You have gotta gotta gotta push this story hard and get it national attention.

"Citing litigation, Florida Secretary of State Kurt Browning declined to be interviewed, although his office offered information on how the Florida Voter Registration System works."

Along with federal mandates to create a single statewide voter database and to check those names against drivers license and Social Security numbers, Florida added a requirement: Applicants who didn't pass the database test would not be registered to vote.

The provision was approved by the U.S. Justice Department in 2005, but further tinkering gave "lost" voters just two days after an election to prove the computers were wrong. That has raised new civil rights concerns and the Justice Department has asked Florida to prove its system is not discriminatory against minority voters.

Nothing like a system in which 76% of those rejected are minorities.

Hope the Dem presidential candidates are paying attention. They are just bleeding voters.

Hmmmmmm.....maybe these people should reregister as GOP as see if the hoops change.

Won't work if they're still guilty of voting while black.

The blatant racism and partisanship is breathtaking. I guess when everything you stand for is corrupt, you need cheating to stay in the "game".
And remember, this is a cure for a non-existent illness. There is NO systemic problem with voter fraud in any state, except for GOP suppression.

This crap drives me CRAZY!

Michael Plummer from Connecticut should talk: his state is the one responsible for putting Joe Lieberman back in the Senate.

>>And you fools just keep following MSM while the Georgia papers refuse to print a word of it.

Bah! Blogs will never replace MSM - they just keep following them all done the rabbit hole.<<

So, RJ, report it yourself. Remember that blogs don't have teams of reporters to send all over the country. They depend on their readers to report what is happening around them. If you're a registered user of this site, you've got blog space that you can use to tell the world the Georgia story that you want to get out. So hop to!

RJ @ 1:24pm

I heard the Dem Caucus basically told Reid either there was a pro-forma session or they were going to move to remove him as majority leader. Also that the back-benchers in the House are starting to move on Pelosi. The source isn't entirely reliable.

So, RJ, report it yourself. Remember that blogs don't have teams of reporters to send all over the country. They depend on their readers to report what is happening around them. If you're a registered user of this site, you've got blog space that you can use to tell the world the Georgia story that you want to get out. So hop to!

Been there, done that, tried it. People as high as my own state party leaders called us "conspiracy theorists" and dismissed every claim.

Laughlin McDonald of Georgia ACLU said "where's the harm?"

Now I sit back and laugh at these fools who are trying to make it an issue way too little, way too late.

S07A0525, Perdue, Governor, et al. v. Lake et al.

The 2005 Photo ID Act required an individual voting in person to present government issued identification containing their photograph. Photo ID cards for voting purposes were available at Department of Driver Services (DDS) service centers throughout the State for a fee ranging from $20 to $35, but indigent individuals could obtain one for free by signing a form under oath attesting to the fact they were indigent. On October 18, 2005, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, in Common Cause/Georgia v. Billups, 406 F. Supp. 2d 1326 (2005), issued a preliminary injunction against the enforcement of the 2005 Photo ID Act. The 2006 Photo ID Act retained the requirement that an individual present government issued photo identification to vote in person, but made voting identification cards available at each county voter registrar's office, as well as the DDS service centers, for free. Additionally, if a voter does not have an appropriate form of identification when the individual attempts to vote, he or she may cast a provisional ballot, which will be counted if the voter presents a photo ID at the registrar's office within two days. Appellees initiated this case by filing a Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief, contending that the 2006 Photo ID Act violates the Georgia Constitution because: (1) it places an illegal condition on the act of voting and (2) it disenfranchises voters who are otherwise lawfully registered and meet constitutional qualifications to vote.

The trial court found in favor of the plaintiffs and ruled that the 2006 Photo ID Act was unconstitutional. Court of Appeals Judge Debra Bernes has been designated to serve in place of Presiding Justice Carol W. Hunstein.

Attorneys for Appellants: Thurbert E. Baker, A.G.; Stefan E. Ritter, A.A.G.
Attorneys for Appellees: Roy E. Barnes; Jennifer A. Jordan

http://www.gasupreme.us/oas/oas0307.php

totallynext

Did you notice that his just a series of tubes?

http://www.atlantaprogressivenews.com/news/0078.html

Voter ID Law Halted but Not Defeated
By Kristina Cates, Staff Writer, Atlanta Progressive News (August 12, 2006)

(APN) ATLANTA – While Georgia voters were not limited to five forms of ID, instead of the current seventeen, in the recent Primary and Runoff Elections, the possibility is still there that poor, elderly, and disadvantaged voters may be effectively disenfranchised in the General Election or some future election.

Voter advocates are concerned the preliminary injunction against Georgia’s Voter ID law in Federal Court won’t be renewed for the next round of elections.

The proposed law, which would be the most restrictive in the country, is still considered by many as overly burdensome to voters.

The state injunction, spearheaded by former governor Roy Barnes, is still holding strong, however.

Neil Bradley of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Voter ID Project, who is working on the federal case out of Rome, Georgia, is simply taking each injunction as it comes.....

...The USDOJ quotes an article from the Atlanta-Journal Constitution written in November 2000, which states that 5,412 occurrences of voter fraud involving deceased citizen identification were documented between 1980 and 2000. The article also points to the more than 15,000 dead people still on the registered list.

Susan Somach argues that those numbers are somewhat old, seeing as how they involve data going back to 1980, which was 26 years ago. Georgia’s current Secretary of State, Cathy Cox, has taken steps to remove many deceased voters’ names from the list during her tenure in office. Somach contends the data from more recent years that she has seen lists actual occurrences of voter fraud to be closer to 12 than 5,412. She says it would not be enough to tip an election.....

"Neil Bradley of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Voter ID Project, who is working on the federal case out of Rome, Georgia, is simply taking each injunction as it comes....."

ShorelineCT........you're so far out with these old articles, it's not funny.

The VoterID law was upheld in Georgia and is full effect.

When all is said and done, I suspect that if you are not in the GOP database, your ability to vote in the south is in jeopardy.

RJ, way to ignore a point by making some grand, red-herring generalization...

"Fine, we'll just stay home then!!"

You asked why the GA voting rights news wasn't getting the same play as that in FL. I pointed out that GA (a) doesn't carry the same significance as FL in a general election and (b) has zero chance of sending its votes in the electoral college to the dems anyway. A pretty meat and potatoes analysis, but there it is.

Thus, my point was GA is LESS important- I never said UNimportant.

Remember, it is better to deny 1 million innocent Democrats of their vote rather than see one fraudulent person register to vote.>

'innocent democrat' is the oxymoran and a red herring. :)

in florida lot of certain groups doublevote as in great lake region. we all know who it is but do'nt want it rasist due to political corection.

MillionthMonkey @ 8:45 PM:

"Yes we do need you. Drive to Florida and help GoTV efforts there during the election. No need to waste time voting in GA."

That's OK, Millionth.....we'll leave the GoTV efforts to the Daddy Knows Best bunch. Gas is too expensive to waste on the DEMs.