In today’s featured article the Brennan Center for Justice and the Advancement Project have reported that thousands of Florida voters may be disenfranchised by a last minute decision by the Secretary of State, Kurt Browning, to enforce a “no match, no vote†law. “No match, no vote†essentially says that if a voters name or information on their registration does not exactly match their name or information on their ID they cannot vote or they can vote a provisional ballot and take the same ID to the county election office after the election to prove they are who they say they are.
“This 11th-hour decision is an ill-advised move to apply a policy the state has never enforced in its current form, at a time when registration activity is at its highest,” stated Beverlye Neal, director of the Florida State Conference of the NAACP, a plaintiff in a lawsuit that challenges Florida’s matching law. “The Secretary’s decision will put thousands of real Florida citizens at risk due to bureaucratic typos that under the ‘no-match, no-vote’ law will prevent them from voting this November,” said Alvaro Fernandez of the Southwest Voter Registration and Education Project, another plaintiff in the case.
“Voters who do everything right, who submit forms that are complete, timely, and accurate, will suddenly find themselves unregistered when they go to vote, just because someone somewhere punched the wrong letter on a keyboard,” said Myrna Pérez, counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice. “The no match, no vote policy is unjust and unnecessary, and Florida voters will pay the price this fall,” stated Jean-Robert Lafortune, president of the Haitian-American Grassroots Coalition, another plaintiff in the lawsuit…
- Featured – FL: Florida Voting Law May Disenfranchise Thousands
http://www.alternet.org/democracy/98609/florida_voting_law_may_disenfranchise_thousands/ - National: Some States Cast Off New Voting Technology
http://cbs4.com/politics/voting.money.nachine.2.815789.html - National: NH, other states, keep old machines
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g4B9HGN8AslL8ATW6wUsCQR2tgkwD93549AO1
- National: What Can We Do Now To Protect the November Election
http://www.opednews.com/articles/What-Can-We-Do-Now-To-Prot-by-Teresa-Hommel-080912-615.html - National: Opinion – Ballot box blues
High turnout threatens turmoil
http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2008/09/ballot-box-blue.html - National: Editorial – VA listens – finally – to secretary of the state
http://www.bristolpress.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20117893&BRD=1643&PAG=461&dept_id=665525&rfi=6 - National: Our Coming Election Nightmare
http://reason.com/blog/show/128760.html - FL: Florida gets tough on new voter registrations
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-flfvoter0912sbsep12,0,98099.story - FL: Palm Beach County’s missing ballots appear to be found
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-flpballot0912pnsep12,0,7367942.story - FL: In Palm Beach County it goes from missing ballots to too many ballots
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-0912missingballots,0,3917707.story - FL: St. Johns County – Weighing in on paper ballots is a hefty job
http://www.pontevedrarecorder.com/content/369_1.php - MD: “Uncounted” Counts 400 Viewers at Silver Spring Theatre
http://www.opednews.com/articles/-Uncounted-Counts-More-Th-by-Marta-Steele-080910-606.html - MO: Trial Continued in Phil Lindsey Voter ID Case
http://www.kctribune.com/article.cfm?articleID=18334 - MS: Senate ballot position fight continues
http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080912/NEWS01/809120344/1002 - MS: Judge orders Miss. governor to redo ballot
http://www.sunherald.com/newsupdates/story/810007.html - MS: Judge Rules Against Mississippi GOP, Orders Special Senate Race Moved Up on Ballot
http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docid=news-000002949934 - NY: Voting machines for disabled went unused in primary
http://romesentinel.com/news?newsid=20080912-141502 - OH: Documentary Investigates 2004 Election Controversy in Ohio
“How Ohio Pulled It Off†Examines Controversy in Buckeye State
http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6595781.html - Washington DC: Voting Database Is Fine, Firm Says
User Error Cited As Possibility in D.C. Vote Foul-Up
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/09/12/ST2008091200149.html - Washington DC: Electronic Voting Follies Continue
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2008/09/e-voting_follies_continue.html - Washington DC: Sequoia E-Voting Equipment Allowed Thousands Of Fake Write-In Votes
from the don’t-you-feel-great-about-our-upcoming-election? dept
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080912/1346342255.shtml - WI: Editorial – Partisanship at work?
Difficulties in getting the state’s voter list ready have long been known. This lawsuit smells of political mischief.
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=793817 - WI: Wisconsin elections agency says ID lawsuit will cause confusion at polls
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/09/wisconsin-elections-agency-says-id.php
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I just saw “Uncounted” again. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the Florida computers with voter data become “fatigued” when compiling democratic data.
Barack will win by a landslide, but if he actually gets into the Oval Office it’ll be a miracle.
if you want to cut and paste, here’s the email I just sent to everyone I know:
Dear Friends and Family,
I have a very important link to share. We have just 1 and a half months until the election, and there are a few great ads that need to be shown as often as possible between now and November 4th. Sometimes I feel like there is not a whole lot I can do to make a difference. But today I dug deep to help fund these ads and get them on the air. Even 5 bucks will go a long way. Let’s do this thing.
Follow this link to see the ads made by Planned Parenthood, the Defenders of Wildlife, Democracy for America and others. If you like the ad(s), you can go directly to the websites and make a contribution to get these on air.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/13/12029/3292/616/597390
And email this to your friends… why not to your entire address book? You never know how many people are just itching to have the opportunity to do something.
Much love to you all.
Makes no difference who you vote for, Government always gets in.