Alternet Blog: Fraudulent allegations of fraud

[rumpel]

Posted by Evan Derkacz at 7:44 AM on August 16, 2005.

The GOP is setting the table for the next round of voter fraud with...allegations of voter fraud.

If you're masochistic like me, you sign up for RNC emails -- if only to marvel at the alternate universe they create among the faithful (visit Free Republic or any open message boards and admire the copy/paste skills employed with the greatest of ease).

The most recent such email positively frothed with allegations of Democrat-led voter fraud across the nation. Which is partly right.

At the very very least, it's clear that there was selective funding for adequate facilities; meaning that with suspicious consistency black (i.e. Democratic) neighborhoods had too few officials and machines, causing unconscionably long lines and forcing an unknowable number to simply not vote. And then there are the cases (I have a friend in Florida who was personally subjected to this so I know it's true) of black voters being harassed and asked whom they're going to vote for and whether they have ID etc.

There's a laundry list of suspicions and allegations (much of which, if true, seem to benefit Republicans), the most laughable of which -- in the "you've got to be joking" sort of way -- is the fact that Bush's campaign chairman in Ohio, Kenneth Blackwell, also happened to be the Secretary of State of Ohio who, as it happens, oversees voting for that state.

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http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/24135/

[nashville_brook]

1. i've wondered if the Waltz sting wasn't part of a larger thing

it just fits the old song and dance.

none of these state repubs ever had a creative thought in their life. they only do what other people tell them to do. and look at all the opportunities these people have for "taking the oath." justice sunday. promise keepers. the Tennessean reports two stories lately: xtian events and allegations of fraud against state dems. lots of set-ups. too much information for most people to take in except that dems statewide have been smeared.