Detroit Free Press: MI AG to new voters: Not so fast.

[muntrv]

More attempts at voter supression

BRIAN DICKERSON
Cox to new voters: Not so fast
BY BRIAN DICKERSON • FREE PRESS COLUMNIST • October 29, 2008

Michigan's election clerks were in a quandary: How to enforce a state law requiring certain first-time voters to cast their ballots in person without preventing students enrolled in colleges far from home from participating in their first presidential election?

The clerks' sensible solution -- allowing students and others who registered by mail to qualify for an absentee ballot by presenting themselves in person at a county clerk's office outside their home county -- satisfied reasonable people in both parties.

Three-fourths of Michigan's 85 county clerks quickly agreed to the plan, effectively deputizing their college-town peers to confirm the identity of students enrolled in schools outside their home county.

Michigan Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land, a Republican, and longtime Elections Director Chris Thomas, a straight-arrow civil servant respected by both parties, applauded the accommodation.

But state Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop, R-Rochester, apparently worried that all those newly registered collegians spelled trouble for GOP candidates across the state, asked Attorney General Mike Cox to put the kibosh on the clerks' plan.

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[Bozita]

1. Cox is a dick. This is simply an attempt at voter suppression.

[noonwitch]

3. Cheer up about Cox

If they ever get anywhere in the Tamara Greene case, he is going to look bad over the investigation he did into KK and the alleged party a few years ago. You know, the one where he said the stripper party was "an urban legend".

I hope a poll watcher challenges me! I vote in Warren, at Mound Park Elementary School. But I'm white, so I probably won't get challenged. I have the day off, so I have all the time in the day to wait, if I have to.

[AFSCME girl]

4. Well said, noonwitch.

I live in Michigan, too. I can't stand Cox. If he gets the Repub nod for Governor, and Archer is the Dem candidate - Archer will crush him. (Just my humble opinion).
:hi:

[Bozita]

5. I think the odds of more info coming out about Tamara Greene and the Manoogian party are good.

Now that Kwame's in his rightful residence, a lot of the fear of the Friends and Family mob is subsiding.

I just got back from picking up my absentee ballot at Dearborn City Hall. I live across the street from a school that houses two voting precincts. The lines were looong throughout the day in 2000 and 2004. I'm now one less person in line next Tuesday.

[DS1]

2. I'm really starting to develop a deep-rooted hatred for Republicans