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September 25, 2008
CONTACT: Sarah Massey, 202 445-1169
COLUMBUS, OHIO—Lawyers for Project Vote and other voting rights organizations are coordinating efforts in a legal battle to protect Ohio’s five-day Same-Day Registration (SDR) period from lawsuits filed by two Republican voters.
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September 18, 2008
A national effort to increase Election Day participation among young voters was a success in Springfield, Mass. this week, according to an abc40 report. The event was organized by Project Youth Vote, a partnership between Project Vote and ACORN, and was only one of dozens that took place nationwide in high schools yesterday, timed to coincide with Constitution and Citizenship Day, the 221st anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution. Watch the abc40 video on “Getting Youth to Vote” here.
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September 12, 2008
CONTACT: Eleiza Braun 415-420-4059
In response to reports Wednesday that the Michigan GOP intended to use lists of home foreclosures as the basis for a “voter caging” operation, Project Vote wrote a letter today to both major political parties explaining why challenging the eligibility of voters on the basis of their presence on a foreclosure list would violate state and federal laws and risk federal criminal penalties.
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September 11, 2008
CONTACT: Eleiza Braun 415-420-4059
The Michigan GOP has announced plans to use a list of housing foreclosures as the basis for a broad voter-caging operation, as reported yesterday by Eartha Jane Melzer in The Michigan Messenger. James Carabelli, chairman of the Republican Party in Macomb County, Michigan, has announced plans to assign “election challengers” to polling places to question the eligibility of home foreclosure victims based on residency. “We will have a list of foreclosed homes and will make sure people aren’t voting from those addresses,” Carabelli told the Messenger.
Today Teresa James, attorney for the voting rights organization Project Vote, and author of the 2007 report Caging Democracy: A 50-Year History of Partisan Challenges to Minority Voters, issued the following statement in response:
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September 08, 2008
CONTACT: Eleiza Braun 415 420-4059,
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Columbus, OH - In response to strong concerns expressed by Project Vote about the potential for partisan abuse of Ohio’s vague voter challenger laws, Ohio’s Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner took an important step to clarify the law and protect Ohio voters from partisan voter caging. In a directive issued on Friday to all Ohio Elections Boards, the secretary makes it clear that Ohio voters must be afforded notice and due process before their right to vote is challenged, and that returned mail alone can not be used as a partisan tool to suppress the vote in this presidential election year.
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