Protect Voting Rights of Katrina Survivors

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Don't let Katrina survivors' voting rights get washed away!

As if losing their homes, jobs, and family members were not enough,
displaced Katrina survivors are now at risk of being denied their
Constitutional right to vote in Louisiana elections.

Under Lousiana's current election plans, a high percentage of the state's
registered voters who have relocated to other cities and states are in
danger of being excluded from the voting process. Many of them are
low-income African Americans and immigrants.

Few of Louisiana's displaced residents are in a position to return to New
Orleans and other Louisiana cities to vote. For instance, on Monday,
February 13th, FEMA's short-term hotel program expires for most of the
26,000 displaced hurricane survivors, yet most of these evacuees have not
been provided with long-term, or even transitional, housing solutions. To
protect evacuees' right to vote, it's vital that Louisiana set up satellite
voting centers in other parishes and states where large numbers of
displaced residents are temporarily residing.

For satellite voting to be incorporated into Louisiana's election
regulations, Governor Kathleen Blanco must act by early next week, but
until now, she's waffled on the issue.

Urge Governor Blanco to allow satellite voting for displaced residents from
Louisiana. Ask her to join the Secretary of State in calling for satellite
voting to ensure that the voting rights of hurricane survivors are not
washed away.

<http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=81449407&url_num=4&url=http://www.katrinaaction.org/>Tell
her: If the Bush administration can provide satellite voting to enable
Iraqis in the US to vote in Iraq's elections, we can do that for US voters,
too.

And ask folks you know to
<http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=81449407&url_num=5&url=http://www.katrinaaction.org/joinourefforts>help
keep Katrina on the national agenda by joining the Katrina Information
Network, a great source for news updates and ideas for actions you can take
in less than a minute to push government at all levels to meet their
responsibilities to Katrina survivors.



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