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Each incident has its own page with full details and discussion. Please add more as you discover them! Text and video instructins on how to report an incident are at the bottom of the page, below the index.
Also, check out the discussion forum. Seen something around the blogosphere we should be tracking? Please add it here! First-person experiences? Start up a new thread and tell us about them!
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What region is affected? provide City, County, State info. If national, use "USA" What voters would be affected? who is being targeted by the tactic How would tactic suppress votes? explain how the suppression works. e.g. scaring young people, rejecting absentee ballots, etc. Who is behind it? Be as specific as possible. Name, title, affiliation, organization, party Links to media/blog coverage? (link headline, and list byline, media outlet/blog, date of publication)
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- Voter Suppression Is A Fun Game To Some People, by John Doe, Herald Times Post, September 18, 2008
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| JonPincus | Reports from the blogosphere | 18 | Nov 10 2008, 12:49 AM EST by LindaCA | ||
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Thread started: Nov 4 2008, 10:25 AM EST
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use this thread to summarize and link to reports of voter suppression from various blogs ...
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| Anonymous | Beware Georgia DMV Telling you you are registered, when your not. | 2 | Nov 5 2008, 8:51 AM EST by Anonymous | ||
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Thread started: Nov 4 2008, 3:12 PM EST
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In September I went to get my address changed on my license and to register to vote at the Department of Driver Services, Norcross, GA. I must have told the woman that waited on me about a half of dozen time to register me to vote, which she assured me she did. On Nov. fourth when I went to vote I was told that I was not register. The woman at the voting center told me that they have had over 200 complaints from DMV registered voters that they were not registered. The woman at the voting center told me to go back to the DMV Center and complain. Nothing was resolved. I did not get to vote that day!!!!!! I am very angry that DMV has taken away my right to vote!!!!! I can understand one or two mistakes, but over 200!!!!! Is this profiling?????
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| Mome-rath | Nearly disenfranchised in Tacoma, WA because of a clerical error | 0 | Nov 4 2008, 7:17 PM EST by Mome-rath | ||
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Thread started: Nov 4 2008, 7:17 PM EST
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I was nearly turned away because of a clerical error in my voter registration. My husband and I moved to Washington state in August, and immediately we registered to vote. It took nearly three months of
phone calls, re-registering, and error correction on the part of Pierce County, however, to get us registered. We originally requested to vote at the polls, but our first set of registration cards indicated that we would be voting absentee. I called the county auditor's office to correct the information, and they assured me that the system had been updated and we would receive new cards. The new cards came, but a few days later, absentee ballots arrived in the mail. Again, I called the county auditor to report the error. They told me that the system was correct, that we were to vote at the polls, and that we were to shred the absentee ballots. Today, we showed up at the polls, waited in line for over 90 minutes to vote, but when our turn came we were not allowed to vote because their records showed that we were to vote absentee. They tried to make us fill out provisional ballots, but we refused: we wanted to take zero chances with risking our ballots being rejected. I told them that I had called the county and had been told to vote at the polls. Their answer: "Well, that just means that you could vote at the polls with provisional ballots." Nobody ever told us that bit of information! I'm not sure if that answer was true or not. So we asked if we could still mail in the absentee ballots, which we hadn't gotten around to shredding yet. They said yes, as long as they were postmarked today. So in the end, we were able to vote, but the fact that registration and voting was so difficult and fraught with misinformation and incompetence is appalling. |
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