Indiana Kicks Voters Off the Rolls and Isnt Telling Them

[workinclasszero]

Indiana Kicks Voters Off the Rolls and Isn’t Telling Them
A new law is letting the controversial interstate Crosscheck database comb election rolls—and remove voters without any attempt to contact them or allow a chance to respond.
EMILIE PLESSET 08.29.17 1:00 AM ET

You might not be able to cast a vote on Election Day in Indiana, and now the Hoosier State doesn’t even need to let you know.
A new Indiana law permits voters to be automatically removed from registration rolls without giving any notice or allowing for a waiting period for those purged to respond, and it could all be a mistake.

The statute, which went into effect last month, is in “flagrant violation” of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 and operates with potentially “discriminatory results,” according to the Indiana State Conference of the NAACP and the League of Women Voters in a lawsuit filed last week.

“No Hoosier should be silenced on Election Day,” Barbara Bolling-Williams, president of the Indiana State Conference of the NAACP, said in a statement. “Yet, under this new law, that will happen. It’s vital that Indiana follow federal law and ensure that voters are not wrongfully removed from the rolls.”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/indiana-kicks-voters-off-the-rolls-and-isnt-telling-them

[Dustlawyer]

1. There will be a lot of fraud, purges, electronic hacking... in 2018.

There needs to be a big focus on all of this and get things protected!

[workinclasszero]

3. Yup

The republicans are determined to stop as as many citizens as possibly from voting, its very clear.

[procon]

2. So, Pence was behind this.

How do Republicans come up with these schemes to specifically disenfranchise voters who don't vote for them?

Indiana is also notorious to voting-rights advocates: It leads all 50 states in terms of percentage of voters purged from its registration rolls, removing 22.4 percent of its voting population between 2012 and 2014...

[workinclasszero]

4. Their base and their slave era ideas are dying

So they gerrymander and deny voting to remain in power.