(Louisiana Senate) Panel sinks out-of-state vote bill

BATON ROUGE -- A bill to let displaced Louisiana voters cast ballots in out-of-state centers failed by one vote Wednesday in a Senate committee.

The same committee approved a proposal to allow election officials to automatically mail to the dispersed voters absentee ballots for all elections without the displaced voters asking for them.

The Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs deadlocked 3-3 on Senate Bill 437 by Sen. Cleo Fields, D-Baton Rouge, to authorize Secretary of State Al Ater to devise out-of-state election plans in times of emergencies or disasters. The same panel voted 4-2 for Fields' Senate Bill 291, which would require election officials to send absentee ballots to voters displaced from their home parish. That measure now goes to the full Senate.

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If the bills pass the Senate, they might face trouble in the House. The Committee on House and Governmental Affairs is regarded as more conservative on election law changes.

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/capital/index.ssf?/base/news-3/114370660958250.xml

March this Saturday, April 1 in New Orleans:
NAACP
<http://www.naacp.org/katrina/vote_march.html>
Rainbow/push
<http://www.return-and-rebuild.org/>

:yourock:

You're walking the walk and making people face the ugly truth--this is a rigged game with a specific end result in mind.

Billions for "reconstruction" but not a few hundred thousand for democracy for those chased out of their city by incompetence and neglect.

Always remember this, in 2004 the state got $24 million in HAVA funding and lost about the same amount in levee maintenance in the Federal budget. Shows where the priorities are.

Thank you! I greatly admire your work.

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....this proves it. :nopity:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0603/S00016.htm#

This is a rigged game; exclude those evacuated. What a pathetic commentary on our descent into
thuggery. At one time, we could count on a Department of Justice swinging in and saying, "Stop
this or we'll kick your ass." But now, they just do what they want in the states.