RNC and Voter Suppression

Indomitus writes "Slashdot recently listed the story about a voter registration company tearing up registration forms from Democrats but the story is quickly becoming much more than just that one story. Daily Kos is keeping track of the many folks digging up more and more information on this scandal-in-the-making. This is not only an important story to get out to voters, it's a great example of power of the internet to facilitate participatory journalism."

Comments

Re:initial thoughts?

[b-baggins]

This is nothing more than setting the stage for cries of "stolen election" should Bush win.

What about DNC orders to claim voter intimidation?

[gtwreck]

I'm not disputing that this is news, but is it not also news that the DNC has issued marching orders to it's operatives that instruct them to claim voter intimidation even if no such evidence exists?

I like the new politics section, but at least have some semblance of balance about what stories get posted.

Re:What about DNC orders to claim voter intimidati

[SkyWalk423]

Ohhhh.... So the difference is all in how you word it?? OK, I get it now.

I'm starting to get the hang of this "politics" thing.

Re:initial thoughts?

[jnaujok]

Blame a little thing called the "McCaine/Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Act" for these lovely little "get out the vote groups" that were specifically created and deputized by McCaine/Feingold.

These groups are allowed to distribute, collect *and validate* new voters without ever presenting anything other than the completed form to election officials. They basically answer to no one, and are even allowed to pay money for each registration collected.

There is now a county in Ohio where several thousand more voters are registered than the population of the county.

Thanks to John McCaine, Russ Feingold, and the rest of our congressmen for "fixing the system".

Tell me again that Slashdot isn't biased...

[DesScorp]

...to the left. Voter fraud goes on in every election, by lots of people in both parties. And it's not like there's been a lack of stories about Democratic voter fraud. And pointing this out DOES NOT ENDORSE IT. All voter fraud should be punished. But it's a damn disgrace (and a big help to the Democratic party) to only point it out when it helps Republicans. Since Slashdot won't report it when Dem s do it, here's a recent sampler:

- Attempted Democratic Voter Fraud In Nashville
- Voter Fraud In South Dakota
- Colorado To Tackle Voter Fraud Fears
- Rendell will send monitors to elections offices
- ACORN Voter Registration Fraud Allegations Are Just the Tip of the Iceberg, Says Employment Policies Institute

And lets not forget the revelation that the Democratic Party plans a pre-emptive strike by alleging voter fraud in close races, even if there's absolutely no proof of it.

Slashdot; not fair, and damn sure not balanced.

say what??

[Dr Kool, PhD]

So I guess this is a huge Republican conspiracy right? I bet they paid this company millions of dollars to rip up... uh... ten ballots? And the company that did it was so stupid as to dump them in the trash rather than shredding/burning them??

It seems more likely to me that some leftwing wacco filled out a few voter forms, tore them up, and then came running to the press about "REPUBLICAN VOTER FRAUD!! OMG!!!!" Except the mainsteam media saw through the fraud, so the only place you'll find the story is on extreme liberal sites like Kos...

Re:initial thoughts?

[b-baggins]

Read the news story. These are registrations that occurred by means of voter registration drives. These registrations were done through a private company, and the company would then forward the forms to the state registration offices.

These are people who couldn't be bothered to get off their a**es to register themselves, they just happened to fill out a form only when someone came and pestered them to do it. I'm not terribly bothered by the fact they won't be voting this election either.