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<P>Subject: Tell Mukasey: Don't suppress Ohio voters.</P>
<P>Dear Friend,</P>
<P>This year, there are over 600,000 newly registered Ohio voters, but
President Bush has asked Attorney General Mukasey to investigate as many
as 200,000 of them. Why? Because Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner
has refused to use an "exact match" standard before adding these voters to
the rolls. </P>
<P>What is this "exact match" standard? Basically, it works like this:
After you fill out your voter registration card, a local or state employee
has to type in your information to add you to the voter rolls, and check
to see that you really exist, usually by verifying your driver's license
number or Social Security number. And as you can imagine, sometimes there
are typos or other disparities when the information gets entered and
matched - for example, if your last name is "De la Rosa" and it got
entered as "Delarosa", you would fail to meet the exact match standard,
and your registration form would be invalid. </P>
<P>Secretary Brunner has refused to use this standard on the grounds that
it would erroneously deprive tens or even hundreds of thousands of Ohioans
of their right to vote. The Ohio GOP sued her a month ago to try and get
the courts to compel her to use the exact match standard, but the Supreme
Court ruled that they had no standing to make that case. </P>
<P>Now, President Bush is trying to run around the Supreme Court by
getting the Department of Justice to intervene. On Friday, October 24th,
Bush reportedly asked Attorney General Mukasey to investigate whether as
many as 200,000 voters need to reconfirm their registrations before
November 4th - which would almost certainly result in forcing them to vote
provisionally. </P>
<P>I just signed a petition urging Attorney General Mukasey not to act on
President Bush's sickening request. I hope you will, too. </P>
<P>Please have a look and take action. </P>
<P><A
href="http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/doj_oh_suppression/?r_by=-1156033-OFiQ.6x&rc=paste">http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/doj_oh_suppression/?r_by=-1156033-OFiQ.6x&rc=paste</A>
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<P>Thanks! </P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR>
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