Thousands of Swing State Voters (Illegally) Prevented from Voting

The A1 story in this morning's New York Times should concern everyone. Tens of thousands of eligible voters "in at least six swing states have been removed from the rolls or have been blocked from registering" in manners that appear to violate federal law.

The six swing states seem to be in violation of federal law in two ways. Michigan and Colorado are removing voters from the rolls within 90 days of a federal election, which is not allowed except when voters die, notify the authorities that they have moved out of state, or have been declared unfit to vote.

Indiana, Nevada, North Carolina and Ohio seem to be improperly using Social Security data to verify registration applications for new voters.

In addition to the six swing states, three more states appear to be violating federal law. Alabama and Georgia seem to be improperly using Social Security information to screen registration applications from new voters. And Louisiana appears to have removed thousands of voters after the federal deadline for taking such action.

Democrats are adversely affected by the disenfranchisement because our side has aggressively registered millions of more new voters.

Unlike other recent actions in Ohio and Michigan, experts believe these incidents do not "appear to be the result of election officials intentionally breaking rules, but are apparently the result of mistakes in the handling of the registrations and voter files as the states tried to comply with a 2002 federal law." That law, ironically, is called the Help America Vote Act.

States Actions to Block Voters Appear Illegal [NYT]

Comments

[Derrick from Philly]

They can spend all this time checking the "validity" of voters' registrations, but can't make the machines work on Election Day.

Well, the Barack Campaign has all that money. They better spend it on some legal action right quick.

[Bill]

Hopefully this story will catch the attention of the right people so that they can get on it. Obama needs to jump on this like he did with the politicians trying to use the mortgage closures as reason to kep people from voting. Which we know are people of color in a higher percentage.

[ted]

The removal has to do more with getting people that don't exist off the rolls. Acorn has registered thousands fraudulently. There is no law that says you have to allow voter fraud.

[Stephaun Clipper Wallace]

Very interesting.....I kept hearing murmurs of these events; thanks for putting this out Rod!

~Stephaun

[ousslander]

Gods know ACORn has done everything above board. THe raids and investigations are just republican racism.