July 17, 2007 9:45 AM

Bush Administration: Don't Get Out the Vote?

According to Steven Rosenfeld at AlterNet, the Bush Administration is doing all they can to prevent poor voters from doing their civic duty.

State welfare offices across the country are not offering millions of low-income Americans the opportunity to register to vote when applying for public assistance despite a federal law requiring them to do so, according to an analysis of a recent federal voting registration report and experts who say the Department of Justice and states are to blame.

At the same time, the Justice Department's Voting Section, which enforces voting rights and supervises elections in some states, is pressuring 10 states to do more to purge voter rolls -- or remove ineligible voters -- before the 2008 presidential election, according to letters sent to state election officials this spring.

Despite the Bush administration's best attempts to get rid of the electoral process all together, Working Assets is still trying to register voters. We've done this in the past with GoVote and now are powering the Rock the Vote voter registration widget, which is revolutionizing the way new voters fill out a registration application on-line.

Do your best to fight the Bush administration: Vote. (And register, if you need to...it only takes a few minutes.)