Administration tried to curb election turnout in key states
Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 4:29 pm
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Administration tried to curb election turnout in key states
From the Baltimore Sun April 19, 2007
WASHINGTON -- For six years, the Bush administration, aided by Justice Department political appointees, has pursued an aggressive legal effort to restrict voter turnout in key battleground states in ways that favor Republican political candidates, according to former department lawyers and a review of written records.
On virtually every significant decision affecting election balloting since 2001, the division's Voting Rights Section has come down on the side of Republicans, notably in Florida, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, Washington and other states where recent elections have been decided by narrow margins.
Joseph Rich, who left his job as chief of the section in 2005, said these events formed an unmistakable pattern.
Former department lawyers, public records and other documents show that since Bush took office, political appointees in the Civil Rights Division have:
• Approved Georgia and Arizona laws that tightened voter ID requirements. A federal judge tossed out the Georgia law as an unconstitutional infringement on the rights of poor voters, and a federal appeals court signaled its objections to the Arizona law on similar grounds last fall, but that litigation was delayed by the U.S. Supreme Court until after the election.
this next one is a real killer-
• Sued at least six states on grounds that they had too many people on their voter rolls. Some eligible voters were removed in the resulting purges.
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Edited by Savonarola 20070422 0020: fixed link
Administration tried to curb election turnout in key states
From the Baltimore Sun April 19, 2007
WASHINGTON -- For six years, the Bush administration, aided by Justice Department political appointees, has pursued an aggressive legal effort to restrict voter turnout in key battleground states in ways that favor Republican political candidates, according to former department lawyers and a review of written records.
On virtually every significant decision affecting election balloting since 2001, the division's Voting Rights Section has come down on the side of Republicans, notably in Florida, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, Washington and other states where recent elections have been decided by narrow margins.
Joseph Rich, who left his job as chief of the section in 2005, said these events formed an unmistakable pattern.
Former department lawyers, public records and other documents show that since Bush took office, political appointees in the Civil Rights Division have:
• Approved Georgia and Arizona laws that tightened voter ID requirements. A federal judge tossed out the Georgia law as an unconstitutional infringement on the rights of poor voters, and a federal appeals court signaled its objections to the Arizona law on similar grounds last fall, but that litigation was delayed by the U.S. Supreme Court until after the election.
this next one is a real killer-
• Sued at least six states on grounds that they had too many people on their voter rolls. Some eligible voters were removed in the resulting purges.
link
Edited by Savonarola 20070422 0020: fixed link