full article can be found here
Greg Palast was right when he added that extra chapter to "Armed Madhouse" after the 2006 election. The "Help America Vote" Act is nothing more than the new Jim Crow, keeping "[T]ens of thousands of eligible voters in at least six swing states have been removed from the rolls or have been blocked from registering in ways that appear to violate federal law".
Naturally this isn't happening in states which have already been called for the left or right, but in the ones which 'really matter', the swing states. "The six swing states seem to be in violation of federal law in two ways. Michigan and Colorado are removing voters from the rolls within 90 days of a federal election, which is not allowed except when voters die, notify the authorities that they have moved out of state, or have been declared unfit to vote."
"In the year ending Sept. 30, election officials in Nevada, for example, used the Social Security database more than 740,000 times to check voter files or registration applications and found more than 715,000 nonmatches, federal records show. Election officials in Georgia ran more than 1.9 million checks on voter files or voter registration applications and found more than 260,000 nonmatches.
Officials of the Social Security Administration, presented with those numbers, said they were far too high to be cases where names were not in state databases. They said the data seem to represent a violation of federal law and the contract the states signed with the agency to use the database.
Last week, after the inquiry by The Times, Michael J. Astrue, the commissioner of the Social Security Administration, alerted the Justice Department to the problem and sent letters to election officials in Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Nevada, North Carolina and Ohio. The letters ask the officials to ensure that they are complying with federal law.
“It is absolutely essential that people entitled to register to vote are allowed to do so,” Mr. Astrue said in a press release."
this isn't democracy folks, its failocracy. As long as these methods of disenfranchisement are still in use how can we claim to be a bastion of freedom? When people are told they can't vote because their name is 'similar' to that of a felon, or because their first/last name is the same as someone in the next county (right John Smith?) the true colors of our governmental elites shine through and the bones of fascism are visible again.
