Vote Suppression in 2006: Rule Changes Threaten to Disenfranchise Hundreds of Thousands of Voters

by Democracy Now (reposted)

Tue, Oct 31, 2006 7:28AM

Experts say new computerized voter lists and new rules regarding voter registration and ID requirements have the potential to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters. We speak with the Brennan Center for Justice that has a new report detailing the ways in which the vote could be suppressed in several states next week.

It is not just electronic voting machines that are raising concern. Experts say that new computerized voter lists and new rules regarding voter registration and ID requirements have the potential to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters.

The Brennan Center for Justice has a new report detailing the ways in which the vote could be suppressed in several states next week. In an Op-Ed published in the New York Times on Monday, they write that some of the changes were "engineered by mischievous partisans who have passed laws and rules that would block many eligible citizens from voting."

* Wendy Weiser, deputy director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law.

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