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RepublicanElephant Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-25-08 10:01 AM
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please tell me why there are so many voter registration problems...
...when we have motor-voter registration?

...and i'm NOT talking about those without driver's licenses.

why are so many who were registered through the state driver's license program not showing up on the voter rolls?

are there THAT many people saying "no" to voter registration when they apply for their driver's licenses?
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glowing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-25-08 10:08 AM
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1. I think it depends on how pro-active people are at the DMV.. If they don't ask,
how would the person standing in front of them know? Many do not know how easy this is.
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kenny blankenship Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-25-08 10:09 AM
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2. This country has an 18th century decentralized scattershot elections apparatus
It's deliberately kept in its obsolete configuration to "remind people of Ol' Times" -sort of like an antebellum southern plantation, abandoned by its owners but adopted by a "preservation society".
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CK_John Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-25-08 10:21 AM
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3. The population in general read and write at 4th grade level. n/t
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Youphemism Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-25-08 10:23 AM
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4. With automatic renewal, many may not have had to go to the DMV since motor-voter was enacted. /nt
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Overseas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-25-08 11:14 AM
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5. Fake stories pushed by Republicans to justify their deliberate slowing down the voting process
on election day.

They need to create the impression that FALSE REGISTRATION is a big big problem. The Republican Bush administration fired DOJ attorneys who refused to take on trumped up cases against ACORN. They wanted to have some convictions on the books to wave around. The DOJ attorneys refused because the cases didn't have any real evidence, so the Republicans had to stir up publicity and make allegations without any cases.

This is all done to make it seem sensible when the Republicans position people at polling places in DEMOCRATIC PRECINCTS to challenge voter registrations, like they did in Ohio 2004. Position people just to check registrations. People pass right through or are given provisional ballots but that slows things down enough so that waiting in line takes hours and hours. Republicans hope more Democrats go home and can't wait that long so there will be fewer Democratic votes.

That's all that matters to the modern Republicans for whom ENDS JUSTIFY THE MEANS. Whatever helps McHate and Failin, that's what they will do.

THere are ten million more registered Democrats in the USA so Republicans undertake desperate measures to depress Democratic turnout.

FURTHERMORE-- flashy activities around voter registration are a distraction from electronic vote fraud, which also occurs but is a more complex issue that will take a bit more time to correct.
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