Have You Checked Out The Lone Star Project ??? (Vote Suppresion)

[WillyT]

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Texas Republicans Launch New Vote Suppression Scheme
Craddick committee directive and GOP vote suppression think tank will attempt to justify denying Texans access to the ballot

Academic studies, media reports and fact based voter analysis consistently demonstrate that systematic, widespread or frequent voter fraud in Texas, or anywhere else in the United States, simply does not exist. Texas House Speaker Tom Craddick, however, has directed a State House committee to conduct an interim study on voter fraud with the clear intention of recommending legislation to limit the ability of thousands of eligible Texans to vote.

At the same time, former Tom DeLay aide and current Tom Craddick ally, John Colyandro, who remains under felony indictment for money laundering and other charges, has formed a "think tank" that is already using faulty data and illogical statistics to justify vote suppression tactics.

These most recent Texas Republican efforts to suppress voter turnout are consistent with Texas AG Greg Abbott's taxpayer funded phony voter fraud enforcement unit that the Lone Star Project has exposed and reported on extensively here.

Why do Tom Craddick and other Texas Republican leaders want to spend taxpayer resources to examine a problem that doesn't exist? Clearly Craddick, Abbott and others are attempting to justify dramatic changes in Texas law and election practices, including voter photo ID requirements, senior mail ballot restrictions and voter roll purges, that will reduce overall voter turnout as demographic changes take place in Texas that are increasing the influence of minorities in Texas elections.

The facts below demonstrate clearly that the Republican voter fraud initiative is a partisan scheme to hold power by suppressing the turnout of voters whose support Republicans are unable or unwilling to earn through legitimate public service.

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More: http://www.lonestarproject.net/

Why isn't Tom Delay in jail yet???

:banghead:

[Fed_Up_Grammy]

1. Good ole Lyndon knew about Texas voter fraud.

It's always been around----sadly.

[WillyT]

2. Ah... Be Careful !!! - Voter Fraud, And Voter Suppresion Are Opposite Things, Sort Of...

:hi:

[fudge stripe cookays]

3. Unfortunately,

with Lyndon it WAS voter fraud. As in stuffing a ballot box with dead people.

Look up Jim Wells County and Box 13.

[mitchtv]

4. Probably a lot of election fraud

too