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America is not a one-party state
Sun, 10/19/2008 - 9:55am | mal contends
No words of condemnation suffice to describe the repugnant anti-democratic actions of J.B. Van Hollen and the Republicans on voter suppression.
Here's another piece that comes close. From the Democratic Strategist:
Let’s say it simply – America is not a one-party state. The people in the federal law enforcement and criminal justice systems are supposed to stay out of politics – not work to support the party in power. There are specific rules and long-standing institutional traditions in the DOJ against publicly announcing a major political investigation during the last few days of an election campaign. ...
McCain likes to argue that 'I’m not George Bush'. But Dems can fairly reply 'No, but the DOJ will obviously be run in exactly the same, repulsive way that it was during the Bush administration.'
In fact, it’s actually ironic. The last-minute intrusion of the FBI into the 2008 campaign actually gave John McCain the ideal opportunity to show that he really would be a different kind of Republican from George W. Bush. Instead, he used the opportunity to show that he will be exactly the same.
Here's another piece that comes close. From the Democratic Strategist:
Let’s say it simply – America is not a one-party state. The people in the federal law enforcement and criminal justice systems are supposed to stay out of politics – not work to support the party in power. There are specific rules and long-standing institutional traditions in the DOJ against publicly announcing a major political investigation during the last few days of an election campaign. ...
McCain likes to argue that 'I’m not George Bush'. But Dems can fairly reply 'No, but the DOJ will obviously be run in exactly the same, repulsive way that it was during the Bush administration.'
In fact, it’s actually ironic. The last-minute intrusion of the FBI into the 2008 campaign actually gave John McCain the ideal opportunity to show that he really would be a different kind of Republican from George W. Bush. Instead, he used the opportunity to show that he will be exactly the same.
Tags: The real fraud - 13 million voters purged from lists
Sat, 10/18/2008 - 5:56pm | warmmidwest
Forget ACORN (and here's a good article about how they've actually followed the law), here's the real case of voter fraud that no one wants you to notice - since 2004, as many as 13 million voters have been purged from the roles. This is the concerted effort being perpetrated on American citizens by elected officials like Wisconsin Attorney General J. B. Van Hollen, and those in 39 other states.
They're using clerical errors to suppress voter turnout, folks. This isn't a matter of "cleansing voter roles" for inaccurate information. This is a war on democracy. And it's being done today, illegally, within 90 days of the election.
13 million voters purged. Think about that. And naturally, it's heavily occurring in battle ground states.
The Brennan Center for Justice has the details in its latest report.
And, shock, even mainstream media outlets are beginning to take notice. Here's the latest from CBS.
UPDATE: Find out your voter status here.
Disgrace
Fri, 10/17/2008 - 11:14am | mal contends
Update: Breaking - High court rejects GOP bid in Ohio voting dispute. See also NYT editorial on ACORN. GOP just got its vote-suppressing arse handed to 'em. Wisconsin's Van Hollen to see a similar event next Thursday, October 23.
The GOP's corrupt usurpation of the legal system for partisan objectives is a disgrace.
The latest target is the ACORN political group whose only crime as an organization is registering low-income Americans to cast votes, a political crime against the Republican Party.
Practiced on both the national and state levels, the ongoing voter suppression operations of the GOP exercised in the capacity of state authority and in the naked partisan name of the GOP raises the spectre of Richard Nixon in using the government apparatus to suppress the political will of the American people.
The latest target is the ACORN political group whose only crime as an organization is registering low-income Americans to cast votes, a political crime against the Republican Party.
Practiced on both the national and state levels, the ongoing voter suppression operations of the GOP exercised in the capacity of state authority and in the naked partisan name of the GOP raises the spectre of Richard Nixon in using the government apparatus to suppress the political will of the American people.
Friedman Rips Apart ACORN Voter Fraud Hoax
Tue, 10/14/2008 - 10:34am | mal contends
Update: See A Dose of Reality on the ACORN Hysteria.
Face it Republicans, you are going to lose and you are going to lose big.
But not without a lot of whining and lying first.
Brad Friedman eviscerates the GOP voter fraud lie aimed at the group ACORN, the Association for Community Organisations for Reform Now.
The crimes of ACORN are as Friedman writes in The Guardian:
... that Acorn managed to register some 1.3 (million) low-income (read: Democratic-leaning) voters over the past two years. The rest is, pretty much, just made up. ... Despite the screaming wall-to-wall coverage of 'Democratic voter fraud in 11 swing states' as seen on Fox News and even the once-respectable CNN, none of it's true.
Battleground States See Pervasive Systemic Efforts to Block the Vote
Fri, 09/26/2008 - 2:29pm | Project Vote
Cross-posted at Project Vote's blog, Voting Matters
Weekly Voting Rights News Update
By Erin Ferns
"I think the days of ballot box stuffing are more or less gone." - Allen Raymond, former GOP operative
Voter fraud by individuals has been a major partisan debate in recent elections, inspiring multiple states to consider or pass laws that purport to stop it, including "no-match, no-vote" list maintenance procedures and strict voter ID requirements. Despite federal findings that the act of casting an illegal ballot is exceedingly rare, partisans often cite large scale voter registration drives as voter fraud culprits, and perpetuate the myth of voter fraud by spreading the fear that such votes cancel out legitimate ones. With rising registration rates - particularly among historically underrepresented Americans - it is no surprise that partisans are spreading this myth, and the media often perpetuates the hysteria by printing stories on the small numbers of bad registration cards submitted by large scale voter registration drives (including the 1.2 million submitted by Project Vote voter registration partner, ACORN).