According to a six-month-long investigation conducted by Greg Palast for Al Jazeera, “voting officials in 27 states, almost all of them Republicans, have launched what is threatening to become a massive purge of black, Hispanic, and Asian-American voters. Already, tens of thousands have been removed from voter rolls in battleground states, and the numbers are set to climb.”
Specifically, officials have a master list of 6.9 million suspected “potential double voters.” And in Virginia, Georgia, and Washington the lists are “heavily over-weighted with names such as Jackson, Garcia, Patel, and Kim,” all common to Democratic-leaning minority groups.
The process for checking those names, a computer program called Crosscheck—touted by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a vocal supporter for voter identification—is incredibly inaccurate. “The actual lists,” notes Al Jazeera America, “show that not only are middle names mismatched, and suffix discrepancies ignored, even conflicting birthdates are disregarded. Moreover, Crosscheck deliberately ignores any Social Security mismatches, in the few instances when the numbers are even collected.”
Given the tight races in Georgia and other battleground states, even a small number of false positives could turn the tide of an election, giving a strong advantage to Republican candidates for statewide and congressional offices.
In Georgia they simply misplace voter registrations that they don't want to accept:
On Tuesday, Judge Christopher Brasher of the Fulton County Superior Court denied a petition from civil rights advocates to force Georgia’s Secretary of State to process an estimated 40,000 voter registrations that have gone missing from the public database.
All of that bullshit the conservatives have been throwing around about voter fraud, and the need for stricter restrictions at the polls, was all to lay the groundwork for crap like this.
You know there are a whole lot of reasons to vote for the Democrats in this next election. But perhaps one of the best is because they respect EVERY American's right to vote, and rather than attempt to suppress any group's ability to cast their ballot, they work overtime to make it easy for all of us.
I for one am beyond fed up with this underhanded shit.
Agreed but what can be done about it? The gop is noted for dirty tricks and they seem to be able to get away with it. Makes me ill.
ReplyDeleteHi, for a while now I've been trying to get people in Alaska to notice that Shannyn Moore was probably correct and that the 2008 election results in Alaska were fraudulent, but it's been an uphill battle against my Asperger's Syndrome, which keeps me from articulating the my case clearly and succinctly in emails or phone calls.
ReplyDeleteMore to the point it's likely that the electoral fraud was ordered by Sarah Palin and the threat of this being revealed in 2009 precipitated her resignation.
I've prepared this blog/Youtube Channel laying out my evidence, and am now passing it around to all the Progressive/Political AK bloggers I can find.
http://electoralfraudinalaska2008.wordpress.com
I hope you'll look at it carefully and consider sharing on your blog. The case is complex and technical, but you can get by by watching/reading Introduction, Evidence 3 and maybe 4, and the first Conclusion video/blog post.
Hope you find the info interesting,
John Foelster
Republican motto=if you can't win, CHEAT
ReplyDeleteWhen are people going to realize as the only thing that differentiates us from non-citizens is the RIGHT to VOTE !!!!
You Republicans know your policies are bullshit when you know you have to cheat in order to win.
ReplyDeleteYou just know the missing voter registrations will turn up on November 5th....
ReplyDeleteand then there's this: a 93 year old veteran is denied the right to vote. http://www.click2houston.com/news/new-voter-id-law-prevents-veteran-from-voting/29392706
If there is still a person out there who considers himself/herself to be an Eisenhower-type Republican, I bet that person is cringing at the moves being made by the 21st century Republicans to keep American citizens from voting. Why can't the Republicans simply get some good ideas, ideas that appeal across the spectrum of the American electorate? Most of us Democrats would welcome the debate about whose ideas for the betterment of all are the most deserving of our votes. Knowing that the GOP only wants to dismantle everything that has made this country succeed in the 20th century so that it only marginally works for 1% of the population is disheartening to all of us. No one, in a democracy, should be out there trying to keep citizens from exercising their right to vote. No one. Ever.
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It's how they play their games. Where I live, we have a "Voter's roll" that the voter signs, it's analogue and archaic, but it works, then you go in the booth and vote. The tallies are compared and each vote is counted for, but who knows with the Diebold machines used in some districts, and other slights of hand?
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