*POOF* thousands of votes for democrats are gone. I'm talking NOLA

[jillan]

Interesting point a caller brought up on a local weekend talk show.

90% of African-Americans are democrats.
The citizens of New Orleans are now scattered all over the country.

Do we start a voter-registration drive now?
Think about that, and how the repugs could make it impossible for them to re-register. Especially with Karl in charge of the rebuilding of NOLA.

[Mistress Quickly]

1. Need photo id in GA

What about Texas? Tennessee? Other states that took in a lot? ID might be hard to come by for some folks.

[Wizard777]

10. That needs to be over turned. Unless the ID's are free. It's a poll tax.

The government cannot put any kind of financial consideration infront of voting.

[Mistress Quickly]

18. You can get them free if you ask n/t

[Liberal In Texas]

12. They can get a TDL (Texas Drivers License) or ID card pretty quickly.

I don't believe there are any minimum time limits before you can apply. And registering to vote is pretty easy too.

[BOSSHOG]

2. Let's look at the bright side

Many, maybe thousands, of those democrats have relocated to Tom Delay's district. You can relocate a voter but you can't keep him from voting. I will bet a high priced Mardi Gras string of beads that Mary Landrieu will kick the ass of any republican running against her in 2008.

[...of J.Temperance]

11. If Landrieu can pad her votes in

Lafayette and Jefferson, I think she can come through, in 2002, Landrieu lost both Lafayette and Jefferson, but NOT by that many votes. The Landrieu's cousin Charles Foti Jr. won both of those parishes, so I can't see why Mary herself can't. She's a tough fighter in an election to, she takes no prisoners.

I did the math on this about a week and a half ago...they also have some Crescent City folks spread in some other areas of Louisiana, so they need to get those people re-registered in East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge, Caddo etc.

[BOSSHOG]

13. WOW

British Dad, Tee-ba-deaux Mom. How do you all celebrate the Battle of New Orleans?

Didn't ya just love the 2002 race when Landrieu kicked that swine Terrell's ass and bush came to help her twice. I would not want to run against Mary (not that I would) but she is tough as nails and knows how to win. How horrible a human being is susan haik terrell? A republican hero!

[...of J.Temperance]

14. The Battle of New Orleans

You KNOW that that's strictly off limits in our household ;)

Mary Landrieu does mega kick ass and no Terrell never stood a chance. The best moment was when Mary told Suzie: "This is you last campaign!"...of course Suzie was desperate for ANOTHER ass kicking, so she ran against Charlie Foti and got her ass kicked AGAIN. Oh the second best moment of the 2002 Landrieu-Terrell campaign, that was when Junior went to Shreveport and did some hand-picked, loyalty oath signing type campaigning for Terrell. After Junior had left, the Shreveport Police Chief was hollerin' in PUBLIC about how he resented Junior turning up in Shreveport. God Bless that fine man!

Terrell just came across as a real nasty piece of work. Who the GOP will run next I don't know, but I think Senator Landrieu can take them.

I think Governor Blanco should be okay in 2007, again she needs to pad her votes, probably just in Lafayette...Blanco would have won in 2003 without any votes from Orleans, minus Orleans votes Blanco would have won by 8,000, so again a bit of padding she needs to do.

By the way, I hope you're okay after the storm and that things will pick up soon ;)

[wisteria]

3. Yea, we need to keep an eye on this situation.

Redistricting and voter rolls. All government documents along with other valuable papers were destroyed because of the hurricane. Rove's in charge down there for more than just rebuilding.

[Syncronaut Seven]

4. In reality, tens of thousands of democrats may have been created

Every day it's getting harder to ignore the disaster known as the * administration.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. Whatever thousands were lost in NOLA will be replaced ten fold

by others in other states who didn't make the effort to vote shrub out last time.... regardless of how many hours they may be forced to wait in line next go around.

[Wizard777]

6. The Dems will Win big in NOLA. Paper Absentee Ballots.

But something tells me the RNC will want to set up Special Diebold precincts to hold La. elections in other states. They can't win without their machines.

[shraby]

7. Since they are registered in NO, and that is

where their residences are, can't they vote absentee? As long as they still claim NO as their residence I would think that would be the way they could vote.

[jillan]

9. I hope you are right. I just remember last year, and how people would

say in the Conyer's hearings how they moved, and when they went to vote, they were not on the list.

[...of J.Temperance]

17. If their stay OUTSIDE Louisiana is temporary, yes

Clause 4 in the statute for qualifying for an absentee ballot. That says, that if your stay outside of the state is temporary OR if you're going to be outside of your particular parish during the election period, then you can apply for an absentee ballot...by the way, just because SOME people might be dead, that DOESN'T mean that they STILL can't vote, people who've been dead a very long time, they even still get to vote, generations of my own family who are LONG dead, they're still avid and loyal voters and I completely support this. If you catch my drift.

Oh heck, I've just read post number 16 in this thread. They've posted the actual text of Clause 4...so check out post number 16.

My big fear about this, thats if those people are sent an absentee ballot, are those ballots going to conveniently "get lost" en route ala what happened in Florida last year with those, 58,000 absentee ballots was it where the people who applied for them said that they NEVER received them and the Post Office was "looking into it" and of course, we NEVER heard about that again and so 58,000 Democrats in Florida NEVER even got the chance to vote.

[Wizard777]

8. Ouch! Residential requirements.

The people that were relocated to Texas were Texas resident the second they set foot in Texas. I'm quite sure the Texas SS has already sent purge notices to La. Elections board and the Fed elections board. Then they will load up La. with Halliburton employees that'll punch Mary right in the Ballot Box.

[dsc]

16. That is just plain legal fiction

States set requirements to vote and to vote by absentee ballot. In most states the standard is intent to return. For example, when I lived in MS I was both in grad school and employed. Since I was in grad school there I could claim an intent to return, which in fact I did. I ended up voting in MS any how as we had a tough lite gov race and I wanted to vote in that.

The people of NO can easily show an intent to return. They don't have jobs in TX, they don't have a TX drivers licence, and they do still have addresses in NO, even if they are currently unihabitable.

On edit, here is LA requirements.

http://www.activoteamerica.com/LA/la.html

4. Any person who is or who expects to be temporarily outside the territorial limits of the state or absent from the parish in which he/she is qualified to vote during the absentee voting period and on election day.

Like many states LA permits absentee voting early so they would have to be out of state for the entire period (30 days before the election until the election) to be allowed to vote absentee

[OhNoTheyDidNot]

15. They don't need to kill us off - they have diebold machines