paft: No, actually, she and Clay Roberts were in charge of how ALL of them handled the voting rolls. They set the policy for the individual counties to follow. They issued the orders. bdJ: Which means they had nothing to do with the specifics. They gave a general order and it was up to the individual counties to act.
They set the policy, Jeff. The counties were legally bound to follow their instructions, and those instructions resulted in thousands of legal voters being purged.
paft: I'm sorry, but that's simply ridiculous. Once a citizen has registered to vote, and done so accurately and honestly, it's up to the government to ensure that the voting rolls are accurate. bdj: Except when such attempts to ensure the rolls might hit people who could be felons.
Your response makes zero sense. Are you claiming that it's up to registered voters to prove to the government that they aren't felons?
Paft; So every single one of those voters purged were felons? bdj: Every single one was purged in accordance to the law, and had an opportunity to appeal if need be.
That's not what I asked.
Was every single voter a purged from the rolls a convicted felon? Yes or no?
And no, not all of them had an opportunity to appeal because many of them didn't find out they'd been purged until election day;.
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Date: 15/5/12 00:56 (UTC)bdJ: Which means they had nothing to do with the specifics. They gave a general order and it was up to the individual counties to act.
They set the policy, Jeff. The counties were legally bound to follow their instructions, and those instructions resulted in thousands of legal voters being purged.
paft: I'm sorry, but that's simply ridiculous. Once a citizen has registered to vote, and done so accurately and honestly, it's up to the government to ensure that the voting rolls are accurate.
bdj: Except when such attempts to ensure the rolls might hit people who could be felons.
Your response makes zero sense. Are you claiming that it's up to registered voters to prove to the government that they aren't felons?
Paft; So every single one of those voters purged were felons?
bdj: Every single one was purged in accordance to the law, and had an opportunity to appeal if need be.
That's not what I asked.
Was every single voter a purged from the rolls a convicted felon? Yes or no?
And no, not all of them had an opportunity to appeal because many of them didn't find out they'd been purged until election day;.