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Voting Rights Advocates: America Not Prepared for Big Turnout Nov. 4
by Hazel Trice Edney
NNPA Editor-in-Chief
Originally posted 5/14/2008

WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Record turnouts at polling places across the nation during the Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton battle for the Democratic nomination have revealed a continuation of serious flaws in America’s electoral process that could cause a fiasco Nov. 4, according to a non-partisan report.

“The report demonstrates that most of the state and county and local election machinery was unprepared for a real heavy turnout,” says Barbara Arnwine, executive director of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law, a primary partner in the Election Protection Coalition that has manned voter protection hotlines since January. “It really demonstrates that our democracy has deep fault lines and is not being administered well…We are not prepared. We actively count on a low voter turn out and count on voter apathy.”

The 15-page, “Election Protection 2008 Primary Report”, jointly compiled and distributed by the Lawyers Committee and the National Campaign for Fair Elections, says lawyers and other volunteers who manned voter question and complaint hotlines over the past five months fielded more than 5,000 calls that include complaints and charges revealing everything from serious mechanical flaws to apparent intentional shenanigans and voter intimidation at the polls.

Few problems have occurred in affluent areas, but they are mainly happening in low income, Black and Hispanic
neighborhoods. Because Black voters typically cast 90 percent of their ballots for Democrats, mishaps at the polls could cause another Election 2000-styled fiasco in the event of a close race between the Democratic nominee and Republican John McCain.

http://www.btimes.com/News/article/article.asp?NewsID=15756&sID=3



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