"19 States Are Ignoring Federal Law Banning Systimatic Purges Within 90 Days Before Fed. Election"

[orleans]

"The 19 states that fall into this catagory are Alabama, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Texas, and Washington."

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4490778n
(scooch the invisible bar up to 17 minutes -- skip the palin interview)

i got this email from MCM:

Dear Mark,

I want to let you know about an important new report we will release today, Voter Purges. At 6:30pm (EST) tonight, we expect the Brennan Center to appear on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric for the first discussion of this practice. You can find the text of the report on our web site shortly before the broadcast (www.brennancenter.org).

We studied the way officials keep voter lists in 12 states. Here's what we found: election officials across the country are routinely striking millions of voters from the rolls through a process that is shrouded in secrecy, prone to error, and vulnerable to manipulation.

There really are no effective national standards to govern voter purges, and the result is an often chaotic, whimsical approach to the maintenance of voter rolls. Americans across the country lack basic protections against erroneous purges, and may show up to the polls only to find that they cannot vote.

We need to do more to pry the lid of secrecy off these voter purges. Tomorrow, the Brennan Center, along with the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, will file public record requests in 12 states, demanding that officials tell the public how they conduct purges -- and who has been removed from the rolls.

This is just one way the Brennan Center is working to ensure that this election is fair and accurate. Our work in 2008 has ranged from lawsuits to protect nonpartisan voter registration drives, to a state-of-the-art Legal Guide to Student Voting, to a pathbreaking study on ballot design that has been used by hundreds of counties across the country. We are determined that in this critical election year, every American who wants to register can register, can vote, and can be assured their vote will be properly counted.

Sincerely,
Michael Waldman
Executive Director
Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law

the links within the email:
http://www.brennancenter.org/
http://www.brennancenter.org/content/section/category/voter_registration
http://www.brennancenter.org/studentvoting
http://www.brennancenter.org/index.php/ballots/

[tblue]

1. I am about to cry tears of joy! Let me be the first to K&R!

Oh happy day!

[FVZA_Colonel]

2. Funny how at least 13 of those are states Obama's likely to win.

At least, he would without illegal purges.

[NoSheep]

7. Thus the attempted illegal purges.

[FlyingSquirrel]

10. The only ones on that list that I'm actually worried about are

Colorado, Iowa, Nevada, and Ohio.

The rest of them are either safe Obama or McCain.

Actually I think Iowa's pretty safe for Obama at this point as well but you can't be too sure these days.

[Fridays Child]

3. I wonder how many of those states have Republican secretaries of state.

I wonder.

[JimDandy]

4. WA has one - Sam Reed (R)

This is the first paragraph from his bio on the official Sec of State website:

"As the nation’s most accomplished Secretary of State in the field of elections, Sam Reed is hailed by the people of Washington for protecting their right to vote for the most qualified candidates running for public office."

Gag, gag,gag,gag,gag...ad nauseum.

Jason Osgood (D), an election integrity activist, is running against him.

[emlev]

6. You can count 'em here

National Association of Secretaries of State

[orleans]

9. only 6

Alabama, R
Colorado, R
Connecticut, D
Delaware, D
Hawaii, R
Illinois, D
Iowa, D
Kansas, R
Maryland, D
Massachusetts, D
Nebraska, R
Nevada, D
New Jersey, D
New York, D
Ohio, D
Oklahoma, D
Rhode Island, D
Texas, D
and
Washington, R

if obama loses illinois the world will have definitive proof that the election was totally rigged.

[norepubsin08]

5. NATIONAL GUARANTEE YOUR VOTE DAY

Please in our call to action today October 1st as NATIONAL GUARANTEE YOUR VOTE DAY for more info link to www.guaranteeyourvote.org or www.americasolidarity.org thanks

[orleans]

8. this needs it's own thread. n/t

[McCamy Taylor]

11. And who is supposed to enforce federal law? Karl Rove's DOJ

When hell freezes over.

Can we call the UN to start monitoring the election?

[Blarch]

12. They are crushing OUR DEMOCRACY....AGAIN.

And the American people will do nothing ....again.

Oh well, we had a good run.