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Stop disenfranchising California voters
California Secretary of State Bruce McPherson entered into an agreement with the Bush Administration's Justice Department last year to implement a statewide voter registration database system that will disenfranchise tens of thousands of voters in California.
More than 14,000 new voter registration and re-registration applications from Los Angeles County alone were recently invalidated under this new stringent set of regulations -- and other counties are seeing similar results.
This is a 43% rejection rate! In fact, virtually all of these applications would have been accepted before Secretary McPherson rolled out his new statewide voter registration database. Typically rejection rates are 1-2%. This is outrageous.
Now Secretary McPherson says he will try to get the Legislature to pass a bill to overturn his restrictive, anti-voter regulations. Why should the people of California wait for the Legislature and Governor to act, with the April 11th special election in San Diego less than a week away and the June 6th primary rapidly approaching, when Secretary McPherson can fix this problem now? McPherson created this problem -- now he should own up to it, show some leadership, take some responsibility, and fix it.
Send Secretary McPherson an email now!
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Subject: Stop disenfranchising California voters
Dear [ Decision Maker ] ,
As you know, your agreement with the Bush Administration to implement a statewide voter registration database has already prevented tens of thousands of people from registering and re-registering to vote in California.
More than 14,000 new voter registration and re-registration applications from Los Angeles County were recently invalidated -- and other counties are seeing similar results.
This 43% rejection rate is unacceptable, especially when you consider the typical rejection rates are 1-2%. This is outrageous!
Now I understand you are asking the Legislature to pass a bill to override the regulations that you adopted which have caused all of these problems. Why should we waste the time and money waiting for the Legislature and the Governor to act when you have the ability to modify the regulations that have caused this problem? You created this problem -- now you should own up to it, show some leadership, take some responsibility, and fix it.
Sincerely,
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