Looks like the first week of law school to me, when 300 people with dark suits with sunglasses were lounging in front of the county courthouse on a bright sunny day.
Posted on 10/17/2004 5:55:39 PM PDT by Kaslin
Democrats plan to send 1,000 New York lawyers to precincts in key battleground states on Election Day, part of a nationwide legal SWAT team that will include 10,000 attorneys in all.
And they'll be ready to cry foul on behalf of John Kerry at the first sign of a hanging chad or botched butterfly ballot.
"We're going to be there to make sure that every eligible voter gets to vote and every vote cast gets counted," Henry Berger, New York state counsel for the Kerry campaign, told the New York Post on Sunday. Six hundred New York lawyers alone will be traveling to Florida to keep an eye out for "disenfranchisement." The remaining 400 Empire State legal eagles will fan out across Ohio and Pennsylvania, prominent election lawyer Jerry Goldfeder told the paper.
The plans for the Democrats' legal invasion were hammered out in New York this summer after party chief Terry McAuliffe rejected a bipartisan offer from top Republican Ed Gillespie to share Election Day monitoring.
Altogether, more than 10,000 Democrat lawyers will hit the beaches in at least 15 states on Oct. 30, when they'll begin a crash course on state election law.
Do you think the effort on our side is as large as theirs? What kind of problems do you think we will end up seeing?
I heard there were laywers on both sides
Not as large, but we will have a presence. I was a poll watcher in 2000 and reported a lot of fraud in NYC. It was terrible and depressing.
Choice! Send in the clowns.
Next time some nitwit Democrat tells you that Gore got more votes, respond that Bush had more real actual voters.
Nope ....pro bone us !
Do you think that we will have a number of Florida's this year? Ohio, Wisconsin... even... god forbid... my own backyard of Joisey? If Jersey is not a close call you can pretty much give it to the Dems. We are like a 3rd world country with a Democrat Cartel.
Anyone catch the Dem talking heads this AM? Kept repeating the phrase " anybody who WANTS to vote should have their vote counted." Not anyone ELIGIBLE to vote.
Great to hear to you're on our side, especially after reading about Ki Chaun. Bookmarked. Thanks for your service.
I don't believe this at all. 1000 lawyers standing around shabby voting sites in strange cities just in case? No way. Even lawyers aren't that stupid. It's a good ploy to excite the dunces however, keep them energized and defiant. This is a turnout-boosting tactic, nothing more.
How does this help the turnout?
ALso here is another clip: http://www.wnyc.org/news/articles/37016
This effort is being chaired by Donna Brazile (Brazilla!)
"I was a poll watcher in 2000 and reported a lot of fraud in NYC."
Did reporting it make any difference?
One of the basic tenets of this country is the right to vote, If you dont like the administration we have now you have the chance to change it with your vote, The Democrats have been challenging this theme since George Bush was elected,and Al Gore was defeated. If they succeed in convincing enough of the American people that they cannot get a fair vote they will have started a Revolution in this country.
The Democrats are trying to tear down the government of this country.They have been trying for the last 4 years with their 60 vote rule. Their actions are treasonous and could lead to real Americans taking back this country.
You could always get in his face and shout him down.
Looks like the first week of law school to me, when 300 people with dark suits with sunglasses were lounging in front of the county courthouse on a bright sunny day.
Delusions of grandeur.
It is within people's power to stop this. All they have to do is conclude that Bush is going to win anyway, so let's make the win sufficiently lopsided that no amount of legal wrangling is going to change it. I'll bet there is a sizeable segment of lukewarm Kerry voters who really wouldn't be that upset if Bush won, but the one thing they don't want is more chad wars. The way to end them is to send a clear and convincing signal to the Democrats that lawyering the elections is not something people want to see. |
"Right now, this election is closer than it was in 2000. Whichever side wants victory more, whichever party approaches the final weeks of this campaign with the clearer focus and deeper sense of determination will win." - James Carville
Will they be disbarred if found helping people vote more than once?
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I hope this action by the Democrats gets a lot of publicity. My sense is that people really, really do not like this new trend of getting lawyers and courts involved in elections.