[FreedomPoster]

Just damn. So they want to be free to continue to stuff the ballot boxes without any oversight, I guess.

[TheConservator]

The ACLU, the local NAACP, the Congressional Black Caucus and other groups say the practice is intended to discourage ineligible people from voting.

Can't have that now, can we?

This is truly outrageous.

[KC_Conspirator]

The only thing this does is stop the vote fraud and keep dems from stealing elections and threatening democracy like they did in 2000.

[Senator Goldwater]

Having GOP monitors would greatly reduce the turnout of deceased voters, so the ACLU has a point.

[gitmo]

There should be poll watchers in every precinct.

[truthandlife]

FReepers Against Voter Fraud (Great Links to what the Democrats are really doing)

[upchuck]

Outrageous.

Political parties have the option of placing two challengers at any precinct on Election Day, according to state law. Their job is to question a voter's eligibility if they suspect the voter is ineligible. They aren't allowed to confront the voter directly.

So, do I understand this right? These race baiters are filing suite because the Republicans are following the law? BWAHAHAHAHAHA. Whiners!

Damned RATS must have awfully thin skin if they feel intimidated by someone who can't even talk to them.

[southernnorthcarolina]

Voter suppression works for me, if it's those who shouldn't be voting whose votes are suppressed.

Try this: 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. He doesn't even have to get out of the car. Would-be voters who have violated their paroles, or who are late on their child support, or who have arrest warrents out on them, or who simply have guilty consciences and/or paranoia won't want to risk being seen by someone who just might be in an unmarked police car.

[painter]

"The ACLU, the local NAACP, the Congressional Black Caucus and other groups say the practice is intended to discourage
people from voting.".....MORE THAN ONCE!!!!

[longtermmemmory]

If the ACLU was really so concerned they would send their own pollwatchers under the auspices of the Democrat party. Leftists.

[Southack]

"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...

< /MOCKING >

[fqued]

Just when you think you've seen and heard it all, they stoop even lower. Man oh man, I just can't believe this. . . .

[Nick Danger]

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.

[Republican Wildcat]

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'.

[southernnorthcarolina]

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.

[lowbridge]

bump

[ladyinred]

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.

[lowbridge]

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.

[Kuksool]

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.

[#3Fan]

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!