Reply #36: There is all of this noise about Florida's voters' right but NOT a peep about this ...

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Lawsuit calls voter-registration law unfair

Claiming that a 2-year-old voter registration law will unfairly block minorities, including Hispanics, from registering to vote, the Florida branch of the NAACP and a Miami-based Haitian group filed a federal lawsuit Monday that seeks to throw the law out.

Florida law requires that a citizen's name on a voter registration form be matched with a Social Security number or driver's license number. Florida legislators made the change to comply with the Help America Vote Act.

Florida used HAVA and campaigned to push the (self-voting) touch screen voting machines in minority polling precincts.

Or this ...

Duval County's voter caging scandal

The case centers on e-mails that have come to light since the congressional investigation into the mass firings of U.S. attorneys. Contained in some of them, Kennnedy and Whitehouse contend, is proof some Jacksonville voters were targeted for voter caging by Tim Griffin, then working for the Republican National Committee and later appointed as a replacement U.S. attorney in Arkansas. Griffin has denied the allegations.

Wake UP. These issues affect the disenfranchised Democratic voter base in Florida.