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Does this demonstrate how Republicans REALLY feal about people who have lost their homes (read link)?

<<Lose your home, lose your vote. The chairman of the Republican Party in Macomb County, Michigan, a key swing county in a key swing state, is planning to use a list of foreclosed homes to block people from voting in the upcoming election as part of the state GOP’s effort to challenge some voters on Election Day. The Michigan Republicans’ planned use of foreclosure lists is apparently an attempt to challenge ineligible voters as not being “true residents.” One expert questioned the legality of the tactic. “You can’t challenge people without a factual basis for doing so,” said J. Gerald Hebert, a former voting rights litigator for the U.S. Justice Department who now runs the Campaign Legal Center, a Washington D.C.-based public-interest law firm. “I don’t think a foreclosure notice is sufficient basis for a challenge, because people often remain in their homes after foreclosure begins and sometimes are able to negotiate and refinance.” As for the practice of challenging the right to vote of foreclosed property owners, Hebert called it, “mean-spirited.”>> http://www.michiganmessenger.com/4076/lose-your-house-lose-your-vote

Public Comments

1. Welcome to GOP polictics. They'll do anything to try and win an election.
2. I read this and it makes my blood boil. Did you sign the petition? I did. This is what the Republicans do. The Democrats have not been perfect but I believe their intentions are honorable while the Republicans are just still trying to rob us blind. Look at what they have done to the economy and the jobs losses. 600,000 jobs lost under Bush. Where were all the promised jobs with those tax cuts? It never happened because it never was going to happen. We have tent cities being set up to deal with the huge homeless population increase. Who is helping these folks? I can assure you that it's not the Republicans. There are plenty of ignorant people voting for McCain/Palin thinking that these people have their interests at heart. They clearly don't. Clinton was a faux democrat and it's why I did not vote for him. He's appeasing to Republicans.
3. Both parties do this. Every time you move you have to update your voter record if you don't do this than they reject your vote since they don't know where you reside. I had this problem when I was going to school in one city but registered to vote and voted in another city. I have no problems with either the Democrats or the Republicans challenging votes that may not be legal.
4. You have to live in the district to vote there.
5. This is a lie being repeated by obamaphiles. Where has ANY action been taken to remove people who have had their homes foreclosed from the voter rolls? It has not happened. It's a dirty trick to start a class war that democrats love.
6. As I understand election law, it is up to the challenger... not the registered voter... to PROVE that the person is not eligible to vote. Notice of foreclosure, which is apparently what they (Republicans) indicate will be the source of these challenges, is not evidence that the voter no longer lives in the county. For that matter it isn't even THAT good of evidence that the person is not still residing at the same address (because the foreclosure process takes months... and usually residents are not required to vacate the premises until the Foreclosure Auction takes place. I hope the Republican party spends a pile of money on this... because I don't see it going anywhere. The logistics of proving the challenges before the votes are counted are just too much to handle on a large scale.
7. Yeah like the unlike the democrats who try to put dead people on the voter rolls. Or balk when states make them show id's now so they can't vote multiple times. And the people who lost their houses now are nitwits who bought houses they could not afford...so why should we feel sorry for them.
8. This entire story is based on one quote from one republican. And that republican denies he ever said the quote in question. But because it makes Republicans look bad, it is taken as gospel truth. http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080912/NEWS15/809120346 "GOP won't use foreclosure list to block voters; Macomb County party chair says blog is wrong" And even if it was true, that would only reflect the attitude of SOME republicans! I certainly do not feel a person should loose the right to vote if they lost their home! I also think it was a low blow in the 2000 yr election for Democrats to try & discard the mail in votes from the military, knowing the military votes Repubican by a very large margin!
9. If they don't live there anymore, why should they get to vote? They should be voting in the county in which they live. Why is this some big disenfranchising debate? It makes perfect sense, what difference does it make whether you lost your home, got evicted from your apartment, etc? We should change the voting laws because we feel sorry for someone who lost their homes? Why aren't you so outraged by the massive Democrat voter fraud going on in WI? ACORN submitting thousands of fraudulant voter registration cards, but the Democrats don't want them thrown out because there could be a few legit ones in there? HUH? You're party bashing, not being shocked at voter fraud.
10. They can't even try to win fairly! Fact is, they will be living somewhere- and they could all absentee vote. Totally not fair to block their votes. If the Democrats ever tried to pull this stuff, the Republicans would FREAK out! They did similar stuff in Florida for the first Bush election.