The Command Post
2004 US Presidential Election
« Sooner State races to watch: U. S. Senate, Legislature, referenda | Main | Colorado Introduction »
October 31, 2004
Oregon | Democrats Accuse Republicans Of Trying to Block Thousands of Votes

The Oregonian is reporting that Republicans have asked the state to set aside ballots from newly-registered voters who did not provide proof of identification when registering.

Oregon has a unique vote-by-mail system where every ballot is a mail-in ballot. We are now fourteen days into an eighteen-day election period. More than 200,000 new voters have registered in Oregon since May, with many of them under 25 and living in the very liberal Portland area.

I’m one of them, and when I registered, the form instructed me to Xerox my driver’s license (which has my old Illinois address on it) and also something with my current address (like a bill) to send in with my registration to verify my identity. Apparently some people haven’t done that, and Republicans want the state to double-check and make sure those people are really who they say they are. Democrats are objecting, saying that the threat that lying is a Class C felony should be enough, and because the GOP is only doing this in traditionally liberal Multnomah County it is a partisan trick. Developing story.



Posted by mellow-drama at October 31, 2004 11:02 PM | TrackBack
Comments
Post a comment

Thanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. (Click here should you choose to sign out.)

As you post your comment, please mind our simple comment policy: we welcome all perspectives, but require that comments be both civil and respectful. We also ask that you avoid the extensive use of profanity, racist terms (neither of which we consider civil or respectful), and other boorish language.

We reserve the right to delete any comment, and to prohibit you from commenting on this site, if we feel you have broached this policy. As a courtesy, we will first send you an email noting a violation so you understand the boundaries. This will occur only once, however, and should we ban you from our comment forums we expect that ban to be permanent.

We also will frown upon those who suggest that we ban other individuals for voicing unpopular opinions, should those opinions be voiced in a civil and respectful manner. The point of our comment threads is to provide a forum for spirited though civil and respectful discourse … it is not to provide a forum in which everyone will agree with your point of view.

If you can live by these rules, welcome aboard. If not, then we’re sorry it didn’t work out, and thanks for visiting The Command Post.


Remember me?

(You may use HTML tags for style)