Yes, this has taken place in Ohio. Instead of putting Addressee has Moved returned mail into an Inactive list, the Sec. of State, running as a 'values' GOP candidate for Governor, deleted these registrations. I have not finished reading all of this article, there is a large pot of veggie soup I'm tending, so forgive me if it is mentioned, but supposedly there was going to be a lawsuit launched to ask a judge to reverse the purge. Thanks for the reminder. I'll look for that update later. kwc
The blue wave had best be tsunami in scale. New purging strategies for those most likely to vote Democrat likely in the works given Diebold machines still take tally. ANOTHER OHIO VOTE SCAM MAY ALREADY BE UNDERWAY K STREET PROJECTOR, DAILY KOS - A friend, in a position to be present at lunches of GOP insiders here in DC called me on Thursday. . . My friend was present as a group of moderate GOP members with Ohio ties lamented how far the party had strayed. There was consensus at the table there was no way they should retain control. . . Then, one insider, probably an extremist but certainly very close to Mr. Ken Mehlman, abruptly stopped the conversation. He told table that it was impossible they would lose either house. He also predicts an Ohio GOP sweep. He informed the group that over the last year, in four critical states the GOP needs to hold huge purges of the voter rolls have just been finished. The insider did not say which four states, but did say Ohio was among them. His claim was a new Diebold voter registry system had been installed over the last year. The last week of July and the first week of August a "test run" was made of the systems ability to purge ineligible voters. The purge generated names and test letters sent out to 1.2 million Ohio addresses with a focus on university's, apartment addresses with high turnover. He claims they made the letters seem just functionary, but they have an action component to avoid being purged from the rolls. . . Further the insider stated that Blackwell had only purged the lists after a full 60 days was given for people to respond. Which means even if a voter was on the "termination" list, they would still have been eligible to vote in the primary. He told the table they believe the purge has probably caught up "hundreds of thousands of students, activists and wanderers with no real job" would show up at the polls and have to vote provisionally. . . Friday I called friends in Lorain County and Wayne County Ohio. I told them this DC tale. Neither of them had voted yet and I asked them if they could go on Monday to either early vote, or apply for an absentee ballot. And if possible sit for in the Elections Office for an hour and determine if anyone was expressing surprise they were no longer registered. If the sample in Lorain County Ohio and Wayne County Ohio are true, then Ohio Democratic Voters had better go and Vote Early if they plan to vote at all. At Lorain County, my friend arrived to find a line of over 15 people, many of whom had come back for a second time, all of them Democrats who had arrived to vote and been told that drivers licence information, or in one case home ownership information had not matched the address provided for voter registration. In one case a college student had been purged because he had changed dorms on campus. In another case a local blue-collar worker had been purged because his voter registration had only his building address, but his drivers license included an apartment number. This tiny difference in information had led to his purging. While everyone present seemed to have enough information to allow the records to be updated, my friend told me it was being done by one and only one clerk and was taking a very long time, about 5 minutes per person to resolve. Everyone in line confirmed that several voters had given up in frustration and left. . . http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/10/18/85915/109 _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
