Regarding the New York Times article, "States' Actions to Block Voters Appear Illegal"  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/us/politics/09voting.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&ref=politics&pagewanted=print

I am an e-voting activist in North Carolina, and I can tell you that the NY Times article is misleading and inaccurate.   Your first tip should have been all of the parsing of verbs and failure to state any proof. I wrote to Ian Urbina, and here is his reply:

From: Ian Urbina  

To: joyce@ncvoter.net

Subject: RE: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/us/politics/09voting.html?_r=1&ref=politics&oref=slogin

Date: Oct 9, 2008 9:03 AM

From what we can see in the data, NC does not seem to have any major red flags. Best we can tell, it looks like the number of people coming off the rolls would roughly correspond with the number of people leaving the state or dying during that period (both of which are legitimate reasons to remove people within 90 days before an election).

Ian

-----Original Message-----

From: joyce@ncvoter.net [mailto:joyce@ncvoter.net]

Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 8:54 AM

To: URBINA@nytimes.com

Subject: FW:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/us/politics/09voting.html?_r=1&ref=politic

s&oref=slogin

The NC Coalition for Verified Voting successfully worked to eliminate the matching requirement in North Carolina in August 2007.

If a voter doesn't match, they just show some ID when they come to the polls.  ID includes  a utility bill or something like that. Not too hard.