If you only do ONE THING today to safeguard our 2008 election, do this: [View All]

The Republican "Help America Vote Act" (isn't that scary all by itself?) mandated voter data bases. As we predicted, these data bases are being used to suppress the vote. Because Republicans can't win national elections, they HAVE to steal it. Suppressing the vote is a way to disallow votes for Democrats. It's a numbers game.

Check out the USA Today report below. Who didn't see THIS coming?

PLEASE send this link to any media outlet you can, to any political group you belong to, to your friends, to anyone at your paper that may be interested. Send it to the campaign you are working with. Send it to your kid or your mom or your friend at work and ask, are you SURE you are registered to vote?

Can we just refuse to be caught flat footed AGAIN?





Legal voters thrown off rolls
Database woes could be 'sleeper issue of 2008'

By Richard Wolf
USA TODAY

Five years after passage of a federal law to create electronic registration databases to deter voter fraud, the new technology is posing hurdles that could disenfranchise thousands of legal voters, a USA TODAY examination finds.

From Florida to Washington, voters have been challenged because names or numbers on their registration forms did not exactly match other government databases, such as Social Security and motor vehicle agencies. "We know that eligible people have been thrown off the rolls," says Justin Levitt, a lawyer with the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law.

The databases are only as good as the information fed into them by applicants and election officials. That can lead to human errors as well as variations from state to state. Colorado, for instance, knocked nearly 20% of its voters off the rolls between the 2004 and 2006 elections. Arkansas purged 3%, according to Election Assistance Commission data.

Voters who have problems at the polls can cast "provisional" ballots. Election officials rule later whether those votes were properly cast and should be counted. But even that backup system varies greatly from state to state.

http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20080102/1a_lede02.art.htm