Republican Voter Deterrence Strategies
Posted on October 28th, 2008 at 8:39 pm by Steve

Republican voter deterrence

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Greg Palast report in the latest Rolling Stone on continuing Republican efforts nationwide to disenfranchise eligible voters, quoting a New Mexico voting-rights attorney who says “All these new rules and games are turning voting into an obstacle course that could flip the vote to the GOP in half a dozen states.”

All told, states reported scrubbing at least 10 million voters from their rolls on questionable grounds between 2004 and 2006. Colorado holds the record: Donetta Davidson, the Republican secretary of state, and her GOP successor oversaw the elimination of nearly one of every six of their state’s voters. Bush has since appointed Davidson to the Election Assistance Commission, the federal agency created by HAVA, which provides guidance to the states on “list maintenance” methods.