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"Harry Hope" |
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13 Sep 2007 10:34:24 AM |
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Republican Justice Department orders states to purge voter rolls. |
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Purged_voter_rolls_could_swing_2008_0912.html
September 12, 2007
Jason Rhyne
Using statistics and methodology that some voting experts are calling
"flawed," the Justice Department's Voting Section is telling 10 US
states to purge voter rolls which allegedly show more registered
voters than are eligible--a house-cleaning effort AlterNet's Steven
Rosenfeld says could swing the 2008 election.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/62133/?page=2
"Voting Section Chief John Tanner called for the purges in letters
sent this spring under an arcane provision in the National Voter
Registration Act, better known as the Motor Voter law, " says
Rosenfeld, adding that the letters "notify states that 10 percent or
more of their election jurisdictions have problematic voter rolls. It
tells states to report 'the subsequent removal from rolls of persons
no longer eligible to vote."
According to experts interviewed by Rosenfeld, however, the Justice
Department is misrepresenting the information they are using to make
their recommendations.
"That data does not say what they purport it says," David Becker,
senior voting rights counsel for People for the American Way, said.
"They are saying the data shows the 10 worst voter rolls. They have a
lot of explaining to do."
Rosenfeld also quotes U.S. Election Assistance Commission consultant
Kim Brace, who said "You are basically seeing them grasping at
whatever straws are possible to make their point."
Obtaining the same data used by the Voting Section, AlterNet's
analysis found that "some states facing Justice Department pressure to
purge voters have long been targeted by GOP 'vote fraud' activists,
especially where concentrations of minority voters have historically
elected Democrats -- such as St. Louis, Philadelphia and South
Dakota's Indian reservations."
"Voter roll purges, if incorrectly done, can be a factor in
determining election outcomes -- particularly in tight races,"
Rosenfeld writes.
"Looking toward the 2008 election, it appears the purges could be a
new and legal way to accomplish a controversial longstanding
Republican Party electoral tactic -- thinning the ranks of likely
Democratic voters in states where there may be close races."
"The GOP agenda is to make it harder to vote," Joe Rich, former Voting
Section Chief told AlterNet.
"You purge voters. You don't register voters. This is ripe for
partisan decision making. You pick the states where you go after
Democrats."
Earlier this year, ePlubirus Media examined what they called a
"breathtaking politicization" of the Voting Section after Rich was
replaced as chief in 2005 by John Tanner.
http://www.epluribusmedia.org/features/2007/20070505_resurrecting_jim_crow.html
"Tanner has waged an aggressive effort to remake the section in his
own image -- not an image that most people who promote the core
mission of the Voting Rights Act, which the Section is primarily
responsible for enforcing, would support," ePlubirus reported.
The 10 states that received Voting Section letters, according to
AlterNet, are Iowa, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nebraska, North
Carolina, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and Vermont.
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Hey, gotta give the Repugs a fighting chance to steal the election
again, right?
Harry
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| Title: Re: Republican Justice Department orders states to purge voter rolls. |
14 Sep 2007 04:41:36 AM |
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13 Sep 2007,Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> in
news:n3mie3l18dovjehq25osk4qp3trdirgbjk@4ax.com:
10 states that received Voting Section letters, according to
AlterNet, are Iowa, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nebraska, North
Carolina, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and Vermont.
aren't Iowa, Mississippi, Nebraska, NC, SD, and UT *pug* states?
how will the purges avoid purging pug voters?
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22Ann+Chupacabra%22
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| User: "Richardson-Obama in 08" |
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| Title: Re: Republican Justice Department orders states to purge voter rolls. |
15 Sep 2007 12:51:30 AM |
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"Part_Time_Troll" <Part_Time_Troll@D_Bridge.Com> wrote in message
news:Xns99AB1C10F9D2Adbr1dg3@216.196.97.142...
13 Sep 2007,Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> in
news:n3mie3l18dovjehq25osk4qp3trdirgbjk@4ax.com:
10 states that received Voting Section letters, according to
AlterNet, are Iowa, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nebraska, North
Carolina, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and Vermont.
aren't Iowa, Mississippi, Nebraska, NC, SD, and UT *pug* states?
how will the purges avoid purging pug voters?
It's actually a fairly simple process, worked out by Rove and his aides in
2000 and perfected in 2004.
They take a copy of the targeted states' voter file and filter out any
precincts with less than a 60% Democratic edge. Then they filter those
remaining heavily Democratic precincts to get just a list of those who are
registered as Democrats, Greens or DTS (Declined to State). Usually they'll
target just the males between 18 and 25, and send out letters to them in
envelopes marked "Do Not Forward" which insist that they verify their
continued residence at their registered address. Since many Democratic
males in that age group are either serving in the military or away at
college, they don't get the letter and thus can't respond. If they try to
vote using an absentee ballot, the ballot is thrown out. If they return
home before election day and show up to vote, they find they've been
stricken from the roles. They get to vote on a provisional ballot, which
generally isn't even counted.
It's illegal, and the courts ordered the GOP to stop doing it back in the
Nixon era, but Monica Goodling testified before Congress that Tim Griffin
(the Rove aide that got appointed to be U.S. Attorney for Arkansas) had been
doing it for the reelection campaign in 2004. The fact that they're
ordering the U.S. Attorneys in "red states" that are close enough to 50-50
to possibly go "blue" in 2008 should be no surprise. They know they can't
win over any "blue states", so they have to hold the states they have had in
the recent past in order to have any hope of a GOP victory.
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