40,000 Potential Provisional Voters May Get SOAKED

--Contributed by Jane Schiff

Regular voters can become provisional voters overnight through evacuations, foreclosures, bankruptcies, floods, fires, and more. We somehow need to find or create organizations that can help ferry people back and forth to motor vehicle bureaus, assist them in obtaining valid drivers' licenses (or state IDs for those who aren't drivers), and then transport them to their boards of elections to re-register.

Maybe the rest of us should create, produce, sell and buy bumper stickers and t-shirts that say "THE UNITED STATES OF PROVISIONAL VOTING" with the proceeds going to fund operations to preserve or restore people's eligibility to vote when disaster situations wipe out the documentation that states are increasingly requiring as a condition for voting.

2008 Federal Disaster Declarations http://www.fema.gov/news/disasters.fema

Major Disaster Declarations

Number Date State Title DFRNs Designated Counties FOIA
1770 06/20 Nebraska Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding
1769 06/19 West Virginia Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Flooding, Mudslides, and Landslides
1768 06/14 Wisconsin Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding
1767 06/13 Montana Severe Winter Storm
1766 06/08 Indiana Severe Storms and Flooding
1765 05/30 Nebraska Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding
1764 05/28 Mississippi Severe Storms and Tornadoes
1763 05/27 Iowa Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding
1762 05/26 Colorado Severe Storms and Tornadoes
1761 05/23 Georgia Severe Storms and Flooding
1760 05/23 Missouri Severe Storms and Tornadoes
1759 05/22 South Dakota Severe Winter Storm and Record and Near Record Snow
1758 05/20 Arkansas Severe Storms, Flooding, and Tornadoes
1757 05/19 Kentucky Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Flooding, Mudslides, and Landslides
1756 05/14 Oklahoma Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding
1755 05/09 Maine Severe Storms and Flooding
1754 05/09 Oklahoma Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding
1753 05/08 Mississippi Severe Storms and Flooding
1752 05/05 Oklahoma Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding
1751 03/26 Arkansas Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding
1750 03/20 Georgia Severe Storms and Tornadoes
1749 03/19 Missouri Severe Storms and Flooding
1748 03/12 Missouri Severe Winter Storms and Flooding
1747 03/07 Illinois Severe Storms and Flooding
1746 02/21 Kentucky Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-line Winds, and Flooding
1745 02/07 Tennessee Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-line Winds, and Flooding
1744 02/07 Arkansas Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding
1743 02/06 Hawaii Severe Storms, High Surf, Flooding, and Mudslides
1742 02/05 Missouri Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding
1741 02/01 Kansas Severe Winter Storms
1740 01/30 Indiana Severe Storms and Flooding
1739 01/11 Nebraska Severe Winter Storm
1738 01/08 Nevada Severe Winter Storms and Flooding
1737 01/04 Iowa Severe Winter Storm

Emergency Declarations

Number Date State Title DFRNs Designated Counties FOIA
3286 04/24 Ohio Snow
3285 03/19 Wisconsin Snow
3284 03/14 Texas Wildfires
3283 03/13 Illinois Snow

Fire Management Assistance Declarations

Number Date State Incident
2776 06/22 California Wild Fire
2775 06/20 California Trabing Fire
2774 06/16 Texas Camp Bowie Fire
2773 06/13 North Carolina Evans Road Fire
2772 06/11 California Martin Fire
2771 06/11 California Humboldt Fire
2770 06/10 California Ophir Fire
2769 06/05 Oklahoma Gotebo Fire
2768 06/05 Texas Hughes Ranch Fire
2767 06/03 Texas Rein Street Fire
2766 05/22 California Summit Fire
2765 05/12 Florida Brevard Fire Complex
2764 05/01 Texas Price Fire
2763 04/27 California Santa Anita Fire
2762 04/21 New Mexico Trigo Fire
2761 04/16 Texas Hebbronville Fire
2760 04/16 Colorado Ordway Fire
2759 04/10 Texas Parker Fire
2758 04/01 Texas Kentwood Fire
2757 03/27 Texas Silver Heels Fire
2756 03/21 Oklahoma Quinlan Fire
2755 03/20 Texas Encino Fire
2754 03/19 Texas Burns Ranch Fire
2753 03/14 Texas 322 Fire
2752 03/14 Texas Eighty-two Fire
2751 03/14 Texas Old Bastrop Highway Fire Complex
2750 03/12 Texas Arabella Fire
2749 03/04 Texas La Perla Fire
2748 02/28 Texas New Archer Fire
2747 02/25 Texas Silver Fire
2746 02/25 Oklahoma South Woodward Fire
2745 02/25 Texas South Odessa Fire
2744 02/23 Texas Scurry Complex Fire
2743 02/13 Texas Broadway Fire
2742 02/08 Texas Chevron Fire

Last Modified: Monday, 23-Jun-2008 12:48:15
FEMA 500 C Street SW, Washington, D.C. 20472
Disaster Assistance: (800) 621-FEMA