Voter Suppression is a key GOP tactic http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-gop-war-on-voting-20110830

"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."

But probably not

Sometimes I look at the democrats in office and shake my head. What the FUCK can they be thinking?

"After all, you catch more flies with honey than vinegar!"

The starry-eyed niceness and "golly, we have to respect every perspective, even the obviously wrong and fucked-up ones!" attitude of the Democratic party are why we keep losing ground. The archaic and futile quest for "bipartisanship" are what's causing what few successes we win to be smeared with far-right bullshit.

Basically, our party is still living in the Summer of Love and refuses to realize that the modern world needs them to be mean, hardassed motherfuckers willing to throw their "co-workers" out on their asses.

Remember turd blossom, and the US attorneys scandal of 06?...this has been a long time coming i wish Nancy Pelosi had put that asshole under oath when we had the chance... might have slowed up this voter suppression..

These purges are strategic and thorough.

We have the RIGHT to vote. it is the LAW. despite the games that are bing played . the constitution spells it out . PERIOD.

it's going to take direct action. it's going to be messy. this is not something that is going to be fixed by asking nicely.

That would be as useful as OWS - not at all

That's the only way the Republican's can win .. by denying their opposition to vote. They must know how much they are hated. And I do mean HATED !

thing I can think of. All from the party of rah-rah USA and faux patriotism. Sickening.

Naturally, some Democrats will wait until after they've been screwed out of the 2012 elections to consider issuing a "harshly worded statement."

However, upon consideration, senior Democrats will worry that the corporate news media will label them "sore losers" and decide to instead concentrate on "get out the vote" efforts.

THIS is really disgusting.

he's already filed a class action lawsuit against the State of Tennessee.

but glad to hear his action!

This is much too blatant not to be exposed.

Only Republicans would be voting..

wearing a flag pin, we need to shout loudly and often that this is voter suppression, and whoever supports it is indeed, un-American.

We ain't seen nothin' yet.

I'd bet the JD gets involved. Assuming, of course, that a Dem is in the Oval Office by the time the decision comes around. If Romney gets in, this guy will be screwed for life.

If they really left the voting to the citizens they would lose by a large margin.

sounds very ethnic doesn't it. That's all they looked at, they thought they had a "darkie".

http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2012/mar/07/tennessee-officials-apologize-lincoln-davis-over-v/?print

Goins said this is how the error happened: Davis has homes in Fentress and Pickett counties. Davis cites his primary residence as Fentress for general voting purposes. He is also a property owner in Brydstown in Pickett County, where he can legally vote in city elections.

But Pickett County’s election administrator mistakenly listed Davis as a residence voter in that county. When purging duplicate registrations statewide, Goins said, because Pickett County listed Davis as a resident voter as did Fentress, state officials purged the older Fentress registration.

Davis, who showed up late in the day in Fentress, was told he couldn’t vote there. Goins said when Fentress County officials called him Tuesday, he got Davis’ number.

“So I called him ... and said, ‘Lincoln go vote [a provisional ballot]. We’ll work this out. If in fact, there’s an error on our side — and there has been — if in fact there’s an error on our side, we inform the local county and your vote will be counted.’ Of course, at this time, Lincoln — he didn’t want to go.”

If not, the election administrator had no right to do that.

you can't just be registered to vote in a county because you own property there.

Maybe for specific elections in which all property owners vote, but not otherwise.

In California, you have to register to vote in the county in which you live, and if you move, you have to re-register.

It seems really out of place to me to have a county employee simply moving the registration of a citizen. It's up to the citizen to state where he has his residence and to know where he should vote.

In other words, I think that is a lame excuse.

.. active investigations and prosecutions to protect our voting rights.
Throw a few of those anti-democracy traitors in JAIL, and.....

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You will know them by their WORKS,
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It's sad, but is more true now than when I proposed this in 2001

1) Toss out Democratic voter registration.
2) Purge legally registered voters.
3) Affect the count.

It doesn't take more than a 5-10% change to flip an election...

http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2012/mar/07/tennessee-officials-apologize-lincoln-davis-over-v/?print

Goins said this is how the error happened: Davis has homes in Fentress and Pickett counties. Davis cites his primary residence as Fentress for general voting purposes. He is also a property owner in Brydstown in Pickett County, where he can legally vote in city elections.

But Pickett County’s election administrator mistakenly listed Davis as a residence voter in that county. When purging duplicate registrations statewide, Goins said, because Pickett County listed Davis as a resident voter as did Fentress, state officials purged the older Fentress registration.

Davis, who showed up late in the day in Fentress, was told he couldn’t vote there. Goins said when Fentress County officials called him Tuesday, he got Davis’ number.

“So I called him ... and said, ‘Lincoln go vote [a provisional ballot]. We’ll work this out. If in fact, there’s an error on our side — and there has been — if in fact there’s an error on our side, we inform the local county and your vote will be counted.’ Of course, at this time, Lincoln — he didn’t want to go.”

thanks for digging that up.

No election stealing here, folks.