New Federal Policy Prohibits Voter Registration on Veterans' Administration Properties
A new policy by the Veterans' Administration now prohibits voter registration activities on federal VA properties.
Are we going to sit by and let the men who fought for our country and who are not able to leave VA facilities due to disabilities or injuries be denied access to vote?
Here are news articles on the topic:
Senators Feinstein and Kerry Express Concerns About Apparent Reversal
in Department of Veterans' Affairs Policy in Providing Access to Voter
Registration for Veterans
http://feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=NewsRoom.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=ca1d5328-ed40-09f4-53c9-7477c96c490c
V.A. Ban on Voter Drives Is Criticized
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/13/washington/13vote.html?_r=1&emc=eta1&oref=slogin
Press Release - Secretary of the State outraged by policy
disenfranchising veterans
http://www.norwalkplus.com/nwk/information/nwsnwk/publish/News_1/Secretary_of_the_State_outraged_by_policy_disenfranchising_veterans1676.shtml
VA policy that bans voter drives is flawed and must be fixed
Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed has asked members of the
state's congressional delegation to review the policy.
http://www.union-bulletin.com/articles/2008/07/08/opinion/daily_editorial/080708a%20editorial.txt#blogcomments
Press Release - Reed again urges policy change on voter registration
drives in VA facilities
http://www.secstate.wa.gov/office/osos_news.aspx?i=Ri3UV7FUJUQ1WL0V3ZRw7A%3d%3d
Top Senator Attacks VA for Banning Voter Registration Drives
http://www.alternet.org/story/91128/
Akaka calls on VA to lift ban on voter registration drives
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080710/BREAKING01/80710046/-1/LOCALNEWSFRONT
A Few Possible Actions you Might Take:
If you are a League of Women Voters' member ask your local LWV to sign on to a letter that the national LWV, US is sending to the chief elections officer in every state asking them to remedy this situation.
Ask your local Vets group what they think.
Ask your local State Election Official what they plan to do about it or ask them to take the same actions that the CT or WA Secretaries of State took.
Alert your local press.
Contact your local VA hospital and ask them what their position is.
Kathy Dopp
The material expressed herein is the informed product of the author Kathy Dopp's fact-finding and investigative efforts. Dopp is a Mathematician, Expert in election audit mathematics and procedures; in exit poll discrepancy analysis; and can be reached at
P.O. Box 680192
Park City, UT 84068
phone 435-658-4657
http://utahcountvotes.org
http://electionmathematics.org
http://electionarchive.org
History of Confidence Election Auditing Development & Overview of
Election Auditing Fundamentals
http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/paper-audits/History-of-Election-Auditing-Development.pdf
Vote Yes on HR5036
http://electionarchive.org/ucvInfo/US/legislation/SummaryFlyer5036.pdf
Voters Have Reason to Worry
http://utahcountvotes.org/UT/UtahCountVotes-ThadHall-Response.pdf
"Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body
and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day," wrote
Thomas Jefferson in 1816
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=voter+registration
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=veterans
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Feinstein
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Kerry
Are we going to sit by and let the men who fought for our country and who are not able to leave VA facilities due to disabilities or injuries be denied access to vote?
Here are news articles on the topic:
Senators Feinstein and Kerry Express Concerns About Apparent Reversal
in Department of Veterans' Affairs Policy in Providing Access to Voter
Registration for Veterans
http://feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=NewsRoom.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=ca1d5328-ed40-09f4-53c9-7477c96c490c
V.A. Ban on Voter Drives Is Criticized
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/13/washington/13vote.html?_r=1&emc=eta1&oref=slogin
Press Release - Secretary of the State outraged by policy
disenfranchising veterans
http://www.norwalkplus.com/nwk/information/nwsnwk/publish/News_1/Secretary_of_the_State_outraged_by_policy_disenfranchising_veterans1676.shtml
VA policy that bans voter drives is flawed and must be fixed
Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed has asked members of the
state's congressional delegation to review the policy.
http://www.union-bulletin.com/articles/2008/07/08/opinion/daily_editorial/080708a%20editorial.txt#blogcomments
Press Release - Reed again urges policy change on voter registration
drives in VA facilities
http://www.secstate.wa.gov/office/osos_news.aspx?i=Ri3UV7FUJUQ1WL0V3ZRw7A%3d%3d
Top Senator Attacks VA for Banning Voter Registration Drives
http://www.alternet.org/story/91128/
Akaka calls on VA to lift ban on voter registration drives
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080710/BREAKING01/80710046/-1/LOCALNEWSFRONT
A Few Possible Actions you Might Take:
If you are a League of Women Voters' member ask your local LWV to sign on to a letter that the national LWV, US is sending to the chief elections officer in every state asking them to remedy this situation.
Ask your local Vets group what they think.
Ask your local State Election Official what they plan to do about it or ask them to take the same actions that the CT or WA Secretaries of State took.
Alert your local press.
Contact your local VA hospital and ask them what their position is.
Kathy Dopp
The material expressed herein is the informed product of the author Kathy Dopp's fact-finding and investigative efforts. Dopp is a Mathematician, Expert in election audit mathematics and procedures; in exit poll discrepancy analysis; and can be reached at
P.O. Box 680192
Park City, UT 84068
phone 435-658-4657
http://utahcountvotes.org
http://electionmathematics.org
http://electionarchive.org
History of Confidence Election Auditing Development & Overview of
Election Auditing Fundamentals
http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/paper-audits/History-of-Election-Auditing-Development.pdf
Vote Yes on HR5036
http://electionarchive.org/ucvInfo/US/legislation/SummaryFlyer5036.pdf
Voters Have Reason to Worry
http://utahcountvotes.org/UT/UtahCountVotes-ThadHall-Response.pdf
"Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body
and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day," wrote
Thomas Jefferson in 1816
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=voter+registration
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=veterans
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Feinstein
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Kerry
rudkla - 11. Jul, 09:12
