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Watch out for voter registration cancellations
Houston Chronicle 6/4/12
Watch out for voter registration cancellations
Walter Pinkston, a Friendswood retiree and faithful Harris County voter, got a letter in late March asking his family to confirm that he was dead - which he was not - and warning that he was about to be purged from Texas voter rolls.
Retired Houston Baptist University Professor Trilla Pando received a similar notice of her death from voter registration officials in 2010.
Even Sylvia Garcia, a former Harris County commissioner, got suspended - not because anyone thought she was dead - but because county officials questioned the validity of a P.O. Box the Houston native had used on her voting card for years.
More than 300,000 valid voters were notified they could be removed from Texas rolls from November 2008 to November 2010 - often because they were mistaken for someone else or failed to receive or respond to generic form letters, according to Houston Chronicle interviews and analysis of voter registration data.
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"How can you suspend someone without notice? To me we should be actively engaging people - we should not be adding any barrier to vote," said Garcia, who works to boost voter participation of Hispanics nationwide as president of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials.
Watch out for voter registration cancellations
Walter Pinkston, a Friendswood retiree and faithful Harris County voter, got a letter in late March asking his family to confirm that he was dead - which he was not - and warning that he was about to be purged from Texas voter rolls.
Retired Houston Baptist University Professor Trilla Pando received a similar notice of her death from voter registration officials in 2010.
Even Sylvia Garcia, a former Harris County commissioner, got suspended - not because anyone thought she was dead - but because county officials questioned the validity of a P.O. Box the Houston native had used on her voting card for years.
More than 300,000 valid voters were notified they could be removed from Texas rolls from November 2008 to November 2010 - often because they were mistaken for someone else or failed to receive or respond to generic form letters, according to Houston Chronicle interviews and analysis of voter registration data.
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"How can you suspend someone without notice? To me we should be actively engaging people - we should not be adding any barrier to vote," said Garcia, who works to boost voter participation of Hispanics nationwide as president of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials.
This is what republicans do when they're in charge - They purge the rolls of elgible voters - especially if they've been known to vote for Democrats.
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And that the PO Box would just be a mailing address. Very common with "the real world". But this is not about helping voters vote. In Texas the opposite is true. The republican controlled Lege and Secretary of State want the fewest number of people voting.
And they especially want to make sure that those voters that do vote, vote in the republican primaries. So if you're a Democrat and vote in the Democratic primaries - I imagine that would be a good starting listt for the Rs to try to purge from. Just saying it's what they do.
