New voting barriers & underhanded efforts to crack down on registration

[dajoki]

MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14823354/

Election changes could create voting barriers
Report cites underhanded efforts to crack down on voter registration

Updated: 6:20 p.m. ET Sept 13, 2006

WASHINGTON - Fixing the problems that arose in the disputed 2000 presidential election and other contests could create brand new woes for voters this November.

The Brennan Center for Justice, in a report released Wednesday, noted the billions for the states from the Help America Vote Act, which dictated updating voting systems, streamlining registration and providing education for voters and poll workers. The states are carrying out these changes with varying speed and efficiency.

Michael Waldman, executive director of the Brennan Center, said the law will move the country forward. He added, however, "the way it is being implemented by many states, combined with new underhanded efforts to crack down on voter registration and participation, could move the country backward. We see a real problem coming up in November in the elections."

The report found five threats to voters' rights: laws making voter registration more difficult; use of databases to keep voters off the rolls; purges of those voter rolls; tough requirements for voter identification or proof of citizenship and questions about the security of electronic voting.

[havocmom]

1. bush/cheney: touting democracy abroad. At home?

not so much

[dajoki]

3. They don't know the meaning of the word n/t

[havocmom]

4. They know enough to try and kill the concept in actual practice

Talking about it is OK, so long as everyone understands it's just talk.
Try to practice it and look out.

Fuck the bully oligarchs. They get my rights when they pry them from my cold, dead hands.

[dajoki]

5. You are correct and I agree n/t

[babylonsister]

2. Well, look where this is coming from. Can I say finally? And ask

if we'll hear a peep about it on tv?
I know Lou Dobbs addressed what happened yesterday, but not many other people.