Louisiana election officials awaited 19,000 responses from voters Tuesday, regarding their place on the voter rolls. In a list maintenance effort, the state compared names and dates of birth for matches with other states and sent notices. The second deadline before purging those names was Tuesday, just months before the gubernatorial and statewide election on October 20. Read more in the St. Tammany News here.
Monday, the Mississippi Republican Party appealed a judges recent decision to close party primaries in 2008, a system that needs to be designed by August 31, 2008. The NAACP, state Democratic Party have also asked that parts of the judge's ruling be overturned, particularly asking for a review of the voter ID requirement. Read more in the Clarion-Ledger here.
Erin Ferns is a Research and Policy Analyst with Project Vote’s Strategic Writing and Research Department (SWORD).
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