Michigan GOP Using Foreclosures To Block Black Voters

Michigan Messenger:

The chairman of the Republican Party in Macomb County Michigan, a key swing county in a key swing state, is planning to use a list of foreclosed homes to block people from voting in the upcoming election as part of the state GOP's effort to challenge some voters on Election Day.

"We will have a list of foreclosed homes and will make sure people aren't voting from those addresses," party chairman James Carabelli told Michigan Messenger in a telephone interview earlier this week. He said the local party wanted to make sure that proper electoral procedures were followed.

Read the whole story: Michigan Messenger

Comments

[ProgressiveReb]

01:12 PM on 09/13/2008

This is outrageous. And if it happens in Michigan, it will certainly happen in other states.

We must fight back. Progressive Future has a great action page posted where you can write to the Michigan Secretary of State, Terri Lynne Land, and tell her that this kind of interference with the basic right to vote is unacceptable, and that you expect her to say so—publicly.
Here is the URL for the action page:

https://www.progressivefuture.org/michigan.

[ivywoman]

12:13 AM on 09/12/2008

The ACLU has been spoken to about this situation. Everyone is involved now. MSNBC has an article on it, only they changed the name from black to poor. It's heating up right now as we speak....

[oxford]

08:27 PM on 09/11/2008

Perhaps Jimmy Carter could reconstitute that group of International observers of elections to observe what goes on at the polls in the states in question. That fool who heads the justice department is so in the pocket of the repugs that his people won't enforce election frauds.

[Gary47]

07:10 PM on 09/11/2008

They are out to win it. What are we going to do besides be authentic, objective, clean and win all the debating points?

[LinnyLooWho]

03:42 PM on 09/11/2008

This literally made me want to cry out loud. I haven't lived in Michigan for years, and my brother's foreclosure is fortunately taking place in another state as well (his is due to... hmm... medical expenses.) But seriously. As if losing your house isn't enough, now they could lose their vote too? Now they could lose having a say in how they want to work toward fixing their mess? So much for a democracy.

[ivywoman]

01:10 PM on 09/11/2008

I have notified ABC News, Washington Post, AP, Baltimore Sun. OHIO DEM Party, FLA DEM Party, and the NAACP. They were all on fire when they recieved the call....They are not getting away with it this year.

[rwe]

01:32 PM on 09/11/2008

they don't give a rat's ass.... The Dems adn Repubs do this to prove residency throughout the country.....They were patronizing you...thisis to prevent voter fraud.... In Chicago Barack has people in the cemetaries voting

[UncommonSenz]

12:26 PM on 09/11/2008

Add Wisconsin to the list:

http://www.madison.com/wsj/topstories/304321

"The board last month found that information contained on more than 20 percent of recent voter registrations failed to match information maintained on state Department of Transportation records such as names and addresses, mostly because of variations in how a name was used, typographical errors or incompatibilities in the two agencies' databases. Even information from four of six Accountability Board members in the voter database failed to match DOT records."

So, four of the six members of the "accountability board" can't even vote in WI, what is the hope for the poor, minority and non-republican enclaves?

This HAS to become a story... even the derelict MSM can follow a simple "Are legal voters being denied the chance to vote?" story

[JaneC]

11:12 AM on 09/11/2008

Once again the "country first" repigs find a way to use people's misery to their advantage. Sickening.

[TuffCookie]

10:16 AM on 09/11/2008

WTF!!!!???

[theone718]

09:11 AM on 09/11/2008

Wait isn't trying to stop people from doing their one national right, voting, UN AMERICAN?

[rwe]

08:57 AM on 09/11/2008

Why haven't the ACLU, NAACP,MSNBC,CNN et al been screaming and balsting this? Because it is NOT an issue... It is done all over the country by BOTH parties to try and ensure residency and prevent voter fraud.....

[UncommonSenz]

10:07 AM on 09/11/2008

You must be kidding.

Targeting a group that you think is likely to be voting for your opponent (I don't have stats to back that up, but my guess is that the majority of folks who are in the process of being foreclosed on would vote democratic) and taking away their vote runs counter to the democratic principles that founded this nation.

BOTH sides do NOT do this... please name ONE case where democrats are trying to TAKE AWAY anyone's vote. Please name ONE!

The republicans do this repeatedly, unfortunately the press never picks it up until after the elections.

[DaOne]

08:56 AM on 09/11/2008

This should be national news

[MadeinAmericaProud]

10:17 AM on 09/11/2008

It can only be national news if the democrats own just as many forms of media in these RED states to counter punch the lies told in these states. Rush Limb, ann coulter, etc are located in over 500 radio stations and other media product for those who can not read and write like you in all these red states.

Until the democratic party light bulb goes on, we will continue to miss the boats leaving the elections docking stations and also fix the national voting machine with paper trail in all 50+ states. Having in 2008 each states controlling a national president election has Congress looking corrupt in the 21st century.

[kattie]

08:54 AM on 09/11/2008

LIKE JON STEWART SAID THE COP LOVE THIS COUNTRY BUT HATE HALF ITS PEOPLE, THAT IS JUST ANOTHER PROOF.

[castlerider]

08:48 AM on 09/11/2008

When a person counterfeits money the full weight of the government and the Secret Service comes down on them like a sledgehammer. Penalties are justifably severe and very harsh.

In the same manner, those who compromise the free vote of America's citizens should be duly punished for damaging it's citizens votes, which are a sacred honor.

What happened to you, America? Where is your integrity and self-worth?
Lost in a sea of hypocritical Republican corruption and greed for power.

[sd4peace]

09:39 AM on 09/11/2008

We've had 8 years of politicizing the Justice dept for this very reason. These crimes will not be prosecuted or even investigated.

[neo1]

08:35 AM on 09/11/2008

The republicans are MASTERS of voter strife. They will do anything and everything possible to prevent blacks from voting this year particularly because they know who they are voting for. We should all check our voter registrations now before it gets too late, just to make sure we are on the voting rolls.