Posted on 10/29/2008 2:08:01 PM PDT by steve-b
Georgia should have sought U.S. Justice Department approval before implementing a new process of using Social Security numbers and driver's license data to check voters' immigration status, a three-judge federal panel ruled Monday.
The 27-page ruling ordered Georgia election officials to make "diligent and immediate" efforts to notify voters flagged as ineligible because of the checks that they can still cast paper ballots on Nov. 4. The paper ballots can later be challenged by state officials if a voter is believed to be ineligible.
The state also is not allowed to remove names from lists unless voters say in writing that they are ineligible....
(Excerpt) Read more at ap.google.com ...
Reconstruction lives on.
WTF? The SAME “justice” department that is TOTALLY IGNORING what is going on in Ohio?
DOJ hasn’t been worth anything since Ashcroft left! They come in less then a week before the election with this ruling and now put a burden of proof on GA.
Where is Bush calling for a thorough investigation of ACORN fraud?
Oh, so what states have this special requirement and what states can do what they want without asking permission?
You think PA or Ohio have to ask permission?
This stuff pisses me off to no end.
The leftists here in GA have worked so hard to keep pounding at the progress made here to stop voter fraud.
Oh, so we can’t check to see if they are citizens? Why? That makes no sense. That and the early voting scam are really grating.
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/voting/intro/intro_b.php
Introduction To Federal Voting Rights Laws
The Voting Rights Act, adopted initially in 1965 and extended in 1970, 1975, and 1982, is generally considered the most successful piece of civil rights legislation ever adopted by the United States Congress. The Act codifies and effectuates the 15th Amendment’s permanent guarantee that, throughout the nation, no person shall be denied the right to vote on account of race or color. In addition, the Act contains several special provisions that impose even more stringent requirements in certain jurisdictions throughout the country.
Adopted at a time when African Americans were substantially disfranchised in many Southern states, the Act employed measures to restore the right to vote that intruded in matters previously reserved to the individual states. Section 4 ended the use of literacy requirements for voting in six Southern states (Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Virginia) and in many counties of North Carolina, where voter registration or turnout in the 1964 presidential election was less than 50 percent of the voting-age population. Under the terms of Section 5 of the Act, no voting changes were legally enforceable in these jurisdictions until approved either by a three-judge court in the District of Columbia or by the Attorney General of the United States. Other sections authorized the Attorney General to appoint federal voting examiners who could be sent into covered jurisdictions to ensure that legally qualified persons were free to register for federal, state, and local elections, or to assign federal observers to oversee the conduct of elections.
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Last year there was a big media campaign advising voters about the requirements which are within federal guidlines.
Herman Caine and the SOS devoted one night’s programming. There is just no excuse, especially since GA was bending over backwards to make sure everyone eligible was registered.
My hunch is the ass from Cherokee County that filed this suit timed it as a matter of design.
Thirty years ago, the NAACP sued the county and the DOJ forced us to go to single member districts so that there would be a black commissioner. He has been commissioner ever since
Each commissioner represents at most 2,000 voters and looks out only for their own, narrow interests.
Despite gorgeous beaches, a deep water port, we still have 15,000 population due to awful government wrought upon us by the so-called civil rights act, the NAACP and DOJ.
PA & Ohio weren’t Jim Crow states
When has Bush ever called for a thorough investigation of fraud by the dems?
Not the point.
Equal application of the Law is the point, not singling out some states over others.
If we need oversight by the federal government for this, then all states should have the same requirements.
>>WTF? The SAME “justice” department that is TOTALLY IGNORING what is going on in Ohio?<<
Including Ohio state employeees using state computers to try to dig up dirt on Joe the Plumber.
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