GOP Targets "Absentee Ballots" in new 'Voter Fraud" push netting the elderly and infirm, the expats,

[helderheid]

GOP Targets "Absentee Ballots" in new 'Voter Fraud" push netting the elderly and infirm, the expats, and deployed soldiers

Diary Entry by Amanda Lang

Possible plan of attack?

Could it be that the latest incarnation of the http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/08/the-new-von-spakovsky-voter-suppression-crusade-absentee-ballots/">ever-evolving GOP “voter disenfranchisement scheme” has shifted to maintaining the status quo in the overall Democratic voting block? Disenfranchise by ballot access. Offset the new infusion of young Democratic voters with the exclusion of the elderly and infirm?

It’s not just them. A lot more Americans this November are planning to vote “absentee” that perhaps ever before. From the Republican perspective, it’s good politics to go after the “absentee ballot.”

How about those young soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan who largely support Obama? They vote absentee. Larger numbers than ever before ex-pats are planning to vote. How do they vote? Absentee. This is how they will steal the 2008 election, or will try to steal at least a portion to offset the election. It’s all about the Electoral College. Targeted disenfranchisement has worked well in the past. Those of us now forewarned will be forced to use the electronic voting machines. Anyway you look at it, they will hammer us with this POS voting system, a bought and paid for FEC and EAC, and a politicized, partisan judiciary.

Dirty November...



Amanda is a managing editor at OpEdNews and has worked with Rob Kall on the site since 2004. Amanda is currently on sabbatical.

Amanda Lang, PhD - Virginia Tech; US Army Veteran

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=9183

[d_b]

1. we keep hearing about these things

so why is nothing being done by our elected officials?

[helderheid]

2. damned if I know

:banghead:

[d_b]

4. we can't let it happen this time

and fuck the "we don't want to look like sore losers" bullshit line. We're talking about the most basic fundamental of our Democratic society here.

[helderheid]

5. Yes, indeed, FUCK THAT. I hope the election isn't close enough to steal but if it is...

[Ian David]

3. John Kerry fought with his very life for his country in Vietnam and surrendered to Fascism in Ohio.

[Suich]

12. Here's an earlier thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3945390&mesg_id=3945390

[ColbertWatcher]

6. That's not voter fraud, it's ELECTION FRAUD!

"Voter fraud" is when the person (say Ann Coulter) commits the fraud; "election fraud" is when the officials do it by preventing people from voting or ending proper counting, like this:

[helderheid]

7. agreed

[Ichingcarpenter]

8. kick nominate n/t

[helderheid]

9. k

[Beaverhausen]

10. kick

[WinkyDink]

11. If reversed, Republicans would be screaming, "Democrats hate old people! They hate sick people! And

they hate SOLDIERS!"

We need to scream.