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Three States Accused of Illegally Purging Voter Lists
News Type: Event — Seeded on Fri Jul 25, 2008 6:29 AM EDT
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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.
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{"commentId":2276203,"authorDomain":"blahmni"}
"The National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) limits the circumstances in which a state may cancel a voter's registration," the Fair Elections Legal Network, a Washington-based voting rights consortium, said in a June 24 letter to Kansas Secretary of State Ron Thornburgh. "The NVRA does not permit cancellation based on a match alone."
{"commentId":2276203,"threadId":"319405","contentId":"1694296","authorDomain":"blahmni"}
- 3 votes
#1 - Fri Jul 25, 2008 6:31 AM EDT{"commentId":2277163,"authorDomain":"jade-log"}
blahmni,...This time I'm glad that vote scrutiny is occurring before and not after the vote. Solving duel registrations is problematic. The process of purging must be more transparent. In WA where I live and in OR I believe people vote by mail. Doesn't that method help avoid some of the problem?
{"commentId":2277163,"threadId":"319405","contentId":"1694296","authorDomain":"jade-log"}
- 3 votes
{"commentId":2277374,"authorDomain":"blahmni"}
It is encouraging that the transparency (or lack thereof - see Michigan) of the voter list purge process has been getting earlier attention this election cycle. I agree that the process (ideally) should be transparent and fair to all. After all, the goal (I think) is supposed to be to make sure that all lawfully registered voters are afforded the opportunity to participate in the democratic process. Maintaining an updated list, free of duplicates, is an important step in reaching that goal, and I'm not sure that there is a single correct method to achieve this.
The shame is that the purge process is being/has been used to eliminate unwanted votes (either dem or rep) in order to sway the outcomes of elections.
{"commentId":2277374,"threadId":"319405","contentId":"1694296","authorDomain":"blahmni"}
- 3 votes
{"commentId":2276239,"authorDomain":"ghaggard"}
In recent national elections, ie. the last Presidential election which there was much controversy over hang Chad, whoever he was/is, Democrats were working in the prisons to register inmates. I believe that felons are not allowed to vote legally. However that occurred in several states, including Florida.
I am not accusing the Democrats of wrong doing. I do not think they would knowingly violate the election laws. If there was any wrongdoing, it was done totally out of stupidity.
{"commentId":2276239,"threadId":"319405","contentId":"1694296","authorDomain":"ghaggard"}
- 1 vote
#2 - Fri Jul 25, 2008 6:57 AM EDT{"commentId":2276265,"authorDomain":"blahmni"}
I believe that felons are not allowed to vote legally
According to ProCon.org, felon voting laws vary from state to state. In Florida:
Individuals that meet certain criteria can have their voting privileges automatically restored by the Clemency Board upon completion of their full sentence, including fines and fees. Those who do not meet the qualifications may apply to the Clemency Board. (data current as of 5/10/07)
{"commentId":2276265,"threadId":"319405","contentId":"1694296","authorDomain":"blahmni"}
- 3 votes
{"commentId":2276798,"authorDomain":"sgreenway"}
Exactly right blahmni.
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
It is a states rights issue.
{"commentId":2276798,"threadId":"319405","contentId":"1694296","authorDomain":"sgreenway"}
- 3 votes
{"commentId":2277670,"authorDomain":"JoulesBeef"}
yep no wrong doing ont he dems.. but what about eh gop's hirering of choicepoint,.
{"commentId":2277670,"threadId":"319405","contentId":"1694296","authorDomain":"JoulesBeef"}
{"commentId":2276422,"authorDomain":"murphyiv"}
It's just another way the dummocrats and redumicans use illegal tactics to obtain their objective. It's the American way. It would still be going on if not for the voters act of 65. They don't care. They know must in the US don't care about anything unless you take their favorite show off and it affects them personally.
{"commentId":2276422,"threadId":"319405","contentId":"1694296","authorDomain":"murphyiv"}
- 1 vote
#3 - Fri Jul 25, 2008 8:11 AM EDT{"commentId":2277016,"authorDomain":"kelewanpug-politics"}
Without even reading the article, I would have guessed Michigan and Louisiana, but not Kansas. The GOP thinks that they can win Michigan and may lose Louisiana; but Kansas?
Also, anyone else wonder why the national polls are so close - this after the way McCain has been running his campaign? IMHO, if come Nov and the MSM can have us believe these candidates are running neck and neck, a McCain win will not raise any red flags. If on the other hand, the polls show a potential landslide for Obama, then a McCain win will definitely invite scrutiny.
{"commentId":2277016,"threadId":"319405","contentId":"1694296","authorDomain":"kelewanpug-politics"}
- 4 votes
#4 - Fri Jul 25, 2008 10:05 AM EDT{"commentId":2279520,"authorDomain":"stevehouse"}
IMHO, if come Nov and the MSM can have us believe these candidates are running neck and neck, a McCain win will not raise any red flags. If on the other hand, the polls show a potential landslide for Obama, then a McCain win will definitely invite scrutiny.
Curious........
{"commentId":2279520,"threadId":"319405","contentId":"1694296","authorDomain":"stevehouse"}
- 1 vote
{"commentId":2281612,"authorDomain":"winsomecowboy"}
I agree, McCain is followed by loyalists, those thankfully dwindling dead enders who swallow everything Rush serves them.
Democrats and independents and a measurable amount of conservatives are simply tired of the hole that is being dug and will vote for anything that is not a continuation of the present decline into economic failure.
McCain is a badly managed, blunder-a day candidate. His inability to do more than spout platitudes is known to all but the deadenders.
Massive waves of distraction, nuanced polls, even re-editing the gaffs out of McCains responses are all demonstratively real.
Grow a garden, it's more concrete than your token vote.
The last 2 elections were tweaked, I have little pity for the shock that may dawn on some after the third.
{"commentId":2281612,"threadId":"319405","contentId":"1694296","authorDomain":"winsomecowboy"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":2279099,"authorDomain":"kellywvinson"}
{"commentId":2279922,"authorDomain":"eaedmond"}
And how long have people been screaming that this isn't fair? It started with the hanging chads in Florida in 2000 then in 2004 it was Ohio and their voting machines mysteriously "breaking down" in certain districts.
Mama always said that if it looks, walks, quacks and acts like one it is one.
I live in VA and when you go and get your drivers license or state identification card, you can register to vote right there in the DMV or you can do it online. The choice is yours. In the voting booth you are handed a ballot and you fill in how you want to vote OR you can do it electronically (they insert a card into the machine and you vote that way). For the paper ballots, once you are done you put it into this machine that captures it. I never used the electronic one so I don't know how it works but I can only assume that once you have completed it, it tallys your vote with the rest. As far as prisoners go, in Virginia you have to petition the court to allow you to have your right back when you get out of prison. It's not automatic and you don't always get it back either. A lot of people don't know that you have to petition the court though.
I used to live in South Carolina and there you had 3 minutes to read this larger than legal sized screen and cast your vote after each issue and the like. It was electronic.
In these two states, I have never heard of any problems in the districts.
But you know what's curious to me? No one EVER had any problems with people voting or the rolls when we had federal marshalls outside the polling places. Once that portion of the Voting Rights Act was eliminated, all kinds of problems cropped up. Wonder why that is.
That was just a hmmmm moment there.
At any rate, it is a good thing that they are looking at it now before the election and hopefully they will be able to fix it before the elections.
{"commentId":2279922,"threadId":"319405","contentId":"1694296","authorDomain":"eaedmond"}
- 2 votes
#6 - Fri Jul 25, 2008 3:00 PM EDT{"commentId":2280635,"authorDomain":"lc3"}
Interesting point about the federal marshalls. I'd like to see us return to that.
{"commentId":2280635,"threadId":"319405","contentId":"1694296","authorDomain":"lc3"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":2280756,"authorDomain":"blahmni"}
Not a bad idea.
{"commentId":2280756,"threadId":"319405","contentId":"1694296","authorDomain":"blahmni"}
- 1 vote
{"commentId":2283171,"authorDomain":"CarbonCopy"}
I bet the Democrats will have a field day with this topic. Good. I hope they put them in jail for a long time.
Right after they impeach buschy boy jr. before he hands out his get outta jail free cards. (Pre-Pardons For His Cronies In Crime!)
{"commentId":2283171,"threadId":"319405","contentId":"1694296","authorDomain":"CarbonCopy"}
- 1 vote
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