Posted on 08/31/2007 4:51:59 AM PDT by IrishMike
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The NAACP filed a civil rights lawsuit challenging a purge of Louisiana voters believed to have registered in other states following Hurricane Katrina. In the federal court action, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People contends that the purge has already begun without the necessary pre-approval of the U.S. Department of Justice.
Because of its history of racial discrimination before the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, voting changes in Louisiana and other Southern states must be approved by federal officials.
On June 15, Secretary of State Jay Dardenne announced that his agency was mailing notices to 53,554 voters saying they must give up their registration in other states or risk losing the right to vote in Louisiana. Dardenne said the state had compared Louisiana voter roles with those of other states and identified people with identical names and dates of birth.
Voters were given one month to prove they had canceled their out-of- state registrations. After that, they had to appear in person at their voter registrar's office with documentation that their non-Louisiana registration had been canceled.
On Aug. 17, election officials said more than 21,192 people had been dropped—the majority from areas hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina. Of those, 6,932 were from Orleans Parish, which was majority black before the storm.
In its lawsuit, filed Thursday, the NAACP said that "the voting rights of many more may be threatened unless this court enjoins this practice."
The named plaintiffs in the suit include Rosa Segue, a woman described as a lifelong Orleans Parish resident who lost her home to Katrina and has relocated to Katy, Texas and a person identified only as John Doe- Jane Doe displaced from Louisiana who intends to return.
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The NAACP is an active wing of the DNC ...The End !
The NAACP has always encouraged multiple voting. Why is this news?
That right there will never fly if a panel of federal judges looks at this. Requiring these folks to appear anywhere is considered a hardship and they will scream until they can perfect their fraud by mail, which will never happen. They couldn't even figure out how to vote absentee in the last election. It is a no-win situation for fair elections in Louisiana ... but Bobby Jindal will win anyway. That is the only silver lining in this whole cloud.
The NAALCP: “We’ll do whatever it takes to keep states voting Democrat.”
Do the people running the NAACP ever think? Maybe the people registered in other States because they’re not going back. And why should they have to?
Boo hoo.
Happens all the time, that’s why most States require you change your vehicle registration and update your drivers license after moving to another State, usually within 30 days.
They can (anyone can) move as often or to where ever a person chooses.
NEW ORLEANS however is needed by the dRATS for State elections.
Exactly, and why should they, nobody has cut their grass, rebuilt their homes, provided monthly debit cards, opened retail shopping up for single families just trying to feed their dysfunctional families in a crime ridden cesspool below sea level....
There goes Mary Landrieu’s chances of getting re-elected again.
Landrieu’s margin of victory last time was about 48,000 votes.
Yep, the NAALCP wants to protect her fraud machine.
She will have to cut down on the cat naps and campaign, wait ......that was the governor ?
Blacks are entitled to vote more than once because they are minorities and were oppressed by slavery.
HA! When was their election system "honest"?
This cross checking with other states seems to have started after Florida 2000. It also shows once again that it certainly does matter who you vote for because NO WAY are they “all alike.” Before Florida flipped. Old rat voters from Forest Hills Queens double voted all the time. Hey they damn near cheated their way to victory in 2000. This is something that other GOP run states will do.
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