{"id":6367,"date":"2008-09-09T17:45:57","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T00:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6367"},"modified":"2008-09-10T10:36:53","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T17:36:53","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-september-09-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6367","title":{"rendered":"‘Daily Voting News’ For September 09, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

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. <\/p>\n

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. …<\/p>\n