Voter registration blues
Registration Forms Going to Wrong Addresses
Voters in 37 states may be turned away from the polls because of misinformation on online Web sites, which follow the directions on the United States Election Commission Web site.
Barack Obama's and John McCain's Web sites, as well as Rock the Vote, help users fill out forms which can be printed out and mailed.
They are conveniently addressed to the potential voter's secretary of state, or an equivalent state office. All the potential voter has to do is add a stamp and mail it off.
Problem is, for at least 37 states, it's the wrong address. Read more…
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Is Wal-Mart Feeling the Shift in the Wind?
From the Nashville Tennessean this morning. Wonder if a trend is underway, or did they just get caught?
A voter registration group with Republican ties has been banished from Wal-Mart stores in Tennessee for failing to meet the retailer's standards of nonpartisanship and may soon be shut out of stores in California and Nevada, the retailer's spokesman said Tuesday.Liberty Consultants wanted to register Wal-Mart shoppers in seven traditionally GOP suburban counties around Nashville. But the request was denied after the firm's owner, Gary Thompson, acknowledged to Wal-Mart that he had been hired by Tempe, Ariz.-based Sproul & Associates.
Ah, a blast from the past. Remember these "Sproul" folks?" Read more…

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