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31
National online event: The Day After: A Feminist Town Forum
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The Republicans and the Democrats won’t be the only ones debriefing after Tuesday. It’s been a long election season, and, I don’t know about you, but I am so ready get together and figure out what it all means and, even more important, what’s next. I’m extremely honored to be one of several of the most prominent online women’s communities that cater to and empower us through conversation and connecting in this first-ever event.
Next Wednesday, you can come back here and the player will be set up for you in its own post for live participation from 7-9pm. You’ll be able to use the chat feature in the mogulus player to chat not just with each other, but with EVERYONE ELSE who’s watching online. They’ll also use the chat feature to suggest questions and comments that our volunteers will be selecting from to read live in Boston (where the Center for New Words is based).
The Day After: A Feminist Town Forum
Wednesday, November 5 @ 7:00PM
PARTICIPATE IN PERSON: Cambridge Family YMCA, 820 Mass. Ave., Cambridge
PARTICIPATE ONLINE IN REAL TIME: Participate by logging on 11/5 at 7PM EST to any of our participating blogs, including Feministe, Feministing, Girl with Pen, WIMN’s Voices, CrossLeft, No Cookies for Me, Writes Like She Talks, Heartfeldt Politics, TakePart, The Sanctuary, The Real Deal, or at our mogulus channel.
At this culmination of our This Is What Women Want election project, please join us, our panel of national leaders and the feminist community nationwide to discuss what happened on Election Day, and what we should be thinking about and doing now to fight for equality and justice for all.
This is a first of its kind event convening feminists from around the country live via the blogosphere! Watch live, converse with other audience members around the country and submit your comments and questions in real time.
Panelists will include:
BYLLYE AVERY
Founder of the National Black Women’s Health Project and MacArthur Genius Award Recipient
MICHELLE GOLDBERG
Journalist and author of Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism
ANNE ELIZABETH MOORE
Critic, activist, artist, journalist and author
PAULA RAYMAN
Founding Director of the Radcliffe Public Policy Center
LORETTA ROSS
National Coordinator, SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective
ANDREA BATISTA SCHLESINGER
Executive Director, Drum Major Institute for Public Policy
Come optimistic, disgruntled, angry, or just exhausted. Come in person or online. But come. We need to hear every voice and idea!
(Facebook users: Click here to RSVP and invite your friends!)
By Jill Miller Zimon at 2:58 pm October 31st, 2008 in Elections, Gender, Politics, WH2008, Women | Please comment
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31
[video] Grandchildren of First Jewish American Supreme Court justice Brandeis on Obama
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From the National Jewish Democratic Council:
The National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) has launched a new video featuring two of the grandchildren of the late Justice Louis D. Brandeis discussing the 2008 election. Justice Brandeis, the first Jewish American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court from 1916 to 1939, was one of America’s greatest justices, an ardent Zionist, and a Jewish leader.
With Election Day fast approaching, it is important that the Jewish community fully understand what is at stake in this year’s election. This important video is part of the final push to make sure the Jewish community goes to the polls fully informed about Senator Barack Obama’s strong record on Israel and social justice issues.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 2:12 pm October 31st, 2008 in Barack Obama, Jewish, Politics, WH2008 | 2 Comments
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31
Ohio House 17th District: Cleveland Jewish News Q&A
Filed Under Abortion, Education, Elections, Government, Health Care, OH17, Ohio, Politics, Social Issues, Voting | 9 Comments
Today, the Cleveland Jewish News published a Q&A with Ohio statehouse candidates, incumbent Josh Mandel (R, Lyndhurst) and his Democratic opponent, Bob Belovich (Brecksville).
CJN: How can the General Assembly increase jobs in Ohio and improve the economy?
Mandel: All I hear when I knock on doors is the economy. I’m drafting legislation to keep young people here. If they commit to staying in Ohio for five years after college, the state would give them $20,000 in income tax credits for a bachelor’s degree and $30,000 for a master’s.
If they stay here five years, they may fall in love, find a community and a job, and we may keep them here for 50 years.
Belovich: We have a jobs infrastructure bill passed by the current legislature that my opponent voted against. The state can raise money for bridges, roads and sewers by selling bonds. I support that.
We also can reform our home lending laws. Much of that has to be solved at the federal level. But we can strengthen our state laws to protect individuals in real estate transactions and provide better disclosure on both sides of the ledger.
CJN: With tax revenues falling in a faltering economy, what would you cut in a tight state budget?
Belovich: Several years ago, the legislature changed Ohio tax laws, with more tax cuts to come in 2009. The problem is not only declining revenue (due to lower income-tax receipts); the tax rates are declining. We have to look at all unnecessary expenditures. One I’m opposed to is the experiment with (for-profit) charter schools. It’s been costly and in large measure unsuccessful in terms of academics.
Another big expense is prisons, which are housing many individuals because of drug violations. We should be looking at ways to treat individuals’ drug problems instead .
Mandel: It’s not responsible to propose cutting any specific program without seeing what Gov. Ted Strickland proposes in the next budget.
CJN: The Supreme Court has ruled four times that Ohio’s school funding is unconstitutional. How should the state fund its public schools?
Mandel: Republicans and Democrats are waiting for the governor’s proposal on school funding. I do not think we have the best school-funding mechanism now. But I do believe in local control of tax dollars. The more dollars controlled locally as opposed to having state bureaucrats in charge, the better.
Belovich: Strickland has started off the right way by finding out what people think are the proper aims of public education. Once we have consensus, we have to rewrite school funding laws. We may determine other taxes are superior to property taxes or should be used in conjunction with property taxes.
We also have to look at the recent tax changes (which caused schools to lose revenue) to see if those should continue or be altered.
CJN: How do you suggest increasing access to healthcare for the poor?
Belovich: I favor universal healthcare, more likely to happen at the federal level. In the meantime, the state regulates insurance within Ohio. I favor changing the standards of medical underwriting to emphasize primary-care medicine. Now, individuals may not get treatment until they see a more costly specialist, and by then the original condition may have gotten worse.
Mandel: There’s always more we can do. Everything is affected by budget implications.
CJN: What can the state do to ease the financial burden on the elderly?
Mandel: I worked with Ohio Jewish Communities lobbyist Joyce Garver Keller to restore state funding for kosher meals through Meals on Wheels, which the state cut.
Belovich: The state’s Homestead Property Tax Relief Act should help our seniors. We should form buying groups so the elderly can buy prescription drugs at lower cost. We can promote healthy lifestyles such as walking through the design of our communities to make them pedestrian-friendly.
CJN: Where do you stand on abortion, civil rights for gays, and school prayer?
Mandel: While I respect people’s opinions on all issues, I am focused on growing the economy and reversing the exodus of jobs and people from the state.
Belovich: Roe vs. Wade is the law of the land. There’s nothing the state legislature can or should do to change that.
We have a constitutional ban on gay marriage, which I opposed. I favor the fullest extent of civil rights for all individuals.
If prayer is in pubic school, it is intrusive on some members of the community.
I will not be voting for Mandel because his positions on political issues differ significantly from mine: Read more
By Jill Miller Zimon at 12:02 pm October 31st, 2008 in Abortion, Education, Elections, Government, Health Care, OH17, Ohio, Politics, Social Issues, Voting | 9 Comments
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31
Eagleburger on Palin’s readiness to be POTUS: “I devoutly hope that it would never be tested.”
Filed Under Campaigning, John McCain, Politics, Sarah Palin, Vice President, WH2008 | 6 Comments
Nothing to add. From Boston.com’s Political Intelligence:
In an interview Thursday with National Public Radio, [former Secretary of State Lawrence] Eagleburger was asked whether Palin could assume the presidency during a crisis.
“It is a very good question,” he said before pausing and adding with a chuckle: “I’m being facetious here. Look, of course not.”
“I don’t think at the moment she is prepared to take over the reigns of the presidency. I can name for you any number of other vice presidents who were not particularly up to it either. So the question, I think, is can she learn and would she be tough enough under the circumstances if she were asked to become president, heaven forbid that that ever takes place?
“Give her some time in the office and I think the answer would be, she will be [pause] adequate. I can’t say that she would be a genius in the job. But I think she would be enough to get us through a four year… well I hope not… get us through whatever period of time was necessary. And I devoutly hope that it would never be tested.”
Did Eaglerburger just earn himself a place with the George Will and Kathleen Parker crowd?
By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:58 am October 31st, 2008 in Campaigning, John McCain, Politics, Sarah Palin, Vice President, WH2008 | 6 Comments
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30
PRI reports on first female judge in Palestinian religious court
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First female judge in Palestinian religious court (4:30)
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The first female judge has just been appointed to preside over the Palestinian Islamic or Sharia court in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Correspondent Irris Makler has the story.
You can read more about the European Union study on criminal courts in the West Bank here.
I cannot find a single other article about the woman featured in the PRI story but if anyone else knows about her - I’ve written PRI for the spelling of her name - please leave a comment or e-mail me.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 5:55 pm October 30th, 2008 in Courts, Foreign Affairs, Gender, Law, Women | 3 Comments
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30
Fox News Headline perpetuates racial bias in election coverage, journalism
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Here’s a NewsBuster-style item for everyone who complains that the “liberal 527 media” never labels Democrats but always labels Republicans, especially when something bad is afoot.
Here’s a link to the article and the screenshot is below: “First Black Governor Seeks Longer Poll Hours.”
What’s wrong with the headline, “Richmond Mayor and former Virginia Governor Wilder Seeks Longer Poll Hours,” especially since Charlie Crist did this yesterday? Did they give that story the headline, “White Governor Seeks Longer Poll Hours”? Nope, they didn’t even spend more than one sentence on Crist’s actions in this article titled, “Democrats Dominate Early Voting in Key States”:
In Florida, for example, voting lines have been so long that Gov. Charlie Crist signed an executive order Tuesday extending early voting hours.
That’s it. I even searched on “Charlie Crist” - nothing more. And certainly no headlines that even have his name in it.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 5:04 pm October 30th, 2008 in Elections, Media, Politics, Race, WH2008 | 2 Comments
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30
Israel Project Forum tonight on Iran, Israel w/Gov. Lingle, Sen. Cardin
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You can still RSVP here for this evening’s event. I’m unable to go, otherwise I’d live-blog it. However, it appears that The Israel Project does post video of the events and you can view previous forums here.
AJC Cleveland in partnership with
The Cleveland Jewish News, The Israel Project,
& other community organizationsPresent a
Presidential Candidate Forum
With Campaign Surrogates:
Hawaii Governor Linda Lingle
for Senator John McCainand
Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD)
For Senator Barack ObamaThe surrogates will discuss each candidate’s positions on Iran, Israel, and other key issues.
October 30th, 7:00 PM (Doors open at 6:30 pm)
Kangesser Hall, Park Synagogue Main
3300 Mayfield Road
Cleveland Heights, OHRegistration is required at:
www.theisraelproject.org/forum
(There is no cost to attend)More Info? Sarah Marcus (202) 857-6644 OR
sarahm@theisraelproject.org
By Jill Miller Zimon at 4:04 pm October 30th, 2008 in Barack Obama, Debates, Israel, Jewish, John McCain, Ohio, Politics, WH2008 | Please comment
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30
Should McCain campaign reimburse Ohio public schools?
Filed Under Campaigning, Education, Holidays, John McCain, Ohio, Parenting, Politics, WH2008 | 28 Comments
The McCain campaign had an event in Defiance, Ohio today but according to a report from First Read, the attendance numbers included some interesting participants (emphasis is mine):
A local school district official confirmed after the event that of the 6,000 people estimated by the fire marshal to be in attendance this morning, more than 4,000 were bused in from schools in the area. The entire 2,500-student Defiance School District was in attendance, the official said, in addition to at least three other schools from neighboring districts, one of which sent 14 buses.
At first, this really bothered me. Here were some of my initial thoughts:
Who paid for the gas? An entire district’s population would include even kindergarteners? Given that tomorrow is Halloween and many schools barely function beyond parties and parades on the holiday, I find it, as a parent, excessive to give the kids two days off.
For those who want to say it’s a civics lesson, I’m all for those, but frankly, unless the districts are busing all these same kids to an Obama/Biden event, I have serious questions about such an expenditure of public money and even more serious questions about just how educational it is to expose the kids to a person telling them that they are all Joe the Plumber.
Also, for a ticket that is into parental choice, I definitely prefer that I be the one describing what my kids are like, and not John McCain. Likewise, I prefer that I get a choice over whether my kids go to a political rally or not. We get permission slips for every, single field trip. So that’s another question that deserves an answer: was this pre-arranged so that parents could sign field trips permission slips?
With all the fuss McCain and Palin have made about no new money, spending freezes and their rejection of throwing money at problems, it’s ironic how they decide that it’s okay to exacerbate Ohio’s already considerable public school funding programs.
But before I hit “publish” on this post, I did a little research and found this article from Crescent-News.com:
[Defiance City Schools superintendent Mike] Struble noted that Defiance City Schools students will be bused in and attending the event. The Varsity Blues will be singing “God Bless America” and the high school band will perform the national anthem.
“We want to make the opportunity available for grades K-12,” said Struble. “There is educational value of learning this (election) process and I’m glad we can do that for them. We’re excited that a national candidate is coming to our town. We look forward to that.”
In addition, Central Local Schools superintendent Dave Bagley reported this morning that plans are underway to possibly bring some Fairview students to the rally as well. Bagley was meeting with his administrative staff early today to figure out the logistics of such an endeavor.
Ayersville Local Schools superintendent Tod Hug also reported an interest in bringing students to the campaign rally and was meeting with fellow staff members to determine which classes may get that opportunity.
Hicksville High School principal Sue Dangler stated that while school officials are still in the process of working out the details, the senior government class will likely attend the rally in Defiance.
So, it would seem, it is First Read who might need a little educating: while it may be true that 4000 of the 6000 folks at the rally were schoolkids, it does sound as though that was planned, and not a last minute thing.
I think.
Additionally, before anyone who disagrees with my concerns decides to jump all over this post, The Virginian Pilot published this article, “When the schools become campaign stops, some object.”
An excerpt on the ground rules:
Laws governing use of school property don’t appear to give strict guidelines for such events, said Kent Willis, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia. Public schools are free to host speakers with differing moral or social viewpoints for educational purposes, and political figures often appear at schools, he said.
Officials also might allow outside organizations to use school facilities as long as the same rules apply to everyone. If no students are attending the event, it doesn’t matter whether it takes place during classroom hours, Willis said.
“If Obama calls and says, ‘I would like to use your school,’ and they treat Obama the same as anyone else, they’re okay,” he said.
Generally, local school divisions have policies prohibiting the distribution of campaign materials on campuses and relegating political involvement of employees to time outside work and schools.
And the set of facts that raised the issues (my emphasis):
Democrat Barack Obama’s appearance at Granby High School on Wednesday was one of two Virginia events this week that prompted questions about whether campaigning politicians should be allowed to speak at public schools during classroom hours.
Obama’s Republican rivals, John McCain and running mate Sarah Palin, moved a Wednesday rally planned for Fairfax High School after the school division received complaints. The rally violated a school system policy barring campaign activities during the school day.
McCain’s campaign said in a statement that the reason for the rally’s relocation was to accommodate high interest.
On Tuesday, a speaker before a Norfolk City Council meeting objected to Obama’s Granby event. “This shouldn’t be happening,” Chuck Brewer said.
Monte Lloyd Mercer, president of the Education Association of Norfolk, said the Illinois senator’s visit was good for students, however. “It’s still a wonderful opportunity for them to say they attend a school system that hosted a presidential candidate,” she said.
Norfolk administrators said Obama’s Wednesday events didn’t violate School Board policy. The candidate briefly visited a classroom and held a discussion before the media and an invitation-only audience of about 150 parents, educators and other leaders. Only a handful of students were selected to attend.
I spent about five minutes trying to find information on Ohio public school law on political events but didn’t come up with anything. If you know, please do leave a comment or e-mail.
My initial questions still stand: who foots the bill and do the schools give the kids an alternative in case the parents do not want the children to attend?
By Jill Miller Zimon at 3:21 pm October 30th, 2008 in Campaigning, Education, Holidays, John McCain, Ohio, Parenting, Politics, WH2008 | 28 Comments
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30
The fight over Ohio’s Jewish voters
Filed Under Barack Obama, Campaigning, Elections, Israel, Jewish, John McCain, Ohio, Politics, Religion, Voting, WH2008 | 7 Comments
It’s no news old news to me, but JTA covers the highlights well in their article, “In heavily contested Ohio,
a scramble to get out Jewish vote.” There’s something for everyone.
McCain:
Pro-McCain groups twice have brought in national Jewish standard-bearers for McCain, including talkback radio stars Dennis Prager and Michael Medved, for events aimed mostly at the converted.
Obama:
Earlier this month, after a Democratic Party activist reported that false rumors about Obama were gaining traction at a home for the elderly, Matt Ratner, the scion of a local building family and the chief Jewish liaison for the campaign, organized a young people’s blitz of the institution.It was a kind of a “mini-schlep” before Florida had its “Great Schlep,” in which grandchildren visited Florida to convince their elderly kin to back Obama. The Ohio participants say their effort seemed to have worked.
McCain:
The Republican Jewish Coalition bused in dozens of volunteers from Chicago to distribute John McCain leaflets in neighborhoods, particularly the Orthodox enclave in Beachwood, a natural redoubt for the Arizona senator.
Obama:
Horwitz was optimistic; any lingering bitterness among Jewish Democrats who had backed Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) in the primaries had dissipated. The McCain campaign had hoped to attract those votes, particularly with the choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate.
The sense even among Republicans was that Obama would sweep Jewish Cleveland.
“A lot of Jewish support” for Democrats ”is traditional and historic,” said Marc Freimuch, a local RJC member and an attorney. “And a lot of it is reaction to the Bush administration and the war in Iraq and the economic disaster we find ourselves in.”
The conversations I’ve had with the Jewish folks I know or meet lead me to believe that when all is said and done, Obama will win the Jewish vote in Ohio, though I do believe, like many others and like many others about the general election, that it will be close.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 12:54 pm October 30th, 2008 in Barack Obama, Campaigning, Elections, Israel, Jewish, John McCain, Ohio, Politics, Religion, Voting, WH2008 | 7 Comments
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30
Wasilla abortion brawl redux in D.C.
Filed Under Abortion, Barack Obama, Campaigning, Courts, Government, Health Care, John McCain, Law, Sarah Palin, WH2008, Women | 3 Comments
The New York Times published an op-ed today by Dorothy Samuels, “The Road From Wasilla: An Old Abortion Fight Revisited.” It details the following debate:
In 1992, a coalition of some 20 evangelical churches in Alaska’s Matanuska-Susitna Valley — including the Wasilla Assembly of God Church, where Ms. Palin was baptized at age 12 — captured control of the operating board of the community’s Valley Hospital.
The new board promptly voted to bar doctors from performing abortions at the hospital with limited exceptions for cases of rape, incest, dire medical necessity or where a doctor documents “the fetus has a condition that is incompatible with life.” The policy change left Alaska without any hospital where a woman with, say, a negative amniocenteses result or other problem not included among the exceptions could obtain a second trimester abortion at a doctor’s discretion. Such procedures account for about 10 percent of all abortions.
Dr. Susan Lemagie was by then the only physician in the state who performed elective abortions after the first 12 weeks (incidentally, she delivered the first two of Ms. Palin’s five children). She and the Mat-Su Coalition for Choice sued to overturn the new restrictions.
Eventually, the Alaska Supreme Court decided in favor of Lemagie but one of the leading right-to-life advocates in Alaska fought for and got passage of something called the Weldon Amendment which extends
…the right to refuse to perform or assist in abortion or sterilization procedures on moral or religious grounds…to hospitals, H.M.O.’s, insurance plans and an array of other health care institutions. Under the , any law or regulation mandating such services was deemed “discriminatory,” and could trigger a loss of federal financing.
The current Bush administration, via Mike Leavitt at Health and Human Services, is on the brink of extending those provisions further still, in such a way that the danger Lemagie felt will return in exponential form:
Any day now, President Bush’s secretary of health and human services, Michael Leavitt, is expected to deliver a parting blow to women’s reproductive freedom: new regulations further limiting access to abortions, contraceptives and accurate information about reproductive health care options.
Think overturning Roe only means that states have to work harder? These steps just outlined all involve the federal government. John McCain and Sarah Palin use campaign rhetoric about shrinking government and keeping it out of our homes. They call government involvement akin to the creation of a nanny state and they claim that Barack Obama and Joe Biden are the bearers of socialism and communal everything.
From what I hear and see, in their words and actions and what they support, it is McCain and Palin who seek to control our every decision and step in via governmental action, putting their personal preferences into law so that we have no ability to exercise any preference.
That doesn’t sound like any concept of freedom I’ve ever imagined.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:26 am October 30th, 2008 in Abortion, Barack Obama, Campaigning, Courts, Government, Health Care, John McCain, Law, Sarah Palin, WH2008, Women | 3 Comments
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29
[flow chart] How Early Voting Works in Ohio
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Many thanks to the Dayton Daily News for this chart that shows the work flow related to early voters. I’ll be participating in that now that I know I’ll be in D.C. for election night at NPR.
How to vote early
Registered voters may apply for absentee ballots through Saturday, Nov. 1, and all area boards of election will be open that day. Early voting at election board offices continues through the close of business Monday, Nov. 3.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:46 pm October 29th, 2008 in Elections, Ohio, Voting, WH2008 | Please comment
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29
DOJ provides safe haven for Ohio’s newest voters to, you know, vote
Filed Under Elections, Jennifer Brunner, Ohio, Politics, Republicans, Voting, WH2008 | 1 Comment
I really can’t say it any better than Jeff Coryell of Ohio Daily Blog:
In short, the Ohio Republican Party’s hysterical flailing at [Secretary of State] Brunner for “concealing evidence” and “facilitating voter fraud” is pernicious nonsense and little more than a smokescreen for voter suppression.
Backing up just a bit, readers may recall that we’re talking about concerns related to so-called voter mismatches that exist within a subset of Ohio voters who have registered since January 2008. The Ohio Republican Party wanted to force Brunner to provide information on the possible mismatches of up to 200,000 voters so that the ORP could then challenge those voters if and when they show up to vote, purportedly to stop voting fraud.
The main problem has been, all along, that an extremely high percentage of the mismatches, up to and maybe beyond 80%, are due to human error and not any reason that would otherwise disqualify a voter from voting. Thus, the real danger was voter suppression and disenfranchisement by the ORP’s overly aggressive and basically baseless fears.
From the New York Times’ blog, The Caucus:
The Department of Justice will not require Ohio to disclose the names of voters whose registration applications did not match other government databases, according to two people familiar with discussions between state and federal lawyers.
The decision comes about a week after an unusual request from President Bush asking the department to investigate the matter and roughly two weeks after the Supreme Court dismissed a case involving the flagged registration applications.
Federal law requires states to verify voter registration applications with a government database like those used for driver’s licenses or Social Security cards. Names that do not match are flagged for further verification. But the law provides little guidance on how these flagged registrations should be handled and discrepancies corrected.
As an Ohio voter, I particularly appreciate the Times pointing out the role Bush and the Ohio GOP have had in this series of events:
Ohio Republicans had sought the lists to challenge voters, but the Ohio Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner, a Democrat, refused the request, saying that numerical errors or misspellings are the probable reason for most of the discrepancies. Forcing these voters to cast provisional ballots would possibly disenfranchise thousands of eligible voters, she said, since these ballots are easier to disqualify.
Republicans then took their request to court, but were unsuccessful. The Justice Department has been in contact with Ohio election officials since early October and this week its lawyers determined they would not pursue litigation before the election, according to the sources familiar with the discussions.
Most studies by non-partisan groups have found little evidence that voter fraud is a wide-scale problem or that fraudulent or duplicate voter registration applications lead to ineligible voters casting ballots.
As a taxpayer, what is so annoying is that, again, the GOP claims to want smaller goverment and give business all kinds of latitude, but when it comes to them wanting to get their way, especially when they aren’t in charge, look how much time, money and effort - not to mention the intangible cost on voter confidence - they are willing to expend.
From a partisan strategy, I get it - but I still think it’s wrong.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:17 pm October 29th, 2008 in Elections, Jennifer Brunner, Ohio, Politics, Republicans, Voting, WH2008 | 1 Comment
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29
[video] A Yiddisha take on 2008: enjoy the schtick, now go vote
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By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:42 pm October 29th, 2008 in Barack Obama, Campaigning, Elections, Humor, Israel, Jewish, John McCain, Politics, WH2008 | Please comment
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