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To: Sully- who wrote (21564)	9/14/2006 2:53:44 PM
From: Sully-	of 35834

New fights over voter registration laws Betsy's Page Across the country, some states, those with Republican legislatures, have passed new laws requiring more identification when registering to vote and when casting the ballot. Liberal and Democrat groups are going to the mattresses to fight these laws claiming that they disenfranchise poor voters who might not have photo IDs or access to the other forms of acceptable identification. They protest even when the state is providing mobile registration vans that will help people register who can't get to the government offices to do it. It is so clear that there is a definite split with Democrats wanting loose laws with no checks on who is voting and Republicans want stricter laws to prevent the fraud that they allege has been taking place. Given how easy it is to register - you can print the form out and mail it in for most states. You can do it when you get a drivers' license and when you check out books at the library. Since both parties have massive registration drives, they can find ways to get their constituents registered. After the 1993 motor-voter bill was passed, there was an increase in people registering, but there wasn't a change in the two-party balance of those registering, although it did increase the number of independents registering so the fears of the GOP that the new law was going to suddenly bring a lot more Democrats to the booth were not validated. There is a lot of fraud in our elections that skates under the radar until we have a closely fought ballot count as in Florida in 2000 and in Washington state in 2004. Then, all sorts of irregularities are exposed to the light. It's about time to clean these up and to stop fighting any plan to stop fraud. One lawyer who became involved in Missouri in 2000 reveals what has been going on. <<< Hearne said he was inspired to delve into the details of election law after 2000, when on election day he found himself in court arguing against a move by Democrats to delay the closing of some St. Louis polling sites. "They were arguing for a plaintiff who wound up to be dead. It was a fiction," he said. "I thought I had walked into a John Grisham novel." >>> I wonder if those lawyers were ever prosecuted for filing a case for a dead plaintiff. Somehow, I suspect not. betsyspage.blogspot.com latimes.com fec.gov

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