Tell Secretary McPherson to stop disenfranchising voters
Today, Senator Bowen is launching a new online advocacy campaign to urge Secretary of State McPherson to roll back his restrictive, anti-voter regulations — regulations that have already invalidated 14,000 new voter registration and re-registration applications in Los Angeles County alone.
I hope you’ll join us.
Forward an email to Secretary of State McPherson today!
– Brent
April 6th, 2006 at 1:55 pm
Thank you for taking action on this. It is indeed outrageous. I’ve sent my email to McPherson. I hope others will as well. That so many people can be disenfranchised almost under the cover of darkness is unreal. Just another day living in the altered state of existence that is King George W.’s Amerika.
April 9th, 2006 at 8:43 am
Why does Debra call it his data base? The statewide data base is required by federal law, HAVA 2002.
The problem with initial rejection of names is the responsibility of the local registrar to fix. The job of the Secretary of State is to implement HAVA and notify the registrar of cases where new registration fails federal standards. This he is doing. It is up to the local registrar to plan for contacting voters who do not fill out their registration forms properly.
If the local registrar needs more help to get the job done they can use HAVA funding to do that.
April 19th, 2006 at 6:38 pm
We need Sen. Bowen guiding the HAVA-mandated statewide voter dabase. It is amazing to read minutiae and see the partisanship in registrar decisionmaking. Although lots of this is pretty much the human endeavor’s own sorry record, let us, for a moment, regard venues outside of CA.
Consider the case of the governor of WA won by 200 votes out of millions cast; naturally, in the final verbal reading of the appeals judge’s decision, he prescinded from altering what was a clear but narrow victory, and did so in legalistic but folksy language. Among the irregular votes cast were:
1401 felon voters
19 dead voters
6 double voters
175 provisional ballots cast by non-registrants
77 provisional ballots unable to match with registered voters.
The anomalies detracted from both parties’ tallies, fairly preserving the narrow victory of now Gov. Christine Gregoire, though the litigation consumed seven months in various courts.
Consider even further the following, a series of appeals court decisions which were split 1-2 at the time of the death of one of the majority, leaving the vote 1-1; whereupon the remaining 2 judges allowed the deceased judge to vote posthumously, so, tipping the decision. Here are the cases:
Hillsdale College v. Department of HEW, 696 F.2d 418 (6th Cir. 1982)
Association of Nat’l Advertisers, Inc. v. FTC, 627 F.2d 1151 (D.C. Cir. 1979)
Monteiro v. City of Elizabeth 3rd Cir February 2006
Greenberg v. FDA, 803 F.2d 1213 (D.C. Cir. 1986); though in this last instance the appellant persisted after the deceased judge had ‘voted’ and won reversal of the decision after it was argued afresh with the subsequent 3 actually alive judges.
Such is the condition of the courts. Voter registrars are strained to be fair on an election day with millions of votes; during a voter registration period with many doors for subtle disqualification; in a recount when checkboxes are left blank but voters in vast majorities writein a candidate; partisan decisions are occurring in registrars’ offices. We need Sen. Bowen overseeing the process from the office of Secretary of State.
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Notes:
Tally of anomalous voters in WA governor race 2004: http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/comments/2005/050607.php
Judge Bridges’ verbal decision transcript in WA governor appeal Chelan County Superior Court: http://www.secstate.wa.gov/documentvault/Court’s%20Oral%20Decision-629.pdf 200KB
Discussion of various circuit courts’ policies about letting surviving jurists cast a posthumous vote by a dead judge: http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1140170716316.
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