After months of pressure from state election officials, voting rights groups, veteran’s organizations, members of the US Senate, and citizens, the Dept. of Veterans Affairs has decided that it will be alright for veterans who live in VA facilities or are patients in VA facilities to be visited by non-partisan folks who want to help them register to vote. Unfortunately this decision comes just a month from the voter registration deadlines in most states. Now those groups who have fought hard to get permission to register veterans need to go do the job.
Ohio is becoming a battle ground for voter registrations. Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner is going to battle against the state legislature over a law that was passed in 2006 that allows counties to remove voters from the rolls if election notices sent by the counties to the voters are returned for any reason. This is a violation of state law and federal law and the US Constitution according to her lawyers. Any voter removed from the rolls must be given due process. …
- National: V.A. to Allow Voter Signup for Veterans at Facilities
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/us/politics/09vets.html?_r=2&ref=politics&oref=slogin&oref=slogin - National: Senators Feinstein and Kerry Welcome Changes in Voter Registration Policy at the Department of Veterans Affairs
http://feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=NewsRoom.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=47474fa3-ac1e-ed4f-789a-4c414e8fae5c&Region_id=&Issue_id= - National: Helping Veterans Register to Vote
http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/soldiershome/archive/2008/09/09/helping-veterans-register-to-vote.aspx
- National: Poll-Monitor Plan Stirs Activists
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122091910197012647.html?mod=googlenews_wsj - National: Better standards urged for e-voting labs
http://www.fcw.com/online/news/153731-1.html - National: Opinion: Let’s impeach e-voting
http://www.intergovworld.com/article/47756975c0a80006001d88f680d0454c/pg1.htm - National: Opinion – Brave New Poll: Or is it?
http://media.www.thecurrentonline.com/media/storage/paper304/news/2008/09/08/Opinions/Brave.New.Poll.Or.Is.It-3420088.shtml - National: It’s near the campaign’s end _ send in the lawyers
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gvHwrGoYfavmmHj_SsnVRPvg5WIgD93323Q00 - National: Black Box Voting 2008 Election Protection Toolkit
http://politics.slashdot.org/politics/08/09/09/0123249.shtml - CA: Press Release – Secretary of State Bowen Applauds Decision to Allow Voter Registration at Federal Veterans Affairs Facilities
http://www.sos.ca.gov/admin/press-releases/2008/DB08-087.pdf - CT: Bysiewics, Blumenthal declare victory in fight to guarantee veterans right to vote
http://www.norwalkplus.com/nwk/information/nwsnwk/publish/News_1/Bysiewics_Blumenthal_declare_victory_in_fight_to_guarantee_veterans_right_to_voteVETERANS_RIGHT_TO_VOTE2243.shtml - CT: About those so-called “Election Audits” – Missing Info
http://www.opednews.com/articles/About-those-so-called-Ele-by-Bev-Harris-080909-167.html - FL: Company that made the voting machines blames election glitch on Indian River County
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/treasurecoast/sfl-0909elexglitch,0,3930283.story - FL: Palm Beach County – Candidate in judge race files lawsuit
http://www.mysuncoast.com/Global/story.asp?S=8974348&nav=menu577_2_1 - FL: Palm Beach County – Fla. judge candidate sues to be declared winner
http://www.jacksonville.com/apnews/stories/090908/D933B5H02.shtml - GA: Voter group to appeal Georgia ruling
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/09/09/Voter_group_to_appeal_Georgia_ruling/UPI-50341220984644/ - HI: 40% expected to cast early ballot in Hawaii’s primary election
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080909/NEWS05/809090371/1001/LOCALNEWSFRONT - NY: New voting machines to debut in today’s primary voting
http://www.poststar.com/articles/2008/09/08/news/latest/doc48c5a0f2befc3941620376.txt - NY: Back to Paper
New York is last when it comes to implementing the voting act
http://www.syracuse.com/opinion/index.ssf?/base/opinion-2/1220950665158690.xml&coll=1 - NY: Chautauqua County – County prepares new voting machines for 2009
http://www.observertoday.com/page/content.detail/id/509229.html?nav=5047 - NY: Rensselaer County – Potential Polling Problems
http://www.fox23news.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=9b3a6b8f-ea98-4be0-bb4f-cf5eca230a97 - NY: Saratoga County – Use of electronic voting machines raises concerns
http://www.saratogian.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20111399&BRD=1169&PAG=461&dept_id=602469&rfi=6 - OH: To Avoid Long Lines, Ohio Officials Say Vote By Mail
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94428993 - OH: Ohio elections chief challenges registration law
http://www.herald-dispatch.com/news/x1724960982/Ohio-elections-chief-challenges-registration-law - OH: Cuyahoga county board hires Calfee law firm to fight Diebold
http://www.cleveland.com/realtimenews/index.ssf/2008/09/cuyahoga_county_board_hires_ca.html - PA: Centre County – Voting machine switch long overdue
http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2008/09/09/voting_machine_switch_long_ove.aspx - WI: Opinion – Board works to protect voters’ rights
http://www.superiortelegram.com/articles/index.cfm?id=30481§ion=Opinion&freebie_check&CFID=83810249&CFTOKEN=50439130&jsessionid=88302ce4d93d3d266018
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i would like to place my vote on certain optnons
Thanks John for the good news! But, for God and Country… what took so long on the VA registration mrs. war profiteer feinstein?
And don’t forgt all you voters out ther in diane land her enabling of the continuing corruption of the “just us” department. Our recourse to criminal activity?!?!
Hey Dredd, where are ya?
Sorry for the OT John, but I just read this
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.c...a-subordinate/
and figured women voters especially mrs. war profiteers should know!