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Posted on 10/20/2004 4:07:28 AM PDT by Semper Paratus
THE REPUBLICANS are out to steal the 2004 election -- before, during, and after Election Day. Before Election Day, they are employing such dirty tricks as improper purges of voter rolls, use of dummy registration groups that tear up Democratic registrations, and the suppression of Democratic efforts to sign up voters, especially blacks and students. ADVERTISEMENT
On Election Day, Republicans will attempt to intimidate minority voters by having poll watchers threaten criminal prosecution if something is technically amiss with their ID, and they will again use technical mishaps to partisan advantage.
But the most serious assault on democracy itself is likely to come after Election Day.
Here is a flat prediction: If neither candidate wins decisively, the Bush campaign will contrive enough court challenges in enough states so that we won't know the winner election night.
The right stumbled on a gambit in 2000, which could become standard operating procedure in close elections: If the election ends up in the courts, all courts eventually lead to the Supreme Court, which, as we learned, can overrule state courts -- and pick the president.
This year is even more ripe for abuse, because the 2002 Help America Vote Act, a "reform" written substantially to Republican specifications, toughened ID requirements. It also gave voters a right to cast "provisional" ballots if their names are missing from the rolls. Good impulse, but someone, ultimately a court, must decide whether they should have been permitted to vote, and that's almost impossible to resolve on Election Day.
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You can always know why they are up to by what they accuse the GOP of doing.
Has the writer of this story read even one of the voter fraud cases out there....they are at rats doings
What could be a more serious assault on democracy than that which overtook South Vietnam after America withdrew ?
I expect a last-minute "surprise" by the democrats similar to the DUI story that came out the weekend before the 2000 election.
No idea what it will be, but the RATS have thousands of lawyers, hundreds of private investigators, plenty of George Soros' money to incent folks to dig up the dirt, and a near monopoly in the news media to help sling the mud.
Corrected headline
The art of Misleading the Reading Public
If he did that, he'd have to admit the Dems were frauds.
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Wasn't it the Dems that went to court in 2000?
No chance of that happening
Hmmmm.... No mention of actual events happening, like crack for voters in Ohio. Oh, sorry...That was a Democrat thing. Nevermind.
Exactly--the reverse barometer works every time.
Last minute voter registrations, lawyers going to Fla. in droves, Early voting in Fla. and Texas, making accusations of Republican excesses while doing exactly that same thing themselves. Yeah I think there will be voter fraud allright, Demo voter fraud.
" by having poll watchers threaten criminal prosecution if something is technically amiss with their ID"
Unbelievable - they are pre-emptively stating that requiring proper identification is discrimination! Obviously this is the party of the terminally stupid . . .
I heard that the Republicans want to suppress the dead vote.
The democrats will be stealing the election by using their army of lawyers at polling places...threatening to SUE anyone who tries to follow the rules and ask for ID before passing out a ballot.
You can bet, even if Bush wins by 5%, there will be a multi-month period where the lefties in the moveon.org groups and the media rage about "disenfranchisement"...basically using every conspiracy theory possible to discredit the Bush win and hurt him politically.
It is true! It is true! The mean republicans will not let Marry Poppins or Mickey Mouse vote.
/sarcasm off
Yeah, I always knew Mary Poppins was a Republican.
What's the author been smoking? One of George Soros' weeds? If I remember correctly, Bush won the vote count in Florida, he won the re-count, and it was the Rats who tried to win in the courts what they couldn't win at the ballot box.
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