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New York Voters Sue The State, Claiming Mass Voter Roll Purges by Nathan Tempey in News on Apr 18, 2016 5:20 ny voter lawsuit pm Via Trish Mayo's flickr Dozens of New York voters are suing
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the state, saying that their voter registration changed without their input, costing them the ability to vote new york primary investigation in Tuesday's primary. The lawsuit, filed this afternoon in Long Island federal court by the group Election Justice USA, argues that the voters' alleged registration changes deny them equal http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/world/middleeast/23iran.html protection under the constitution, and demands a blanket order allowing "tens of thousands" of potential plaintiffs to vote in tomorrow's presidential primary. "Plaintiffs are in imminent harm of losing their right to vote," the suit reads. "They have beseeched the various Boards of Elections without result. Nothing can save their right to vote save an order from this http://gothamist.com/2016/04/18/voter_registration_lawsuit.php Court." New York's primaries are closed, meaning only members of a given party can vote in that party's primary, and the deadline to change parties is more than six months before Primary Day, the earliest in the country. Those who signed onto the lawsuit say that their paperwork was in order, and in many cases they had voted repeatedly in Democratic primaries from the same address, but that recent checks of their voter registrations revealed that their party had been changed or could not be found at all. The accounts echo online reports of other spurned would-be voters. "We were seeing an alarming number of voter affiliations changed without people's knowledge or consent, people who were registered listed as not registered," said Shyla Nelson, a spokeswoman for Election Justice USA. As the primary neared and the group solicited accounts of irregularities, reports poured in, she said: "What started as a trickle is now a river." More than 200 voters signed onto the lawsuit, Nelson said on Friday (she was still tallying late ad
Us Northern Chautauqua County Election commissioner says Borrello’s double voting was not ‘clerical error’ November 1, 2009 Post-Journal Save | Post a comment | By NICHOLAS L. http://www.post-journal.com/page/content.detail/id/543948/Election-commissioner-says-Borrello-s-double-voting-was-not--clerical-error-.html?nav=5008 DEAN OBSERVER Mayville Bureau MAYVILLE — County Legislature candidate George Borrello incorrectly characterized https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Black_Panther_Party_voter_intimidation_case his “criminal election behavior” as a “clerical error” in Friday’s edition of the OBSERVER, according to Democratic Election Commissioner Norman P. Green. While registered in both Erie County and Chautauqua County, Borrello, according to Green, voted alternately between his Williamsville and Irving addresses — violating New York state election law. The simultaneous new york registration was recently uncovered by the mandated statewide voter registration data base. “The election crime was committed in the period of 1996 through 2001 and I personally decided not to pursue the matter due to the time that had lapsed since the violation,” Green said Friday. “If Mr. Borrello were a regular citizen, this would not be a matter of concern to the general public,” Green new york primary continued. “He made the determination to seek election to the Chautauqua County Legislature and thus now needs to be accountable to a higher standard. But, it must be noted that the Board of Elections just this year referred for successful prosecution the case of a Fredonia college student who voted twice in two different counties for the same election. We are taking current election law violations seriously.” Borrello on Tuesday called the situation a ‘‘clerical error’’ on the part of the Erie County Board of Elections and maintained that though he was simultaneously registered ‘‘for a few years,’’ his voting record has been in Chautauqua County. Green responded to the statement Friday with the following information, characterizing Borrello’s voting history as “at will and apparent whim” from his two residences: ¯ In 1996, Borrello registered and voted in Erie County. He continued to maintain his Chautauqua County registration and continued to receive mail at his home in Irving. At that time, his Erie County registration superseded the Chautauqua County registration based on the date that he registered from his Williamsville home. ¯ In 1997, Borrello voted in Irving via a duplicate and undiscovered illegal voter
occurred during the 2008 election. The New Black Panther Party and two of its members, Minister King Samir Shabazz and Jerry Jackson, were charged with voter intimidation for their conduct outside a polling station in Philadelphia. The Department of Justice later narrowed the charges against Minister King Shabazz and dismissed the charges against the New Black Panther Party and Jerry Jackson. The decision to dismiss the charges has led to accusations that the Department of Justice under the Obama administration is biased against white victims and unwilling to prosecute minorities for civil rights violations. These charges have been most notably made by J. Christian Adams, who in May 2010 resigned his post in the Department of Justice in protest over the Obama administration's perceived mishandling of the case, and by his former supervisor Christopher Coates. Counter-accusations were made, including claims that the actual incident was relatively minor but had been blown out of proportion by individuals and groups with political motives. Then-AG Eric Holder rejected claims that his Justice Department considers the race of an alleged victim when deciding which cases to pursue. The case and its handling by the Department of Justice is currently being investigated by the United States Commission on Civil Rights. The Justice Department reportedly carried out its own internal investigation into the handling of the case. Contents 1 Incident and initial response 2 Legal proceedings 2.1 Legal precedents 2.2 Controversy over political involvement 3 Reactions to dismissal 3.1 Reactions in Congress 3.2 Department of Justice Internal Investigations 3.3 Civil Rights Commission 3.4 J. Christian Adams 3.5 Abigail Thernstrom 3.6 Christopher Coates 4 Media coverage 5 See also 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External links Incident and initial response[edit] Minister King Samir Shabazz and Jerry Jackson, two members of the New Black Panther Party, standing outside a Philadelphia polling station on Election Day in November 2008. The conduct for which members of the New Black Panther Party were accused of voter intimidation took place on E