Tuesday, September 16, 2008

DESPICABLE!

First you loose your home, then you loose your right to vote. Why? Because the McCain/Palin campaign thinks every citizen who looses a home is more likely to vote for a Democrat, and Republicans are hell-bent on winning by any means possible. So how do you disenfranchise people from their lawful right to vote? Here's how ...
Obama campaign files suit over voter-foreclosure plans
By ED BRAYTON 9/16/08 12:46 PM

The Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee have filed a lawsuit in federal court in Michigan over the Michigan GOP’s plan to use foreclosure lists to challenge voters at the polls, as first reported by the Michigan Messenger.

Bob Bauer, general counsel for the Obama campaign, and Mark Brewer, chairman of the Michigan Democratic Party, announced the lawsuit in a conference call with reporters this afternoon. It was filed on behalf of the campaign, the party and three Michigan residents who have had their houses foreclosed upon in recent months.

Bauer called the GOP plan to use foreclosure lists “a new and especially repellent version of caging.” Caging is a technique of challenging voters where they take lists of addresses, mail to them with a “do not forward” marking and if for whatever reason those mailings are returned, they use this as a basis for claiming that the voter no longer lives at the address at which they are registered [my bold].

Bauer noted that using foreclosure lists to challenge a voter’s address is “false and illegal” for several reasons. First, because getting a foreclosure notice is not evidence that the person’s address has changed. In Michigan, homeowners have the opportunity to redeem the foreclosure even after a sheriff’s sale has occurred, which means they can stay in the home for many months after a foreclosure notice has been sent. Second, because under Michigan law a person can vote at their old precinct if they lost their home within 60 days of the election.

Brewer noted that in July alone 11,000 Michigan residents received foreclosure notices. The McCain campaign, he argued, “wants to add insult to injury” by denying those residents their right to vote. “The right to vote is one of our most fundamental rights as Americans,” said Brewer, “To try to strip our fellow citizens of their right to vote is un-American and unconscionable.”

Next stop: Debtors Prison.

4 comments:

  1. Is stooping lower into cavernous depths even possible?

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  2. I wonder how many of those folks who lost their homes would have voted Republican? The Republicans have a way of convincing the low to middle income white guys like us that they are on our side. So, we shoot ourselves in the foot by voting Republican. How many of us will then blame the Democrats as we lie dying?

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  3. As long as America wallows in neurotic fantasy, ignorance, football and Budweiser, there is no bottom.

    Meanwhile the GOP goons mumble about voter fraud.

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  4. Not sure if this ties into the argument here - but it has always annoyed me how the media has only talked about Hilary's women voters, ignoring the fact that a lot of blue collar white men voted for her as well. So maybe? the republicans have figured this out & have a real incentive for keeping these "sorts" of voters from the poles?

    Just a thought

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