iowa registration crap

[ianrs]

I've posted this in the Iowa bit as well (sorry, am not Iowan!) but:

http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041013/NEWS09/410130353/1056

smaller in scale than the many repuke vote thefts, and it doesn't appear to be fraud, rather some kind of admin cock-up, but let these people vote! You can email the hell out of Iowa Sec. of State Culver (Dem) at this address:

[e-mail]

Vile repuke officials such as blackwell in Ohio deliberately suppress the vote; but Dem officials must be, and be seen to be, spotless in this regard, and vigilant and active in remedying misconduct or maladministration - for reasons of natural justice as well as for political reasons!

ALSO
http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2004/10/14/14564/775/37#37

here is more information on this, with useful contacts etc.

[MockSwede]

1. Sent

Thanks for alerting us. Every vote does count to me.

[MockSwede]

2. Problem update

Here's what I received when I emailed just minutes ago:


Yes, we've been working on this continuously and had the verification testing not been successful with the Social Security Administration this morning, we would have found away around the verification process. Regardless of what the media has been saying, voters in Iowa will not be turned away at the polls.

Michelle

-----Original Message-----
From:
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 3:49 PM
To: SOS Email Account
Subject: RE: First-time Voter Registration Problems


Thanks for getting these problems straightened out. I'm sure all will be done by Nov2, if they are working as quickly as you are in speedy email reply! I will forward to other interested parties.



C







-----Original Message-----
From: SOS Email Account
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 4:47 PM
To:
Subject: RE: First-time Voter Registration Problems



The counties now have access to the Social Security Administration and numbers are being verified.



Thanks for writing.



Michelle Bauer

Voter Registration & Elections

Iowa Secretary of State's office

1-888-SOS-VOTE

515-281-5781



-----Original Message-----
From:
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 3:42 PM
To: SOS Email Account
Subject: First-time Voter Registration Problems

How about MANUALLY verifying the SSN and the registration forms?

Get some lead out and get some people to get it done OR get a provisional ballot or absentee ballot into EACH AND EVERY ONE of those folks you screwed up. How much could it take to get a few employees together in the voter registration office to go through each form and CALL the human services office employees to LOOK UP the number on their system.

This is NOT rocket science and we want young kids to vote for the first time and we want old folks to keep voting, even if by absentee ballot.

C

Brewer, Maine

[ianrs]

3. blimey

Mock Swede I salute you. I'm not even a USAer, so I think it would have been a bit much for me to email myself (though they would never have known, I suppose). Your email was fantastic, the result equally so.
Best of luck on Nov. 2!!!

[MockSwede]

4. Blimey Limey

I posted the give and take replies and they are in reverse order, so read from bottom up.

I'm done having W be the face the rest of the world must see when they bother to look our way. Note, I do not think folks in the world MUST pay attention to people/events here. It's a big world and there are lots of people with their own problems out there that constitute 'news'. But when they do, I'd rather they not have to hold their noses and have a churning in their queasy stomachs whenever they view the President of the United States in his position to represent US citizens in the world.

I'm working hard to improve the 'face' of the US. If for now other reason than to improve the 'world view'.