DUmmies Panic - Ineligible Voters May Be Disenfranchised!

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garybeck  (1000+ posts)      Sat Sep-06-08 12:32 AM
Original message
ALERT: Huge Voter Purge Underway in Ohio - mailings sent out today
Nearly 600,000 Subject to Possible Caging in Ohio

How 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.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3934932

NCevilDUer (1000+ posts)      Sun Sep-07-08 01:32 AM
Response to Reply #191
207. OK smartass, tell me what Obama should do. Right now.
The notices have gone out. How can he fix it?
How can YOU fix it?
What the f**k are our options?

 

DaLittle Kitty (1000+ posts)       Sun Sep-07-08 12:22 AM
Response to Reply #177
200. Heard That Before In FLORIDA! FLORIDA IS NEXT! KICK + RECOMEND! 
This IS FASCIST AMERICA!

 

jjr5 (288 posts)       Sat Sep-06-08 06:05 PM
Response to Reply #2
148. Yeah! Honestly, 
This is the same technique the republicons used in both 2000 and 2004. They want to divide the electorate roughly in half and use voter registration fraud to get the upper hand. It's disgusting, it's against the law, against the declaration of independence, and we will NOT let it happen again!

Having finished shredding the Constitution, we will now move on to the Declaration of Independence. These DUmmies fail to recognize that dems are running everything in Ohio this time around. But they were trained by Blackwell.

sfexpat2000  (1000+ posts)       Sat Sep-06-08 12:37 AM
Response to Original message
3. Here they go. We knew they'd try it.
Who is working in Ohio?

Uh, I believe that would be Bev Harris. For $10 she will stop this outrage.

sfexpat2000  (1000+ posts)       Sat Sep-06-08 01:26 AM
Response to Reply #41
57. Yes, we need to alert people through any network we have --
Democratic clubs, churches, our own email lists, whatever. There is no "they", there is only us, really.

I believe the dumbest person on all the internets, ever, just made a funny.

[miskie]

UGH. Preventing forwarding does two things

A ) insured that precinct information is correct. - If you don't get your package, it means they don't have the correct address data. If they don't have the correct data, then you are probably listed in the wrong precinct. Its up to the recipient to insure their address is correct, not the Governments.

B ) helps prevent fraud by keeping old/outdated/deceased voter data off the streets.

I see no downside.

[Splashdown]

They shouldn't worry. They still have the dead voting.

[Chris_]

They shouldn't worry. They still have the dead voting.

Fortunately, the "Chicago Political Mob Machine" is already working on that track.