Posted on 02/06/2008 9:01:01 AM PST by PsyOp
Reports are rolling into talk radio stations in San Diego about massive Republican vote suppression.
Thousands of Republican voters in San Diego and as far north as Los Angeles showed up to vote on Tuesday only to be told that they were registered "Non-Partisan". This meant that they could not vote for the Republican Primary candidates.
Non-Partisan (independent) voters in California can vote for Candidates in any other party, including the Democrat party, but are prohibited from voting in the Republican Primary unless they are registered as a Republican.
Rick Roberts [http://www.760kfmb.com] is currently reporting on this and has had hundreds of calls and thousands of e-mails from people who showed up to vote only to be told they were not registered as Republcans. Reports began rolling into the Roger Hedgecock show yesterday.
Several people have called in saying they witnessed this happening at polling place they worked at as volunteers. One gentleman stated that he believed at least 20% of the Republicans that showed up to vote were denied a Republican primary form because the roster showed them as "Non-Partisan".
The Republican Party in California has begun investigating this issue, but the mainstream media continues to report that Californias election "went smoothly".
It seems clear that someone or some group managed to tamper with the voter registration rolls. Either by direct access to the Registrars computer system, or by gaining access to voter information and then sending in registration cards in their name.
Southern California was projected to go heavily in favor in Mitt Romny.
Hi Rush!!!
Just to let you know.....I will never ever vote for MCCain.
Not our Candidate!!!!
Hi Rush!!!
Just to let you know.....I will never ever vote for MCCain.
Not our Candidate!!!!
RE your comment about poll workers. It took me about an hour to convince our supervisor that she needed to make the provisional repub option available to those who complained. Her original response was “there’s nothing we could do.”
Now I wonder when was the last time we had someone that was actually elected by the people. I’d bet money that this isn’t a new thing but just a different “phase” of control.
Yea, you’re right. To hell with vote tampering. Its no big deal...
We have the electoral college and delegetes in the party’s. Have we ever had anyone elected by “the people.” Remember many of the founders weren’t fond of democracy.
In CA the Rep primary is closed to anybody registered other than R. It would be easy to change somebody’s resgistration by just sending in a new reg form making them a Decline-to-State or Ind.
The big problem, if you’re trying to play dirty tricks, is identifying which Reps to change. If you do it randomly the percentages for each candidate should stay about the same. If you’re working in favor of candidate “A”, how do you figure out who’s going to vote for candidate “B”?
not to mention the illegal alien voters.
Even IF this is 100% true and 20% of the vote was surpressed, the lesson is established.
Voter fraud benefits the cheater. A sacraficial lamb is sent to jail and the candidate who won by cheating keeps office.
There is no downside for the candidate who wins by cheating against republicans.
LOL!
Why can't he just do it the old-fashioned way, like Bob Dole did it?
Yup, no big deal, right?
At least that’s what a few on this thread seem to be saying.. they’re certainly entitled to their opinion, but not ablve being called out for it or whether this was an accident, an orchestrated effort or just happenstance.. some folks just don’t care who is in charge, I reckun.. sound like a bunch of EUroweenies to me..
Still, When the process is broken, how can the result be called a success?
No you don’t have it right. We are saying that Republicans had their party affiliation changed from Republican to Non-Partisan without their knowledge, and were therefore unable to vote in the closed Republican Primary.
In other words, someone went into the registrars computers and changed party affiliations, or managed to get hold of voter info and used it to send in falsified registration forms requesting affiliation changes.
FRAUD!
I absolutely believe in the electoral college. It works. But we have states trying to get rid of it. And voter suppression is NOT a good thing. Ever.
This happened to many people in my town in Northern California.
That's the way it should be, so you avoid having the "MoreOn.Org" crowd pick your GOP candidates for you.
Your arguing points I never made. I’m just responding to your point that “the people” elect the candidates.
Thanks. I got it eventually.
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