Voter rights being challenged in Michigan
Sep. 10th, 2008 02:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
measihttp://www.michiganmessenger.com/4076/lose-your-house-lose-your-vote
The chairman of the Republican Party in Macomb County Michigan, a key swing county in a key swing state, is planning to use a list of foreclosed homes to block people from voting in the upcoming election as part of the state GOP’s effort to challenge some voters on Election Day.
from further down in the article...
The Macomb County party’s plans to challenge voters who have defaulted on their house payments is likely to disproportionately affect African-Americans who are overwhelmingly Democratic voters. More than 60 percent of all sub-prime loans — the most likely kind of loan to go into default — were made to African-Americans in Michigan, according to a report issued last year by the state’s Department of Labor and Economic Growth.
The chairman of the Republican Party in Macomb County Michigan, a key swing county in a key swing state, is planning to use a list of foreclosed homes to block people from voting in the upcoming election as part of the state GOP’s effort to challenge some voters on Election Day.
from further down in the article...
The Macomb County party’s plans to challenge voters who have defaulted on their house payments is likely to disproportionately affect African-Americans who are overwhelmingly Democratic voters. More than 60 percent of all sub-prime loans — the most likely kind of loan to go into default — were made to African-Americans in Michigan, according to a report issued last year by the state’s Department of Labor and Economic Growth.
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Date: 2008-09-10 07:38 pm (UTC)Really starting to hate it here in Michigan.
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Date: 2008-09-10 08:01 pm (UTC)Virginia's going through similar b.s. telling students they can't register to vote at school, or they'll default on their dependent status on their parents (and get their loans removed). It's totally false, and meant to scare kids away.
But IMHO, this foreclosure thing is far nastier because while students can register and vote absentee, not so if people are removed from the rolls completely for not being "residents."
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Date: 2008-09-10 08:26 pm (UTC)What I definitely don't like about this is that the foreclosure process is so long. I just worked on a case where it took more than 3 years to go from "Notice Of Foreclosure" to "Judgment Of Foreclosure," and then there's an amount of time before the case is truly "closed," because the time for appeal still has to run out. After that time, then, sure, there's a valid point, because then you're definitely not supposed to be in the house. At the same time, now we're monitoring addresses? Good grief. What will be thought of next?