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There is shenanigans on both sides of the aisle. If you do not believe that, perhaps a look at politics in Chicago throughout history might be convincing.
From their actions.
Did not read very much did you?
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» Dem Clerk Who Disenfranchised 1300 Military Voters Has a History of Voter Suppression - Big Government
Democrat in title.
(An odd story since he has tried to disenfranchise African Americans)
Military Voter Protection Project
Justice Dept. (Headed by Eric Holder - Democrat - Obama Appointee)
Not enforcing MOVE Act - requiring states to mail out ballots so military can return them on time.
Many of the states not complying are Democrat controlled
Can't have it both ways bub. If a small small fraction Tea Party members are "racist", and you think this reflects on the whole movement, then it would be logical to think that this one person's action would be representative of the whole Democrat party.
...as explained by David Duke, an infamous former leader of the KKK:
David Duke defends the Tea Parties from charges of racism: Why, they're just like him. | Crooks and Liars
If you think there isnt voter fraud, on a wide scale, then you are babaabababababahhh.
HAHA this just proves our point. If it were not for the low-life, drug addicted losers that depend on government handouts, who dont have a driver's license, then the democrats fear that they would never win another elections. I can see why the liberals are screaming about this one, fucking disgraceful losers.
Thanks Menschy, that's what us conservatives have been arguing all along.
Actually I'm not. I was visiting a friend in Lucerne and we went to Engelberg. I'm back in İstanbul since Monday and on my way to Canada/USA tomorrow. Merry ChristmasWhat are you doing in Switzerland Vince?
The Republican party knows that the long term demographic trends in the US are not going their way. But their base is not part of those trends. They have no choice but to pander to that hard right base, because if they don't, third parties will form and that would be an even bigger disaster. So, they must find other means to control elections such as gerrymandering and restricting voter's rights. It may work short term, but in the long run they are dead and they know it.
The Democrats would do the same if the shoe were on the other foot.
I bought a couple of short sales in Las Vegas this last summer. After I had closed and transferred title of the first property into my name (instead of the name of my LLC) I received an absentee voter ballot from the nice folks at the Elko County Administration office at what they assumed was going to be my "new" residence. They always send me an absentee ballot because, if I'm not in Spain or Argentina, I still live in Elko County so far away from a township that they don't expect me to make a 150 mile round trip into town just to vote. Instead I just need to let them know if I'm in the USA or abroad and they send me an absentee ballot to a PO Box in Wells, NV, (the nearest ZIP codeand only a 50 mile round trip from the ranch) or I receive an "express" envelope from Nevada to Barcelona or Buenos Aires.
I thought it was amusing -- and thoughtful -- that the nice clerks at the Elko County Administration Office had decided to send me an absentee ballot for a county-wide school board vote (one issue: which one of two people running for school board to vote for. I check the appropriate box (voted for the person who was against putting Huckleberry Finn on a list of censored books), pulled the wax paper strip from the self-adhesive envelope, folded it, taped it and dropped it in the mail.
A few days later I called and talked with a clerk in the Elko office to verify that my PO Box was still my "official" mailing address in Elko County, verified the physical location of my ranch in Elko County which is too far for them to deliver mail, asked how the weather was in Elko, said "Thank you", and turned off my cell phone. Two weeks ago I received my voter registration card in my mail in Barcelona. Nice folks, those county employees in Elko.
However, I still had to give the ACLU a couple hundred bucks in guilt money because I don't live in the USA full-time and therefore unable to go door to door canvassing against changes in Nevada's voter laws. We're a "lavender" or "magenta" State and Sharon of the Bangles has been surreptitiously pushing for changes that wound disenfranchise lots of legal residents of the State of Nevada. In Nevada, if you don't have a birth certificate because your town hall burned down in 1950, all you need is one person to attest that you are who you are before the voting registrar. It's been that way since the State attained Statehood. There hasn't been any problem with sneaky welfare mothers from Iceland (or Mexico, Central, and South 'Mericuh) trying to sneak into a voting booth and vote illegally because they aren't a citizen of the USA. And this really pisses the Republicans off. Note, this need to change a law that works just fine and isn't broken is being pushed exclusively by the local mouth pieces of the Republican Parhtay. Fortunately, Nevada has a new (and hispanic) Republican Governor who isn't so easily persuaded to act like a rabid ass hole. He's on record to fight the proposed changes in the current voter laws, unless it's a change to make voting MORE accessible.
Yup. Sharron Angle. And I'd hoped we'd never hear her name ever again.
And remember folks, I was raised to be a die hard Republican. I was even a great champion of Barry Goldwater, working as "a young Republican for Goldwater" in 1964. Say what you will, but the GOP has been caught too many times entangled in major illegal public scandals since Warren Harding. The Democrats are as clean as Clorox, but in my opinion getting a blow job in the Oval Office is a lot to do about nothing compared to creating lies about weapons of mass destruction just so your pals' stock in Halliburton, Bechtel, and Martin/Marietta performs through the roof. Although before the South became Republican it was steadfastly Democratic for at least half a century or more -- especially during the Jim Crow era. And it's still the same assholes. They just changed party affiliation for convenience. Yesterday's Southern Democrat keeping the disenfranchised away from the poll booths are simply called Southern Republicans these days. Still the same assholes.
Anyone paying attention to what Carl Rove (or is that Karl?) is up to these days?
Fortunately, Nevada has a new (and hispanic) Republican Governor who isn't so easily persuaded to act like a rabid ass hole. He's on record to fight the proposed changes in the current voter laws, unless it's a change to make voting MORE accessible.
Where did you get the idea that Democrats are trying to disenfranchise voters. I skimmed through several of those articles and I didn't see any claims to that effect. Those articles only indicate that military voters are disenfranchised, not that the Democrats have anything to do with it. An article published by the Heritage Foundation (a conservative think tank) explains that military voters are disenfranchised "both at the state and federal level -- by a voting process that fails to recognize the unique challenges created by a military voter's transitory existence or the delays associated with delivering an absentee ballot to a war zone halfway around the world." But not even the Heritage Foundation blames the Democrats for the problem.
America's Military Voters: Re-enfranchising the Disenfranchised
The disenfranchisement of military voters is not a new problem, and it's not one caused by Democrats. There's no evidence to suggest that Democrats are actively trying to pass laws around the country that would make it more difficult for members of the military to vote.
The Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment (MOVE) Act amends the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act to ensure that absent uniformed services voters and overseas voters are aware of their voting rights and have a genuine opportunity to register to vote and have their absentee ballots cast and counted, and for other purposes. The MOVE Act was sponsored by NY Sen. Charles Schumer (a Democrat) and had 60 co-sponsors in both parties, passed 389-22 with bipartisan support, and was signed into law by President Obama.
We know the entire point of the new voter id laws is to make voting LESS accessible especially to the folks that don't vote Republican (you know who they are). It's heartening to see a Republican governor take this stance but he is an anomaly. Perhaps is background plays a part.
WASHINGTON The Justice Department on Friday blocked a new South Carolina law that would require voters to present photo identification, saying the law would disproportionately suppress turnout among eligible minority voters.
Justice Dept. Cites Race in Halting Law Over Voter ID