2 Voter Rights Cases, One Gripping a College Town, Stir Texas (Prairie View)

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The Gadsden Times 5/28/08
2 Voter Rights Cases, One Gripping a College Town, Stir Texas

RALPH BLUMENTHAL Published May 28, 2008

PRAIRIE VIEW, Tex. — "Vote or Die," exhorts the faded slogan on a roadway at Prairie View A&M University, where black students once marched for the right to vote here in the town where they attend school, on a former cotton plantation about 50 miles northwest of Houston.

The students won that battle in 2004, long after the United States Supreme Court supposedly decided the issue in 1979. But disputes over minority voting rights — along with accusations of election fraud — continue to rouse Prairie View, home to one of the nation’s leading historically black colleges, and other Texas locales.

"The cold war’s not over — they just moved the fence from Berlin to the Texas border," said DeWayne Charleston, Waller County justice of the peace, who maintains that local officials failed to record hundreds of students whom he registered to vote in 2006. The federal Department of Justice and the Texas attorney general’s office say investigations are under way here, but will not give details.


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But other voting rights disputes have since erupted. Before the 2006 election, Judge Charleston said in an interview, he personally registered about 1,000 students. But on Election Day, he said, hundreds of them were turned away as not registered to vote. The registration cards were later found in county offices, he said.

Ellen C. Shelburne, the county tax assessor and registrar, who took office in January 2007, said she had recently been questioned by investigators from Mr. Abbott’s office and had told them that she knew nothing about the matter. Jerry Strickland, a spokesman for Mr. Abbott, said, "We cannot comment on ongoing investigations."

Greg Abbott is despicable not defending these students rights. His defeat in Marshall on Wednesday is just the start. I do think DOJ needs to investigate Abbott's office but it probably won't happen until we get a new President, because the one we got now is one of those voter suppression types just like Abbott. :grr:

Sonia

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1. "We can't comment on an ongoing investigation."

But other voting rights disputes have since erupted. Before the 2006 election, Judge Charleston said in an interview, he personally registered about 1,000 students. But on Election Day, he said, hundreds of them were turned away as not registered to vote. The registration cards were later found in county offices, he said.

It seems quite obvious to me that the "white working class elitist" in our state don't care much about the minority class participating in Democracy.

I mean how dare them wanting to have a voice AND a vote.


Oh by the way the Abbott investigation he had against mail in ballots was settled.


:kick: & RRRRRR

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2. Abbott claimed victory on that loss too

Abbott is a poser too!

Texas AG Abbott Settles Vote Suppression Case

Sonia