Reply #14: Media Briefing on New Voter Suppression Strategies in the 2006 Elections

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Media Briefing on New Voter Suppression Strategies in the 2006 Elections

Brennan Center Report Suggests Disenfranchisement in Battleground States, House Districts

10/3/2006 4:06:00 PM


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To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor

Contact: Jonathan Rosen for the Brennan Center for Justice, 646-452-5637

News Advisory:

For planning purposes only.

What: The outcome of November's elections may hinge on who is able to cast a vote on Election Day. Both parties are gearing up for massive ballot security operations -- booking hotel rooms and recruiting squads of lawyers in battleground states. But the real challenges to voting are happening already. Sweeping changes in the way many battleground states regulate voter registration and conduct elections may lead to a quiet electoral crisis that could disenfranchise thousands in November.

Michael Waldman, executive director of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law and attorneys from the Brennan Center will brief the media on voter suppression strategies being deployed in states across the country leading up to the 2006 elections.

In recent weeks the Brennan Center has prevailed in two federal lawsuits to prevent the states of Florida and Ohio from enforcing new laws to restrict voter registration. The Brennan Center has also participated in a number of critical lawsuits around the country challenging voter registration database policies in Washington and voter ID provisions in Georgia and Indiana.

The briefing will cover: state efforts to restrict voter registration, database policies that affect who gets on the voter rolls and who is purged from them, the impact of new state voter ID requirements and problems plaguing new electronic voting machines.

When: Thursday, Oct. 5, 9 a.m.

Where: Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, 161 Ave. of the Americas, 12th Floor, New York, NY 10013

more at:
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=73697