Anticipated Voting Problems on Election Day

[DroppinScience]

I thought it best to make a new thread compiling anticipated voting problems that could occur in some states come Nov. 4th.

Documad was wondering about all voter intimidation in Philadelphia. Well, there's a video about voting machine meltdowns during the PA primaries. The Philadelphia Deputy Election Comissioner even has startling opinions about voting problems ("Tough!" "Get a life!" WTF?)

http://americannewsproject.com/videos/155

And of course Voter Suppression.

http://blog.oregonlive.com/community_writers/2008/10/gop_strategy_vote_tampering.html

Excerpt:

[b]Prior to the Help America Vote Act, bipartisan county election officials maintained voter records. Now, that power is given solely to the secretaries of state - partisan officials. All told, states reported scrubbing at least 10 million voters from their rolls on questionable grounds between 2004 and 2006.[b] In swing-state Colorado, nearly one in six of voters have been eliminated from their rolls. "Vote caging," or targeted mailings to identify potential voters who's addresses have changed, illegally disallows that person's vote, if the mailing to the old address is returned. Requiring unnecessary identification impacts Americans of color who traditionally do not carry driver's licenses or state ID.


Robert Kennedy Jr. (who investigated Ohio in 2004) also has a new Rolling Stone article (to appear in the Oct. 30 issue) about this. I'll post it when it becomes available, but the article above quotes him:


The Rolling Stone article concludes, "If Democrats are to win the 2008 election, they must not simply beat John McCain at the polls - they must beat him by a margin that exceeds the level of GOP vote tampering."

[DroppinScience]

Thousands face mix-up in voter registrations

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27247132/

Thousands of voters across the country must reestablish their eligibility in the next three weeks in order for their votes to count on Nov. 4, a result of new state registration systems that are incorrectly rejecting them.

The challenges have led to a dozen lawsuits, testy arguments among state officials and escalating partisan battles. Because many voters may not know that their names have been flagged, eligibility questions could cause added confusion on Election Day, beyond the delays that may come with a huge turnout.

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[DroppinScience]

The Supreme Court rules against Ohio GOP on dispute over voter eligibility.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27238980/

The Supreme Court sided Friday with Ohio's top elections official in a dispute with the state Republican Party over voter registrations.

The justices overruled a federal appeals court that had ordered Ohio's top elections official to do more to help counties verify voter eligibility.

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[kaiser soze]

Might as well add this here

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-fraud20-2008oct20,0,3842357.story

ACRAMENTO -- The owner of a firm that the California Republican Party hired to register tens of thousands of voters this year was arrested in Ontario late last night on suspicion of voter registration fraud.

The voters said YPM tricked them by saying they were signing a petition to toughen penalties against child molesters.


how ironic

[RobMoney$]

Ironic Indeed!

Looks like the GOP is taking a page out of the Democrats book. What's next, Dems not supplying enough voting machines in Connecticut?


If the Dems can register frauds,the GOP will register frauds....it'll be ANARCHY!

[kaiser soze]

Sorry for not making myself clear

The irony was I commenting on was the "registering to petition harsher penalties on child molesters"

When a republican rep was just busted for exactly that!

But yeah...acorn, I think we got that memo two weeks ago

[kaiser soze]

mccain supporters violating The Voting Rights Act of 1965

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R75OMc2SkvA&eurl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te5LBn0ofN0&eurl

http://www.clcblog.org/blog_item-245.html

“No person, whether acting under color of law or otherwise, shall intimidate, threaten, or coerce, or attempt to intimidate, threaten, or coerce any person for voting or attempting to vote, or intimidate, threaten, or coerce, or attempt to intimidate, threaten, or coerce any person for urging or aiding any person to vote or attempt to vote, or intimidate, threaten, or coerce any person for exercising any powers or duties under section 3(a), 6, 8, 9, 10, or 12(e).”

Crime after Crime

Oh, check out the guy who voted the day before these "cheaters"

:rolleyes:

[kaiser soze]

More bullshit....these thieves are working hard to steal it again

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICl-bI927rM&eurl

mccain showing support for ACORN in 2006

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6Z2t7DTVKA&feature=related

[DroppinScience]

Good news in Georgia for those thousands of registered voters who were wrongly flagged as ineligible. They can now vote.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/27/thousands-of-flagged-voters-can-vote-court-rules/

Thousands of flagged voters can vote, court rules
Posted: 08:23 PM ET

(CNN) — Georgia must allow thousands of people whose citizenship was questioned by the state's new voter verification system to vote in the upcoming election, a panel of federal judges ruled Monday.

The court ruling will affect about 4,500 people in Georgia who had been "flagged" by the new voter verification system and faced being denied a chance to vote Nov. 4 because their citizenship was questioned.

It could also affect more than 50,000 other registered Georgia voters also flagged by the new system because of mismatches in their personal identification information, such as discrepancies in addresses.

The three-judge panel also ordered Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel to inform all the flagged voters that they can vote.

"We are very pleased that the court agreed with our legal position that the state violated the Voting Rights Act," said Elise Shore, a lawyer with one of the civil right groups who brought the lawsuit.

Shore said the ruling applies to the 4,500 Georgians that were flagged for citizenship reasons and she was uncertain whether it applied to the some 50,000 others that were flagged for other reasons.

The issue was raised in a lawsuit filed on behalf of a Georgia college student who claimed that the secretary of state's voter verification system violated the Voting Rights Act and the National Voter Registration Act and caused an illegal purge of voters in the weeks before the election.

Federal law prohibits widespread voter purges within 90 days of the election. In Georgia, that has become a heated issue with some calling the purge "voter suppression."

Handel, a Republican who began working on purging voter rolls from the time of her election in 2006, said the act of verifying voters is not voter suppression.

"I'm grateful for the District Court panel's decision which reinforces the state's voter registration verification procedures," Handel said in a statement. " It is unfortunate that the plaintiffs filed suit to halt this federally required process."

[kaiser soze]

awesome

so the purger was a republican? I wonder what ratio of repub and dem voters has been purged since 2006

[Randetica]

i hope im not sounding too medial brain washed when i say that the voting countdown excites me more than the austrian votings did

[saz]

Ironic Indeed!

Looks like the GOP is taking a page out of the Democrats book. What's next, Dems not supplying enough voting machines in Connecticut?


If the Dems can register frauds,the GOP will register frauds....it'll be ANARCHY!

acorn actually reported the fraudulent registrations in the first place, because i'm pretty sure they're required by the law to do so. and despite the fact that some of their employees made up some registrations, that doesn't mean that these false registrations will suddenly become real people, go to the polls and vote. but hey, given the fantasy that republicans are prone to believe, ie biblical tales, wmds in iraq, ties between iraq and al qaeda, you know, faith over facts and science, i'm sure they'll believe anything at this point.