enthusiast]

7. One would hope...............nt

[Scuba]

8. The Republican voter suppression efforts are widespread and viscious....

...that Holder has so far ignored the pleas to investigate is alarming.