Indian Health Agency Barred New-Voter Drive, Democrats question...-WP

[Rose Siding]

Officials at a federal program that runs hospitals and clinics serving Native Americans this summer prohibited employees from using those facilities to sign up new voters, saying that even nonpartisan voter registration was prohibited on federal property.

Staff members at several Indian Health Service hospitals and clinics in New Mexico, a presidential battleground state where about one-tenth of the population is Native American, were trying to register employees, patients and family members who use the facilities.
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"There have been recent questions about whether we can do nonpartisan voter registration drives in our IHS facilities during non-duty hours," Wood wrote. "The guidance from HQs staff is that we should not allow voter registration in our facilities or on federal property."

Several of those involved in the registration effort questioned what they saw as a double standard, given that the federal government encourages registration on military bases, where voters traditionally have favored Republicans.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9946-2004Oct5.html?nav=rss_politics

[LiberalFighter]

1. Can they cite the law they are using?

[Rose Siding]

2. Manifest Destiny?

/sarcasm