On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 22:24:11 -0700 (PDT), f.barnes wrote:
> On Jun 2, 10:49 pm, Don Gabacho wrote:
>> Feds spike voter citizenship checks in Georgia
>>
>> By SHANNON McCAFFREY – 1 day ago
>>
>> ATLANTA (AP) — The Justice Department has rejected Georgia's system of
>> using Social Security numbers and driver's license data to check whether
>> prospective voters are citizens, a process that was a subject of a federal
>> lawsuit in the weeks leading up to November's election.
>>
>> In a letter released on Monday, the Justice Department said the state's
>> voter verification program is frequently inaccurate and has a
>> "discriminatory effect" on minority voters. The decision means Georgia must
>> halt the citizenship checks, although the state can still ask the Justice
>> Department to reconsider, according to the letter and to the Georgia
>> secretary of state's office.
>>
>> "This flawed system frequently subjects a disproportionate number of
>> African-American, Asian and/or Hispanic voters to additional, and more
>> importantly, erroneous burdens on the right to register to vote," Loretta
>> King, acting assistant attorney general of the Justice Department's civil
>> rights division, said. King's letter was sent to Georgia Attorney General
>> Thurbert Baker on Friday.
>>
>> The decision comes as Georgia awaits word on whether a law passed in the
>> spring that requires newly registering voters to show proof of citizenship
>> will pass muster with DOJ. Under the law that takes effect in January,
>> people must show their proof up front compared to doing checks through
>> databases.
>>
>> A three-judge federal panel in October ordered the state to seek Justice
>> Department preclearance for the checks under the Voting Rights Act of 1965,
>> the same reason the federal agency must sign off on the new law that made
>> Georgia only the second state after Arizona to require such proof. Georgia
>> is one of several states that need federal approval before changing
>> election rules because of a history of discriminatory Jim Crow-era voting
>> practices.
>>
>> Secretary of State Karen Handel blasted DOJ's decision, saying it opens the
>> floodgates for non-citizens to vote in the state.
>>
>> "Clearly, politics took priority over common sense and good public policy,"
>> said Handel, a Republican candidate for governor in 2010.
>>
>> Justice Department officials said the citizenship match through driver's
>> license and Social Security data has flagged 7,007 individuals as
>> non-citizens but that many have been shown to be in error.
>>
>> "Thousands of citizens who are in fact eligible to vote under Georgia law
>> have been flagged," the Justice Department letter said.
>>
>> The Justice Department decision marks the first time the new Democratic
>> Obama administration has weighed in on Georgia's election laws. It is also
>> the first time the Justice Department has rejected a change in election
>> procedures by Georgia since the 1990s, according to a spokesman for the
>> Georgia attorney general.
>>
>> "We are pleased with this decision," said Elise Shore, Southeastern
>> Regional Counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational
>> Fund. "It vindicates our filing of the lawsuit."
>>
>> But Handel said that more than 2,100 people who attempted to register in
>> Georgia still have not resolved questions regarding their citizenship. Her
>> office's inspector general is investigating more than 30 cases of
>> non-citizens casting ballots in Georgia elections, including the case of a
>> Henry County non-citizen who said she registered to vote and cast ballots
>> in 2004 and 2006.
>>
>> Handel said the checks were designed to follow federal guidelines to ensure
>> the integrity of the vote and that those eligible are casting ballots.
>>
>> But the ACLU and the Mexican American defense fund sued, saying the efforts
>> amounted to a "systematic purging" of rolls just weeks before the election.
>>
>> Separately, the U.S., Supreme Court is considering a challenge to the
>> portion of the Voting Rights Act requiring Georgia and select other states
>> to seek approval before tinkering with election law.
>>
>> ___
>>
>> Georgia Secretary of State:http://www.sos.georgia.gov
>>
>> U.S. Department of Justice:http://www.usdoj.gov
>>
>> http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jKbnt8hNDF4uWrTudYi...
>>
>> http://snipurl.com/jbph2
>
> And the liberals continue to treat minorities as children who can't
> really function in a grownup world without somebody holding their
> hands. They just are not expected to be as organized or self reliant
> as whites, or so believe the Democrats. Whites have no problem with
> voter ID, but the childish less intelligent minorities do, or so say
> liberals and the ACLU.
Yes. The local news separately interviewed the ACLU and MALDEF. Both
replied that U.S. Citizenship proofs "discourages minorities from voting."
In other words: anyone "discouraged from voting" by having to be a U.S.
Citizen.
How inconvenient!
> What amazes me is that all minorities do not feel insulted by this
> demeaning treatment by liberals. Those few who do feel insulted join
> the Republican Party.
I find it amazing that the mere potential to "discourage" anyone for voting
in U.S. elections by having to be a U.S. Citizen trumps the very fact that
the ruling sanctions the very colonization of the U.S.A. via the direct
management of even U.S. voter regsitrations by the Mexican Government.
While it certainly appears some voters were flagged to provide proofs of
citizenship wrongly, the fact remains over two-thousand were not while the
ruling does not even address that matter much less resolve it.
It is preposterous that the very burden for checking the eligibility of
voters in U.S. elections be the States when the federal government is
refusing to enforce immigration law and even allowing Mexico's
sub-government stateside the license to both expand and operate as it does.
As it is:
"This flawed system frequently subjects a disproportionate number of
African-American, Asian and/or Hispanic voters to additional, and more
importantly, erroneous burdens on the right to register to vote," Loretta
King, acting assistant attorney general of the Justice Department's civil
rights division, said. King's letter was sent to Georgia Attorney General
Thurbert Baker on Friday."
"Flawed system"? No doubt:
No mention is made, as both the State of Georgia's Secretary of State,
Handel, and Attorney General, Baker, were made fully aware last October
with full evidence, of Mexican Government functionaries registering voters
for U.S. elections in Georgia---functionaries operating stateside "Latino
Voter Registration Drives" financed by Bill Richardson's (one of two)
"Moving America Forward" projects (and one in three counting the Mexican
Government's own "Moving America Forward (co) project).
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