Collect Our Tax Money, and Vote For More April 24, 2008
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Civil rights groups sue state officials over voter registrations
Voting-rights activists filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against Missouri public aid officials and election authorities in St. Louis and Kansas City, saying that agencies have failed to help poor people stay active on the voter rolls.
The suit, filed in Kansas City by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, focuses on a 1993 federal law that requires voter registration to be offered at drivers license facilities and government assistance offices — those that offer aid such as food stamps, Medicaid and welfare. But although registering at drivers license offices is now commonplace, activists claim the Missouri Department of Social Services has shirked its obligations.
Because it’s so hard to register to vote otherwise, we have to make it even easier, by offering up the opportunity for people in the places where they will go to sign up to collect some of your tax money. And which political party and philosophy do you think would these voters endorse?
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