TPM-Front Page: "NH GOP Seeks To Disenfranchise Students Who 'Just Vote Their Feelings' (VIDEO)"

Even better (4.00 / 5)

TPM has now included the news that O'Brien is going to the nullification conference.  



"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    

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by: Kathy Sullivan 2 @ Tue Mar 08, 2011 at 16:46:48 PM UTC

I guess voting does make a difference (4.00 / 3)

They actually ARE trying to make voting illegal.  (In fact, Sorg's student voting bill makes it a felony for a student to vote in the place where he or she spends 9 or more months a year.)  I guess this proves that voting actually DOES make a difference after all.

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by: TimothyHorrigan @ Tue Mar 08, 2011 at 17:27:06 PM UTC

Post on Facebook (0.00 / 0)

Follow the link and click facebook.

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by: Chaz Proulx @ Tue Mar 08, 2011 at 18:31:25 PM UTC

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Hardball.... (0.00 / 0)

Chris Matthews is doing a segment of this in his Sideshow.

NHGOP-Keeping it Classy

"Just because you do not take an interest in politics, doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you" - Pericles, 430 BCE

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by: URSUS @ Tue Mar 08, 2011 at 22:27:49 PM UTC

If I recall correctly .... (0.00 / 0)

... the New Hampshire legislature enacted same-day registration in order not to have to comply with the Motor Voter law.

   And so the redoubtable Claire Ebel points out - if same-day registration were done away with, the Motor Voter provisions would have to be complied with.


 "We should pay attention to that man behind the curtain."

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by: Ed Tracey @ Wed Mar 09, 2011 at 04:28:24 AM UTC

And I suspect (0.00 / 0)

that that would cost the state some money.  Which, in order to keep in line with their extreme budget slashing, would require hurting the most vulnerable in this state.  But since we are all going to be "liberated," that would require Speaker O'Brien and his followers to repeat after Speaker Boehner, "So be it."  Sounds almost Old Testament, doesn't it?

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by: Lucy Edwards @ Wed Mar 09, 2011 at 18:27:13 PM UTC

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There would be (0.00 / 0)

There would be increased administrative costs.  If people are registering to vote at the DMV, they DMV is not responsible for transmitting this documentation to the respective town.  I live in Concord so it wouldn't be difficult for me to register, but lets think about those communities who are not directly serviced by a DMV.

Here are the provisions of the National Voter Registration Act ("Motor Voter") of 1993:

[from the wiki page]

The legislation was initially designed to reduce costs of voting registration by accumulating individual data when applying for a drivers license and or receiving social assistance.[1] The "motor voter" nickname came from the idea that most of the NVRA data was accumulated from applicants renewing or obtaining driver's licenses.[1]

Individuals who applied for "agency based" needs such as food stamps, disability services and other social services were eligible for the NVRA program. The intention of the legislation was to encourage greater access to voter registration for the citizens who needed further assistance registering to vote. Also, NVRA allowed for more accessible voter registration through mail-in and individual voter registration drives.

This might be a dumb question but, does the NVRA eliminate registering to vote at your local town hall?

"We start working to beat these guys right now." -Jed Bartlet

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by: cblodg @ Wed Mar 09, 2011 at 19:17:33 PM UTC

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"their* DMV is *now responsible" (0.00 / 0)

Forgot to proof and don't know how to edit a post.  Sorry all.

"We start working to beat these guys right now." -Jed Bartlet

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by: cblodg @ Wed Mar 09, 2011 at 19:20:04 PM UTC

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So What? (4.00 / 1)

I understand that was Rep. Sorg's response on being told that federal law would requrie motor voter registration.  He figures that we can just ignore the federal law.  Another Nully.

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"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    

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by: Kathy Sullivan 2 @ Wed Mar 09, 2011 at 21:27:48 PM UTC

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Or (0.00 / 0)

he has no idea what the questioner was talking about.  Take your choice.

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by: Lucy Edwards @ Wed Mar 09, 2011 at 21:38:34 PM UTC

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He knew n/t (0.00 / 0)

"We start working to beat these guys right now." -Jed Bartlet

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by: cblodg @ Wed Mar 09, 2011 at 22:18:28 PM UTC

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Correct! (4.00 / 1)

Have you told a stranger today about Bill O'Brien and his Tea Party agenda? The people of NH deserve to hear about O'Brien  and his majority committed to destroying New Hampshire and remaking it into a armed survivalist preserve.  

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by: Ray Buckley @ Wed Mar 09, 2011 at 22:27:50 PM UTC

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The student disenfranchiement bill was crushed in committee yesterday. (4.00 / 2)

I dont have my notes handy but i think the vote was 15-3.

This is the result of a tremendous effort by many including the great organizers at America Votes, the Young Dems, the League of Women Voters (very ably represented by Joan Ashwell),College Republicans, Libertarians, Election committee members including David Pierce, The Brennan Center For Justice.

Special note  should be made of the role played by GOP election committee member Shawn Jasper, who, while as conservative as could be, truly believes in the principles of fairness embodied in the Constitution. On this, the birther bill and a number of other matters, he has consistently adopted a principled position of adherence to the Consitution as it is written, at considerable political cost to himself.  

"But, in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope." Si se puede. Yes we can.  

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by: Paul Twomey @ Thu Mar 10, 2011 at 12:18:34 PM UTC

Methinks Rep. Jasper will find himself... (4.00 / 3)

on a Jack Kimball's RINO hunting list come the 2012 GOP primary. He pays way too much attention to old-fashioned ideals like fairness and integrity.  

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by: Mike Emm @ Thu Mar 10, 2011 at 12:54:13 PM UTC

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Absolutely, and that is exactly why this is a profiles in courage moment.. (4.00 / 1)

It's easy to do the right thing when there is no cost.

"But, in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope." Si se puede. Yes we can.  

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by: Paul Twomey @ Thu Mar 10, 2011 at 12:58:09 PM UTC

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