Purged: Republicans win big court case just two weeks from election & Federal Judge Allows Approximately 38,000 Names To Be Purged From Virginia Voting Rolls 22OKT13

JUST two weeks before the election and a federal court in Virginia, kow-towing to the state board of elections controlled by Attorney ken cuccinelli, repiglican tea-bagger candidate for governor, have purged 38,000 names from the voter rolls across the Commonwealth. They are determined to win this election and keep control of the general assembly by hook or crook, and don't give a damn about violating people's constitutional right to vote. If you can, make a donation to one or all of the Progressive Democrats running for seats in our general assembly. The only one I know about is Jennifer Boysko, candidate for the 86th district (my district) but I donated to all these people, because I believe we, the people, all of us, should be able to vote for the candidates we believe in. By the by, the donations go directly to the candidates campaigns through ActBlue, they don't keep any of it. From Daily Kos....
 Virginia Republicans just won a court battle to purge 38,000 names from the voter rolls and we’re only two weeks out from the election.

Can you chip in $4 right now to help Jennifer Boysko, Atif Qarni, Kathleen Murphy, and John Bell—four Democrats running to beat Republicans in must-win state House races.

The voters were purged by an anti-voter fraud program called Crosscheck, which tracks people who’ve moved across state lines and registered to vote in their new state—notifying their old state that they can remove those people from the rolls.

But according to The Washington Post, local officials are complaining they didn’t have enough time to verify that these purged voters have actually moved. In the end, though, the State Board of Elections forced local officials to execute the purge.

The legal advisor to the State Board of Elections? Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli—the Republican candidate for governor.

Chip in $4 now to beat Republicans in Virginia.

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Michael Langenmayr
Campaign Director, Daily Kos

Fri Oct 18, 2013 at 08:14 PM PDT

Federal Judge Allows Approximately 38,000 Names To Be Purged From Virginia Voting Rolls

U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton has denied a request by the Virginia Democratic Party to reinstate the names of approximately 38,000 Virginia voters who have been purged from the voting rolls in that State.  According to The Washington Post:

The lawsuit stemmed from an anti-voter fraud program, known sometimes by the shorthand Crosscheck, that allows officials in the states that use it to compare voter rolls and weed out those who are registered in more than one place. This year, the program flagged more than 300,000 names, and the state forwarded more than 57,000 of those to local election officials for further review and possible removal. In the lawsuit filed in federal district court in Alexandria, the Democratic Party alleged that the program was rife with error, citing three examples of Virginians who were improperly removed from the voting rolls. They also argued that local election officials were treating the 57,000 names they were supposed to review in different ways. Some, the Democrats said, removed names without any review, while others did not remove any names at all.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/... Approximately 38,000 names were removed from the voter registration rolls.  This purge has taken place within weeks of the election for Governor and other state offices in Virginia.  According to The Washington Post, some local election officials have indicated that they were given insufficient time to research the names.

Loudoun County Registrar Judy Brown said in an interview that she had to race to meet her local electoral board’s deadline. “My main concern was the lack of time to be able to devote to the list to make sure we weren’t taking people off without first trying to find out if they were still here or if they had left,” Brown said. “I believe that kind of stuff deserves my attention.”
After Brown decided to delay the purge, the state Board of Elections called her local elections board, which voted to require Brown to scrub Loudoun County’s voter rolls. They gave her one week. Brown said she sent letters to both in-state and out-of-state addresses she had for voters on the list, just a week before the state’s Oct. 15 registration deadline. She’s already heard from some who say they still live in-state.
“We’ve had a few phone calls from people who have actually been voting here for the last couple of years,” Brown said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/.... The legal advisor for the Virginia Board of Elections is none other than Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, the Republican candidate for Governor.  Cuccinelli's office filed paperwork with the court in support of the Board of Elections.
This seems to me to be a huge conflict of interest since Cuccinelli could personally benefit from the purge.
In fact, according to The Richmond Times Dispatch

The 58,000 voter registrations that are the subject of the lawsuit represent a little more than 1 percent of the nearly 4.8 million active voter registrations in Virginia.

http://www.timesdispatch.com/... The only silver lining in this is that at least one registrar Lawrence C. Haake III  of Chesterfield County has refused to purge any voters

In an affidavit, Haake says he conducted a preliminary review that found nearly 10 percent of the names given to him by the state for potential purging were, in fact, eligible voters. He concluded that the risk of purging legitimate voters was too great.

http://www.timesdispatch.com/... The Virginia Democratic Party is considering whether to take further action. 
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