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Posted by on October 19, 2008, 3:37 pm
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even in non-swing states college students are being disenfranchised.
On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:32:25 -0700, in misc.consumers.frugal-living "Forrest"
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>Don’t be surprised when Obama “loses” the election: the Republicans
>are up to their usual tricks—disenfranchising potential Democratic
>voters—and on a more massive scale than ever before. See the results
>of an investigation by voting rights attorney Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.,
>and Greg Palast published in Rolling Stone:
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>http://www.gregpalast.com/rolling-stone-its-already-stolen/
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>Kennedy and Palast conclude that, “If Democrats are to win the 2008
>election, they must not simply beat McCain at the polls—they must beat
>him by a margin that exceeds the level of GOP vote tampering.”
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>A few highlights:
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>- Kennedy charges that there has been a resurgence of ‘Jim Crow’
>tactics wrongly to block Black and Hispanic voters.
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>- Republican Secretaries of State of swing-state Colorado have quietly
>purged one in six names from their voter rolls, ten times the average
>state’s rate of removal.
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>- While Obama dreams of riding to the White House on a wave of new
>voters, more then 2.7 million have had their registrations REJECTED
>under new procedures signed into law by George Bush.
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>- A fired US prosecutor levels new charges - accusing leaders of his
>own party, Republicans, with criminal acts in an attempt to block
>legal voters as “fraudulent.”
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>- Since the last presidential race, “States [have] used dubious ‘list
>management’ rules to scrub at least 10 million voters from their
>rolls.” Among those was Paul Maez of Las Vegas, New Mexico - a victim
>of an unreported but devastating purge of voters in that state that
>left as many as one in nine Democrats without a vote. For Maez, the
>state’s purging his registration was particularly shocking - he’s the
>county elections supervisor.
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>And how many illegal aliens does that leave, to vote for the party that
>holds out the candy jar?
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