petoskeynews.com - 10/14/2008
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Judge strikes down voter registration rule
washingtonpost.com - 10/16/2008
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news.yahoo.com - 10/17/2008
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AP - Vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on
Friday kept up the Republican ticket's attack on a...
community activist group that registers voters and cited an Ohio plumber's encounter with Democrat Barack Obama as indicative of his tax policies.
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Palin keeps up attacks on ACORN voter registration
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Voter Suppression and Disenfranchisement, Not Fraud, Are the Real Issues
TalkLeft —
... . The ruling was that the voters were illegally purged either as a result of their voter ID cards returned as undeliverable, or because they applied for a driver’s license in another state. ...
Election Watchdog Group Compiles Stunning List of Recent 'Problems Facing Voters Nationwide'
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... one checkmark on ballot applications sent from Republican John McCain's campaign.
Purging.
The true impact of purging legitimate voters from the polls may not be known until people are turned away on Election Day, but we already know of instances where purging is taking place. For example, in Michigan, a federal judge ordered Secretary of State Terry Lynn Land to restore more than 1,500 Michigan voters to the rolls who were illegally purged based on undeliverable mail or because they applied for a driver's license in another state.
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betsyspage.blogspot.com 11/4/2008 — When people raise a fuss about the shenanigans of ACORN in registering fake people, the rejoinder has been that ACORN just can't help themselves because of a few dishonest people they hired to register people. And even if the high number of fake forms ...
Voter registration process is under scrutiny - Los Angeles Times
latimes.com 11/11/2008 — "This means the registration process would no longer serve as a barrier to the right to vote," said Wendy R. Weiser, a lawyer for the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University. "It would also eliminate the ACORN issue and all the gaming of ...