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Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Bush Government to Poor Voters: We Don't Want You to Vote

The Justice Department is pressuring 10 states to purge their voter rolls, while states are ignoring laws to help low-income Americans register to vote.
"State welfare offices across the country are not offering millions of low-income Americans the opportunity to register to vote when applying for public assistance, despite a federal law requiring them to do so, according to an analysis of a recent federal voting registration report and experts who say the Department of Justice and states are to blame," writes Steven Rosenfeld of Alternet.

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