County voter drive blocked (by Homeland Security)

Source: San Jose Mercury News

It was a procedure that produced a bumper crop of new voters: Just before Santa Clara County immigrants were sworn in as U.S. citizens, they got voter-registration cards and were shown how to fill them out. At the conclusion of the naturalization ceremony, most new citizens had signed the cards and handed them in to become registered voters.

But in March, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services declared that the county registrar of voters must not hand out those cards until the recipients are officially citizens. And now voter registration has plunged by 82 percent.

... With new citizens unable to fill out the cards at their own pace during the ceremony, registrar workers found it nearly impossible to catch the new citizens as they rushed toward the door after the ceremony to get back to jobs or to family obligations.

Plus, one Citizenship and Immigration Services staffer has been "telling new citizens to leave the building while they are still filling out their voter registration cards," according to an internal county memo obtained by the Mercury News.

... Some are concerned that the new policy is an attempt to suppress voter participation by new citizens.

Read more: http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_9931998

their job? These people are new citizens; trying to strip them of their rights from the get-go?

Why is it that the republicons are always objecting to more voters and putting restrictions in place to make it more difficult for people to vote?

at Catalina Island too. They were never suppose to do all this. What a nightmare!

Contact Zoe Lofgren, D - San Jose
From her Congressional Web Page:

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Telephone (408) 271-8700
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and handing voter registration cards marked 'R' to 'new' citizens. Local DECs have been attending Naturalization Ceremonies to counter that move. It must be working.

so we'll just do our best to see to it that they don't register at all. motherfuckers.

in their attempt to hold on to what they have already stolen. there must be ways to circumvent these bastards and get this country back into the hands of the people.

this post goes onto my daily outrage list. and i still get surprised. go figger

Isn't it obvious to any red-blooded Murkan?

(If you need a sarcasm smilie to figure it out, you're too fucking dumb to waste pixels on.)

do they assume these people will fail to show up on voting day or fail to become citizens?

The film was about New York City during the Civil War era.