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Thank god the right judges are there to protect Democracy
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#663 |
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Looks like Anti- American George Bush is up to his old tricks
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast Don’t worry about Mickey Mouse or ACORN stealing the election. According to an investigative report out today in Rolling Stone magazine, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast, after a year-long investigation, reveal a systematic program of "GOP vote tampering" on a massive scale. - Republican Secretaries of State of swing-state Colorado have quietly purged one in six names from their voter rolls. Over several months, the GOP politicos in Colorado stonewalled every attempt by Rolling Stone to get an answer to the massive purge - ten times the average state's rate of removal. - While Obama dreams of riding to the White House on a wave of new voters, more then 2.7 million have had their registrations REJECTED under new procedures signed into law by George Bush. Kennedy, a voting rights lawyer, charges this is a resurgence of 'Jim Crow' tactics to wrongly block Black and Hispanic voters. - A fired US prosecutor levels new charges - accusing leaders of his own party, Republicans, with criminal acts in an attempt to block legal voters as "fraudulent." - Digging through government records, the Kennedy-Palast team discovered that, in 2004, a GOP scheme called "caging” ultimately took away the rights of 1.1 million voters. The Rolling Stone duo predict that, this November 4, it will be far worse. There's more: - Since the last presidential race, "States used dubious 'list management' rules to scrub at least 10 million voters from their rolls." Among those was Paul Maez of Las Vegas, New Mexico - a victim of an unreported but devastating purge of voters in that state that left as many as one in nine Democrats without a vote. For Maez, the state's purging his registration was particularly shocking - he's the county elections supervisor. The Kennedy-Palast revelations go far beyond the sum of questionably purged voters recently reported by the New York Times. "Republican operatives - the party's elite commandos of bare-knuckle politics," report Kennedy and Palast, under the cover of fighting fraudulent voting, are "systematically disenfranchis[ing] Democrats." The investigators level a deadly serious charge: "If Democrats are to win the 2008 election, they must not simply beat McCain at the polls - they must beat him by a margin that exceeds the level of GOP vote tampering." Block the Vote by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. & Greg Palast in the current issue (#1064) of Rolling Stone. [Media enquiries - Dave Falkenstein, Sunshine Sachs & Assoc, via interviews@gregpalast.com.] Note - Kennedy and Palast are releasing, simultaneously with the Rolling Stone investigative report what they call, the vote-theft 'antidote': a 24-page full-color comic book, Steal Back Your Vote, which can be downloaded or obtained in print from their non-partisan website, StealBackYourVote.org For updates and video reports, go to RollingStone.com, " + title + " and StealBackYourVote.org. Source: : Rolling Stone |
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from fivethirtyeight.com
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Voters say they were duped into registering as Republicans - Los Angeles Times
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#666 |
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Is this really the greatest democracy we have on earth?
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What is the purpose of even registering by party affiliation? Is it because of voting in the the primaries?
It makes little sense to me, and it seems that if this method of registering were eliminated, so too would be all these instances of registration/purging registrants fraud that seem to run rampant in the US every four years. Here, when we're registered to vote, no one is asked for their political affiliation. Of course, we're free to officially become a member of any party we want, for a small fee, if I remember correctly, but that has nothing to do with voter registration, or any government records kept. The vast majority of people don't, though. |
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Jimmy Carter should show up with international observers.
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I don't get the reason for the whole registration at all. Too much potential for fraud on any side.
In Germany, you turn 18, are legal to vote on the federal level (locally from 16 on) and for every election you get a voter's card. On the day of election you show up, hand in your blue card and make your crosses on the ballot. That's it. No one is excluded, given the person is German and of legal age. |
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Some states have closed primaries, and a it's common for the opposing party to register as the opposite party for the purpose of voting for the weaker candidate to give themselves a weaker opponent. I don't think it's ever very effective though.
But in the case above, I don't see what difference it makes, because the general election is open. |
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![]() 100,000 turn out to see Obama in St. Louis. ![]() Awe-fucking-some.
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People in north Virginia, you too have now joined San Francisco and New York. Congratulations!!!
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That sounds similar to what Sen. George Allen said to the Webb guy - "Welcome to America and the real world of Virginia." And he lost. I think McCain will lose Va. (and I get to help make it happen
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I have the sneaking suspicion that their definition of "real" is "pro-McCain."
Exactly who is being elitist again? |
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As someone who lives in RoVA (rest of virginia), Northern Virginia is actually VERY different culturally. Home is central virginia and I go to school in tidewater virginia, and most of my classmates are from NOVA (northern virginia). It really is different, but hey they help Virginia get democrats elected
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Va. will have 2 Democratic Senators + a Democratic governor as of a couple of weeks from now. So, I think Obama is almost a lock for Va.
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