While Dems are busily suing several states for supposedly not registering enough low-income voters under Section 7 of the National Voter Registration Act, they are simultaneously attempting to bully others into ignoring Section 8 of the NVRA and maintaining inaccurate, out-of-date voter rolls, as witnessed in Florida and now in New Mexico: Democrats in New Mexico have accused Secretary of State Dianna Duran of trying to suppress voter turnout after her office sent out nearly 178,000 postcards to voters tagged as potentially “inactive” but Duran says her office is simply following federal guidelines the US Department of Justice instructed it to do… Duran points to a letter dated from last September from a deputy chief at the Department of Justice reporting that the state is not in compliance with the National Voting Rights Act because of the failed efforts in 2007 and 2009 and is obligated to “remove persons from the voter rolls who have become ineligible” though a “general program of list maintenance.” Despite the specific requirements of NVRA Section 8, the DOJ directive to remove ineligible voters, and the fact that no voters will be removed from the list until 2015, New Mexico state Rep. Gail Chasey (D-Albuquerque) hysterically claims that “steps are being taken to purge our voter file — a likely illegal act that is now disenfranchising legitimate, long-time voters in our state.”
Dems Falsely Accuse States Complying with NVRA of Voter Suppression
While Dems are busily suing several states for supposedly not registering enough low-income voters under Section 7 of the National Voter Registration Act, they are simultaneously attempting to bully others into ignoring Section 8 of the NVRA and maintaining inaccurate, out-of-date voter rolls, as witnessed in Florida and now in New Mexico: Democrats in New Mexico have accused Secretary of State Dianna Duran of trying to suppress voter turnout after her office sent out nearly 178,000 postcards to voters tagged as potentially “inactive” but Duran says her office is simply following federal guidelines the US Department of Justice instructed it to do… Duran points to a letter dated from last September from a deputy chief at the Department of Justice reporting that the state is not in compliance with the National Voting Rights Act because of the failed efforts in 2007 and 2009 and is obligated to “remove persons from the voter rolls who have become ineligible” though a “general program of list maintenance.” Despite the specific requirements of NVRA Section 8, the DOJ directive to remove ineligible voters, and the fact that no voters will be removed from the list until 2015, New Mexico state Rep. Gail Chasey (D-Albuquerque) hysterically claims that “steps are being taken to purge our voter file — a likely illegal act that is now disenfranchising legitimate, long-time voters in our state.”