The GOP War on Voting

Rolling Stone ^ | August 30, 2011 | Ari Berman

[americanophile]

As the nation gears up for the 2012 presidential election, Republican officials have launched an unprecedented, centrally coordinated campaign to suppress the elements of the Democratic vote that elected Barack Obama in 2008. Just as Dixiecrats once used poll taxes and literacy tests to bar black Southerners from voting, a new crop of GOP governors and state legislators has passed a series of seemingly disconnected measures that could prevent millions of students, minorities, immigrants, ex-convicts and the elderly from casting ballots. "What has happened this year is the most significant setback to voting rights in this country in a century," says Judith Browne-Dianis, who monitors barriers to voting as co-director of the Advancement Project, a civil rights organization based in Washington, D.C.

[dila813]

wow

I didn’t know that we had first hand witnesses here

I know they did it to my Dad, but I wasn’t there to see it first hand

[dila813]

Oh, my Dad was a hard core Democrat, he would have voted that way anyways....still pisses me off that they do this crap wholesale

[Mortrey]

snip-”A group backed by Soros is gearing up to steal the 2012 election for President Obama and congressional Democrats by installing left-wing Democrats as secretaries of state across the nation. From such posts, secretaries of state can help tilt the electoral playing field.”
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/12/04/soros-eyes-secretaries/print#

[a fool in paradise]

Just as Dixiecrats once used poll taxes and literacy tests to bar black Southerners from voting

Just a DEMOCRATS once used poll taxes and literacy tests ot bar black REPUBLICANS from voting...

There. Fixed their Stalinist historical rephrasing of the situation.

[a fool in paradise]

The Koch Brothers. This decade’s target of hate since the libs can’t really get traction out of Karl Rove and Newt Gingrich’s names anymore.

George Soros, Warren Buffett, Ted Turner, and Bill Gates are all Socialist billionaires that the liberals just adore. I loathe those who have stockpiled wealth (some at the expense of those in my profession like Bill Gates who brought foreign labor to America to drive down industry wages while pocketing the saving himself) and insist that I AM NOT PAYING ENOUGH TAXES.

How many Justin Beiber covers has Rolling Stoned run now? And they think they are relevant to music or political discussion?

[a fool in paradise]

Republicans have long tried to drive Democratic voters away from the polls. "I don't want everybody to vote," the influential conservative activist Paul Weyrich told a gathering of evangelical leaders in 1980. "As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down."

Rolling Stoned's selective outrage is barf worthy.

Quite alright when a faggot like Moby does it with lies and smears.

Punk the prez? - Moby's anti-Bush tricks(New York Daily News ^ | 2/09/04 | Rush & Molloy)

One of Sen. John Kerry's celebrity supporters is ready to pull out all the stops to get him elected. Republicans are shrieking over a suggestion by rocker Moby that Democrats spread gossip about President Bush on the Internet. "No one's talking about how to keep the other side home on Election Day," Moby tells us. "It's a lot easier than you think and it doesn't cost that much. This election can be won by 200,000 votes."

Moby suggests that it's possible to seed doubt among Bush's far-right supporters on the Web.

"You target his natural constituencies," says the Grammy-nominated techno-wizard. "For example, you can go on all the pro-life chat rooms and say you're an outraged right-wing voter and that you know that George Bush drove an ex-girlfriend to an abortion clinic and paid for her to get an abortion.

"Then you go to an anti-immigration Web site chat room and ask, 'What's all this about George Bush proposing amnesty for illegal aliens?'"

Moby didn't claim that he believed the abortion story.

[Safetgiver]

I went to different higher ups and explained what I saw, said this might be illegal, and all ignored me (all liberals). When I pushed it a bit further, the head of personnel actually looked into it and informed “They’ve ALL voted this way for 25 years (or however long they poor ‘tard had been in the system). DUH!!

[Political Junkie Too]

If you mean voter suppression by preventing felons, dead-people, and illegal aliens from casting a vote

Even the legal aliens can't vote.

Sometimes I wonder if the Left believes that green card aliens should be allowed to vote, too.

-PJ

[MNJohnnie]

The GOP War on Voting Fraud

I see the mental defectives at Rolling Stone got their head line wrong. I fixed it for them

[familyop]

That topic as discussed by the government-employed-and/or-paid, bipartisan political class is beside the point and full of white noise. It’s unclear, as to what the political folks are trying to accomplish with their political efforts to change or resist changes to voting laws. They’re all supported by government. The nearest that an American observer can gather, is that one party is in favor of more largesse for direct federal income recipients, and the other, for local income recipients of federal funding. With so many local courts also corrupt, there’s no good reason to bother with being subject to jury duty.

[americanophile]

Yep.

[americanophile]

Nope, they have to spin it.

[slimer]

This guy was either smoking dope or is just an evil Marxist.

He very well could be a dope smoking Marxist ;)

[truthguy]

Just as Dixiecrats once used poll taxes and literacy tests to bar black Southerners from voting, a new crop of GOP governors and state legislators has passed a series of seemingly disconnected measures that could prevent millions of students, minorities, immigrants, ex-convicts and the elderly from casting ballots.

What a steaming pile from a POS publication like Rolling Stone. It's to be expected from a left wing rag like Rolling Stone and with a writer by the name Ari Berman you know what you are gonna get. Hell, RS isn't even a good Rock and Roll publication any more. It isn't fit to wrap fish in.

Let me translate this. The Republicans are against illegal alien voting. The Democrats are in favor of illegal aliens voting because they know they are gonna get 90 something percent of the illegal voters. Republicans also don't want students voting in areas in which they do not reside or pay taxes. As for the elderly, the Republicans don't want retirees voting BOTH in Miami Beach and Brooklyn, NY. That about sums it up.

[Mariner]

"And six states controlled by Republican governors and legislatures – Alabama, Kansas, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin – will require voters to produce a government-issued ID before casting ballots. More than 10 percent of U.S. citizens lack such identification, and the numbers are even higher among constituencies that traditionally lean Democratic – including 18 percent of young voters and 25 percent of African-Americans."

LIAR!

[ExNewsExSpook]

Funny, but the folks who worry about “voting rights” never mention the most successful disenfranchisement campaign in the nation’s history—the systemic efforts to deny the vote to members of our military.

Look at the numbers; by some estimates, more than half of all military absentee votes are never counted. In most cases, it’s a direct result of Democratic officials deliberately delaying the distribution of absentee ballots, knowing that they won’t count by the time servicemembers receive and submit them.

The number of minority voters disenfranchised pales in comparison to military members whose votes are routinely rejected. Pardon me if I don’t get too excited about the “minority” issue when hundreds of thousands of military personnel can’t cast a vote that “counts.”

[JimRed]

Reading the comments, I was pleasantly surprised to note that the responses seemed to run 4 or 5 to one in favor of voter ID and anti-fraud laws. On Rolling Stone? who’d a thunk it?

[americanophile]

I know I left one...

[americanophile]

I know I left one...

[americanophile]

You’re absolutely right about that.