{"id":6456,"date":"2008-10-01T16:44:37","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T23:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6456"},"modified":"2008-10-11T16:13:37","modified_gmt":"2008-10-11T23:13:37","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-october-01-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6456","title":{"rendered":"‘Daily Voting News’ For October 01, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

In one of our ‘Featured’ articles<\/a> CBS Evening News has raised the “Red Flag On Purging Voter Rolls”\u009d. This article reports on a just released report from the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law on voter roll purges. The report “provides troubling new insight into the process. There are no national standards and as a result, the cleaning up of voter rolls is not as precise as it should be and eligible voters are often wrongly removed. The Brennan report calls the nationwide process ‘chaotic,’ ‘shrouded in secrecy’, ‘riddled with inaccuracies’, ‘prone to error’ and ‘vulnerable to manipulation’.”<\/p>\n

Our second ‘Featured’ article<\/a> is a report done by USPIRG (Public Interest Research Group) in which they blow the whistle on nineteen states that are violating federal law in their handling of voter roll purges.<\/p>\n

Neither of these articles should have been necessary. State election officials should be carefully following the law and carefully ensuring voter rolls are properly purged and not in such a way as to deny legally registered voters their right to vote. Any election official who does not feel the need to ensure due diligence should be replaced and, if they violated federal law, they should be investigated for that violation. …<\/p>\n

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