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Lawsuit seeks to ban GOP poll monitors in black districts
The Cincinnati Enquirer ^
| 11/1/03
| Mike Torralba
Posted on 11/01/2003 8:35:59 AM PST by yankeedame
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To: yankeedame; rdb3; mhking; Trueblackman; BlkConserv
"The ACLU claims the GOP plan targets black voters in violation of the federal Voting Rights Act."And in other news, the ACLU demanded a return to a completely segrated society, with Whites not being allowed to go into Black neighborhoods, and Blacks not being able to go into White areas...
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posted on
11/01/2003 12:21:10 PM PST
by
Southack
(Media bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: yankeedame
Just when you think you've seen and heard it all, they stoop even lower. Man oh man, I just can't believe this. . . .
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posted on
11/01/2003 12:25:43 PM PST
by
fqued
("He who doesn't reboot at least once a day is not using the capacity of his computer.")
To: yankeedame
It's my understanding that the ACLU Foundation, which is a 501(c)(3) corp and which claims that donations to it are tax-deductible, is the arm of the ACLU that conducts its litigation. Whatever gaseous noise they wish to make about this, the activity they are engaged in here is brazenly partisan politics.
Complaints about the activities or operations of tax-exempt organizations that are inconsistent with exemption should be sent to the Internal Revenue Service, Exempt Organizations Examination Division, 1100 Commerce Street, ATTN: T:EO:E, Dallas, TX 75242. The complaint should contain all relevant facts concerning the alleged violation of tax law.
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posted on
11/01/2003 12:35:32 PM PST
by
Nick Danger
(For your convenience, we recommend courteous, efficient self-service.)
To: yankeedame; FreedomPoster; TheConservator; KC_Conspirator; Senator Goldwater; gitmo; ...
Perhaps you all would care to write a Letter to the Editor with your thoughts on this:
http://www.courier-journal.com/cjconnect/edletter.htm This is the Louisville paper where the precincts in question are located, and where the Democrats are launching their propaganda campaign of 'racism'.
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posted on
11/01/2003 1:05:18 PM PST
by
Republican Wildcat
(Help us elect Republicans in Kentucky! Click on my name for links to all the 2003 candidates!)
To: yankeedame
I was a poll monitor for the Republican Party, years ago, in Nashville while I was a student at Vanderbilt. It was an eye-opening experience.
I was assigned to an almost-all-black precinct (one elderly white couple voted that day; there were about 220 black voters). Representatives of the Democrats were there as well, and civility prevailed throughout. There's not a hell of a lot a poll monitor could do. At the time (no idea whether it's still the case), prospective voters didn't have to show ID; just give their name and address. If the information given matched the records the officials had, the person was allowed to vote. My associate and I turned away six voters, as I recall. Two of them were at the wrong precinct, and were probably legit, so they were sent to the proper polling place some blocks away. The other four were not registered. I'm sure they simply went to another precinct where no monitors were present, and voted illegally, with a $5 reward in pocket, which was the going rate at the time.
The voters tended to arrive in groups of six to ten, as many were shuttled to the polling place by St. Somebody AME Zion Church. Most clutched diagrams of the voting machine's face plate, with the Democrat ticket circled in red. Perfectly legal, of course, but disturbing that so many were illiterate and nonconversant in the issues.
Predictably, the Democrat Gubernatorial candidate and the Democrat Senate candidate carried that precinct by almost identical margins. Something like 214-5 and 213-4, as I recall. (Republicans won both races statewide, by the way.)
But here's what alarmed me most about the whole process -- even more than the attempt to vote by the four non-registered people. Also on the ballot was a referendum, I believe to change the Sheriff's term from two years to four years. The local Dems had no position on the question, so neither "Yes" nor "No" was circled on the voting machine diagram the great majority of the voters carried. And not being told how to vote... they didn't. Fewer than 20 of the 220 or so voters in that precinct voted on the referendum.
Overt corruption, in the form of voting by those who are not registered, is a cause for great concern, it should go without saying. But at least there's a way of challenging these would-be voters. Voting by the stupid, the ignorant, and the paid-off is a larger problem, and one without an obvious solution.
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posted on
11/01/2003 1:42:42 PM PST
by
southernnorthcarolina
(John Edwards is among the 99% of lawyers who give the rest a bad name.)
To: yankeedame
bump
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posted on
11/01/2003 1:49:27 PM PST
by
lowbridge
(As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly. -Mr. Carlson, WKRP in Cincinnati)
To: southernnorthcarolina
bttt
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posted on
11/01/2003 1:52:46 PM PST
by
friendly
(Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.)
To: yankeedame
My God, these people never met an election law they liked, unless it is in their favor. Now, as usual they use supposed racism to exclude poll workers so they can do their dastardly deeds with no messy republican's trying to stop them! They will most likely win.
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posted on
11/01/2003 1:53:25 PM PST
by
ladyinred
(Talk about a revolution, look at California!!! We dumped Davis!!!)
To: yankeedame
Suit protests GOP poll monitors in black districts Gee, can we have Democrat poll monitors excluded from white distrcits?
Just a matter of time before they start suing to have repulican VOTERS barred from all districts.
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posted on
11/01/2003 2:11:56 PM PST
by
lowbridge
(As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly. -Mr. Carlson, WKRP in Cincinnati)
To: yankeedame
So according to the ACLU, voter fraud preventation is a civil rights violation. I am sick of the ACLU making up Constitution rights out of thin air.
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posted on
11/01/2003 2:22:02 PM PST
by
Kuksool
To: yankeedame
If Democrats weren't committing vote fraud on such a massive scale in these districts, they wouldn't have anything to worry about from poll watchers. Cheating Democrat scum!
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posted on
11/01/2003 2:28:35 PM PST
by
#3Fan
To: longtermmemmory
Just a few weeks ago, the ACLU sued in a attempt to stop the CA Recall. Now the group wants to prevent Republicans from stopping voter fraud.
The ACLU is a real non-partisan organization. / SARCASM
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posted on
11/01/2003 2:28:58 PM PST
by
Kuksool
To: southernnorthcarolina
Park a plain white Crown Victoria outside the voting place of your choice, and leave it there throughout election day. Inside the car, a guy with sunglasses and a cell phone. That's all.Don't forget the box of donuts! ;-)
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posted on
11/01/2003 2:37:19 PM PST
by
StriperSniper
(All this, of course, is simply pious fudge. - H. L. Mencken)
To: Nick Danger; holdonnow
Ping! See #23
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posted on
11/01/2003 2:48:00 PM PST
by
StriperSniper
(All this, of course, is simply pious fudge. - H. L. Mencken)
To: StriperSniper
Don't forget the box of donuts! ;-) Mmmmmmm! Dooooooonuts!
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posted on
11/01/2003 3:12:17 PM PST
by
southernnorthcarolina
(John Edwards is among the 99% of lawyers who give the rest a bad name.)
To: yankeedame
The same thing that they did in Florida to prevent black Republicans from voting.
To: potlatch
Ping! White election inspectors, by their presence, "disenfranchise" black voters?
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posted on
11/01/2003 4:55:44 PM PST
by
ntnychik
To: FreedomPoster
Yeah .. that's what it sounds like to me.
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posted on
11/01/2003 6:27:16 PM PST
by
CyberAnt
To: yankeedame
The Kentucky American Civil Liberties Union, which is representing the five plaintiffs, claims...Hey Bob Barr, what's a greater danger? -- A few items that need to be changed in the Patriot act *OR* the long litany of trash the ACLU incessantly defends?
To: yankeedame
The ACLU, the local NAACP, the Congressional Black Caucus and other groups say the practice is intended to discourage people from voting.It's the usual ludicrous claptrap.
How does the presence of "challengers" at the polls "discourage people from voting?"
The question is HOW?
Over the years, every time I have seen this kind of charge made, it has NEVER been explained.
HOW is voting discouraged?
Can anybody offer a clue, since these corrupt race-hustling organizations the NAACP and the ACLU certainly never have.
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