at it again
September 14, 2007 by Betmo
“The Department of Justice’s Voting Section is pressuring 10 states to purge voter rolls before the 2008 election based on statistics that former Voting Section attorneys and other experts say are flawed and do not confirm that those states have more voter registrations than eligible voters, as the department alleges.
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, whose purpose is to expand voter registration. The identical 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.”
tags: government corruption, election tampering, voting
This is such bullshit. The Rethugs are so scared they are going to lose everything this next election..
And the bastards SHOULD be scared..but then..so should the Democrats..neither party represents the majority of the population.
My state is one of the ten. It’s interesting, because last year we received a notice from our town that someone had challenged my partner’s registration. She’s lived her 25 years and has voted in every election. It all seemed terribly slimy at the time, especially because we had been reading Greg Palast’s ARMED MADHOUSE with its sections on how Repugnicans had disqualified large numbers of the “wrong” votes.
Here we goooo…. I guess they’re hoping that lots of us just won’t bother to re-register.
HAH.