As Steven Rosenfeld says in his Alternet article, and this evenings “Featured” article, “The first large block of voters to be disenfranchised in 2008 are the wounded warriors from recent wars and homeless veterans living at hundreds of Department of Veterans Affairs facilities across the country, according to veterans and voting rights activists.”

While the state Department of Veterans Affairs in Connecticut has allowed the Secretary of State to register voters in one facility, the national office has not budged off of their insistence that no voter registration drives can happen on their property. The House and Senate must pass their legislation to instruct the DVA to allow voter registration drives when they return from their August vacation. ...

• Featured - National: 2008's First Disenfranchised Voters: Injured and Homeless Veterans
  http://www.alternet.org/story/94541/
• National: Opinion - Help Our Veterans Vote
  http://www.nytimes.com/2...=slogin&oref=slogin
• National: VA should allow voter drives
  http://www.nhregister.co...ept_id=635087&rfi=6
• National: FTC Warns of Voter Registration ID Theft Scams
  http://usgovinfo.about.c...ation-id-theft-scams.htm
• National: World's Leading Computer Security Expert Slams Diebold
  http://www.velvetrevolut...ing_computer_securi.html
• FL: Creative 'solution' eliminates undervotes
  http://www.heraldtribune...n__eliminates_undervotes
• FL: Editorial - New paper ballots make early voting even wiser
  http://www.naplesnews.co...-make-early-voting-even/
• NC: Editorial - Votes with trails
  http://www.newsobserver....rials/story/1172564.html
• NJ: Voting machine study raises uncertainty among area election officials
  http://www.pressofatlant...om/109/story/226406.html
• NY: Blake Hulnick '09 Examines Changes in Election Administrative Policy
  http://www.hamilton.edu/...ews/display.cfm?ID=14324
• SC: Councilwoman wants paper trail for e-votes
  Election officials say Gibson's request isn't feasible
  http://www.greenvilleonl...11/NEWS01/808110314/1001

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