GREETINGS FELLOW DEMOCRATS!





Volunteers needed!!!

HELP is still needed for part 2 of getting ready to Block Walk. Thank you to everyone who stuck stickers on the door hangers. Part 2 is stapling local information to each door hanger. We will be ready to start Monday morning. We will need over 2000 door hangers stapled and ready to go.





Changing Politics in America

Obama Campaign Grassroots organization
January 27
2-5 p.m.

Corner Joe Routt and Houston
MSC-TAMU

Register voters and help in other ways. For more info contact Kristie Overby at kristie.overby@gmail.com.





TDW brunch tomorrow

Fritella’s
10 a.m.
Dr. Rich DeVaul
Health Care Crisis in America
No cost unless you eat breakfast





Empirical Data Proves Voter Participation Drops with Voter ID Says League of Women Voters

Study demonstrates steep drop in voter participation by minorities and disabled as well as broad population

January 25, 2008

The state chapter of the League of Women Voters announced yesterday that it opposes efforts to introduce photo ID legislation, saying that minority voters would be less likely to participate in elections.

Mary Finch of the LWV of Texas said in a press conference this morning that recent research presented to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission demonstrates that Hispanics are 10 percent less likely to vote if required to present a government-issued ID at the polling place. Asian Americans were 8.5 percent less likely to vote while African Americans were 5.7 percent less likely. Voters overall were 2.7 less likely to vote under a photo ID law. The findings, which were compiled by the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University, were arrived at after comparing voter participation in 2004 in states that require the presentation of ID to vote to states that don’t have such requirements.

If you are a LWV member and have access to this study please pass it on.





BUSH LIBRARY

Here are what the draft plans for the George W. Bush Library now call for: