CA, Bowen Email Campaign to Rethug SoS: “Fix Voter-Purging Database”

[nicknameless]

Californians, please send the email at this link:

http://ga3.org/campaign/voter_registration

Message (from Senator Bowen ... who else?):

Stop disenfranchising California voters

California Secretary of State Bruce McPherson entered into an agreement with the Bush Administration's Justice Department last year to implement a statewide voter registration database system that will disenfranchise tens of thousands of voters in California.

More than 14,000 new voter registration and re-registration applications from Los Angeles County alone were recently invalidated under this new stringent set of regulations -- and other counties are seeing similar results.

This is a 43% rejection rate! In fact, virtually all of these applications would have been accepted before Secretary McPherson rolled out his new statewide voter registration database. Typically rejection rates are 1-2%. This is outrageous.

Now Secretary McPherson says he will try to get the Legislature to pass a bill to overturn his restrictive, anti-voter regulations. Why should the people of California wait for the Legislature and Governor to act, with the April 11th special election in San Diego less than a week away and the June 6th primary rapidly approaching, when Secretary McPherson can fix this problem now? McPherson created this problem -- now he should own up to it, show some leadership, take some responsibility, and fix it.

Send Secretary McPherson an email now!

Body of email to be sent:

Stop disenfranchising California voters

Dear Secretary of State McPherson,

As you know, your agreement with the Bush Administration to implement a statewide voter registration database has already prevented tens of thousands of people from registering and re-registering to vote in California.

More than 14,000 new voter registration and re-registration applications from Los Angeles County were recently invalidated -- and other counties are seeing similar results.

This 43% rejection rate is unacceptable, especially when you consider the typical rejection rates are 1-2%. This is outrageous!

Now I understand you are asking the Legislature to pass a bill to override the regulations that you adopted which have caused all of these problems. Why should we waste the time and money waiting for the Legislature and the Governor to act when you have the ability to modify the regulations that have caused this problem? You created this problem -- now you should own up to it, show some leadership, take some responsibility, and fix it.

Sincerely,
(Your name)
(Your address)

:patriot: California State Senator Debra Bowen :patriot:

[xxqqqzme]

1. we need a Democratic majority

in the state legislature - oh, wait, we HAVE a majority. Maybe someone should let them know?

I didn't get that email....thanx for passing it along.

[nicknameless]

2. You're welcome.

It wasn't sent to me. I found it on her website when I was looking for something else.

I'll never get over our spineless Dem Legislature confirming McPherson last year.
Watching the Assembly hearing, you would have thought that they all had guns to their heads. It was intensely creepy.

[EFerrari]

4. We can't count on politicians to secure our vote. That's

the bottom line.

It's OUR VOTE.

HOW MUCH IS IT WORTH TO US?

(Sorry for yelling!)

:kick:

[EFerrari]

3. My friends, PLEASE HELP US KEEP CA BLUE!

:kick:

[nashville_brook]

5. vote-cleansing. it started in texas. moved to florida. then ohio. now CA.

Florida's flawed "voter-cleansing" program - Salon.com's politics story of the year 2000
http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=55&row=2
Monday, December 4, 2000

If Vice President Al Gore is wondering where his Florida votes went, rather than sift through a pile of chad, he might want to look at a "scrub list" of 173,000 names targeted to be knocked off the Florida voter registry by a division of the office of Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris. A close examination suggests thousands of voters may have lost their right to vote based on a flaw-ridden list that included purported "felons" provided by a private firm with tight Republican ties. Early in the year, the company, ChoicePoint, gave Florida officials a list with the names of 8,000 ex-felons to "scrub" from their list of voters.

But it turns out none on the list were guilty of felonies, only misdemeanors. The company acknowledged the error, and blamed it on the original source of the list -- the state of Texas.

Florida is the only state that pays a private company that promises to "cleanse" voter rolls.The state signed in 1998 a $4 million contract with DBT Online, since merged into ChoicePoint, of Atlanta. The creation of the scrub list, called the central voter file, was mandated by a 1998 state voter fraud law, which followed a tumultuous year that saw Miami's mayor removed after voter fraud in the election, with dead people discovered to have cast ballots. The voter fraud law required all 67 counties to purge voter registries of duplicate registrations, deceased voters and felons, many of whom, but not all, are barred from voting in Florida.

In the process, however, the list invariably targets a minority population in Florida, where 31 percent of all black men cannot vote because of a ban on felons. In compiling a list by looking at felons from other states, Florida could, in the process, single out citizens who committed felons in other states but, after serving their time or successfully petitioning the courts, had their voting rights returned to them. According to Florida law, felons can vote once their voting rights have been reinstated. And if this unfairly singled out minorities, it unfairly handicapped Gore: In Florida, 93 percent of African-Americans voted for the vice president.

[nicknameless]

6. CA's rethug SoS is having DIEBOLD write the software for our new database!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=419485&mesg_id=419713

He signed an agreement with * to create the database (ie: purge eligible voters from the rolls).
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2543923

[EFerrari]

8. It's now nation wide. We really need to pay attention. Now.

:kick:

[nicknameless]

7. A kick for California ... and our 55 electoral votes.

:kick:

[EFerrari]

9. We need one more vote here. People, they are trying to

STEAL CALIFORNIA!

Help!

[Amaryllis]

10. k 'n r

[EFerrari]

11. TGIF!

:kick:

[xxqqqzme]

12. kick for CA

[EFerrari]

13. I'm gonna vote, McPherson.

:kick:

[proud patriot]

14. K and R

:kick:

[Raksha]

15. Kicking for my state!!!

:kick:

[EFerrari]

16. A big old KICK for Debra Bowen, Democrat, taking on

election fraud and that creep, McPherson, Thug appointed to steal my vote.

[annabanana]

17. HOW are they getting away with this?!?

Astonishing.... pitchforks and torches required here....

[nicknameless]

18. Hey, I just noticed something - People from ALL states can send this!

The email form doesn't require that you list your state OR that you actually be from California!

Out-of-staters, PLEASE send this email too!