Bush Government to Poor Voters: We Don't Want You to Vote

[MagickMuffin]

State welfare offices across the country are not offering millions of low-income Americans the opportunity to register to vote when applying for public assistance despite a federal law requiring them to do so, according to an analysis of a recent federal voting registration report and experts who say the Department of Justice and states are to blame.

"It's huge. It's another area where the administration is failing us," said Donna Brazile, chair of the Democratic National Committee's Voting Rights Institute, speaking of the Department of Justice's oversight of the nation's voter registration laws. "They are not pushing states to recognize their voter registration responsibilities."

At the same time, the Justice Department's Voting Section, which enforces voting rights and supervises elections in some states, is pressuring 10 states to do more to purge voter rolls -- or remove ineligible voters -- before the 2008 presidential election, according to letters sent to state election officials this spring.

"We conducted an analysis of each state's total voter registration numbers as a percentage of citizen voting age population," wrote John Tanner, the Department of Justice Voting Section chief, in an April 18, 2007, letter to North Carolina's top election official. "We write now to assess the changes in your voter registration list ... and the subsequent removal of persons no longer eligible to vote."

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http://www.alternet.org/stories/56957/

Hell Donna, since you're such good friends with Karl Rove why don't you appeal to his good intentions?!?!?!?

And John Tanner, now where have I heard that name before, oh yeah, he was suppose to testify before Congress and the DOJ is refusing to let him do so. He is also the man who has been working closely with Schlozman...

DoJ blocks voting section chief from testifying.

The House Judiciary Committee’s scheduled hearing tomorrow on the Civil Rights Division’s voting rights section has been canceled because “the Justice Department has refused to allow the chief of the section, John Tanner, to testify.” As TPMmuckraker notes, “Tanner worked hand in hand with political appointees Bradley Schlozman and Hans von Spakovsky to ensure the passage of voter identification laws in Georgia and elsewhere — sometimes overruling the recommendations of staff analysts and attorneys, who found that the laws might discriminate against African American voters.”
http://thinkprogress.org/

What is going to happen with this?

Will the Democrats do ANYTHING about the purging that is taking place right now??

Will more and more minorities, and the poor among us NEVER be allowed to have representation???