Thieves and their schemes ...we knew this was coming, didn't we?

[NVMojo]

excerpts from an October 27 blog on voter suppression tactics, etc. that was out just prior to the election...reviewing it is a reminder that we knew this was coming in Ohio ...there was an organized preparation to keep minority Dems from the polls ...they (repukes) were scared shitless of those voters .... this entire blog link is about stuff that was going on just before the election ....this stuff is what January 6th is about!!!

snip ...

"Today's Republicans have elevated vote suppression from a dirty secret to a public norm.
In Ohio, Republicans have recruited 3,600 poll monitors and assigned them disproportionately to such heavily black areas as inner-city Cleveland, where Democratic "527" groups have registered many tens of thousands of new voters. "

snip ...

"Registration in Ohio is nonpartisan, but independent analysts estimate that roughly 400,000 new Democrats have been added to the rolls this year. Who does Trakas think they are? Have tens of thousands of African Americans been sneaking over the state lines from Pittsburgh and Detroit to vote in Cleveland -- thus putting their own battleground states more at risk of a Republican victory? Is Shaker Heights suddenly filled with Parisians affecting American argot? Or are the Republicans simply terrified that a record number of minority voters will go to the polls next Tuesday? Have they decided to do anything to stop them -- up to and including threatening to criminalize Voting While Black in a Battleground State?"

more under the heading of "The GOP's Shameful Vote Strategy"
By Harold MeyersonWednesday, October 27, 2004; Page A25...

http://opp-researcher.blogspot.com/2004_10_01_opp-researcher_archive.html

[NVMojo]

1. from the same site ...

GOP Targets New Voters
October 27, 2004

The emerging facts on voter suppression clearly show that the GOP has a well-coordinated, targeted strategy to block tens of thousands of newly registered voters—many in predominantly African American precincts—from casting their vote.


The GOP is specifically targeting African Americans for voting challenges in Ohio and Florida. The Ohio GOP has filed 35,000 challenges against new voters in the state and is sending thousands of poll watchers to directly challenge voters in precincts. A new study by ACORN shows that African Americans were the target of nearly half (46 percent) of the GOP challenges in Cuyahoga County (which includes Cleveland), even though African Americans constitute only 27 percent of the county population. The BBC obtained emails from the Bush campaign showing a 15-page "caging list" in Florida with "1,886 names and addresses of voters in predominantly black and traditionally Democrat areas of Jacksonville, Florida."


The GOP has used its partisan Secretaries of State in Ohio and Florida to block newly registered voters. Republican officials in Ohio and Florida have done everything in their power to stop the tidal wave of newly registered voters by using narrow technicalities to throw people off the rolls. Thousands of new voters in Florida were removed from the rolls because they didn't check a box affirming their citizenship status, even though their signature on the same form affirms their status as citizens.


The GOP is pushing the myth of voter fraud to cover up its very real efforts to suppress new voters. The GOP has tried to equate "voter fraud" with the disenfranchisement of thousands of voters this year and millions in 2000. But there is not one case of a fraudulent vote being cast so far this year and only a handful of prosecuted cases over the past decade. Inflated voter rolls do not equal fraud. Counties frequently have inflated rolls because of the backlog of removing "deadwood" – people who have died, changed address, or moved to another state. The registration process weeds out false registrations as well.

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[OhioBlue]

2. little testimonial

Just a little info - not sure if it matters...
4 of the people that i registered in late summer/early fall voted in Rural Ohio.....
none were asked for id - just signature
one had not received registration card in mail yet, but was on book and allowed to vote
This was a good thing since all voted for Kerry, but I just shared the info b/c I doubt the new voters in urban areas had such an easy time.