Secretaries of State being trained to purge voters by Bush appointee. http://www.gregpalast.com/
http://www.stealbackyourvote.org/ Palast said former Colorado Secretary of State Donetta Davidson has made the state the epicenter of the rampant practice of purging voter registration lists for alleged irregularities - a tactic now even more en vogue in the wake of new legislation backed by the Bush administration. Donetta Davidson, who had been secretary of state in the state of Colorado, removed 19.4 percent - one out of five voters in the state of Colorado, she removed their names George Bush made her head of the brand new [Orwellian] Election Assistance Commission, where she can train all 50 secretaries of state in her purging ways. "Now under the [Orwellian] Help America Vote Act the entire nation is Floridated, but the champ, [former Florida Secretary of State] Katherine Harris, ain't got nothing on Colorado," Palast said. "We're sitting at purge ground zero. The reason that there's a convention here is this is a swing state where Democrats are piling in, tens of thousands of new voters in Colorado at the top of the bucket, but at the bottom of the bucket the spread sheets are going (poof). "What's happening? Donetta Davidson, who had been secretary of state in the state of Colorado, removed 19.4 percent - one out of five voters in the state of Colorado, she removed their names. And what happens to Davidson as a result of this? The answer is George Bush made her head of the brand new Election Assistance Commission, where she can train all 50 secretaries of state in her purging ways. In fact, President Bush, instead of calling her chairwoman of the EAC, was going to call her the Purgeon General." Ms. Donetta L. Davidson was nominated by President George W. Bush and confirmed by unanimous consent of the United States Senate on July 28, 2005 to serve on the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC). She was reappointed to a second term on October 2, 2008. Ms. Davidson served as Chair of the EAC in 2007 was elected Vice Chair in 2008. Her term of service extends through December 12, 2011. Ms. Davidson, formerly Colorado's secretary of state, comes to EAC with experience in almost every area of election administration - everything from county clerk to secretary of state. Colorado Secretary of State is discussed here, <http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/973/> "Party Hacks" In Colorado, Secretary of State Donetta Davidson faces embarrassment over her leadership in the Elections Center, a nominally nonpartisan state office that has accepted donations from e-voting companies at the same time it touted their machinery. She also backed the scheme, shot down in state court, to allow partisan redrawing of congressional districts in 2003. She is also involved in the provisional ballot fraud discussed under HAVA Fraud <http://www.dkosopedia.com/wiki/HAVA_Fraud>
