Outrageous Flier being circulated in Milwaukee black neighborhoods

[JHB]

This is an abomination, and it is the soul of what the Republican Party has become in the 21st Century:




From Sierra Club Votes.com:
http://www.sierraclubvotes.org/johnbarry/102904/

This shocking flyer, allegedly from the "Milwaukee Black Voters League," is headlined: "SOME WARNINGS FOR ELECTION TIME."

Among the warnings:


If you’ve already voted in any election this year you can’t vote in the presidential election.

If you’ve ever been guilty of anything, even a traffic violation, you can’t vote in the presidential election.

If anybody in your family has ever been found guiulty (sic) of anything you can’t vote in the presidential election.

If you violate any of these laws, you can get ten years in prison and your children will get taken away from you.
Cochran says it’s aimed at the newly registered and infrequent voters and that not a single point on the flyer is true.

Scary. But all the more reason for us to keep doing what we're doing.

(sorry if this is a dupe -- JHB)

[htuttle]

1. Bet that came from 'ol Vic over at WVCY

If it's still there. WVCY is the most racist 'xtian' channel I'd ever seen. And that was ten years ago.

[gumby]

3. WVCY

is a plague on humanity.

[captainjack]

2. amazing. simply amazing.

i know of mayn republicans who would be ashamed of this kind of tactic.

i hope the mainstream media gets a hold of this and rapes the republican party.

[Zynx]

4. Republicans love to scare blacks into not voting.

[Julien Sorel]

5. This is an insult.

It was obviously done by some cracker Republican nutjob, who thinks blacks are as stupid as he is. No one with an IQ high enough to allow them to vote would be taken in by this nonsense.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

6. 10 years in prison and children taken away from you

kinda narrows down the gullibility range of this one.
I mean it over reaches so badly that few would actually fall for it.

[JHB]

8. It's the mere attempt that counts

n/t

[deutsey]

7. Report this to 1-866-OUR-VOTE

[Robbie67]

9. holy CRAP!!!

did they think they'd just get away with this???

Damn these people are making me think I could NEVER work with them.

[greekspeak]

10. This should be on every news outlet 5 times an hour

Every evening news show, national and local. Every hourly newsbrief on the radio. THIS IS ILLEGAL!!!

[LisaLynne]

11. Call me stupid, but ...

I thought it was a joke when I first saw it. Are you saying it's REAL????

[DeepModem Mom]

12. kick

[snippy]

13. The GOP does this every year there is an election.

This flyer is a little different than ones I have read about in past years. Usually they say that you can not vote if you are behind in your rent, utility bills, or child support. They often say that there will be police at the polls checking for outstanding warrants.

[Blue_Tires]

14. well that's a pretty credible looking flyer

lol

[FellowAmerican]

15. It does

look a little questionable. I've not heard/seen anything like or about this. Is there any reports from local news in Milwaukee that this in fact is being distributed?

[Beaverhausen]

16. here is something from South Carolina

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041029/ap_on_el_pr/voter_scam&cid=694&ncid=2043

COLUMBIA, S.C. - A bogus letter circulating in South Carolina, purporting to be from the NAACP, threatens the arrest of voters who have outstanding parking tickets or failed to pay child support. The NAACP said Friday the letter is a scare tactic and called for an investigation.


"I'm outraged," said Jill Miller, director of the Charleston County Board of Election and Voter Registration. "This is so bogus."

The Rev. Joe Darby, vice president of the state chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (news - web sites), said he received the one-page letter — which had a Columbia postmark with no return address — at his Charleston home.

He said it was an attempt to frighten minorities from voting Tuesday because the letter-writer assumes black people are in trouble with the law.

"This is old South Carolina politics," said Darby. "I don't think anybody will fall for this."

Darby said he wants the State Law Enforcement Division to investigate.

MORE AT THE LINK

[strategery blunder]

17. This is brazen even for rethugliKKKans

Especially the first and last statements.

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I think you get the point now...:puke:

[Beaverhausen]

18. kick- one more OBL thread and I'm going to hit someone

this is important people!!!

[Tomee450]

19. I agree

I, too, am tired of all the Bin Laden threads.

[cire4]

20. KICK...Every DUer, freeper, and lurker needs to see this

[July]

21. When will it ever end?

My heart is heavy knowing that this is still occurring in America.