Republican’s Anti-American Plan - Lose Home, Lose Right To Vote
Posted on December 13, 2008
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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 GOPs effort to challenge some voters on Election Day.
We will have a list of foreclosed homes and will make sure people arent voting from those addresses, party chairman James Carabelli told Michigan Messenger in a telephone interview earlier this week. He said the local party wanted to make sure that proper electoral procedures were followed.
State election rules allow parties to ign election challengers to polls to monitor the election. In addition to observing the poll workers, these volunteers can challenge the eligibility of any voter provided they have a good reason to believe that the person is not eligible to vote. One allowable reason is that the person is not a true resident of the city or township.
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 cant 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 dont 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.
GOP ties to states largest foreclosure law firm
The Macomb GOPs plans are another indication of how John McCains campaign stands to benefit from the burgeoning number of foreclosures in the state. McCains regional headquarters are housed in the office building of foreclosure specialists Trott & Trott. The firms founder, David A. Trott, has raised between $100,000 and $250,000 for the Republican nominee.
The Macomb County partys plans to challenge voters who have defaulted on their house payments is likely to disproportionately affect African-Americans who are overwhelmingly Democratic voters. More than 60 percent of all sub-prime loans — the most likely kind of loan to go into default — were made to African-Americans in Michigan, according to a report issued last year by the states Department of Labor and Economic Growth.
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This is worng many …
This is worng many people dont no about the “truth and lending Law” you can sue the bank for loan fraud.
If you or someone …
If you or someone you know is in jeopardy of losing their home, see us.
Avoid The Obvious.
Over 5000 …
Over 5000 foreclosures in just 1 of Michigan’s counties. This state HAS BEEN DECIMATED BY DEMOCRATS LIKE: Governor Granholm, Democrat Senators Stabenow and Levin (19 YEARS OF NOTHING FROM THIS ONE), Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick who eventhough everyone knew how corrupt he was had to literally be caught redhanded with incriminating texts to get rid of this scumbag.MICHIGAN WAS FIRST FOR DEPRESSION, IF YOU VOTE FOR OBAMA WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO MICHIGAN CAN HAPPEN TO USA! NEVER HEARD OF MICHIGAN MESSENGER!
‘Obama October …
‘Obama October Surprise’
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Bush wants to …
Bush wants to spread democracy around the World and a few Republicans seems to want to destroy democracy back at ‘home’.
McCain/Obama are …
McCain/Obama are both trying to destroy capitalism. The very day public funds were authorized to purchase private debt - ended our capitalism. Both McCain and Obama supported this. So if you want to talk about Socialism/Communism at least realize what your own candidate is doing.
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And I thought Timothy McVeigh was dead.
Since you don’t …
Since you don’t like socialism, you must really despise Palin’s socialist program of taking money from wealthy companies and distributing it to Alaskans.
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BHO hides behind the word “CHANGE”
HE IS THE NWO ELITE’S puppet and their
Hidden Agenda is Socialism first and Communism
later. Socialism is a where our society has
no private property. The government
owns you, your businesses, your dreams,
your homes and everything you do
is controlled. REMEMBER ? ” Barack will not let you
go back to your lives as you know it “( Michelle)
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That is illegal.
That is illegal.
This is one of …
This is one of those reports that makes me very angry. People lose their homes and are subsequently treated as sub-humans by their own government.
obviously you know …
obviously you know why they want to exclude these people from the election, they are least likely to vote for JM/SP
Happened in 04
Happened in 04
Yet another DIRTY …
Yet another DIRTY tactic in this election. I’d like to think people won’t stand for it, even if it does happen.
Democracy at it´s …
Democracy at it´s best