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.
John F*ckin's on the defensive. IT'S NOT A TIE, IT'S NOT A TIE, IT'S NOT A TIE! Despite what Gallup now says. See, I don't need a poll to tell me Ketchup Boy isn't acting like a guy who's ahead. If he has the Big Mo behind him, he shouldn't care less what the Republicans are or aren't doing. Instead, he's panicking and imbibing the kooks' Kool Aid. Exactly like the delusional folks over on DU do every day. You don't see President Bush acting like a loser, do you? Even when he's taking body blows. There's something very off about Kerry.
I am sick to death of this lying SOB.
I don't know that I can stomach him
for another 30+ days.
deny, deny, deny - spin, spin, spin ...
Like the Republicans are disenfranchising felons or keeping blacks from turning out. More of that 2000 election urban legend. Kerry's aiming his pitch not at swing voters but at the ABB crowd. He needs them to turn out to keep the election close.
McGovern
Ok... let me see if I have this down:
- If you were a felon in a state where that suspends your voting rights, you were "disenfranchised" if the law was followed.
- If you were not a registered voter long after the deadline and was prevented from voting illegally, you were "disenfranchised."
- If you had to present ID to prevent others from voting for you, you were "disenfranchised."
- If you were not allowed to vote multiple times, you were "disenfranchised."
- If your vote was only equal to the single vote of any other voter, but you're a Democrat, you were "disenfranchised."
- If you were not allowed to vote because you are dead, you were "disenfranchised."
- If you were not allowed to show up and vote after a polling place had closed, you were "disenfranchised."
- If you couldn't read your ballot because reading is "White / Uncle Tom", you were "disenfranchised."
I'm sure I missed some.
LOL. Good one. Don't forget, if you object to claims Republicans will return to slavery, count blacks as 3/5ths of a person, burned black churches that were never actually burned, making convicts do the time for the crime convicted for, or dragged random black men to their deaths, you are "disenfranchising" the black vote!
"Kerry said he has his own team of lawyers "of all color and all mix" ..."
LOL! Just like his campaign staff?
dittos
Total BS. If we want to talk about voter suppression, let's talk about the military ballots that were tossed aside in 2000. Now that was voter suppression!
Let's see the proof. Where are the prosecutions?
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