Remember Negroes: Election Day is tomorrow & voting for Obama is a felony
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There were the fake letters on official-looking letterhead in Florida notifying people they'd have to prove their citizenship to vote.
There were mailers in Ohio and Arizona listing the wrong election date.
There were robocalls telling Virginians they could vote by phone for convenience.
In Pennsylvania, despite the voter ID law being blocked in court, the state kept putting up posters and sending mailers telling people they would be "required to show photo ID on Election Day."
In Wisconsin, Romney campaign poll watchers are being trained with misleading information.
"We see these kinds of issues whenever an election is close," Judith Browne Dianis, a civil-rights attorney and co-director of the Advancement Project, told reporters at a briefing this week. "Whenever the margin is smaller, we see the ramping up of these kinds of tricks."
The most worrisome prospect, for these advocates, is the Tea Party-linked group, True the Vote, that has vowed to send a million citizen observers to the polls on Election Day. In the past, the group's observers have been deployed to predominantly minority areas, armed with spurious challenges to voter eligibility. Progressives fret that the mere presence of "white guys in suits with clipboards" looming over every voter is enough to scare people whose interactions with authority haven't always been positive -- kind of like those voter fraud billboards, which, while accurate, prompted calls to radio stations about whether you could be thrown in jail for voting with unpaid parking tickets.
Like so many features of modern American elections, the Advancement Project's vigilance today stems from the awful memory of Florida in 2000, said Penda Hair, another co-director of the group. The chads, the butterfly ballots, the thousands of alleged felons wrongly purged from voter rolls: None of it surfaced until it was too late to do anything about it. "We wanted to make sure we could stop this from happening before the election," Hair said. "Somebody should have been watching in 1998 and 1999 when this purge was being hatched."
A decade past the Florida nightmare and 2004's "voter caging" schemes, in which GOP poll monitors challenged tens of thousands of Ohio voters with little basis, advocates are far more proactive about anything that could be construed as discouraging people -- particularly minorities -- from voting. The Advancement Project was a party to the lawsuit that stopped Pennsylvania's voter ID law and will be working with a coalition of "election protection" groups to monitor the polls in targeted areas of nine states on Election Day. (None will receive more attention, of course, than Florida.)
The scare-mongering is a notable feature of both sides of the voting wars. Just as progressives are sure they see voter suppression everywhere they look, right-wing partisans tend to see the specter of voter fraud, as when a Republican elected official raised alarms over a bunch of Somali speakers voting with the help of an interpreter last week.
Dianis herself had to wait in line for seven hours to vote early in Prince George's County, Maryland, this past Sunday. But what she heard while she waited encouraged her: Without any prompting from the voting-rights lawyer standing in their midst, "people around me were talking about voter suppression," she said. "They consider this their fight back."
In black and Hispanic churches, in barbershops and beauty salons, and on ethnic radio stations, the message has gotten out: They're trying to take your vote away. Don't let them. "The efforts to restrict the vote for partisan gain have backfired," Dianis said. "It has motivated people."
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/11/why-progressives-are-still-worried-about-voter-suppression/264389/
on the other hand, the New Black Panthers will be out there again oppressing white ppl again so i guess it'll cancel out lol
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meanwhile, this dumb ? ...
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In Ohio , the Republican Party chairman of Franklin County, which includes Columbus, was even more blunt. Doug Preisse said, "I guess I really actually feel we shouldn't contort the voting process to accommodate the urban -- read African-American -- voter turnout machine."
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/23/us/politics/ohio-early-voting-battle-flares-after-racial-comment-by-republican-official.html
already voted an hour ago and HELL YES it was for revenge, ? THESE LAMES -
Who is surprised, if anyone is surprised you are so damn asleep. SMH.
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Fox News at it already w/ the New Black Panthers. LOL @ THEM DEMONIZING THIS BROTHA WHILE HE SMILE AND HOLD OPEN DOORS FOR WHITE PPL LOL
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lol ? fox news is pathetic
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If we have a Bush/Gore moment again in favor of Romney, will it be a felony then ?
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"We're also being told that the Philadephia GOP is reporting that left-wing judges are tossing GOP poll watchers out of polling locations throughout the city"
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lol ? ya'll ? , philly stand up
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eh, given the intellect of the average American, i think voting should be a felony for 99% of the population
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Swiffness! wrote: »Fox News at it already w/ the New Black Panthers. LOL @ THEM DEMONIZING THIS BROTHA WHILE HE SMILE AND HOLD OPEN DOORS FOR WHITE PPL LOL
http://youtu.be/jNXGAJX6KSk
heeeeeeelarious.
"Look at that savagery. Smiling and greeting people as they arrive and holding doors for old ladies.
I can't believe they let vicious animals like that walk around in public." - youtube comment
fox news is just so......bad.