‘Daily Voting News’ For February 20, 2007

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Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org

USAToday reports, “A study by the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University shows turnout in 2004 was about 4% lower in states that required voters to sign their name or produce documentation. Hispanic turnout was 10% lower; the difference was about 6% for blacks and Asian-Americans.” And what do we hear from the Election Assistance Commission that, last year, buried a report that found there was very little evidence of voter fraud, the very reason some say they need voter ID laws? The commission’s chairwoman, Donetta Davidson, called the study “premature.” More work needs to be done, she said. “You can’t make determinations based on one year,” she said. “We have new states that have ID requirements now that weren’t in that review.”” If Davidson can’t bury the truth it appears she will deny it exists….

  • NAtional: Study: Stricter voting ID rules hurt ’04 turnout LINK
  • NAtional: Editorial – Needed: Voting machine integrity LINK
  • NAtional: Can we work “within the system”? A response to those who think we can. LINK
  • NAtional: Voting Machines as a Giant Ponzi Scheme LINK
  • NAtional: Feinstein seeks GAO investigation of e-voting machines
    Senator calls for a study of DRE machines for possible fraud, mechanical miscues LINK
  • NAtional: The False Dichotomies Being Used by Democrats and Their Public-Advocacy Group Supporters to Prop Up the Failings of the Holt Election Reform Bill LINK
  • CA: All Mail Elections In California? LINK
  • NY: Special Election Day Uses Same Old Voting LINK
  • TX: Fort Bend County Voters Could Be Using Paper Ballots By Next Year LINK
  • UT: Funding for an early Utah primary gets some support LINK
  • UT: Lawmakers want state to have a say LINK
  • WV: Provide ‘Paper Trails’ For Voting Machines LINK
  • **”Daily Voting News” is meant as a comprehensive listing of reports each day concerning issues related to election and voting news around the country regardless of quality or political slant. Therefore, items listed in “Daily Voting News” may not reflect the opinions of VotersUnite.Org or BradBlog.Com**

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      Dredd said on 2/21/2007 @ 6:22am PT: [Permalink]

      Will voting be an issue after this law passed by the republican dictatorship is used:

      An editorial in the New York Times yesterday pointed out, for those of us who didn’t realize it, that the Bush administration had inserted two provisions into last October’s defense budget bill that would make it easier to declare martial law in the US. Senators Leahy and Bond have introduced a bill to repeal these changes, and it is important that

      voters keep track of this bill and hold their Congresspeople to account on it. Along with several other measures the Bush adminstration has proposed, the introduction of these changes amounts, not to an attack on the Congress and the balance of power, but to a particular and concerted attack on the citizens of the nation. Bush is laying the legal groundwork to repeal even the appearance of democracy.

      (link to article, emphasis added).

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