Republican Voter Registration Shenannigans

Posted by admin on 2008 October 12

Republicans are looking pretty desparate these days, not happy with the democratic process at all. They’ve been cooking up these (probably) false ACORN accusations and getting Fox News and other GOP propaganda outlets to cover the stories.

But they’ve also been illegally purging voters from the rolls, and making it difficult for certain black voters to vote. Bad things could happen if they are successful in their evil plan - for one thing, we could have a Constitutional crises on our hands.

There’s a handy article that lists just a few of their assaults, summarized below.

• A Republican sheriff in Greene County, Ohio, has demanded social security and other records from 302 local voters whose ballots he apparently wants to negate.
• In Franklin County[, Ohio] …observers have documented Republican operatives taking photographs and writing down license plate numbers of voters.
• In 2004, African-American students from Wright State, Central State and Wilberforce were regularly challenged on their registration credentials and forced to endure waiting in lines to vote for hours. Students at Cedarville, a Christian school, made no such reports.
• U.S. District Court Judge George C. Smith, a Reagan appointee, has approved a GOP lawsuit demanding that the state give county boards of elections great leeway in attacking new voter registration forms.
• The New York Times has reported that boards of elections in at least nine crucial states, including Ohio, have violated federal law in conducting purges and have been illegally using Social Security data bases as part of those purges.
• The Times has also reported that boards of elections in Nevada, North Carolina, Michigan, Indiana and Ohio have illegally used federal Social Security databases to flag and possibly eliminate voters whose registration applications were suspected of irregularities.
• Michigan elections director Christopher Thomas said his state had removed about 11,000 voters in August, while the Times estimated the real number to be closer to 33,000. Thomas refused to make the purged files public.
• A CBS News report has revealed organized caging attempts by the GOP to eliminate registered voters from the rolls in 19 states.
• The grassroots organizing group ACORN has come under serious attack in Nevada, Missouri, Ohio and elsewhere from Republicans attempting to negate the thousands of generally low-income citizens ACORN has registered to vote.
• The GOP continues to resist attempts to subpoena Michael Connell, a Republican computer operative who programmed the 2000 Bush-Cheney web site. Connell was also hired by former Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell in 2004 to tabulate the Ohio vote count. Under Connell, Ohio’s vote totals were shunted to a computer bank in the same basement in Chattanooga, Tennessee, that housed the servers of the Republican National Committee. In the early hours of the morning after election day, vote totals mysteriously began shifting from Kerry to Bush, swinging the 2004 election.