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workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 07:45 AM Aug 2017

Indiana Kicks Voters Off the Rolls and Isnt Telling Them

Indiana Kicks Voters Off the Rolls and Isn’t Telling Them
A new law is letting the controversial interstate Crosscheck database comb election rolls—and remove voters without any attempt to contact them or allow a chance to respond.
EMILIE PLESSET 08.29.17 1:00 AM ET

You might not be able to cast a vote on Election Day in Indiana, and now the Hoosier State doesn’t even need to let you know.
A new Indiana law permits voters to be automatically removed from registration rolls without giving any notice or allowing for a waiting period for those purged to respond, and it could all be a mistake.

The statute, which went into effect last month, is in “flagrant violation” of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 and operates with potentially “discriminatory results,” according to the Indiana State Conference of the NAACP and the League of Women Voters in a lawsuit filed last week.

“No Hoosier should be silenced on Election Day,” Barbara Bolling-Williams, president of the Indiana State Conference of the NAACP, said in a statement. “Yet, under this new law, that will happen. It’s vital that Indiana follow federal law and ensure that voters are not wrongfully removed from the rolls.”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/indiana-kicks-voters-off-the-rolls-and-isnt-telling-them
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Indiana Kicks Voters Off the Rolls and Isnt Telling Them (Original Post) workinclasszero Aug 2017 OP
There will be a lot of fraud, purges, electronic hacking... in 2018. Dustlawyer Aug 2017 #1
Yup workinclasszero Aug 2017 #3
So, Pence was behind this. procon Aug 2017 #2
Their base and their slave era ideas are dying workinclasszero Aug 2017 #4

Dustlawyer

(10,518 posts)
1. There will be a lot of fraud, purges, electronic hacking... in 2018.
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 07:52 AM
Aug 2017

There needs to be a big focus on all of this and get things protected!

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
3. Yup
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 10:03 AM
Aug 2017

The republicans are determined to stop as as many citizens as possibly from voting, its very clear.

procon

(15,805 posts)
2. So, Pence was behind this.
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 08:44 AM
Aug 2017

How do Republicans come up with these schemes to specifically disenfranchise voters who don't vote for them?


Indiana is also notorious to voting-rights advocates: It leads all 50 states in terms of percentage of voters purged from its registration rolls, removing 22.4 percent of its voting population between 2012 and 2014...
 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
4. Their base and their slave era ideas are dying
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 10:05 AM
Aug 2017

So they gerrymander and deny voting to remain in power.

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