Brazile: Missouri Voter ID Ruling Renews Importance of EAC Report Being Made Public
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Brazile: Missouri Voter ID Ruling Renews Importance of EAC Report Being Made Public
Washington, DC - This week, the Missouri Supreme Court dealt yet another blow to the Republican Party's efforts across the country to win elections by making it harder for Americans to vote. In a decisive 6-1 vote, the Missouri state court declared that the Republican-engineered voter ID law would have imposed a "heavy and substantial burden on Missourians' free exercise of the right of suffrage."
The court ruled that the law violated constitutional provisions , including the equal protection clause of the state constitution. A similar voter suppression effort in Georgia was also found unconstitutional earlier this year. As a result, Georgia state officials are scrambling to inform voters who may have been dissuaded by ID legislation that it will not be in effect for the 2006 elections.
DNC Voting Rights Institute Chair Donna Brazile issued the following statement: In light of the Missouri and Georgia rulings, the rebuke by the 9th circuit court of Arizona, and the nation-wide wave of Republican so-called "ballot security" measures, it's time the U.S. Elections Assistance Commission (EAC) release the preliminary report commissioned earlier this year which found widespread agreement that there is little polling place fraud.
"The Missouri Supreme Court ruling is further vindication of the reality that Voter ID restrictions endanger the fundamental right of countless Americans to vote. Americans deserve to know that false claims of voter fraud are unsubstantiated and have every right to see the EACs full report. The EAC must stop withholding its valuable report and release it to the public so that we can move the discussion from harmful voter ID laws to real election reform. Real reform must work not only to protect our most fundamental right to vote but should also encourage active civic participation in our Democracy by all eligible voters regardless of race, class, gender or economic status. Both parties must work together to ensure that no eligible voter is turned away at the polls."
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Is Brazille just a PR spokesperson?
DNC Voting Rights Institute Chair Donna Brazile, I have a few questions for you?
What role, if any, did you and the DNC Voting Rights Institute play in helping Georgia and Missouri overturn these unfair voter suppression laws?
Why did it take until Friday of this week (or perhaps on Monday) for a lawsuit to be filed in Ohio to fight against the unlawful purging of Democratic voters in that state?
Why, after knowing for years that electronic voting machines could be hacked, are they are still replacing more secure voting machines in every state?
Why, after all these years do the electronic voting machines still do not have a way to produce a paper verification of every vote?
Why is the DNC, and the Democratic Party as a whole, not up in arms over the possibility of yet another stolen election?
Why is there no campaign to educate the public so that this issue rises to one of national importance for them and to Congress?
Why is there no organized effort to place reliable exit poll volunteers at every single precinct in the nation? This is the only reliable method of detecting election fraud, did you know that?
Why is there no national hotline that voters can call on Electon Day if they feel their voting rights have been infringed upon or an election is not being conducted fairly? And if their is a national hotline, why doesn't anyone know about it?
Besides issuing PR statements, what are you doing with all of your time to solve all of the voter and election problems that should have been solved in 2005?
Why has the Democratic Party not devoted more resourses to the one issue that could very well render them, as well as the Constitution, extinct after Electon Day in November?
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Sorry about not proof reading.