Posted on 10/03/2004 9:48:03 PM PDT by ambrose
Posted on Mon, Oct. 04, 2004
Kerry says Republicans suppressing voting in swing states
MARY DALRYMPLE
Associated Press
CLEVELAND - Republicans have been trying to suppress voting in states where the presidential race is too close to call, Democratic nominee John Kerry said Sunday at one of the city's largest predominantly black churches.
"In battleground states across the country, we're hearing stories of how people are trying to make it harder to file for additional time, or how they're making it harder to even register," Kerry told an enthusiastic congregation at East Mt. Zion Baptist Church.
"We're not going to let that happen because the memories of 2000 are too strong. We're not going to allow 1 million African Americans to be disenfranchised."
At a stop in Ohio earlier Sunday, Kerry told a voter concerned about ballots cast by military personnel overseas that Democrats are aware of voting problems and are concerned.
"We're seeing efforts by the Republicans, unfortunately, in various parts of the country to suppress votes and intimidate people, to do things that bring back memories that are pretty bitter in the American mind from the year 2000."
With just a month left in the presidential campaign, Kerry said the campaign would take steps nationally to ensure voters access to the ballot box.
The Bush-Cheney campaign said the charges of voter suppression "have no basis in reality."
"Like so much of his campaign, John Kerry's false charges of voter intimidation are baseless," said spokesman Steve Schmidt. He said Democrats rejected a GOP offer to put a lawyer from each party in every voting district across the nation on Election Day.
Kerry said he has his own team of lawyers "of all color and all mix" examining possible voting problems to try to prevent a repeat of the 2000 election disputes. He also has said he has thousands of lawyers around the country prepared to monitor the polls on Nov. 2.
The Massachusetts senator has been fighting hard to win a number of closely divided states with enough Electoral College votes at stake to swing the election, leading both campaigns to put legal teams in place ready to challenge voting irregularities.
To prevent Ohio from becoming this election's Florida, Democratic Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones gave the churchgoers some advice.
"When you go to the ballot box, if you make a mistake you can get another ballot," she said. She also urged voters with punch card ballots to hold them up for examination before turning them in.
"No hanging chads will mess with this election," she said.
talk about living in fantasy land !
If you've ever wondered how democrats justify fraud.
apparently trying to keep people from voting 50 times is now 'disenfranchisement'.
How? /rhetorical
This man is disgusting.
But not surprising. He's trying to turn law enforcement efforts to weed out the non-existant people, the cats, dogs, hamsters, and the deceased people who are trying to register to vote.
That is, trying to turn it into 'disenfranchisement'
That's a relief to see that he's color coordinated his lawyers. Oh, well, what do you expect from a metro? With morons like this to deal with we'll never achieve a color blind society.
I'd say that Kerry is the one suppressing votes...his own!
Looks like Kerry is trying to steal this election like Gore tried - AND FAILED - to do in 2000.
Translation: "When you go to the ballot box, you can get another ballot, ... and another and another and another ..."
"We're hearing..." "We're seeing..."
Samo samo. No facts, just frivolous, baseless emotional outbursts.
And he wants to be President.
You know, I think this tactic of trying to divide the country is the most damning thing that Kerry does, repeatedly.
It is really incredible is that this absolute bias is pretending to be a news story. The AP is just beyond salvage anymore.
The favorite trick of Dems, and they are experts at it, is to accuse the Pubs of doing that which they actually do. The best defense is an offense. Thus they accuse Pubs of voter fraud because they are masters at it, but to throw everyone off the scent as to their illegalities, they accuse the Pubs of it first. Besides which, the Dems always feel as they are so capable of cheating and lying themselves, that everyone else therefore must be doing it. They're a trip, those Dems.
"How in the Hell do Kerry and the Democrats say all of this bilge with a straight face????????????????"
Because to them, the ends justifies the means. If they own the WH again come January 2005, to them it was the correct tactic.
Um, more voters have registered than live in some Ohio voting districts. 'Rats say the census was wrong. 'Rats say any effort to have an honest voting system is disenfranchisement. They've been projecting voter fraud to Republicans for four years, to hide their own malicious activities. I kind of expected it from the 527's, but to have the candidate say this is beyond the pale.
Look Out. In this campaign cycle, whenever the Dems. make frivolous allegations it means that they are engaging in the same activities that they are alleging. The Kerry M.O.
What is he talking about? Registrations are equaling about 125% of the population in swing states.
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