"Sometimes vote suppression is as important as vote-getting"

[eridani]

http://www.washblog.com/story/2007/7/29/2372/70941


"One of the reasons that we were competitive in the governor's election is due to our grassroots hard work and the siphoning off of traditional Democrat votes in King and Pierce Counties." -- Rose Strong, member of the Advisory Board of the King County Republican Party. (1) See below the fold for a report of my phone conversation with Ms. Strong and further background on her specialty of "aggressively" confronting illegal voter activities in minority areas -- on the theory that this is where such activity usually occurs.
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Who's watching the regular "cleanups" of the Washington State Voter Registration Database (VRDB)? Who is monitoring the way that new voter registrations are handled? From the perjurious voter challenges by Republican Lori Sotelo in 2005 to Lying voter-suppression Robo-calls on the eve of elections, to this year's firing of Attorney General John McKay by the Bush administration for the failure to prosecute the phantom of individual voter fraud -- and more -- we have ample evidence that Republicans are using all means possible to shove Democratic votes and voters out of the voting game. We won't know how much they're succeeding in this goal unless we institute comprehensive citizen oversight.

[icymist]

1. Republicans are showing themselves to be a criminal organization.

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