Election Reform, Fraud and Related News. Thursday 5/8/08

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Late Lake Co. vote results criticized, explained

BY BILL DOLAN
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219.662.5328 | Wednesday, May 07, 2008 | 53 comment(s)

CROWN POINT | An overwhelming voter turnout, at least one case of votes that were briefly missing and a conscious decision to delay announcing the results Tuesday night left voters wondering who won Indiana's primary.

National pundits publicly accused Lake County election officials of manipulating the release of vote totals, and some local officials speculated that the canvas was being stage managed to build suspense and focus the country's attention on Lake County.

Election officials posted what appeared to be final, unofficial totals about 6 a.m. Wednesday.

"We're real tired," Lake County election board employee Naomi Roby said early Tuesday. She said it isn't unusual for election results here to come in later than other counties.

http://www.thetimesonline.com/articles/2008/05/07/updates/breaking_news/doc4821d725588d0479316895.txt



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1. The Nation.

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17. NYT: Crippled Election Commission

Crippled Election Commission
Published: May 8, 2008

The White House is removing a member of the Federal Election Commission for standing up for clean elections, while trying to install another member whose specialty is keeping eligible voters from casting ballots. The Senate, which must confirm nominees, should insist that President Bush appoint commissioners with a proven record of supporting voting rights and fair elections.

Mr. Bush is purging the current F.E.C. chairman, David Mason, presumably because he was responsible enough to challenge the funding machinations of Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign. Mr. Mason shocked his fellow Republicans by notifying Mr. McCain that he might run afoul of the law by switching from public funding to private donations once he secured the party’s nomination.

The White House proposes to replace Mr. Mason with Donald McGahn, a Republican warhorse. F.E.C. commissioners are expected to be aligned with a party — one of the new Democratic nominees is a staff member of Senator Charles Schumer of New York — but Mr. McGahn has a particularly partisan background. He was the party’s Congressional campaign counsel — and the ethics lawyer for Tom DeLay, the former House majority leader from Texas who left office under multiple clouds.

The six-member commission, which now has four vacancies, has been rendered inoperable. If it is to perform its role as referee of national elections, it urgently needs a full complement — and it needs commissioners with the sort of professionalism displayed by Mr. Mason.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/08/opinion/08thu4.html?ex=1210910400&en=68ac40d8de2428ea&ei=5070&emc=eta1

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18. FEC Nominee Caroline Hunter emailed in 2004 Ohio Caging Scheme

FEC Nominee Caroline Hunter emailed in 2004 Ohio Caging Scheme
by drational
Thu May 08, 2008 at 10:31:26 AM PDT

As has been covered extensively at TPM muckraker and noted by Adam B on the front page here today, the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) has been disabled by the Bush Administration's efforts to confirm notorious vote-suppression guru Hans von Spakovsky to the FEC.

Democrats rightly continue to block approval of von Spakovsky. However, in another shameless effort to install Republican Partisans in influential positions in our elections bureaucracy, the Bush Administration has nominated for the FEC a lawyer intimately acquainted with how to suppress voters:

Caroline Hunter

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/5/8/133126/8717

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19. VA Retreats on Voter Registration Efforts for Wounded Veterans

VA Retreats on Voter Registration Efforts for Wounded Veterans
By Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet. Posted May 8, 2008.

The Department of Veterans Affairs says it will help ex-soldiers to register and vote, yet it won't allow registration drives on VA facilities.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has retreated on a recently announced policy to allow voter registration drives at its facilities where veterans' groups and others would assist wounded former soldiers to participate in the 2008 presidential election.

"It is VHA (Veterans Health Administration) policy to assist patients who seek to exercise their right to register and vote; however, due to Hatch Act (Title 5 United States Code (U.S.C.) 7321-7326) requirements and to avoid disruptions to facility operations, voter registration drives are not permitted," the new policy directive by Michael J. Kussman, Under Secretary for Health said.

The Hatch Act restricts political activities by federal employees.

The VA directive rolls back a new policy announced in late April where the agency agreed, after mounting public and political pressure, to assist wounded veterans with registering to vote and voting for federal elections. While the VA still says it will help former soldiers on an as-requested basis with registration and voting, curtailing voter registration drives brought swift condemnation from Capitol Hill and advocacy groups.

http://www.alternet.org/story/84871/

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20. Recount: New Docudrama Could Influence Election

Recount: New Docudrama Could Influence Election
Thursday, May. 08, 2008 By JAMES PONIEWOZIK

After George W. Bush won Florida in 2000--O.K., I apologize to my Democrat readers for legitimizing Bush by using the word won. Also, I apologize to the Republicans for delegitimizing Bush by apologizing to the Democrats ...

This is what Florida has done to us. Nearly eight years after Bush--um, "became President"? Can we agree on that?--the Florida recount still grips our politics, down to its semantics. To choose a verb is to take sides. Florida is not just a state but a state of mind: the widely held attitude that the game is rigged (by the courts, the media, the voting machines ...) and that any close election is suspect. Florida looms over politics like the Alamo, the Maine and the grassy knoll all rolled into one.

On May 25, an HBO docudrama about the legal-political battle between Bush and Al Gore will remind us of all that again. You might think that HBO would have timed Recount to air around Election Day. As it turns out, the network could not have scheduled the movie better. The Democratic primary, like the Florida election, has turned out close enough that it must be decided by people whom nobody voted for--this time superdelegates, not Supreme Court Justices. With the old electoral wounds being ripped open, here comes Recount like a brimming shaker of salt.

Even if the primary is settled by the time Recount airs (or by the time you read this), some Democrats will feel bitter and cheated and will invoke the powerful language of 2000 all over again. If Barack Obama gets the nomination, the anger will center on the primaries in Michigan and you-know-where. (Democrats! Disenfranchised! In Florida! The blog posts write themselves.) Hillary Clinton's camp has already stepped up the "count every vote" talk. If it's Clinton, the protests will be that, as in 2000--when thousands of black Floridians were struck from voter rolls--African Americans were overruled and the popular-vote leader denied. That there are several competing gauges of legitimacy only makes recriminations more likely.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1738500,00.html

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27. Special Counsel shut down probe of Siegelman case last year

Special Counsel shut down probe of Siegelman case last year
Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Office of Special Counsel last year shut down a previously undisclosed investigation into the federal prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, according to an internal memo made public Wednesday.

The investigation was being conducted by a task force formed at the agency a year ago to pursue high-profile political investigations in Washington, most notably whether the White House played politics in firing U.S. attorneys. It began gathering information on the Siegelman case in September and was planning to request documents from the Justice Department in October before Special Counsel Scott Bloch ordered the case closed, according to the Jan. 18 draft memo, made public by the Project on Government Oversight, a watchdog group.

The investigation was one of many that the task force had taken up, and the memo shows that Bloch frequently differed with investigators about which cases to pursue.

For example, he asked the task force to broaden its investigations into the fired prosecutors and into whether federal agencies received political briefings from the White House to boost GOP electoral fortunes. But he shut down an investigation into whether the Justice Department was hinging its hiring decisions on job applicants’ political affiliations.

http://www.enewscourier.com/statenews/local_story_129092926.html

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2. By State.

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5. CO Colorado election clerks plan only partial use of new system

Colorado election clerks plan only partial use of new system

By Myung Oak Kim, Rocky Mountain News (Contact)
Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Clerks in several large counties are so nervous about the new $13 million statewide voter registration program that they plan to use their old systems for most Election Day functions this year.

During simulated elections that ended Friday, clerks had problems accessing the system from polling sites and generating data reports. They also said the system, known as SCORE (State of Colorado Registration and Election) slowed down when many poll workers were connected simultaneously.

That's why clerks in Weld, Mesa and Larimer counties plan to use their county systems to check in voters on Election Day. Other clerks also want to limit the use of the new system this year.

SCORE "has great potential, and in a few years it's going to be one slick system," said Sheila Reiner, elections director for Mesa County, which uses electronic voting machines at vote centers. "But right now it's still under development."

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/may/06/colo-election-clerks-plan-only-partial-use-of/

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6. IN: Record Voting, Ballot Shortages In Indiana

Record Voting, Ballot Shortages In Indiana

Tallies Delayed As Precincts Run Out Of Ballots; Record Turnout Also Expected In N.C
INDIANAPOLIS, May 7, 2008

AP) The presidential race between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama drew so many voters that some precincts ran out of Democratic ballots.

More than 1.6 million votes were cast Tuesday in the Democratic and GOP presidential races with nearly all precincts reporting, according to unofficial tallies by The Associated Press. That smashed the 1992 primary turnout of just over 1 million voters.

A high number of Republican crossover votes sent several counties scrambling to print extra ballots. A judge ordered some polls in northwestern Indiana's Porter County to stay open an additional hour after several precincts ran out of Democratic ballots.

Other ballot shortages were reported in Howard, Jackson and Hancock counties as voters turned out in droves for the presidential race. Local voting officials printed substitute ballots that were to be counted by hand.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/05/07/politics/main4077297.shtml

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7. IN: History of corruption clouds primary in northern Indiana

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History of corruption clouds primary in northern Indiana

By DEANNA BELLANDI – 1 day ago

GARY, Ind. (AP) — It was midnight and the nation was still awaiting results from the Indiana primary, one of the biggest remaining prizes of the epic Democratic presidential battle between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama.

But as the clock ticked, the questions and accusations grew louder: What was wrong in Lake County? Was this more politics as usual in a county often suspected of harboring Chicago-style corruption?

A day after Clinton eked out a narrow victory in the primary, no one raised allegations of illegal activity. But some say old-school politics were certainly at play in the state's second-largest county, at the southern tip of Lake Michigan.

"They wanted to put Barack Obama over the top with Lake County's vote and games were being played like in the 1950s," said Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott, who endorsed Clinton. "It went bad when a lot of people were watching."

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hqW0RRWaY4daEG167CZIwy5UXgHQD90H2GNG0

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8. IN: County ballot shortage causes chaos

By Times staff report | Wednesday, May 07, 2008

A massive Democratic turnout caused ballot shortages throughout Porter County, prompting a court order to keep polling places open an extra hour as police scrambled to deliver extra ballots to precincts that ran out.

At least 6,000 extra Democratic ballots were printed Tuesday by the Porter County Voter Registration Office.

Patrick Lyp, the Republican representative to the voter office, said it started receiving calls between noon and 1 p.m. that precincts were running short of ballots.

Voters from across the county called The Times to report delays at the polls and that polls had run out of Democratic ballots.

http://www.thetimesonline.com/articles/2008/05/07/news/top_news/docbd84894329861fc686257442000e0afb.txt

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9. IA: No Appeal Means Voter Registration Forms In 'English Only'

No Appeal Means Voter Registration Forms In 'English Only'

Iowans, who want to register to vote, will have to use a form printed in only one language, English.

That's after Iowa's Secretary of State chose not to appeal last month's ruling by a judge.

Wednesday afternoon, the Woodbury County Auditor's office shredded all of their voter registration forms printed in foreign languages.

They also took the bilingual forms off of their website.

http://www.ktiv.com/News/index.php?ID=25140

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10. KS: Voter ID measure sails through the Kansas Legislature

Voter ID measure sails through the Kansas Legislature

By Dion Lefler
The Wichita Eagle

TOPEKA — A bill requiring citizens to provide photo identification when they vote passed both houses of the Legislature on Tuesday and is headed for the governor's desk.

But the margin of victory in the House was not enough to override Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, should she decide to veto the measure, now known as House Bill 2019.

The governor's office was noncommittal, but Rep. Tom Sawyer, D-Wichita, said he expects the governor will veto this bill as she has other voter ID legislation in the past.

Sawyer served on the House-Senate conference committee that handled the bill. In a meeting Saturday, he said the governor had expressed concern about enforcing the ID requirement before 2012.

http://primebuzz.kcstar.com/?q=node/11570

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11. LA: Voter registration group slammed for its tactics

Voter registration group slammed for its tactics
Ana Radelat • Gannett News Service • May 7, 2008

WASHINGTON - A nonprofit group working to add 3 million single women to the voting rolls in Louisiana and other states may be doing more to confuse existing voters than to register new ones, officials in Louisiana and other states say.
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The Washington-based group, called "Women's Voices. Women Vote," says single women traditionally shun the polling booth. The group cites 2006 census data showing more than 276,200 single women in Louisiana weren't registered to vote and that more than 278,000 other single women were registered but didn't vote.

"Unmarried women are economically stretched, and their time is so valuable since they must provide for themselves and their families on their own," said the group's president, Page Gardner. "Making it as easy as possible to register to vote will ensure their voices are heard in our democracy."

On May 1, the group began mailing more than 160,000 voter registration packets to Louisiana residents. But the group's motivation and methods have come under question in Louisiana and other states.

http://www.theadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080507/NEWS01/805070306/1002/NEWS01

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12. MI: Mich. appeals court hears arguments in absentee ballot suit

Mich. appeals court hears arguments in absentee ballot suit

DETROIT -- The Macomb County clerk says roadblocks to voting should be eliminated, and she's doing her part by mailing applications for absentee ballots to all senior citizens in the county.

But the Michigan Republican Party is backing an effort to block Carmella Sabaugh from mailing unsolicited applications for this year's remaining elections, claiming the practice is outside county government's authority.

A Michigan Court of Appeals panel heard arguments on the issue during a Wednesday hearing attended by about three dozen Macomb seniors who traveled to Detroit by bus.

Four plaintiffs recruited by the GOP sued Sabaugh, a Democrat, after her office mailed absentee ballot applications to residents 60 and older in 2006. A Circuit Court judge, citing a county Board of Commissioners resolution that authorized the mailings and budgeted money for them, upheld Sabaugh.

http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=8283609

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13. N.J. gets more time to retrofit vote machines

N.J. gets more time to retrofit vote machines

TRENTON — New Jersey now has until year's end to require paper verification of electronic voting.

Gov. Corzine on Monday signed a bill changing the deadline from June 3 to Jan. 1.

The extension comes after the state acknowledged it wouldn't have the technology ready by the November presidential election.

The state is trying to retrofit 10,000 touch-screen voting machines with printers. Voters could then check the choices they made electronically against a paper receipt showing how they voted.

http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080506/NEWS03/805060371/1007/News03

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14. NC: NC turnout shatters record

NC turnout shatters record
May 07, 2008 12:36 EDT

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- North Carolina's primary has shattered voter turnout records.

More than 2.1 million people cast a ballot in Tuesday's election, and most voted in the Democratic primary that featured the historic race for the White House.

Final numbers haven't been tallied as county elections offices count provisional ballots. But state elections chief Gary Bartlett said Wednesday he expects turnout to finish at about 50 percent for Democrats and about 23 percent for Republicans.

Overall turnout will be about 38 percent.

http://www.wlos.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.nc/35d7abb5-www.wlos.com.shtml

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15. PA: Residents push for paper ballot system

Thursday, May. 08, 2008
Residents push for paper ballot system
By Anne Danahy
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STATE COLLEGE — Centre County commissioners heard once more from residents about why paper ballots should replace the current touch-screen voting system during the board’s second public meeting on the topic Wednesday night.

Commissioners said they plan to make a decision in June about keeping or replacing the county’s paperless voting machines. Almost all of the 20 people who spoke at Wednesday night’s forum gave the commissioners reasons why they think a system with a paper trail that can be confirmed and recounted is needed.

“Unless we have a voter-verified paper ballot we cannot be sure whom we voted for is exactly what got recorded,” said Carol Gold, of State College.

Gold and others who spoke at the forum described problems reportedly encountered with touch-screen voting machines, including voter confusion and machines not highlighting the choice a voter selects.

http://www.centredaily.com/news/local/story/578918.html

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16. SD: Watch Out For Voter Registration Scam

Thursday, May 08, 2008
Story last updated at 1:43 am on 5/8/2008


Watch Out For Voter Registration Scam

Press & Dakotan

PIERRE - Secretary of State Chris Nelson is warning South Dakotans that a Boston, Massachusetts, organization called the "Voter Participation Project" is sending mailings into South Dakota telling our citizens that under "state law" they need to re-register to vote. The mailing lists the Secretary of State's address, adding the appearance of credibility.

Nelson says, "The language in this mailing is not true. This organization is misleading our citizens into thinking they need to fill out another voter registration form in order to vote. Many South Dakotans have complained to me about receiving these mailings. Some mailings have gone to folks who are deceased asking them to register to vote. My elderly mother received a mailing and was concerned that she needed to fill it out in order to vote."

"Any South Dakota voter can check to see their voter registration status by going to www.sdsos.gov and clicking on the Voter Information Portal. That site will show where you are registered, where your polling place is located, and show you your sample ballot for the primary election."

"Voters are not required by law to re-register when they move. We encourage re-registration upon a move, but it is not required by law."

http://www.yankton.net/stories/050808/com_276657520.shtml

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23. FL: Justices hear case on election rules

Justices hear case on election rules
Advocates say counties can enact own election reforms, but state disagrees
By Carol E. Lee
H-T CAPITAL BUREAU
Published Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 4:30 a.m.

TALLAHASSEE — Florida Supreme Court justices heard arguments Wednesday in a case that will determine how far local governments can go in setting their own election rules.

At the center of the debate is a charter amendment Sarasota County voters approved 18 months ago to adopt stricter election auditing procedures than the state requires.

The state and Sarasota County Supervisor of Elections Kathy Dent say the amendment is unconstitutional because it usurps state election laws and interferes with the counting and certification of votes.

Sarasota Alliance for Fair Elections, the group that collected signatures to put the amendment on the November 2006 ballot, says local governments have the right to adopt such reforms.

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20080508/NEWS/805080578/1661

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3. International.

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24. Bolivia: Prez Morales agrees to Bolivian recall vote

Prez Morales agrees to Bolivian recall vote

President Evo Morales agreed on Thursday to stand for election in a nationwide recall vote, gambling that Bolivians will re-elect him after just two years in office.

''If we politicians can't agree, it's best that the population decide our destiny,'' Morales said in a nationally televised address.

Congress on Thursday passed a bill ordering the recall be held within 90 days. Morales said he will sign the measure.

The bill would require Morales and Bolivia's nine state governors to win both more votes and a greater percentage of support than they did on a 2005 ballot. If they fall short, they will have to run again in a new general election.

http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080049315&ch=5/9/2008%2011:30:00%20AM

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25. PR: Equatorial Guinea: Spanish Journalists Denied Visas

Equatorial Guinea: Spanish Journalists Denied Visas to Enter Country to Cover Elections
International Federation of Journalists (Brussels)

PRESS RELEASE
8 May 2008
Posted to the web 9 May 2008

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today protested a decision by authorities in Equatorial Guinea to refuse to issue visas to Spanish journalists from major media institutions who wanted to cover the May 4 elections in the country. Equatorial Guinea is the only country in Africa where Spanish is the official language.

"The government of Equatorial Guinea shows by this action that it wants to hide something by keeping the international media from covering the elections," said Gabriel Baglo, the Director of the IFJ Africa Office. "The Equatorial Guinean authorities should understand that we cannot talk about democracy without guaranteeing the exercise of freedom of information including all viewpoints, even those from outside."

Some newspapers, including El Pais and El Periódico de Catalunya, Spanish public television channel TVE and the Spanish news agency EFE, covered Sunday's legislative and municipal elections only through indirect sources because Equatorial Guinea's government did not process the visa applications of the journalists who were to be sent to cover them. Other newspapers, like La Vanguardia, chose to use local freelances who used pseudonyms in their bylines.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200805090016.html

The journalists' visa applications had been submitted on time, weeks before, the IFJ said, and there can be no excuse they were not processed because of short notice.

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26. Serbian election result too close to call

Serbian election result too close to call

Campaigning in the Serbian general election has ended with two cooling off days before the vote on Sunday.

Facing a strong challenge according to opinion polls is the pro-EU Democratic party led by President Boris Tadic. He is virtually neck and neck with the anti-EU ultranationalists, and the vote is being seen as either opening or slamming the door on early negotiations with Brussels on EU membership, depending on who wins.

The main threat to Tadic comes from Tomislav Nikolic's Radical party, which insists honour is at stake and that Serbia cannot join an EU that supports an independent Kosovo. He is betting that Serbian's anger at losing the cherished province will result in them snubbing Brussels. Only one percentage point currently separates the two parties, each with about a third of the vote.

Trailing far behind is outgoing Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica's Serbian Democratic party, which is only polling about 12 or 13 percent. But this could be enough to make or break the next government, and while Nikolic says he is happy with him resuming office, Tadic says he will never be prime minister again as Kostunica has "abandoned the European idea".

http://www.euronews.net/index.php?article=485706&lng=1&option=1

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4. OpEd.

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21. Voter ID law disenfranchises Americans

Voter ID law disenfranchises Americans
Race and economics could play a much greater role in who gets to cast a ballot under this law.
By Mai Thor

Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld an Indiana law that requires all voters to show photo identification in order to vote. Those who support the ruling argue that it makes sense to show ID when voting to avoid voter fraud. While it is true that IDs are necessary in everyday life, the question of their use in the act of voting raises two questions: do you believe that voting is a fundamental right and how much do racial issues play in requiring photo IDs in order to vote?

Our Constitution affords us several rights, including the right to vote. It is unfortunate that many people, especially those who run our courts and make our laws, feel that voting is not a right, but minimize it to some sort of privilege, like having a bank account or going to the liquor store, where conditions and technicalities have to be met in order to participate.

There is no denying the race factor in the history of photo ID requirements. After the Civil War, the black vote was suppressed by poll taxes and literacy tests as well as other heinous laws known as Jim Crow. Proponents of photo IDs say it prevents voter fraud, when, in reality, voter fraud is an illusion which originated from an era of racism.

Photo IDs are the poll tax of present day America. Today, the group of individuals that are disenfranchised is much broader. Some of these individuals include seniors, low-income people and those who have disabilities.

http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2008/05/07/72167137

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22. Primary lesson of Voter ID law

OUR OPINION

In the wake of Indiana's cliffhanger primary and its record-high voter turnout, there will be plenty of reading the tea leaves, analyzing the wisdom of certain political strategies and pondering what's ahead for the November election.

We hope that state election officials will conduct their own evaluation regarding Indiana's Voter ID law.

Those in charge of elections have a responsibility to evaluate whether there are any lessons to be learned about the state law, which was upheld by the Supreme Court last month. Tuesday's record-breaking primary provides a sort of test-case for the law, the strictest in the nation.

According to unofficial tallies by The Associated Press, more than 1.6 million votes were cast Tuesday in the Democratic and GOP presidential races, breaking the 1992 primary turnout of a little more than 1 million votes. Also to be considered is the number of provisional ballots cast.

http://www.southbendtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080508/Opinion/514615384/1062/Opinion

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28. Saturday morning K,R,&thanks!

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29. Thanks sfexpat2000!

I won't be around for awhile, so everyone please pick-up this here slackers slack till I return to do as little as possible! :-)

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30. We'll miss you!

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