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garybeck (1000+ posts) Sat Sep-06-08 12:32 AMOriginal message ALERT: Huge Voter Purge Underway in Ohio - mailings sent out today Nearly 600,000 Subject to Possible Caging in OhioHow many voter-registration mass mailers are "returned to sender" in the run-up to Election Day may determine how many Ohio residents are eligible to vote.Ohio election officials are sending out a mass mailer stamped “do not forward†to all registered voters today (Sept. 5) with an absentee ballot application and other important notices for Nov. 4.What’s important here is not so much what’s going out as what’s being returned to sender.Unbeknownst to the would-be recipients, the same mailer — just 60 days before the election — has the potential to determine their eligibility to vote, challenged not by election officials but by partisan opposition.A similar mailer in March netted nondeliverable mail from almost 600,000 registered voters in just five Ohio counties who could now have their ballots thrown out for voting under the wrong address.The National Voter Registration Act prohibits any state from purging names from the voting rolls within 90 days of an election.The law doesn’t, however, preclude mass partisan challenges on or shortly before Election Day — known as voter caging — based on the same returned envelopes from state-sponsored mailers like the ones in Ohio and others going out across the country.
sfexpat2000 (1000+ posts) Sat Sep-06-08 12:48 AMResponse to Reply #11 14. All the swing states, esp. urban areas. The black vote, the military vote, the student vote, other minority votes as in NM where there are Latinos and Native Americans.We pretty much know EXACTLY where they will hit.
garybeck (1000+ posts) Sat Sep-06-08 01:20 AMResponse to Reply #11 50. Actually they'd be better off to vote on September 30th. According to the article a new law enables people to register AND VOTE between 9/30 and 10/6.
SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Sat Sep-06-08 12:46 AMResponse to Original message 12. The Ohio democratic party needs to hire a call center Edited on Sat Sep-06-08 12:46 AM by SoCalDemor have their own mailing that instructs all registered dems to..VERIFY THEIR VOTING STATUS personally..either have them go to the registrar's officecheck online (if that's possible in Ohio)at the very least CALL..Going in person, is preferred, since you can ask for something in writing that verifies you are registered..something you can TAKE with you..or call and ask to have a sample ballot mailed to you.. That comes with your name on it, and your voting location.It sucks top have to do this, buit if it means voting or not voting, it's not that hard to do..there are 60 days left..
sfexpat2000 (1000+ posts) Sat Sep-06-08 01:03 AMResponse to Reply #21 34. Yes, they do target Democrats. They target precincts where the turnout is heavily Democratic. It's not random at all. FatDave (1000+ posts) Sat Sep-06-08 01:08 AMResponse to Reply #21 38. They target democratic areas. Areas with large minority populations, areas with large youth populations (colleges), urban areas in general. Suppress the vote in those areas, and you;re automatically suppressing democrats.
bedazzled (366 posts) Sat Sep-06-08 12:58 AMResponse to Original message 26. i think they're doing it in palm beach too. got a strange mailer with absentee ballot information the other day. had mccain's ugly mug on it. i wondered what they were up to.thought they might be up to some mischief withthe counting of the absentee ballots.not that it's possible to vote in palm beachcounty anyway. sfexpat2000 (1000+ posts) Sat Sep-06-08 01:00 AMResponse to Reply #26 29. There you go. We have a witness.
