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GOP seeks to contest voters from foreclosed homes

 
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GOP seeks to contest voters from foreclosed homes
GOP seeks to contest voters from foreclosed homes
By: Cernig @ 6:00 PM - PDT

RichnFamous I think this might just backfire.

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.”

The article cited, in the Michigan Messenger, says a full sixty per cent of sub-prime loans in Michigan went to African American families and that thus they bear a far higher rate of foreclosures. Legal experts think the GOP hasn’t got a real case (especially in Michigan where the law allows voters to vote from their last known address) but that doesn’t take away from the breathtaking nastiness of even thinking about such a move.

J. Gerald Hebert, a former voting rights litigator for the U.S. Justice Department who now runs the Campaign Legal Center, a Washington D.C.-based public-interest law firm [said,] “I don’t think a foreclosure notice is sufficient basis for a challenge, because people often remain in their homes after foreclosure begins and sometimes are able to negotiate and refinance.”

And then there’s the massive conflict of interest:

The Macomb GOP’s plans are another indication of how John McCain’s campaign stands to benefit from the burgeoning number of foreclosures in the state. McCain’s regional headquarters are housed in the office building of foreclosure specialists Trott & Trott. The firm’s founder, David A. Trott, has raised between $100,000 and $250,000 for the Republican nominee.

GOP officials elsewhere in Michigan, as well as Ohio, have said they are looking to challenge voter registration based on foreclosure lists - which points to an orchestrated attempt by the McCain campaign to steal the votes of victims of the credit crunch, especially black American victims. This while banks are offered corporate-socialist bailout after bailout and John McCain the 5 Million Dollar Man suggests that common people should miss a holiday or get an extra job to ensure they keep up their payments on a sub-prime loan.

“Welcome to today’s Republican Party - FU, you whiners!” (John McCain approved this message)

Crossposted from Newshoggers
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Re: GOP seeks to contest voters from foreclosed homes
Don't you love the GOPs values,ethics, and christian compassion?
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09/12/2008 02:51 PM
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Re: GOP seeks to contest voters from foreclosed homes
So you have a problem with the State Govt enforcing the law of the land?

What other laws should the govt not enforce?
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Re: GOP seeks to contest voters from foreclosed homes
Pacshit,you have got to be the stupidest motherfucker,next to your fuher that was ever scraped from the bottom of a toilet bowl.
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Re: GOP seeks to contest voters from foreclosed homes
So you have a problem with the State Govt enforcing the law of the land?

What other laws should the govt not enforce?
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If they did,every goddamned BushCo traitor would be in prison right now.
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Re: GOP seeks to contest voters from foreclosed homes
So you have a problem with the State Govt enforcing the law of the land?

What other laws should the govt not enforce?



If they did,every goddamned BushCo traitor would be in prison right now.
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