Lose your house and lose your vote

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http://www.michiganmessenger.com/4076/lose-your-house-lose-your-vote

Thats how Rs roll.


Lose your house, lose your vote
By Eartha Jane Melzer 9/10/08 6:42 AM
Michigan Republicans plan to foreclose African American voters


The chairman of the Republican Party in Macomb County Michigan, a key swing county in a key swing state, is planning to use a list of foreclosed homes to block people from voting in the upcoming election as part of the state GOP’s effort to challenge some voters on Election Day.

“We will have a list of foreclosed homes and will make sure people aren’t voting from those addresses,” party chairman James Carabelli told Michigan Messenger in a telephone interview earlier this week. He said the local party wanted to make sure that proper electoral procedures were followed.

State election rules allow parties to assign “election challengers” to polls to monitor the election. In addition to observing the poll workers, these volunteers can challenge the eligibility of any voter provided they “have a good reason to believe” that the person is not eligible to vote. One allowable reason is that the person is not a “true resident of the city or township.”

The Michigan Republicans’ planned use of foreclosure lists is apparently an attempt to challenge ineligible voters as not being “true residents.”

One expert questioned the legality of the tactic.
 
Is that even legal? I can understand if you're registered else where, but I've definitely lived in one municipality and voted in another b/c I didn't change my address soon enough or I moved after the deadline.
 
They dont care if its legal, they only care if its effective in triming the voter rolls.

The fewer people who vote the better the R party does.
 
If it is not your true address, then you can't vote from it; that's the law.

Now, using a NOD to challenge could be iffy, but if the auction is complete, the former owner is no longer a legal resident of the address. they need to vote provisional or by whatever mechanism exists.
 
Chapdog said:
if its foreclosed they aint living there.
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If it's in the notice of default (NOD) stage, they are likely still there. AS long as it hasn't gone to the steps, they still have the right to remedy. But after it goes to the steps, they're thrown out pretty darn quick, like on Wednesday.
 
Think hopw effective this will be at slowing down the voting process and intimidating anyone standing in line to vote.

"hey you cant vote your in foreclosuer"

How many will walk away who are in foreclosuer to avoid having it announced in public?

This is just the one of slimiest thing the Rs are doing.
 
LadyT said:
Is that even legal? I can understand if you're registered else where, but I've definitely lived in one municipality and voted in another b/c I didn't change my address soon enough or I moved after the deadline.
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If it is within 30 days, here in CO, you just vote at your last one. If you moved before that you can make an emergency change on the day of voting even and vote a regular ballot at your new residence.
 
Desh said:
Think hopw effective this will be at slowing down the voting process and intimidating anyone standing in line to vote.

"hey you cant vote your in foreclosuer"

How many will walk away who are in foreclosuer to avoid having it announced in public?

This is just the one of slimiest thing the Rs are doing.
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Think that maybe they could simply have a public announcement reminding people that if they have been foreclosed upon and are at a new address that they need to update their registration?
 
Because this is not about anything but knocking voters off the roles because Rs fair better the fewer people who vote.
 
Troglodyte27 said:
If it is not your true address, then you can't vote from it; that's the law.

Now, using a NOD to challenge could be iffy, but if the auction is complete, the former owner is no longer a legal resident of the address. they need to vote provisional or by whatever mechanism exists.
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I don't buy that.

So you're saying that if you move to another town in October b/f the general election you're no eligible to vote?
 
Desh said:
Because this is not about anything but knocking voters off the roles because Rs fair better the fewer people who vote.
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The last Presidential election had the most people vote ever in an election and an "R" won.
 
I'll ask Soc or Jarod when they come around. I'm going ot have to hear it from a lawyer
 
Seriously I don't buy this at all. There are people who move within days of an election, there are ways they can vote. I'd like to see the specific law they use to "knock them off the roles".
 
LadyT said:
I don't buy that.

So you're saying that if you move to another town in October b/f the general election you're no eligible to vote?
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If you don't change your official address, then maybe. But I would think most states allow change of address right up to end.
 
Superfreak said:
If you don't change your official address, then maybe. But I would think most states allow change of address right up to end.
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The only one that I am expert on is CO law on this. You can, so long as you were already registered, change it on the date of the election.

Shoot, I've even done it before.
 
Damocles said:
Seriously I don't buy this at all. There are people who move within days of an election, there are ways they can vote. I'd like to see the specific law they use to "knock them off the roles".
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Me too.

I was one of those people.

As a matter of fact I called up our election offices when I moved one year and asked was it possible for me to vote in the town I was living in and I was told I could only vote in the town I was registered in.

I'm going to need to see a reference to buy that.
 
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