Subject: FIGHT BACK: Halter voters turned away at polls
From: info@boldprogressives.org
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 22:33:01 +0000
| A major local election official is preventing Bill Halter's supporters from voting. Help fight back. Call voters from your home today or chip in $3 to Halter's "get out the vote" push.   |
A new Research 2000 poll shows Bill Halter leading Blanche Lincoln 49% to 45%.
But now, a major local election official is making it harder for Bill Halter's supporters to vote.
Garland County is the most populous county Bill Halter won 3 weeks ago, and could be key to his run-off victory this Tuesday. But election commissioner Charles Tapp reduced the number of polling places from 42 to 2.
Also, after personally promising Bill Halter there would be early voting this weekend, Tapp reversed course. Hundreds of voters showed up to vote yesterday but were denied.
Can you help fight back? We're working with Halter's campaign to call thousands of Garland County voters to tell them when/where they can vote -- and we're pumping up turnout in other parts of the state to make up for any lost votes.
Sign up to call Halter supporters to ensure they vote. Click here. Or if you don't like making calls, donate $3 toward Halter's "get out the vote" effort in the final hours.
Progressive blog Blue Arkansas writes:
Make no mistake, this is by design.
Remember how rural voters broke so heavily for Halter in the primary? Well now those same rural voters have to travel miles across a mountain range to get to town on a weekday to cast their vote, and Tapp ran away when he was asked about what this would do to disenfranchise minorities. How painfully obvious can this get?
One voter told a local TV station, "I don't know if I'm gonna vote or not now... I'm going have to get time off work, and I don't know I can leave Monday or Tuesday."WE'VE COME TOO FAR TO LET ONE LOCAL ELECTION OFFICIAL MESS THINGS UP. We need to redouble our efforts to "get out the vote" for Halter.
Sign up to call Halter supporters to ensure they vote. Click here. Or if you don't like making calls, donate $3 toward Halter's "get out the vote" effort in the final hours.
Together, we can still make history this Tuesday. Thanks for being a bold progressive.
-- Stephanie Taylor, Adam Green, Aaron Swartz, and the PCCC team
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