According to a release from the Student PIRGs a number of Indiana voters were INCORRECTLY turned away from the polls today and given MISINFORMATION about the validity of their identification preventing them from casting a ballot they legally should have been able to cast.

Let me remind you - that when the US Supreme Court made its decision they decided...

The US Supreme Court just voted to disproportionately disenfranchises our rights to cast a ballot. Remember that whole thing about democracy and everyone having the right to vote - HA! I bet you thought that was real, right??

UPDATE 2: Rock the Vote recently released statement calling it "supremely wrong."

UPDATE 1: Politico has also reported on the topic

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I just had to tell ya'll about this because its something that makes me crazy.

Last year around Christmas time - the Kansas GOP sent out what I'm sure they thought was a normal everyday fundraising email. What they mistakenly did was talk about all the great work they are doing and talked about their Vote Caging program.

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By Michael Slater

I posted yesterday on Hans von Spakovsky nomination, noting that a common theme that unifies his work “is not just that it advances his political party’s interests but that it does so by impeding minorities from voting and choosing their political representatives.” Now there’s more evidence.

I’ve been following with interest the debate between Gerry Hebert, Bob Bauer and Brad Smith on Hans von Spakovsky’s nomination to the FEC (courtesy Rick Hasen Election Law blog coverage). Mr.

I’ll be brief.

I’m throwing out a challenge to the Presidential candidates, and I won’t even make it a difficult one. We know that many of them (or their staff) read what is posted here, so maybe one would read this. Certainly, they are aware of the goings on in Congress regarding the US Attorney purge. Hopefully they know about the Pulitzer Prize worthy work being done by McClatchy’s Washington Bureau about the tie in between the US Attorneys and the issues of “voter fraud” against Democratic party voters or officials.

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But only if it gets told, gets told loudly, clearly, simplistically and repetitively.  It is still unfolding, even though it has been happening for years.  It is pervasive, deep, goes against the very first and most basic premise of democracy and is a concerted effort by many individuals and organizations throughout the republican party, its affiliated "associations" as well as many levels of government whose primary purpose is to ensure that this most basic premise of democracy is not subverted.

Here follows an imperfect but essentially accurate history, and a sad and frightening prognosis and prognostication that I desperately hope is wrong:

Thousands of low-income North Carolinians are taking advantage of new voter registration opportunities at public assistance agencies, thanks to reforms instituted by the state’s Board of Election in partnership with Project Vote, Demos and Lawyers Committee.

Cross-posted at My Left Wing, Progressive Historians and BlueSunbelt

This is a short diary and I was going to wait until this weekend to see if any follow-ups appeared in the local newspaper, but frankly, this news put me in a great mood and I just had to share.
I’ll get right to it.

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As we are heading towards the 2008 elections I am reminded that the problems we experienced the last two times still persist. I have not heard anything done to resolve them. We cannot wait until we are in the middle of an election once again before this becomes an issue again. It seems as the usual out of sight out of sound is applying once again.

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