This story is blood
boiling. It comes from Bev Harris on the Brad Blog.
In Shelby County (
Memphis) some election workers decided to purge the voting list of 488 names.
Practically all were Democrats and black. So, what the big deal? The big deal
is that when voters don’t vote for 2 federal general elections they purge your
history and you are therefore not a registered voter.
Derrick “D” Harris
discovered his voting record had gone away and contacted the author of the
story, who have found many irregularities in the area over the years. It seems
that altering party choice records have also been changed from time to time
which may explain the 4 white and the 4 Republican names deleted. Also a letter
is supposed to be sent to folk if their names are going to be deleted; that
never happened.
Each of the deleted
records come from Congressional District 09 which is U.S. Congressman Steve
Cohen’s district. Was he the target?
Of course all of this
is blatantly illegal as well as immoral.
Makes you wonder how
much of this type of thing is going on and is not caught.
Bev
Harris is the founder of BlackBoxVoting.org, a non-partisan
elections watchdog organization. Her work and investigations at BBV have been
featured by dozens of national media outlets, and she is featured prominently
in HBO's 2006 Emmy-nominated documentary Hacking Democracy.
Florida GOP trying a little voter suppression as well-
ReplyDelete"Bill Internicola is a 91-year-old, Brooklyn-born, World War II veteran. He fought in the Battle of the Bulge and received the Bronze Star for bravery. He’s voted in Florida for 14 years and never had a problem.
Three weeks ago, Bill received a letter from Broward County Florida stating “[Y]ou are not a U.S. Citizen” and therefore, ineligible to vote. He was given the option of requesting “a hearing with the Supervisor of Elections, for the purpose of providing proof that you are a United States citizens” or forfeit his right to vote." !?