Posted on 04/10/2005 3:43:21 PM PDT by johnny7
BOSTON — Many voters in last year's presidential election were denied access to the polls through trickery and intimidation, former Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry told a voters' group today. "Last year too many people were denied their right to vote, too many who tried to vote were intimidated," the Massachusetts senator said at an event sponsored by the state League of Women Voters. "There is no magic wand. No one person is going to stand up and suddenly say it's going to change tomorrow. You have to do that," he said.
Kerry supporters have charged that voting irregularities in largely Democratic areas made it difficult for voters to cast ballots in the November election. A lawsuit in Ohio cited long lines and a shortage of voting machines in predominantly minority neighborhoods, but the Ohio Supreme Court dismissed the suit. Kerry also cited examples today of how people were duped into not voting. "Leaflets are handed out saying Democrats vote on Wednesday, Republicans vote on Tuesday. People are told in telephone calls that if you've ever had a parking ticket, you're not allowed to vote," he said.
Kerry has never disputed the outcome of election, saying voting irregularities did not involve enough votes to change the result. Bush won the pivotal state of Ohio by 118,000 votes, giving him enough electoral votes to win re-election. Bush supporters have denied using voter intimidation tactics to keep people from going to the polls. A call to the Republican National Committee media office was not immediately returned today.
Earlier this year, Kerry joined Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., in filing voting reform legislation. The Count Every Vote Act would create a federal holiday for voting, require paper receipts for votes and authorize $500 million to help states upgrade voting systems and equipment. Congress' investigative agency, the Government Accountability Office, has also begun looking into the handling of provisional ballots and malfunctions of voting machines. The study could lead to changes in the election process.
Kerry, using crutches as he recovers from knee surgery, suggested the United States should spend as much time promoting democracy at home as it does abroad in countries like Iraq. "We need to go about the business of making our own democracy in America work better," he said.
What crap!
Sorry... it's a dupe.
The only places that there were polling problems were in areas controlled by the democrats.....HELLO....these democrats assume that since they are corrupt that means everyone else is....
Wow! Do the election officials in Seattle's King County know this?
To these guys intimidation = verifying the right to vote in this country. They make me sick.
Anyone dumb enough to fall for that is not only too stupid to vote but shouldn't be allowed to breed either.
Oh Wow man! Like it's Wednesday man. We forgot to vote man!
That was really dynamite dope man. Like it must be the Republicans' fault man!
...uh, did you do a search?
George Bush won anyway.
I'm going to call my Congressman and Senator tomorrow and demand picture Id's be included in any Federal Election reform!
Kerry simply is not man enough to admit he lost fair and square at the polls. He needs to rationalize the loss with these bizzare statements.
What is next? Aliens abducted potential Kerry voters?
ditto... Kerry and the rest of the 'cRATS will continually trot out this line about enforcing democracy in America while they call their base stupid. If I were a democrat or a liberal, (kill me now), I would be offended that my political leaders are calling me stupid. Thank GOD, (and I do mean GOD), my President has faith in my skills as a human being.
NOT THIS S**T AGAIN!! When is this moron gonna get a clue and notice the election is SOOOOOOOOOO OVER!! Get over it you freakin idiot!!!
Oh...and where's the Form SF-180, John? Hummmmm?
"You lost horse-face deal with it."
Forgive him. He was confused. He thought he was running for GQ Man Of The Year.
Well, there is something to what he claims. In Florida, alone, between 10,000 and 12,500 black Jamaicans, Cubans and Haitians were actually paid to vote 3 to 6 times each but, in fact, only voted 2 to 4 times apiece because of intimidation. Not only did they not vote, the local crapweasel party had the expense of paying for the higher vote volume. These foreigners were, in effect, disenfranchised!! And, just because they were black!!!
"If we could only get our message out. *sob*"
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