Dear Mark and Bo,
I am an NYU graduate, a magazine reporter and
someone who just found out last week I was
"Inactive."
I've been reading your work, Mark, and also that
of Naomi Wolf, who speaks very highly of you in
her latest book Give Me Liberty.
I just wanted to thank you both for sending this
email out to people. Unfortunately, it is too
late to change your status UNLESS you can get
someone at your borough's board of elections to
send you a new "confirmation notice" in the mail
- this confirmation notice, once sent out,
automatically moves one from the "inactive" to
the "active" status.
I know because I got someone to do it for me last
week. I had contacted the ACLU's voting rights
project (Neil Bradley, who I've cc'd on this
email) and also Election Protection dot org, in
DC, and had a list of the laws ready to read to
whomever at the voting office was unlucky enough
to answer my phone call. Basically I badgered
them for two days until they moved my name.
I URGE everyone who finds out they are "inactive"
to call, call, call their borough's board of
elections, where they were last registered, and
beg them to do whatever they can.
I can provide more information on the specific
laws I cited when I talked to them, if you're
interested.
Regards,
--
Melody S. Wells
PEOPLE Magazine
Reporter-Researcher
1271 Avenue of the Americas
30th fl.
New York, NY 10020
212-522-2350 office
646-753-2341 cell
212-522-7187 fax
From: press <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:03:22
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: New Yorkers only! Make sure you're still registered to vote!
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Dear friends and family,
For the last year and more I've been following the work of Mark Crispin
Miller. Every day this civic-minded NYU professor emails news accounts of
the GOP's latest voter suppression and election manipulation shenanigans.
Though these stories are under-reported and pooh-poohed in the national
media, I'm convinced that they represent a serious threat to democracy
Miller sent out a story today by Bo Lipari of New Yorkers for Verified
Voting about how over a million-and-a-half registered voters in New York
State have been purged from the lists. He also sent out a phone number to
confirm whether you're still registered. Both are attached.
I called and confirmed that I was still registered. I'd advise all the New
Yorkers who receive this email -- and who plan on voting -- to do the same.
Respectfully,
Bill
--- On Tue, 10/21/08, Mark Crispin Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Mark Crispin Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [MCM] New Yorkers, call to see if you've been purged!
To: [email protected]
Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 10:49 AM
From Stephanie Low:
Over 1.5 million NYS voters have been purged and won't know it till they
get to their polling place.
They'll be able to vote only by provisional ballot.
In NYC, the number to call is 866 868 3692 to find out if you're still
"Active" and have not been "flagged."
To do your civic duty, get this message out however you can--email,
print and post it.
> From: "Bo Lipari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Bo's Blog - Over 1.5 Million NYS Voters Purged
> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:36:44 -0400
> Organization: NYVV
>
> ìBut a question has remained, how many
>voter records have been purged from
New York Stateís voter rolls? Now we have an answer. I submitted a Freedom of
Information Law request for all records in New Yorkís NYSVOTER voter
registration database. Early in October, I received a copy of NYSVOTER records
from September 23, 2008. I wrote a program to analyze the 12,010,045 voter
records and can now report the number of voters
who have had their status set to
ìPurgedî or ìInactiveî in the Empire state, and the reasons given for the
change.
> The data reveals that New York State has
>moved 1,661,244, or almost 14% of
the voter records, from ìActiveî status to ìPurgedî or ìInactiveî, meaning they
will not be in the poll books on Election Day...î
>
> Read the Full Story:
> <http://www.nyvv.org/boblog/>http://www.nyvv.org/boblog/
>
> Permanent Link:
>
>
> <http://www.nyvv.org/boblog/2008/10/21/over-1500000-nys-voters-purged/>http://www.nyvv.org/boblog/2008/10/21/over-1500000-nys-voters-purged/
--
www.eyejammie.com
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