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.
Its easy to see how Dems do it at the national level when everyone votes in one location, but this is a Republican controlled site.
Were the people turned away really not registered as Republicans? Did they recently change the rules in California?
It doesn’t matter in an election that’s conducted by district, not statewide. Ten votes in the conservative district counts just the same as ten thousand.
If this were a winner-take-all election, you’d have a point.
Exactly.
Yes, I was unclear what the article was saying. I expressed my confusion in comment #32 and then suggested that these Republicans may have been falsely labeled “independents” in #35. Seems that’s exactly what happened.
Something’s really screwed up here. If the results of yesterday’s California primary are allowed to stand, an uprising is entirely justified.
Thank you for the clarification. Well done.
Since the PRK now goes Democrat in every recent election, who cares? Its not like the ‘Pubbies are going to pick up any electors from that state...
I disagree. It is an article, first published on FR. The OP is reporting on the facts, which he has heard from various sources.
The only part of the article that is an opinion is the next to last paragraph.
It is apparent that we need to have the Chavez and Castro
government monitor our next elections.
Maybe somebody already posted it, and maybe it is fake. Who knows these days?
Title is California Election Fraud, guy says he is Dem who registered as Republican so he could vote for Ron Paul.
A Democrat who doesn't think the rules against filming in a polling location applies to him. A Democrat who went to the polling station planning to film. And, a Democrat who thinks provisional ballots aren't counted. Oh yeah, I'm going to give a lot of weight to what he says.
What part of "registered Republicans having their party affiliation changed without their knowledge" did you not understand? i.e. tampering with voter rolls...
I am all for closed primaries. You need to read more carefully before you pop off.
They wouldn’t. But they could do this to suppress turnout in conservative areas, which hurts Romney and helps McCain.
What the hell are you talking about? It says right there the problem was in San Diego County.
The only way that'd work in a Congressional District based race (as this one was) would be to somehow find some sub-set of a given CD that's more conservative than others and change it. Done on a county-wide or area-wide basis, it'd have no effect on the outcome.
I'm still in the 'Registrar incompetence' column.
I only checked to see if mine had the right name. I never even thought to check to see if it had the correct party designation next to my name, and I doubt most people did.
Furthermore, I didn't even pull my sample ballot out of the unread mail drawer until this last weekend. I had read the larger book with expanded information, but only filled out the sample ballot 2 days before.
I did see this happen to one fella at my polling place who said he was a dem and desired to vote for Obama
I sent a quick email this morning to some conservative friends and discovered that three of the six experienced this very problem yesterday!
LOL!
Re. your great tag line:
The first step is admitting you’re in politics......
They're called precincts.
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