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What Does It Say About Republican Morals-That They'd Disenfranchise Voters Who Lost Homes to Foreclosures?

GOP in Michigan to Use List of Foreclosed Homes to Block Voters In election news, the Michigan Messenger reports the chairman of the Republican Party in Macomb County, Michigan is planning to use a list of foreclosed homes to block people from voting in the upcoming election as part of a Republican effort to challenge some voters on Election Day. The Republican plan to challenge voters who have defaulted on their house payments is likely to disproportionately affect African Americans who are overwhelmingly Democratic voters. In Michigan, more than 60 percent of all sub-prime loans were made to African Americans. John McCain’s campaign stands to benefit in other ways, as well, from the burgeoning number of foreclosures in Michigan. McCain’s regional headquarters are housed in the office building of foreclosure specialists Trott & Trott. The firm’s founder, David Trott, has raised between $100,000 and $250,000 for the Republican nominee. http://www.michiganmessenger.com/4076/lose-your-house-lose-your-vote Mayflower...I'm not "spinning," it is a Fact that the GOP "caged" and suppressed Democrat Votes in Florida in 2000 and in Ohio and other states in 2004. http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Vote_caging http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/06/06/con06219.html http://www.brennancenter.org/content/resource/a_guide_to_voter_caging/

Public Comments

1. JESUS NEEDS TO HELP THEM!
2. That sounds like a scam. Nonetheless, someone who doesn't have their act together enough to pay their mortgage obviously doesn't have their act together enough to cast an informed vote. So Michigan will be better off if that is true.
3. I would gues that you have the story wrong. The foreclosures many times reflect the problems created by a Congress that demanded that people that have no money down or enough income were to be given loans for home they could not afford anyway. If you need to blame someone on this, blame the liberal Democrat Congress.There are plenty of speculators out there that are in foreclosure, too. The 60% subprime loans to African Americans were for a reason. They didn't qualify with income to get the homes they bought.
4. A lot of this will be going on from both sides, trust me.
5. It is another example of compassionate conservatives.
6. Sounds like an incentive to pay one's bills. What is not to like?
7. If you can't make the mortgage that one PROMISED to pay back and the bank takes your home (usually after 9 months of being delinquent) then you DONT live there anymore - THATS WHY. You don't lose your RIGHT to vote, only lose the the right to vote where you USED to live. You can still vote, as always, in your current place of residence. btw - Trott & Trott are still scumbags.
8. You cannot deny eligible voters the right to vote...stop spinning.
9. if they cannot pay for there homes how did they get a loan approved
10. Did you know Obama's brother lives in a cardboard box in Africa? Think he's going to vote. Most foreclosures came from peoples own greed. They bought homes they couldn't afford and were loaned money by banks that made terrible business decisions. Nonetheless just beacause someone loses a house shouldn't mean they can't vote.
11. It doesn't say much about the Republican party when they will disenfranchise voters and undermine our democracy simply to win an election. They DON'T CARE about putting "country first," because if they did, every American would get to vote. Instead, they're doing everything in their power to KEEP people from voting...Well, at least the people most likely to vote for Obama. Nearly 600,000 Voters Subject to Possible Caging in Ohio http://www.truthout.org/article/nearly-600000-voters-subject-possible-caging-ohio David Rosenfeld, Miller-McCune: "How many residents are eligible to vote." Van Hollen's Lawsuit Will Muck Up Election, Voting Officials Say Friday 12 September 2008 by: Steven Elbow, The Capital Times A lawsuit filed by the state attorney general Wednesday has the potential to slow down voting lines in what promises to be a staggering turnout for the Nov. 4 election, local voting officials said. "It will disenfranchise voters. That's what we're concerned about," City Clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl said. Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen, a Republican, filed the lawsuit Monday in Dane County Circuit Court to get ineligible voters off the rolls. It calls for a court order mandating the Government Accountability Board to cross-check voters who have registered since Jan. 1, 2006, when federal Help America Vote Act legislation required that states implement a voter database to cross-check voter registrations with Department of Transportation, criminal and death records. http://www.truthout.org/article/wisconsin-gop-trying-disenfranchise-voters The Voter ID Fraud By Garrett Epps The Nation Thursday 10 January 2008 There's a war on across the country over who will be allowed to vote in 2008. One of the key battles in the election was fought on January 9 before the Supreme Court. The case is called Crawford v. Marion County Election Board. It tests an Indiana statute, passed in 2005, requiring voters to present a government-issued ID before they can cast a ballot. The law is aimed at alleged fraudulent voting by unregistered or noncitizen voters. Republicans insist that these voters pose a major problem, despite the fact that every systematic study of the question has concluded that this kind of fraud-called "voter impersonation"-is all but unknown in the United States right now. In fact, authorities in Indiana could not point to a single case of voter impersonation in the state's history. http://www.truthout.org/article/garrett-epps-the-voter-id-fraud
12. Would you buy a home you couldn't pay for? If you would should everybody else pay for it? Would you consider buying a home you couldn't pay for good financial strategy? Would you look at your current income situation and expect it to be stable for 20 or 30 years? How do you think they will legally be able to get away with this? Not an answer just some questions you might want to consider.
13. I never understood how working people could buy the spin about "morals" and vote republican. Our republican government is more than willing to bail out big financial institution, who carry too many bad loans. The same institutions that forked out loans to people they new couldn't afford to buy a house. People in the streets lost everything - big companies get a tax payer money... I don't think ist is all the small home buyers fault. There must be a lot of investors and and corporations, who defaulted on loans... To prevent citizens from voting is unconstitutional - under any circumstances, except maybe felons. This is about the future of our country - this isn't American Idol!