The dirty tricks are in the playbook and the playmakers are memorizing them.
Michigan GOP has called the first play. It consists of keeping people who have lost their homes on foreclosures from voting in November.
Lose your home, lose your vote. The party that has choreographed one the worst economic conditions in US history is now attempting to make sure that its main victims won't be able to make them pay for it. What better way to do it than keeping the people who lost their homes away from the polls?
How about the unemployment list? Save it for Ohio. Don't have a job? You can't vote. What about the food stamp list? Those people certainly should not vote if Republicans have their way.
We can do away with voter registration. Bring your mortgage papers and your October paystub.
"The chairman of the Republican Party in Macomb County Michigan, a key swing county in a key swing state, is planning to use a list of foreclosed homes to
block people from voting in the upcoming election as part of the state GOP's effort to challenge some voters on Election Day.
"We will have a list of foreclosed homes and will make sure people aren't voting from those addresses," party chairman James Carabelli told Michigan Messenger in a telephone interview earlier this week. He said the local party wanted to make sure that proper electoral procedures were followed. State election rules allow parties to assign "election challengers" to polls to monitor the election. In addition to observing the poll workers, these volunteers can challenge the eligibility of any voter provided they "have a good reason to believe" that the person is not eligible to vote. One allowable reason is that the person is not a "true resident of the city or township. . . .
David Lagstein, head organizer with the Michigan Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), described the plans of the Macomb GOP as "crazy."
"You would think they would think, ‘This is going to look too heartless,'" said Lagstein, whose group has registered 200,000 new voters statewide this year and
also runs a foreclosure avoidance program. "The Republican-led state Senate has not moved on the anti-predatory lending bill for over a year and yet [Republicans] have time to prey on those who have fallen victim to foreclosure to suppress the vote."
You would think . . . and you would be wrong.
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Congratulations on your next four years of martyrdom and self riotous blockading of the business of Government.
In my state people that end up on the street for whatever reason normally use a shelter until they can get back on their feet. The law says as soon as you check into a shelter you become a resident of that town and many people vote by using the shelter address as their own which is also legal.
Fogg you seem to be such a hypocrite the way you spout your nothingness while your fascist regime plays every dirty trick in the book like voter fraud and all the rest of the dirt that belongs to the party.
when is the last time an ILLEGAL ALIEN tried to vote? they usually HIDE from authority so as NOT TO BE DEPORTED!!!!!
STEAL THE VOTE...the REPUBLICAN WAY!
Between 1995 and 2006, Congress was controlled by the GOP. Congress makes laws, the President only signs or vetoes them.
Since 2007, GOP filibusters have made the Senate a useless body.
ACORN has a reputation of voter fraud in the past so I'm sure everyone wants to keep their eyes on them. If Obama wins the last thing he'll want is a voter fraud issue arrising after the fact.
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Not quite.
They intend to use the list of recent foreclosures. Once a house goes into foreclosure, it can actually be months before you are evicted. Often, those losing their homes end up living in them up until the time they are actually sold at Sheriff sale. Some banks even prefer to allow the debtor to stay in the home instead of leaving it vacant...particularly in a slow market or a bad neighborhood where squatters might turn the house into a drug house. The foreclosure list is not an accurate means of determining residency.
A valid driver's license or recent utility bill would trump the list. For them to make this statement publicly, however, was meant to scare people away from the polls in the first place, not to enforce any voting laws.
Folks, foreclosure list are often outdated and is no proof that a person no longer resides on the property. Even if the list is current, it does not mean that person has vacated the property.
We have some folks here trying to justify this stupidity when the guy who is quoted saying it is running away from it. It is that illegal! Michigan GOP party officials are now DENYING they ever said such a thing.
Still support the people who deny ever saying it?
Get a clue!
Gotta keep 'em honest because the moonbats are knows for playing dirty with fake voters.
The main events in a foreclosure case are filing, judgment, sale and confirmation of sale, and possession. The sale comes after the judgment, and will almost always be at least 7 months after the case begins. The time between judgment and sale varies in each case, but is usually about 2 to 4 months.
The sale gets confirmed shortly after it’s held—often, the very same day. The quickest foreclosure takes at least 8 months from start to finish including the 30 days you’re given to move out after the sale is confirmed. During that time, you live for free, but should save your money to either catch up or move elsewhere.
from:http://www.illinoislegalaid.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.dsp_content&contentID=4717
No. Considering the typical foreclosure process in Michigan can take eight months, in all likelihood the person is still living in the house. Once a house goes into foreclosure, the resident can remain in it while contesting the foreclosure. A person living in a foreclosed home isn't lying...they are trying to save their home.
Wilma seems to have a good case that a large proportion of the people on a foreclosure list are valid residents.
I'm sure you must have misread what I wrote. I did not say while the home is in the process of foreclosure but rather after the home has been foreclosed on. Rarely will a bank allow the the person foreclosed on to stay in the house even in a bad market. What usually happens is once the foreclosure process is complete the bank will offer money to the occupant to move. This amount can range from hundreds to thousands of dollars to get that person out of the home. Thus the home is then vacant until it is sold again. During this time there should be no one registered to this address and these lists will be used to expose a potential fraud. If it is simply a mistake and the former owner did not reregister then they will have to take the proper steps to rectify the problem. No huge conspiracy, instead steps to avoid a conspiracy.
block people from voting in the upcoming election as part of the state GOP's effort to challenge some voters on Election Day.
Foreclosed is the word to pay attention to. It is not a list of homes in default (the term listed to represent a home that is in the process of being foreclosed on) but homes that have already been foreclosed on. Probably a list from the last 6 months where a bank is on title as owner but an individual is using the address his registered address.
I happen to know a few people who, unfortunately, have suffered through this process. And I can tell you FOR A FACT they continued to live in the house for months after the process started. One lived in the house for almost a year after the process because they were contesting it.
If they are contesting then the process is not complete. There is no argument that people will remain in their home until they are forced to move. And yes there is no argument as to how long the process can take. it's not a quick process and with the amount of foreclosures these days the time frame can actually take longer than would be normal.
However in the statement above the term foreclosed refers to the COMPLETED process. Once the process is completed there are two outcomes: either the home is bank owned or someone has bought the home and there is a new owner.
Generally a foreclosure list is a list of homes that are in the process of being foreclosed on. Real Estate companies do provide these lists as a way to generate clients.
But once again list of foreclosed homes to
block people from voting in the upcoming election as part of the state GOP's effort to challenge some voters on Election Day.
This statement clearly shows the list of homes is a list of homes that the foreclosure process has been completed, not being contested, not two months or eight months into the process but completed : Foreclosed.
When people don't understand these types of articles it's easy to misinterpret whats being said or written.