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Project Vote & ACORN Complete Historic 1.3 Million Voter Registration Drive

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To assist in this effort, Project Vote has launched a website, www.projectvote2008.org, which provides lists of voters in several states for people to check and see if they or their friends and neighbors have been left off the voter rolls due to common registration problems.

In his opening remarks Slater pointed out that the American system of voter registration—with few federal standards, and in which the burden of registration is placed on individuals—has often been used to disenfranchise voters.

“It wasn’t until the civil rights era that restrictive voter registration laws, challenged by protestors risking physical violence and even death, began to fall,” said Slater. “Today, the attacks on voter registration drives are more rhetorical than physical, but the point of contention is the same: the ability of Americans of color to cast a ballot.

“The work of Project Vote and ACORN continues a tradition of ensuring that all Americans can vote,” Slater said.


For more information on this and on the various Election Protection and voting rights work going on in the run-up to the election please contact:

Lacy MacAuley, lacy@massey-media.com, for Project Vote
Charles Jackson, communications@acorn.org, for ACORN

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TOO BAD THERES FRAUD by TRADESMAN on Thursday, Oct 9, 2008 at 5:24:12 PM
No wonder! by Cheryl Abraham on Thursday, Oct 9, 2008 at 6:41:44 PM
The system is broken! by Gary Koshland on Thursday, Oct 9, 2008 at 6:59:07 PM
You're right Gary. by Cheryl Abraham on Thursday, Oct 9, 2008 at 8:45:42 PM
ACORN basically a fine org by Martha Moffett on Friday, Oct 10, 2008 at 8:50:16 AM
Or a mole by camanokat on Saturday, Oct 11, 2008 at 8:05:26 PM

 
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