Tell Mukasey: Don't suppress Ohio voters

[medeak]

Subject: Tell Mukasey: Don't suppress Ohio voters.

Dear Friend,

This year, there are over 600,000 newly registered Ohio voters, but
President Bush has asked Attorney General Mukasey to investigate as many as
200,000 of them. Why? Because Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner has
refused to use an "exact match" standard before adding these voters to the
rolls.

What is this "exact match" standard? Basically, it works like this: After
you fill out your voter registration card, a local or state employee has to
type in your information to add you to the voter rolls, and check to see
that you really exist, usually by verifying your driver's license number or
Social Security number. And as you can imagine, sometimes there are typos or
other disparities when the information gets entered and matched - for
example, if your last name is "De la Rosa" and it got entered as "Delarosa",
you would fail to meet the exact match standard, and your registration form
would be invalid.

Secretary Brunner has refused to use this standard on the grounds that it
would erroneously deprive tens or even hundreds of thousands of Ohioans of
their right to vote. The Ohio GOP sued her a month ago to try and get the
courts to compel her to use the exact match standard, but the Supreme Court
ruled that they had no standing to make that case.

Now, President Bush is trying to run around the Supreme Court by getting the
Department of Justice to intervene. On Friday, October 24th, Bush reportedly
asked Attorney General Mukasey to investigate whether as many as 200,000
voters need to reconfirm their registrations before November 4th - which
would almost certainly result in forcing them to vote provisionally.

I just signed a petition urging Attorney General Mukasey not to act on
President Bush's sickening request. I hope you will, too.

Please have a look and take action.

http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/doj_oh_suppression/?r_by=-1885597-qlnYt0
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Thanks!

[sam sarrha]

1. this was tried in another state the panel of judges had their own registration checked and all of

them would have been removed.. they denied the check of voters.. i heard it on AAR, i don't remember the state

[stillcool]

2. done..thanks for the link!