Record numbers of new voters...and I'm guessing if they can get them to the polls that GW is going down big time this year. The polls are not telling the real story. I'm starting to have new hope for the election.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/28/new.voters.ap/index.html

don't worry, the bush surrogates are busy working to invalidate them.

Voters-rights advocates are criticizing two recent decisions by Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell that they say will unfairly limit some people's ability to vote Nov. 2. Blackwell's office has told county boards of elections to follow strictly two provisions in Ohio election law:
One requires Ohio voter registration cards be printed on thick, 80-pound stock paper.
The other ordered boards to strictly interpret the rules regarding provisional ballots, the ones cast by voters who move before the election but are still registered in Ohio.
The paper-stock issue is frustrating Montgomery County Board of Elections officials, who have a backlog of registrations to complete. If they get an Ohio voter registration card on paper thinner than required, they are mailing a new card out to the voter. But if they still have the backlog by the registration deadline, Oct. 4, voters will not have another chance to get their correct paperwork in, said Steve Harsman, deputy director of the Montgomery County board. In Montgomery County there is a backlog of around 4,000 registrations, Harsman said. A few hundred could be affected by this provision, he said.

despite this regulation in the Federal Voter Right's Act

No person acting under color of law shall -

(A)

in determining whether any individual is qualified under State law or laws to vote in any election, apply any standard, practice, or procedure different from the standards, practices, or procedures applied under such law or laws to other individuals within the same county, parish, or similar political subdivision who have been found by State officials to be qualified to vote;

(B)

deny the right of any individual to vote in any election because of an error or omission on any record or paper relating to any application, registration, or other act requisite to voting, if such error or omission is not material in determining whether such individual is qualified under State law to vote in such election;

don't worry, the bush surrogates are busy working to invalidate them.

If they don't, you can bet the "new & improved" Diebold and ESS voting machines will.

Record numbers of new voters...and I'm guessing if they can get them to the polls that GW is going down big time this year. The polls are not telling the real story. I'm starting to have new hope for the election.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/28/new.voters.ap/index.html

Now we've just got to make sure they get to the polls, their names haven't been removed, the machines work, and their votes are counted ;) !