Sound Politics: Sinister Plot To Disenfranchise Minorities Sparks Lawsuit

May 25, 2006

Sinister Plot To Disenfranchise Minorities Sparks Lawsuit

Even the smallest steps toward cleaner elections are too sweeping for some. The Seattle Times reports:

Misspelled names and other minor errors could improperly keep thousands of voters off the rolls in Washington state, a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday in Seattle says....Plaintiffs in the suit, including a labor union, minority voter groups and poverty advocates, also want a judge to bar the state from striking mismatched registrations ahead of the September primary and November general elections....The law in question directs (Washington Sec. of State Sam) Reed to compare driver's licenses, state identification cards or Social Security numbers on registration forms with records from state and federal agencies to ensure that a voter's information matches.

Jahweh forbid we should know voters are actually U.S. citizens, to boot. Voting "rights" include the right of all legal voters to not have their vote diluted by illegal votes. To insist that voter data in different databases actually match up is merely a baseline for accurate registration and literacy of voters and administrators. Something we're all in favor of, right? If honest mistakes are caught under the law now being challenged, they can be rectified within 45 days, and the voter can vote. So what's really the problem?

Posted by Matt Rosenberg at May 25, 2006 07:46 AM | Email This

Comments

1. The "real" problem is the fear of all those lost votes for the liberals.

Posted by: TrueSoldier on May 25, 2006 08:21 AM

2. Labor unions, minority groups, poverty advocates and liberals are always trying to convince everyone that minorities are too feeble to live up to the same reasonable standards as the majority. You'd think the minorities would be indignant and object to this racism, but they always seem to buy into it. It bothers me to see them demonstrating in the streets with signs, or speaking out on the news, publicly declaring their inferiority and need for special consideration and help from the majority, as if they were incompetent children; because I know it isn't true. It's a shameful way to act.

Posted by: ken on May 25, 2006 08:34 AM

3. How dare you impend my right to vote early and often!

Posted by: JCM on May 25, 2006 08:52 AM

4. Ken--right on point-
always amazes me how 'immigrants' or 'disenfranchised' are so well-informed of all the free bene's like Section 8 housing & food stamps, etc, as soon as their feet touch our soil, yet act like illiterate boobs when asked to prove their legal status, voting qualifications or be responsible for their own actions and bills; miscount or short them on a handout and you'll see sophisticated consumers and voters in a heartbeat; amazing; 'helplessness-on-demand'; and we all fall for it again & again; playing our system and on our generousities;

Posted by: Jimmie-howya-doin on May 25, 2006 09:07 AM

5. You are talking about illegals not being able to spell or wrtie their names, but what about real citizens who have gone through the school system that can't match up their names?

I say to that, if I am to pay as much as I do for school education, can't I at least expect the graduates to spell and write their names? I think we are past the "X" marks the spot signature, or at least I hope so.

Posted by: swatter on May 25, 2006 09:18 AM

6. Get past the database. The question isn't what minorities are being disenfranchised, it's what illegal activities can transpire when the data on the Voter Registration Database is "fuzzy".

Hint: it's not vote$. King County can already back a truck up with 10,000 ballots returned in the mail to REALS and filled out by "union help", with or without a voter list.

1. Investigate out-of-state 2004 WSDCC money. Why did the WSDCC file their PDC paperwork six months late?
2. Follow the WSDCC money totals, preferably sums greater than $300,000.
3. Why is this lawsuit is being filed in Washington State instead of back in DC at SEIU headquarters?

Articles you need to read:

http://www.seattleweekly.com/news/9828/features-shapiro.php

http://www.hud.gov/offices/oig/sar54.pdf

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/02/02/MN229617.DTL

Hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake.

Who REALLY paid Darcy Burner's camera crew?

Posted by: Frank Chopp on May 25, 2006 09:40 AM

7. Why is too much to ask people who want to vote to fill out a form properly? This crap about disenfranchising minorities and poor people with voting requirements is just that - a load of crap.

If somebody cares enough about voting to register, then they ought to put in the effort to submit a complete and accurate voters registration form.

The advocacy groups should not be campaigning to allow continued election fraud and manipulation. If they care so much about minorities and impoverished people, then they should help these people to register propoerly. Part of this process is weeding out ineligible voters, not diluting the votes of legal voters.

Posted by: Gary on May 25, 2006 10:36 AM

8. Ahem. There is NO right for anybody to cancel out my vote with their fraudulent, illegal one.

Posted by: Misty on May 25, 2006 10:37 AM

9. Julia Patterson and Julie Patterson need to join this lawsuit as plaintiffs. Enforcing the new ballot could take away their right to receive two ballots in the mail for every election.

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