Back on topic, exactly who is doing the voter purging? These "officials" - who are they? Reading the DR it seems as though they are all Republican operatives. Is that verifiable?
ok this deserves better treatment than look it up yourself (not that you shouldn't in order to verify this information for yourself)
I have NEVER seen a case of Democrats purging the voter rolls (not that they don't) but all the high profile cases I have seen are democrats do this as they do not want to disenfranchise voters.
Two are listed right in this article.
1) In Florida, election officials found that 75 percent of about 20,000 voter registration applications from a three-week period in September were mismatched due to typographical and administrative errors. Florida's Republican secretary of state ordered the computer match system implemented in early September.
2) Georgia's Secretary of State Karen Handel, a Republican who began working on purging voter rolls since she was elected in 2006.
There, the state Republican Party sued Ohio's Democratic secretary of state in an effort to make her generate a list of people who had mismatched information.
Elise Shore, regional counsel for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, said letters like those sent to Berry appear to violate two federal laws against voter purging within 90 days of the election.
So you can see that there is a FEDERAL LAW against this but does that stop the RETHUGS?
No!
Ms. Harris's 2000 purge in Florida is a classic case. Before it began, Ms. Harris cast a cloud of suspicion over the process by signing on as co-chairwoman of the Florida Bush campaign while she also served as the state's top election official. The purge itself required sensitive judgment calls, notably when to regard a name on a list of convicted felons as a valid match with a name on the voting rolls. According to post-election testimony before the United States Commission on Civil Rights, Ms. Harris's office overruled the advice of the private firm that compiled the felon list and called for removing not just names that were an exact match, but ones that were highly inexact. Thousands of Florida voters ended up being wrongly purged.
www.nytimes.com
Vote early and demand your right to vote.
If I don't get to vote on NOV 4th this year I guarantee I will be spending the night in jail as they will have to haul me off to shut me up.
But that is unlikely, they know me at the place where I vote...we don't even have to show ID's!
But it is not me I am worried about...in an election where a few thousand votes could be the deciding factor...
In Missouri, St. Louis election officials kept an "inactive voters list" of people they had been unable to contact by mail. Voters on the list, which ballooned to more than 54,000 names in a city where only 125,230 people voted, had a legal right to cast their ballots, but election officials put up enormous barriers. When inactive voters showed up to vote, poll workers had to confirm their registration with the board of elections downtown. Phone lines there were busy all day, and hundreds of voters traveled downtown in person, spending hours trying to vindicate their right to vote. The board admitted later that "a significant number" were not processed before the polls closed.
