National Media Briefing on Voter Suppression in the 2006 Elections

[Omaha Steve]

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=72303

National Media Briefing on Voter Suppression in the 2006 Elections

9/13/2006 10:20:00 AM

To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor

Contact: Jonathan Rosen 646-452-5637 or 917-803-6176, for the Brennan Center for Justice

News Advisory:

The outcome of November's elections may hinge on who is able to cast a vote on Election Day. Both parties are gearing up for massive ballot security operations -- booking hotel rooms and recruiting squads of lawyers in battleground states. But the real challenges to voting are happening already. Sweeping changes in the way many battleground states regulate voter registration and conduct elections may lead to a quiet electoral crisis that could disenfranchise thousands in November.

Michael Waldman, executive director of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law and attorneys from the Brennan Center will brief the media on voter suppression strategies being deployed in states across the country leading up to the 2006 elections.

FULL story at link above.

[ForPeace]

1. Good for them!

I hadn't heard of the Brennan Center for Justice - but I'm glad they're getting the word out about this, and challenging unfair state laws. Maybe we do stand a chance in November.