[PAA-Discuss] Tell Mukasey Don't Suppress Ohio Voters

[Rebelljb at aol.com]

Subject: Tell Mukasey: Don't suppress Ohio voters. 
Dear Friend, 
This year, there are over 600,000 newly registered Ohio voters, but  
President Bush has asked Attorney General Mukasey to investigate as many  as 200,000 
of them. Why? Because Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner  has refused to 
use an "exact match" standard before adding these voters to  the rolls.  
What is this "exact match" standard? Basically, it works like this:  After 
you fill out your voter registration card, a local or state employee  has to 
type in your information to add you to the voter rolls, and check  to see that 
you really exist, usually by verifying your driver's license  number or Social 
Security number. And as you can imagine, sometimes there  are typos or other 
disparities when the information gets entered and  matched - for example, if 
your last name is "De la Rosa" and it got  entered as "Delarosa", you would fail 
to meet the exact match standard,  and your registration form would be 
invalid.  
Secretary Brunner has refused to use this standard on the grounds that  it 
would erroneously deprive tens or even hundreds of thousands of Ohioans  of 
their right to vote. The Ohio GOP sued her a month ago to try and get  the courts 
to compel her to use the exact match standard, but the Supreme  Court ruled 
that they had no standing to make that case.  
Now, President Bush is trying to run around the Supreme Court by  getting the 
Department of Justice to intervene. On Friday, October 24th,  Bush reportedly 
asked Attorney General Mukasey to investigate whether as  many as 200,000 
voters need to reconfirm their registrations before  November 4th - which would 
almost certainly result in forcing them to vote  provisionally.  
I just signed a petition urging Attorney General Mukasey not to act on  
President Bush's sickening request. I hope you will, too.  
Please have a look and take action.  
_http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/doj_oh_suppression/?r_by=-1156033-OFiQ.6x
&rc=paste_ 
(http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/doj_oh_suppression/?r_by=-1156033-OFiQ.6x&rc=paste)    
Thanks! 


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