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Nevada Secretary of State Rebuffs Latest GOP Effort To Suppress Vote
Yesterday we told you about the latest GOP effort to make voting more difficult -- a letter sent by Nevada GOP chair Sue Lowden to Democratic Secretary of State Ross Miller, arguing that people should not be able to correct incomplete registrations on the spot when going to vote. Lowden claimed that Nevada law requires voter registration to be closed three weeks before election day, and that in such cases, people should be forced to cast provisional ballots.
Now Miller's office has responded with an interpretation of the law at issue, rejecting Lowden's argument. The key excerpt:
Question: If a county clerk/registrar of voters determines that an application to register to vote is incomplete or incorrect, does Nevada law provide an opportunity for the applicant to submit a corrected application after the close of registration?Answer: Yes. Nevada law provides the manner in which an in-person and mail-in applicant may update or correct the voter information, and may do so without losing his right to vote.
Miller has already been in the news for voting issues this cycle. Last month, he engineered a high-profile raid on an ACORN office in Las Vegas after fraudulent registration forms were submitted, despite the fact that ACORN claimed it was cooperating with investigators.
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If we think things will be all over after the election, WRONG. They are mean now. They will keep being mean. If by some miracle we have even a near democratic election and Obama wins, their vindictive little teeth will really be barred. We better be ready. Of course, the Democrats will do absolutely NOTHING if this happens. Nothing.
Because this is why we are in the mess we are in.
The Democrats who sold us out in 00, then in 04, then Pelosi...the great ball-less wonders.
It will be miracle...a miracle if this election goes off without a HITCH. Start looking for your lucky stars.
October 23, 2008 1:07 AM | Reply | Permalink
Dogtail quit wringing your hands, preemptively blaming Democrats and do something. If you have time to comment here you have time to write letters to the editor, send emails with Brave New World's Youtubes to your Republican relatives and acquaintances. Get off your ass and get in the game or shut the fuck up.
October 23, 2008 9:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
Exactly right.
It's amazing the number of excuses that can be dreamed up as excuse to do nothing. Even to not vote.
The fact is that Obama is not the usual. THIS time there won't be any rolling over -- especially with the Republicans who have gone through enormous personal evaluation and change in order to vote for Obama; and there are many, many of those.
Many of those said nothing about 2000 -- even talked against the facts because they got their way; all that mattered to them was winning, and they didn't care how. 8 years later they rightly feel guilty for the results. THIS time THEY won't tolerate election theft EITHER.
October 23, 2008 12:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
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October 23, 2008 9:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
I hope there is planning to use that $150,000,000 to fight Republican efforts to steal the election IN THE COURTS.
And I'd like to know what is happening concerning the vote-flipping machines in W. Virginia. I want to know that there isn't ROLLING OVER in the face of it.
October 23, 2008 1:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hooray for Ross!! (lawschool classmate!)
What he's (and the NV statutes) saying here in essence is that a voter is considered "registered" once (s)he turns in the application to the county clerk --even if the application has errors. And that the classification of "registered" is not void simply because an application has errors.
This is bad news for vote purgers who want to designate all voter applications with errors as automatically void. It also affirms that the right belongs to the *voter*.
October 23, 2008 10:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
Exacrtly. Especially relevant is the fact that the vote belongs ONLY to the voter -- not to the state, and certainly not to any political party.
Only need be added is that all other rights rest upon the right to vote: that is the most basic right of all.
October 23, 2008 1:03 PM | Reply | Permalink