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Change the Equation 
by: Matt Glazer
 
Fri Sep 29, 2006 at 10:56:23 AM CDT 
With less than 40 days until the election, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott only wants some people to vote.
The Lone Star Project broke the story nearly a week ago (we were a little side-tracked with other forms of racism here), but the details continue to be striking.

Here is brief re-cap:

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is using $1.5 million in federal grant funds to prosecute Texas citizens who help senior citizens apply for ballot applications and cast their vote by mail.  Most of the Texans being prosecuted by Abbott are senior citizens, African American or Hispanic, and ALL are Democrats.

Abbott has taken his job to such extremes as to recently spy on Senior Citizens like 69 year old Gloria Meeks. Meeks’ sworn statement says that Abbott sent two men to interrogate her because she was legally casting her through the mail. Once she had been asked to wait, the men began snooping around the house to accidentally see Meeks bathing and drying off on two separate occasions.
Why is Abbott so passionate to violate the Voting Rights Act?

Because of these targeted voter suppression tactics, the Lone Star Project in conjunction with the Texas Democratic Party have files suit against the flawed ballot statute.

[Lone Star Project] assert(s) that the challenged statutes enacted in Texas in 2003 violate both the U.S. Constitution and the Voting Rights Act by denying senior citizens and community activists the ability to receive and provide legally protected assistance to participate in elections and, in the case of challenged ballots, the very right to have their vote counted.  The suit further asks the Court to block Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott’s current efforts to prosecute community activists and other individuals who assist senior citizens and the disabled in completing the mail ballot process and then help insure that completed ballots are mailed or delivered properly to election offices. It is a narrowly drawn complaint that seeks to correct a technical flaw in the Texas Election Code that is being exploited by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott to selectively prosecute and suppress elderly, minority, disabled, and Democratic voters.

Change the Equation 
by: Matt Glazer
Fri Sep 29, 2006 at 10:56:23 AM CDT 
With less than 40 days until the election, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott only wants some people to vote.
The Lone Star Project broke the story nearly a week ago (we were a little side-tracked with other forms of racism here), but the details continue to be striking.

Here is brief re-cap:

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is using $1.5 million in federal grant funds to prosecute Texas citizens who help senior citizens apply for ballot applications and cast their vote by mail.  Most of the Texans being prosecuted by Abbott are senior citizens, African American or Hispanic, and ALL are Democrats.

Abbott has taken his job to such extremes as to recently spy on Senior Citizens like 69 year old Gloria Meeks. Meeks’ sworn statement says that Abbott sent two men to interrogate her because she was legally casting her through the mail. Once she had been asked to wait, the men began snooping around the house to accidentally see Meeks bathing and drying off on two separate occasions.
Why is Abbott so passionate to violate the Voting Rights Act?

Because of these targeted voter suppression tactics, the Lone Star Project in conjunction with the Texas Democratic Party have files suit against the flawed ballot statute.

[Lone Star Project] assert(s) that the challenged statutes enacted in Texas in 2003 violate both the U.S. Constitution and the Voting Rights Act by denying senior citizens and community activists the ability to receive and provide legally protected assistance to participate in elections and, in the case of challenged ballots, the very right to have their vote counted.  The suit further asks the Court to block Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott’s current efforts to prosecute community activists and other individuals who assist senior citizens and the disabled in completing the mail ballot process and then help insure that completed ballots are mailed or delivered properly to election offices. It is a narrowly drawn complaint that seeks to correct a technical flaw in the Texas Election Code that is being exploited by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott to selectively prosecute and suppress elderly, minority, disabled, and Democratic voters.