Article: Whitewashing Election Fraud - Democratic Underground

tex-wyo-dem

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Thu Dec-09-04 07:25 PM
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Article: Whitewashing Election Fraud

http://www.ilcaonline.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1204&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

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meganmonkey

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Thu Dec-09-04 07:39 PM
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1. This was addressed at length at the Symposium in Columbus Saturday

Edited on Thu Dec-09-04 07:42 PM by meganmonkey

There were several speakers who framed a lot of the Election Reform issues in terms of racism and civil rights, 'racial profiling', really. This movement is fortunate to have Jesse Jackson leading it, and he most certainly recognizes the relevence of race in this issue. The writer is absolutely right in pointing out that the media coverage so far hasn't addressed this aspect of the issue.

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Carolab

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Thu Dec-09-04 09:46 PM
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2. Really it is about voter suppression

whether you suppress the vote through intimidation, too few machines, registration challenges, or through manipulation of the numbers. In the end, it is not a race issue, because it affected voters across the spectrum. The touch screen machines, optically scanned ballot tabulators, wherever they were used or abused, did not discriminate on the basis of color, economic status or anything other than the fact that these incidents primarily occured where there were Democratic voters in Democratic precincts.

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Clark2008

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Thu Dec-09-04 09:51 PM
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3. Is this the new Civil Rights movement?

Disenfranchized voters - of all races and sexes and economic status (for example, my voting precinct includes my white-bread middle class neighborhood and the predominately minority, lower-income neighborhood across the interstate).

The media is already labeling us as "odd" or "weird," even though there are nearly as many of us as there are who said they voted for Shrub based on "moral values." Who's odd?

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jbnow

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Thu Dec-09-04 09:55 PM
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4. But the racism comes in

Not because they are black but because being black is the visisble clue they are likely to vote Democrat. The poor, the young and minorities are all targets for that reason.

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