Fops Block the Vote Campaign
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| Tue, 10-21-2008 - 3:01am |
From new expose by Palast and Kennedy:
"Shortly before the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980, Paul Weyrich — a principal architect of today's Republican Party — scolded evangelicals who believed in democracy. "Many of our Christians have what I call the 'goo goo' syndrome — good government," said Weyrich, who co-founded Moral Majority with Jerry Falwell. "They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote. . . . As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down."
Today, Weyrich's vision has become a national reality. Since 2003, according to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, at least 2.7 million new voters have had their applications to register rejected. In addition, at least 1.6 million votes were never counted in the 2004 election — and the commission's own data suggests that the real number could be twice as high. To purge registration rolls and discard ballots, partisan election officials used a wide range of pretexts, from "unreadability" to changes in a voter's signature. And this year, thanks to new provisions of the Help America Vote Act, the number of discounted votes could surge even higher."
"In fact, studies have repeatedly shown that voter fraud is extremely rare. According to a recent analysis by Lorraine Minnite, an expert on voting crime at Barnard College, federal courts found only 24 voters guilty of fraud from 2002 to 2005, out of hundreds of millions of votes cast. "The claim of widespread voter fraud," Minnite says, "is itself a fraud.""
Plus all the dirty tricks Republicans are using
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/23638322/block_the_vote/2
Worth reading. You've got to hand it to the Republicans and their propaganda machine in Fox "not" News. They are really good at being really bad.
And in the meantime they are hoping that we don't notice that Republicans deregulated Americans into the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Think Republicans know how to get us out of this? Think again.
