{"id":5997,"date":"2008-05-17T12:23:24","date_gmt":"2008-05-17T19:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5997"},"modified":"2008-10-11T10:55:14","modified_gmt":"2008-10-11T17:55:14","slug":"several-big-voting-rights-victories-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=5997","title":{"rendered":"SEVERAL BIG VOTING RIGHTS VICTORIES ON FRIDAY!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/ThorHearne_Loser.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">In case you missed it, tremendous news for democracy lovers everywhere late yesterday, as the week ended up being a <em>very <\/em>good one for <em>the voters<\/em>, for a change&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>In Missouri<\/b>, GOP <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/ACVR\">vote-suppressor Thor Hearne<\/a> lost one, and the voters won one for a change, as the <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5995\">attempt by Republican legislators<\/a> in the state house to pass a Constitutional amendment requiring Photo ID restrictions and proof of citizenship sure to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of legal, registered voters <a href=\"http:\/\/mofairelections.blogspot.com\/2008_05_01_archive.html#8891791086739492203\"><strong>went down in flames<\/strong><\/a> on the last day of the legislative session.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/HansVonSpakovsky_loser.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><b>On the federal level<\/b>, GOP <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4582\">voter-fraud zealot Hans von Spakovsky<\/a> (cue evil music), finally <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2008\/05\/breaking_spakovsky_withdraws_a.php\"><strong>withdrew his nomination<\/strong><\/a> to the FEC, which <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5132\">had been blocked<\/a> by Sens. Obama and Feingold. The standoff had kept the FEC from have the required quorum of commissioners needed to do business in a crucial election year. With vS out of the way, perhaps a responsible, pro-voter set of commissioners can now take their place. But we&#8217;ll see. Rick Hasen has <a href=\"http:\/\/electionlawblog.org\/archives\/010821.html\">the outlook<\/a>. Either way, it&#8217;s another very big victory.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/LynnGreer_Loser.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><b>In Tennessee<\/b>, both houses have approved a bill to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20080516\/NEWS0201\/805160421\/1009\/NEWS01\"><strong>require a paper ballot for every vote cast<\/strong><\/a>! The bill has to go back to conference to work out one last point, but given its extraordinary success in both houses (it passed <i>unanimously<\/i> this week in the state Senate!) it&#8217;s likely to be enacted quickly. This is a huge win for the tireless <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votesafetn.org\/\">Election Integrity citizen heroes<\/a> on the ground in TN, and a loss for the pro-machine, pro-invisible\/unverifiable ballot crowd there, including Davidson County&#8217;s Republican Election Commissioner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nashville.gov\/Vote\/commission_greer.htm\">Lynn Greer<\/a>, who once told me, after I attended a meeting there, that &#8220;paper is the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on this country.&#8221; Apparently he was serious. The good news: the <i>responsible<\/i> folks in the state disagree with him. The bad news: the requirement for paper ballots won&#8217;t take effect until 2010. But we&#8217;ll take what we can get!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/JanBrewer_Loser.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><b>Finally, in Arizona<\/b>, as Steve Rosenfeld, as one of my guests yesterday while <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5994\">I was guest hosting <i>The Peter B. Collins Show<\/i><\/a> told us, the DoJ has finally <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/cgi-bin\/stories.pl?ACCT=104&#038;STORY=\/www\/story\/05-15-2008\/0004815097&#038;EDATE=\"><strong>settled a lawsuit<\/strong><\/a> against the state where Sec. of State Jan Brewer, who <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2241\">once called<\/a> Election Integrity advocates &#8220;anarchists&#8221; and &#8220;conspiracy theorists&#8221; has been doing everything she could, for years, to keep legitimate voters from being able to properly cast their ballots and have them counted accurately. The state has now finally agreed to follow the law (National Voter Registration Act of 1993, known as the NVRA or the &#8220;Motor Voter Bill&#8221;) by performing voter registration services at public assistance facilities such as welfare clinics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We spoke about most of the breaking good news above last night on the <i>PBC Show<\/i> (<a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5994\"><i>audio archive here<\/i><\/a>), and will try, for the next few hours at least, to enjoy some of the <i>great<\/i> news, for a change, on several fronts in the continuing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/cs\/articles?article=the_republican_war_on_voting\">Republican War on Voting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/WeThePeople_Winner.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<div class=\"BBTOORepost\">Prices now <i>slashed<\/i> in <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5705\"><strong>The BRAD BLOG&#8217;s 2008 Election Integrity Fund Drive!<\/strong><\/a> Please support our continuing coverage of your election system, as found <em>nowhere<\/em> else. <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5705\">Click here<\/a> for a number of cool new collector&#8217;s edition Premium products <b>now available starting at just $5!<\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it, tremendous news for democracy lovers everywhere late yesterday, as the week ended up being a very good one for the voters, for a change&#8230; In Missouri, GOP vote-suppressor Thor Hearne lost one, and the voters won one for a change, as the attempt by Republican legislators in the state house [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[392],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hans-von-spakovsky"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}