Voter Suppression in Arlington!

By: Ingrid
Published On: 11/6/2006 12:00:08 AM

You know the other side is getting desperate when they try to suppress the vote in Arlington, with its high concentration of progressive voters.  We just received this email from the Democratic Party of Virginia.  Please report any instances of voter suppression to the attorney listed at the bottom of the message.

We now have confirmed a voter suppression telephone effort, at least in
Arlington. It is essential that anyone who learns of such an incident capture relevant details and report them IMMEDIATELY.

We have confirmed at least one instance in NOVA where a person has called a registered voter who has voted consistently in Arlington since 1998,
telling him that he will be criminally prosecuted if he tries to vote in Virginia
this year. If you, or anyone you know, receives such a call, please do the following:

1. Request the name, telephone number and email address of the caller.

2. Carefully take down the facts--what happened, what was said.

3. If the caller reports a telephone call or message, try to obtain the phone number from which the call was made to the caller. Urge the caller to preserve any recorded version of the call. Let him/her know that an attorney from the Democratic Party will be calling them back shortly.

4. If the caller received a writing, have the caller fax or email a copy of the writing. Also, please find out if it was mailed or hand-delivered. Urge the caller to preserve the writing. Let him/her know that an attorney from the Democratic Party will be calling them back shortly.

5. IMMEDIATELY contact me if you have a confirmed incident of attempts at voter suppression.

Contact number: [number deleted].
Email: [address deleted]

Thank you.
Jay Myerson
General Counsel
Democratic Party of Virginia

Comments



Disgusting (DanG - 11/6/2006 12:09:17 AM)
Republicans responsible for this are vile.  Who wants to win this way?


Thanks Ingrid (Mark - 11/6/2006 12:09:34 AM)
for posting this, I also got this email.

There are a lot of multiple-call (6-7 callbacks) robocalls going to people in other states, so we need to be aware of that too.

One example is Tammy Duckworth. Another is Lois Murphy. Here is a great diary on what to do about these calls:

http://www.dailykos....

Everyone beware of political calls, and make sure and get as much information as possible. Save the call if it is on your answering machine.



What are we doing about this? (LAS - 11/6/2006 1:24:26 AM)
What CAN we do? I mean, besides reporting it and talking about it?


tomorrow & election day (TurnVirginiaBlue - 11/6/2006 1:45:39 AM)
I think we need to blog these contacts far and wide
as well as give them to the online press, local news.

Here we go and I sure hope people have camera phones, mikes, video camera phones, whatever they've got to document the flipping of votes on computerized systems, just document it all!

Thank you Ingrid.



My guess is that they're (madgranny - 11/6/2006 3:28:11 AM)
trying to scare the immigrant population away from  voting! Allen started Friday with the anti-immigration campaign ads.


HBO's Documentary (Matt in VA - 11/6/2006 3:48:11 AM)
"Hacking Democracy" about Diebold voting machines can be found on Google Video. I just finished watching it, I highly recommend it.


a related diary on dailykos (teacherken - 11/6/2006 6:58:24 AM)
http://www.dailykos....

please comment and recommend to help keep visible.