Yea Republicans are trying their best to deny as many people as they can their right to vote. Yea, that great freedom that the men in uniform or defending with their blood is what the REPUBLICANS are trying to stop for some people.
The Teabaggers are in this too and the TEABAGGER backers - namely the Koch brothers are up to their necks in these illegal corrupt criminal acts.
Yes the freedoms that the Founding Fathers fought for are not good enough to people like the RW haters. And be sure that they hate us for our freedoms.
See it exposed by freedom lovers as the crimes of the freedom haters are shown for all to see::
In Nevada
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In Wisconsin
MILWAUKEE - A coordinated plot by the Republican Party, tea party and billionaire Koch brothers to suppress the vote in Wisconsin on Election Day has been exposed. One Wisconsin Now, a progressive voter advocacy group which exposed the plot, has sent a letter to the U.S. Justice Department requesting an investigation.
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The vote suppression plot centers around the use of "caging," a technique utilized heavily by Republicans and the extreme right wing over the past few election cycles. It is targeting heavily Democratic voting blocks, primarily African Americans, Latinos and university students.
In the "caging" practice, letters are sent to targeted voters to intimidate them by saying they have to call a number and verify their information or they will be removed from voter rolls.
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And if the letter sent to a voter is returned as undeliverable, the voter's name is put on a list and their eligibility is challenged on Election Day.
Denying a person's right to vote in this way is patently illegal and a violation of federal law.
Voters who are challenged will have the option of returning home to get the necessary documents to prove their residence or to reregister. This will discourage many voters from returning.
The other option is to vote by provisional ballot. But voters must return the next day to validate their ballots, and provisional ballots are not counted 35 percent of the time.
Americans for Prosperity, the outfit funded by the billionaire Koch brothers which used various front groups to fight the president's health reform legislation and other initiatives, and whose efforts to take down the Obama administration were exposed earlier this summer in a lengthy piece in the New Yorker magazine, agreed to send out the letters to voters.
The Republican Party has provided the voter database, and has agreed to train poll watchers and arrange for attorneys to be present to challenge voters. The tea party will provide Election Day volunteers.
One Wisconsin Now legally obtained a tape of a meeting where the discussion of the plot took place. In it, Tim Dake, leader of the Wisconsin Tea Party known as the GrandSons of Liberty, is heard saying:
More here:
http://www.peoplesworld.org/wisconsi...e-suppression/
In Illinois
Mark Kirk, the Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Illinois, is excitedly planning to send so-called voter integrity teams into mostly black Chicago neighborhoods, reports TPM. In a secretly recorded telephone conference with members of the state’s Republican Party leadership, Kirk said that he was devising plans to focus the project in “key vulnerable precincts” where “the other side might be tempted to jigger the numbers.”
Kirk’s plan—and his unsubstantiated claims about voter fraud—are a now-standard part of the Republican Party’s voter-suppression playbook, which gets dusted off every election.
“Practices that fly under the banner of ‘voter integrity’ are efforts to suppress voters. There are a lot of ways it can happen,” says Laughlin Macdonald, director of the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project. And, he says, the “targets are often people of color, who tend to vote Democratic.”
More here:
http://colorlines.com/archives/2010/...blican_us.html
Other states
In some cases, the courts have rejected GOP efforts to make voting harder:
In Indiana, for instance, a Superior Court judge declined to support a GOP bid to shut down early voting centers in Democratic-leaning cities in Lake County, and the state Supreme Court chose not to immediately intervene.
In Wisconsin, a suit brought by Republican Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen -- which he later admitted had been requested by the Republican Party -- seeking to force the state election board to re-confirm all newly registered voters was thrown out by a county court.
In Michigan, a federal appeals court today blocked the Republican secretary of state, Terri Lynn Land, from throwing 5,500 newly registered voters off the rolls because their registration cards were returned as undeliverable, after voting-rights groups sued.
In other states, Democratic state officials or voting-rights advocates have held the line:
In Nevada, Secretary of State Ross Miller denied a request from the state GOP to require voters to cast provisional ballots if they fixed mistakes in their voting information at the polls.
In Colorado, a bid by Republican Secretary of State Mike Coffman -- who himself is running for a seat in the U.S. House -- to purge 14,000 voters from the rolls was only partially successful. After voting-rights groups sued, a settlement was reached yesterday allowing the voters to cast provisional ballots. According to the Rocky Mountain News, those ballots would "be presumed to be valid unless state and county officials prove otherwise." A lawyer for the voting-rights groups called the deal "a win-win."
In still other places, it's been a combination of both factors:
In Ohio -- perhaps the most high-profile example of voter-suppression this cycle -- the state GOP sued to force Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner to provide local election officials with the names of new voters whose registration information didn't match other government documents. Brunner resisted, arguing, it appears correctly, that the information would be used to challenge large numbers of voters and cause chaos at the polls. The U.S. Supreme Court ultimately sided with Brunner. (The Department of Justice deserves some of the credit here, too, for declining a request by the White House to intervene.)
And in some states, the Republicans appear to have done themselves in through the sheer chutzpah of their behavior, and the resulting outcry:
In Montana, the state GOP announced plans to challenge 6000 voters in predominantly Democratic counties, based on discrepancies between in their listed addresses. But after even Republicans in the state denounced the ploy, the party backed off, and its executive director resigned.
In New Mexico, the state party held a press conference at which it released the names, and some personal information, of ten voters, almost all Hispanic, that it said had voted fraudulently in a Democratic primary in June. It was later established that they were all legitimate voters. The U.S. Department of Justice is now investigating reports by TPMmuckraker and others that a lawyer attached to the party sent a private investigator to the homes of some of these voters to question them about their voting status -- potentially violating federal voting laws.
Of course, that's not to suggest that Republican suppression efforts haven't been successful anywhere. In Florida, for instance, Secretary of State Kurt Browning, a Republican, has instructed election officials to reject voter registration applications that do not pass a computer match test. Voting-rights groups say the system can disqualify voters based on nothing more than a missing middle initial on their voter form. They fear the move could disenfranchise tens of thousands of legitimate voters. (Though even in the Sunshine State, there's a bright spot. GOP governor Charlie Crist on Tuesday ordered extended hours for early voting centers, after long lines were reported in many parts of the state.)
Of course, the whole point of the voter-suppression game is to throw up as many gambits as possible, and hope that just a few succeed. And there's no way to measure the effect that even the unsuccessful ploys have in generating cynicism about the process itself, and thereby reducing turnout, to Republicans' advantage. So in a close election, it's still possible that voter suppression could make the difference -- as it may well have done in 2000.
But it's worth noting that -- thanks largely to Democratic control of the secretary of state's offices in some key states; the skepticism with which many courts have looked on efforts to put obstacles in the way of voting; and the role of voting-rights groups and the press in exposing the bankruptcy of Republican claims -- the nationwide GOP voter-suppression effort appears to have been far less successful than the party might have hoped.
Not that we expect them to drop the tactic any time soon.
More here:
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmem...n_more_mis.php
One has to wonder how low the REPUBLICANS can slither down to
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