As Bob Herbert noted in the NY Times, the ACORN "controversy" is a smokescreen for the Rethugs to challenge legitimate minority and other Democratic voters in the upcoming election. The small sample of voter registration forms made out to "Mickey Mouse" or "Snoop Dogg" have been flagged by ACORN prior to submitting to local Board of Elections. Will "Mickey Mouse" show up to vote? Riiiiigght! It's a consistent tactic of the Rethugs in their attempts to steal elections.
Here's a good synopsis of the Rethuglican game plan. Keep votes down, especially among young, minority, and elderly Americans, and the Rethugs keep their claws on the levers of power.
Showing posts with label vote suppression. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vote suppression. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
McShame, ACORN, and Vote Supression
Today's column by Bob Herbert in the NY Times illustrates the Rethuglican Party's attempt, once again, to suppress votes. The phony ACORN "scandal" was puffed up by McShame and the Rethugs in an attempt to call the election results into question, and to provide cover for their election day vote suppression. In the presidential elections of 2000 and 2004, the Rethugs used ham-fisted tactics of limiting the number of voting machines in Democratic districts, posting flyers in those districts with false voting information, and stationing off-duty police carrying their service revolvers outside minority voting precincts.
The ACORN nonsense is the vanguard of this year's vote suppression activity. Some ACORN canvassers were poorly chosen and paid by the number of registration sheets they could produce. So some "registered" such shadowy characters as "Mickey Mouse" and "Fred's Tavern." By law, ACORN is required to turn in ALL registration sheets, and to flag the suspicious or incomplete ones. ACORN in fact identified the vast majority of bogus registrations themselves. Local Boards of Elections screen the registrations for errors and duplications. Who in their right mind thinks that someone calling themselves "Mickey Mouse" or "Fred's Tavern" would show up to actually vote?
This is another example of the Rethugs thinking that the American people are too stupid to understand their game.
The ACORN nonsense is the vanguard of this year's vote suppression activity. Some ACORN canvassers were poorly chosen and paid by the number of registration sheets they could produce. So some "registered" such shadowy characters as "Mickey Mouse" and "Fred's Tavern." By law, ACORN is required to turn in ALL registration sheets, and to flag the suspicious or incomplete ones. ACORN in fact identified the vast majority of bogus registrations themselves. Local Boards of Elections screen the registrations for errors and duplications. Who in their right mind thinks that someone calling themselves "Mickey Mouse" or "Fred's Tavern" would show up to actually vote?
This is another example of the Rethugs thinking that the American people are too stupid to understand their game.
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