AlterNet: Bush Government to Poor Voters: We Don't Want You to Vote

AlterNet: Bush Government to Poor Voters: We Don't Want You to Vote: "State welfare offices across the country are not offering millions of low-income Americans the opportunity to register to vote when applying for public assistance despite a federal law requiring them to do so, according to an analysis of a recent federal voting registration report and experts who say the Department of Justice and states are to blame.

'It's huge. It's another area where the administration is failing us,' said Donna Brazile, chair of the Democratic National Committee's Voting Rights Institute, speaking of the Department of Justice's oversight of the nation's voter registration laws. 'They are not pushing states to recognize their voter registration responsibilities.'

At the same time, the Justice Department's Voting Section, which enforces voting rights and supervises elections in some states, is pressuring 10 states to do more to purge voter rolls -- or remove ineligible voters -- before the 2008 presidential election, according to letters sent to state election officials this spring."

Yes, we are well on the way to fixing the next election, just in case the administration allows the election to proceed. "You sheep said you wanted no more neo-cons? That's not what our records say."