Posted on 10/27/2004 3:27:22 AM PDT by ejdrapes
With Election Day almost upon us, it's not clear whether President Bush is running a campaign or plotting a coup d'etat. By all accounts, Republicans are spending these last precious days devoting nearly as much energy to suppressing the Democratic vote as they are to mobilizing their own. Time was when Republicans were at least embarrassed by their efforts to keep African Americans from the polls. Republican consultant Ed Rollins was all but drummed out of the profession after his efforts to pay black ministers to keep their congregants from voting in a 1993 New Jersey election came to light. For George W. Bush, Karl Rove and their legion of genteel thugs, however, universal suffrage is just one more musty liberal ideal that threatens conservative rule. Today's Republicans have elevated vote suppression from a dirty secret to a public norm. In Ohio, Republicans have recruited 3,600 poll monitors and assigned them disproportionately to such heavily black areas as inner-city Cleveland, where Democratic "527" groups have registered many tens of thousands of new voters. "The organized left's efforts to, quote unquote, register voters -- I call them ringers -- have created these problems" of potential massive vote fraud, Cuyahoga County Republican Chairman James P. Trakas recently told the New York Times. Let's pass over the implication that a registration drive waged by a liberal group is inherently fraud-ridden, and look instead at that word "ringers." The GOP's Shameful Vote Strategy
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Let's not. 35,000 ballots were returned as undeliverable in OH.
What a disgraceful article, even for the Post.
Th WaPo here is just acting as a transciption sevice for propaganda faxes received from the evil Democratic National Committee.
And, let's hope unvotable. I bet the registrars just bogused up some registrations to pad their paychecks and please their bosses.
The media's sympathetic coverage of late-registering voters is ridiculous.
They remind me of those people who put off Christmas shopping until December 23rd...and then complain about the crowds.
Get your party to stop cheating and you won't have to worry about it, butthead. And speaking of vote suppression, stop trying to supress the military vote. And finally, we see right through your feeble attempts at race-baiting, time to come up with a new scam already.
This article has got to be from the OpEd pages since it falls beneath even the Washington Post's low standards for "reporting."
"By all accounts?" "All" of them?
Suppressing the vote is a federal crime, dimwit. Either report these crimes to the authorities or shut up.
This is exactly the kind of lying bilge we can expect from the loony left from now on.
Yes, heaven forbid that the "evil Republicans" monitor the polls and help prevent massive voter fraud! How DARE they disenfranchise people attempting to vote twice or more! (Never mind that monitoring such as this is perfectly legal and above board.)
Where is this moron's sense of outrage about the active voter intimidation happening in the early voting sites in Florida?!? Oh that's right...it's the Dems attempting to ILLEGALLY intimidate GOP voters, so it's OK. What a travesty!
Those of you in battleground states (unfortunately I'm not in one myself) need to get out and make sure this is a legal election. The Dems are crying about nonexistant election theft committed against them while simultaneously trying to get away with stealing this election themselves. Don't let it happen!
I'm glad to hear the GOP is not just allowing fraud to happen.
We all can see what happens when journalists' at the Post(demorat's)start toking on the crack pipe.Bush/cheney 2004
And the thousands of poll monitors and lawyers dispatched by Kerry are okay, because they are working for the forces of light and hood. And the Union thugs that have already stood in line in Florida to harass any Bush voter are just foot soldiers in the war on poverty.
Excuse me while I visit the vomitorium.
Tell the lie, tell it often enough . . . . . .
Yeah, this is really a dreadful editorial, even for the Compost. It's just a litany of the writer's own assumptions and prejudices. There's a smell of Democrat desperation in the air.
"by all accounts" just like "clearly" and "obviously" is often used to prop up a weak argument.
Mary Poppins and Dick Tracey are regstered Democrats.
In front page news stories today, the Washington Post revealed that water is wet, that eating at McDonalds will make you fat and that poor people have less money than rich people.
This is completely irresponsible.
What are the democrats planning? A coup?
In Milwaukee, where they haven't had a Republican mayor in who knows how long they're having a real battle about the number of ballots printed. They've requested 950,000 ballots and the one responsible for following through on it says they don't need 950,000 ballots because that's almost double the number of eligible voters unless you count the dead vote. Smells like there could be a voting scam is going to happen in Milwaukee.
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