Comments on: More Caging Reports

By: officergleason

officergleason — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:18:50 +0000

And given the history of republican voter suppression operations, I’d vote the latter. Thus far, I have not seen anything to indicate that these lists are a valid tool to challenge the voter rolls.

By: jonolan

jonolan — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:57:33 +0000

It’ll depend then – as far as legitimacy goes – if the foreclosure list is a list of foreclosed homes or homes in the process of foreclosure. My personal bet is that it’s the former.

By: Lewis

Lewis — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:31:31 +0000

Weird story that got a lot of traction very quickly; John Conyers was beating McCain over the head with it a little while ago (despite the fact that McCain wouldn’t have had anything to do with the detailed workings of a county GOP chapter, I guess). We’ll have to see what else shakes out of this.

Looks like Macomb is a heavily split county politically; I went back and dug up 2004 vote results. It went for Bush over Kerry by 6000 votes, but has two House districts in it; the 10th Congressional went 69% for the Republican, the 12th went 64% for the Democrat.

By: officergleason

officergleason — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:53:15 +0000

Jonolan:

You linked info for military personnel and expats. I did find this,

“The National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) of 1993, requires that individuals be given the opportunity to register to vote or to change their voter registration data when applying for or receiving services or assistance at any office designated as a voter registration agency. ”

Which would lead me to think that a person who has lost their house would be allowed to register their new address.

If a person has moved, Michigan requires:
“Whenever you move to a new city or township, you must re-register to vote. If you move within a city or township, you must update your address. This can be handled through your local clerk, at a Secretary of State branch office, or by mail. Michigan voters must use the same residential address for voter registration and driver’s license purposes. Consequently, if you submit a driver’s license address change, it will be applied to your voter registration. Similarly, if you submit a voter registration address change, it will be applied to your driver’s license.”

If a person is in the process of foreclosure and still lives in on that property, then they are still eligible to vote in that district, at least according to J. Gerald Hebert, the gentleman quoted in the updated post.

By: jonolan

jonolan — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:31:50 +0000

Here’s the federal regulations. You’ll have to check each state for specific requirements; they vary in detail.

http://www.fvap.gov/reference/laws/vote-reg-guide/index.html

By: officergleason

officergleason — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:58:11 +0000

Jonolan: Can you please link to the site that has information on this topic?

By: jonolan

jonolan — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:57:18 +0000

Actually under the residency requirements, the people ANYWHERE who’ve been foreclosed on can’t vote unless they have filed in their new precinct – assuming they have one.

That is and has been the law. We’ll have to see if it’s fairly enforced though – I could see both sides in swing precincts misusing this.