Hey, where's Wisconsin? Our A.G. has tried hard to scrub the voter lists, but was blocked in his efforts. Surely that deserves inclusion. The WI GOP's quest for voter ID has not stopped either, nor, I predict, will it after this election. If anything they may have a tiny shred more to go on.

Check out 'Deep Insider Info' on Joe Monahan's NM political blog:
http://www.joemonahansnewmexico.blogspot.com/

I've figured as much, although I don't hang out with any of these alleged 'conspiracists'...

In VA (Hampton Roads) a flyer has gone out telling all registered dems to vote on Wednesday 11/5 in order to ease congestion at the polls. I've also had friends receive bogus letters in the mail telling them that their registration is invalid.

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=6138925&page=1

Ohio Update!

The Department of Justice has indicated that it will NOT force Brunner to disclose mismatched voter registrations as the Ohio GOP wants:

http://www.ohiodailyblog.com/content/doj-rejects-gop-request-federal-intervention-voter-registration-dispute

You should add Georgia to the list. Here is the latest information via Daily KOS:

As kos noted yesterday, Florida Governor Charlie Crist extended voting hours in that state, citing huge early voting lines and waits of up to five or six hours in some areas.

But in neighboring Georgia, Secretary of State Karen Handel is refusing to do the same. On Monday, some voters waited eight hours to vote because of machine glitches. There were other reports of voters waiting an average of three to four hours to vote in heavily Democratic and urban areas.

In response to a request from the state Democratic Party to extend voting hours in light of these long waiting times, Handel said no:

Handel said Georgia law includes no such mechanism that would allow her, or Gov. Sonny Perdue, to do it.

Handel also said she doesn’t think it’s necessary, and called Kidd’s letter emblematic of an "orchestrated effort of that political party across the country."

Handel is referring to the fact that Georgia law apparently "doesn't allow for voting on the weekend or the Monday before Election Day." But that second comment, blaming Democrats for politicizing the situation?

That's Handel still smarting after been slapped silly by the courts yesterday for her attempted purging of the voter rolls:

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia should have sought U.S. Justice Department approval before implementing a new process of using Social Security numbers and driver's license data to check voters' immigration status, a three-judge federal panel ruled Monday.

The 27-page ruling ordered Georgia election officials to make "diligent and immediate" efforts to notify voters flagged as ineligible because of the checks that they can still cast paper ballots on Nov. 4. The paper ballots can later be challenged by state officials if a voter is believed to be ineligible.

The state also is not allowed to remove names from lists unless voters say in writing that they are ineligible.

Will the Georgia Democratic Party take its request for extended early voting hours to the courts? We'll see.

Great Work! Keep after em'! Don't let up after Tuesday, either, a spotlight should shine on these shenanigans long after the election.

It's already a crime to suppress votes, just howmany of these schemes cross thaose lines only matters if someone enforces those laws.

It will no doubt be the 111th Congress that takes up that cause, Bush isn't likely to sic his DOJ on the Culprits(R), so keeping track of the guilty parties and their crimes, and tracking them long after the election is over, might one day help facilitate thier date with Ms. Justice.

Hey, don't forget about Illinois. Here's a snippet from a story from the Daily Herald about the GOP lawsuit in Lake County, Illinois (not Lake County, Indiana) that wants to stop counting a number of votes.

To read the whole thing, go to: http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=246523

GOP election lawsuit headed to federal court

An Illinois Republican Party lawsuit seeking to prevent thousands of Lake County ballots from being counted on Election Day is headed to federal court.

At a brief hearing today in Lake County circuit court, GOP representatives wanted Associate Judge Mitchell Hoffman to deliver a quick decision on the lawsuit, which the GOP brought Tuesday against the county clerk's office and Citizen Action/Illinois, an activist group in Chicago.

According to the suit, the GOP is concerned about voter registration fraud based on evidence uncovered by the clerk's office.

Peace....

Republican. Very very republican. And there's a lot of traffic, too.

Thanks so much for this page & for all you've already done on voter suppression. What a shame it has to be. The page is linked on RealityChex.com at http://www.realitychex.com along with stories on voter suppression -- unfortunately, we've got our own page on this subject, too.

The AP put Obama over the top tonight, but of course that won't happen if people can't vote.

and what about the machines? Vote flipping, programming to subtact, intercepted communication in tabulation upload process????

Hmmm, do I write a letter or do I call? Maybe I'll do both....

Contact Patrick J. Rogers

505.848.1849 (Direct Line)
505.848.1800 (Alternate Phone)
patrogers@modrall.com
Address
500 Fourth Street NW
PO Box 2168
Albuquerque, NM 87103
Assistant
Norma Lockhart
505.848.1800 ext. 1609
normal@modrall.com

A settlement was reached tonight in Colorado's voter suit. Allows provisional ballots with special protections.

http://origin.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_10850704

zoralee, you may as well. And while you're at it, call Rep. Justine Fox-Young and voice your outrage, as well.

How much soma does she need to sleep at night?
I'll ask her staffer tomorrow.
She's made it on my call sheet.

Representative: Justine Fox-Young
District: 30
County(s): Bernalillo
Representative Since: 2005
Party: Republican
Occupation: Systems Analyst
Address: 2913 Dallas Street NE
Albuquerque, NM 87110
Capitol Office Phone: 986-4450
Office Phone: (575) 835-5371
Home Phone: (505) 883-3017
E-mail: foxyoung@gmail.com

I would say the first rule for individual registered Democratic Party voters is get ahold of a ballot. In Kern County in California, Ann Barnett, the highly televised county clerk who claimed to lack funds to provide magistrate services for "gay" marriage, simply holds back on sending out the ballot to absentee voters until it is too late. I received my sample ballot last week here in Europe with instructions on how to GET an absentee ballot. Fortunately, I started the process of getting my ballot in August, and handled the matter by fax with a different person in her office a month earlier. I had already voted by the time my sample ballot arrived.

You can now add Minnesota to that list:
http://www.startribune.com/politics/state/33551514.html?page=1&c=y

This all stems from the "Help America Vote Act" of 2002 (42 USCA 15483 for you law nerds). It was passed with a resounding majority in the Senate and House...so both parties suck. yes, the Reps are enforcing it...but uh, it's a law and they can legally attempt to enforce it. (But not within 90 days). So yes, Reps are breaking all kinds of laws by attempting to enforce HAVA so close to an election, but the underlying claims are valid. We need to repeal this law ASAP after Obama wins and the Dems gain a majority.
Things that make you scream about HAVA:
1. Need your voter registration application to exactly match the info on the DMV records and your SS# to exactly match.
2. If you don't vote in two elections, and the state contacts you to ask if you still live at XYZ address and you don't respond...you are taken off the registered voter list. That's right...don't exercise your 'right' to vote, and you lose it.
3. If you've never voted before, you must bring to the voting booth either a current driver's license or matching last four digits of the SS#. Oh, a clerk entered it into the machine wrong? TOO BAD NO VOTE FOR YOU!
4. If you don't have a drivers license you can "prove" who you are by a copy of a current utility bill (sorry renters!); bank statement (sorry poor people!); government check (sorry non-government employed people and those NOT collecting entitlements!); a paycheck (sorry unemployed or employed and already cashed your check before voting day!)
So who does #4 disenfranchise? The poor. The homeless, the unemployed and renters.

you can cast a provisional ballot if your info does not match. However, studies have shown that only 65% of the provisional ballots were counted, and the other 35% were not. No one knows on what ground the 35% were rejected.

This is your law. We need to change it, or better yet, repeal it.

The effort some will go to prevent people from voting is unreal. These problems will continue as long as the US has partisans in charge of the voting process. Thanks for doing this.