Tonight on the Rachel Maddow show she interviewed Robert Kennedy, he and Greg Palast have co written a article in the new Rolling Stone regarding your rights when it comes to the GOP attempt to block YOUR vote.
Robert Kennedy & Greg Palast have written "Block the Vote" for Rolling Stone Magazine:
http://www.rollingstone.com/...
According to Rachel this is a must read for all of her viewers so that we can know what our rights are and how to avoid the GOP's ability to block our vote.
In state after state, Republican operatives — the party's elite commandos of bare-knuckle politics — are wielding new federal legislation to systematically disenfranchise Democrats. If this year's race is as close as the past two elections, the GOP's nationwide campaign could be large enough to determine the presidency in November. "I don't think the Democrats get it," says John Boyd, a voting-rights attorney in Albuquerque who has taken on the Republican Party for impeding access to the ballot. "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."
This is a must read and we MUST get the word out since it is pretty apparent that the MSM are going to froth at the mouth over the lies being spread regarding ACORN but are not going to honestly report on this very important issue.
Since 2003, according to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, at least 2.7 million new voters have had their applications to register rejected. In addition, at least 1.6 million votes were never counted in the 2004 election — and the commission's own data suggests that the real number could be twice as high. To purge registration rolls and discard ballots, partisan election officials used a wide range of pretexts, from "unreadability" to changes in a voter's signature. And this year, thanks to new provisions of the Help America Vote Act, the number of discounted votes could surge even higher.
HAVA was suppose to be the answer but as usual with the GOP in charge what started as a good idea soon turned bad.
But from the start, HAVA was corrupted by the involvement of Republican superlobbyist Jack Abramoff, who worked to cram the bill with favors for his clients. (Both Abramoff and a primary author of HAVA, former Rep. Bob Ney, were imprisoned for their role in the conspiracy.) In practice, many of the "reforms" created by HAVA have actually made it harder for citizens to cast a ballot and have their vote counted. In case after case, Republican election officials at the local and state level have used the rules to give GOP candidates an edge on Election Day by creating new barriers to registration, purging legitimate names from voter rolls, challenging voters at the polls and discarding valid ballots.
Please help get the word out and post this information to any blog sites.