"Some states have FEWER REGISTERED VOTERS today than a year ago" - Thom Hartmann

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IMHO, they're gonna steal it again.

http://www.thomhartmann.com/

On the Program - Oct 9th 2008
Quote: As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action. (you liberate a city by destroying it.) Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests - Gore Vidal

Hour One - Bill Gertz www.gertzfile.com Topic: His new book "The Failure Factory: How Unelected Bureaucrats, Liberal Democrats and Big Government Republicans Are Undermining America's Security and Leading us to War"

Hour Two – The Economy – Roll Back the Reagan Tax Cuts!

Guest: Brad Friedman www.bradblog.com Topic: Voting Alert update

Hour Three - Ellen Brown www.webofdebt.com Topic: economic crisis/bailout

Guest: Christy Harvey www.americanprogress.com Topic: News Under the Radar & North to Alaska

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1. talking about it NOW

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2. Here's the article from today's NYT ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/us/politics/09voting.html?_r=1&ref=politics&oref=slogin


October 9, 2008
States’ Actions to Block Voters Appear Illegal

By IAN URBINA

Tens of thousands of eligible voters in at least six swing states have been removed from the rolls or have been blocked from registering in ways that appear to violate federal law, according to a review of state records and Social Security data by The New York Times.

The actions do not seem to be coordinated by one party or the other, nor do they appear to be the result of election officials intentionally breaking rules, but are apparently the result of mistakes in the handling of the registrations and voter files as the states tried to comply with a 2002 federal law, intended to overhaul the way elections are run.

Still, because Democrats have been more aggressive at registering new voters this year, according to state election officials, any heightened screening of new applications may affect their party’s supporters disproportionately. The screening or trimming of voter registration lists in the six states — Colorado, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Nevada and North Carolina — could also result in problems at the polls on Election Day: people who have been removed from the rolls are likely to show up only to be challenged by political party officials or election workers, resulting in confusion, long lines and heated tempers.

Some states allow such voters to cast provisional ballots. But they are often not counted because they require added verification.

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3. Brad Friedman on now

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4. They have to try; they can't win it clean. n/t