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dandrhesse Donating Member (500 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 12:08 PM
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28. does someone know the answers?
Can anyone with legal knowledge verify for me, what I believe to have learned by speaking with the DOJ and looking over the HAVA sections and the Voting Rights Act and its amendments:

It seems that there is no legal recourse if discrimination at the polls is based on party, age, (ie college students) or any other "voting bloc" as long as it isn't based solely on race or disability?

Is this the case?

It also seems that any voting machine without a verifiable paper audit trail is breaking the law specifically (HAVA section 301) Is this true?

If yes, then why haven't those counties involved been sued by the US Attorney's office?

Does anyone know a good, free online source that lists all of the US code that pertains to voting and elections, including election fraud and ballot tampering?

The reason I listed this on this thread is that these issues are the underlying issues in regards to what transpired on election day. If there is no recourse for the widespread discrimination that was largely based on party lines and in some cases also racial lines, but no all cases, then there is little that can be done.

If this is the case, a Senator should stand, if only to bring to national public attention the fact none of us have a legally protected "right to vote". If you have a horrendous time at the polls for whatever reason, you basically have no recourse. This is mind boggling and I don't believe anyone on a large scale knows this.
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