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.
I was listening to Roger Hedgecock yesterday, and he was asking for people to email him with their stories about this. He also took a call from a poll worker who said this was happening frequently at her location, but only to Republicans.
It makes more sense that the dems would want to drive them towards their party. I don't disagree with that, but let's figure out how they did it.
I'm not really dense, just cautios and in fact, wuite trim.
Thank you for being the only voice of naivety on the thread.
There IS no defense to excuse vote fraud or suppression. None.
I'm writing a letter this week about my experiences and I encourage them to make the problem known publicaly and to the registrar.
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What’s the issue? If they weren’t registered Republicans why should they be allowed to vote?
After trying to get me ousted, what's the point of further rplies?
My vote in NYS didn’t mean much of anything. McCain had it wrapped up, so I voted for who I wanted to. However, even knowing that my vote wouldn’t count for a thing, I would have been livid if I’d gotten there and was told I couldn’t vote because somehow I was “suddenly” an Independent. Maybe more freepers need to volunteer at the polls.
I agree. I also think that whoever did this thought it would be chalked up to "mistakes" on the part of the voters because of the recent change in the Rpublican Primay to "closed" and the fact that many republicans have (claimed anyway) to have switched to "independent", over disatisfaction with the party. To things that would provide good cover for a fraud attempt.
In the end, one or both of these things will be claimed though they are illogical and don't hold up to serious analysis of the facts.
Where does this 20% figure come from? Where has anyone suggested that 50,000 GOP voters in San Deigo have been disenfranchised?
I've heard that 63.7% of all statistics are made up. Is this one of them? Links! Links!!
You guys are beginning to sound like Michael Moore!
Rick Roberts on KFMB has been reporting exactly the same thing for four hours this morning. Numerous poll workers calling in to confirm that this was only happening to Republican voters.
Not 'blase', just not convinced that this is anything more than normal inefficiencies found in all systems run by humans.
Hate to see good conservatives going all AlGore on this.
Do I?
Post 119
I’m just responding to your point that “the people” elect the candidates.
My post 126
If they don't then why vote?
Post 130
Point, set, match.
Doc, I can only speak for the poll I worked at in Oceanside. But the repub-Non-partsan problem was our most frequent problem, by far. We had about 200 repub voters and 15-20 who said they were repuibs and came in as NP. That’s too high of an error rate.
We’re through.
I vote in a very small, rural area in NY state. Everybody knows everyone. New voters get their ID checked. And if you can't remember which district table to go to, the poll workers know where you belong and call you to the correct table. :) This kind of trickery could only happen in a big city.
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