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GOP shameful voter suppression!

Nice article from 'the flagship of the left'. Now give us an article that has an ounce of truth in it.
 
The Republicans' voter suppression efforts all over this country are literally sickening.
 
Nice article from 'the flagship of the left'. Now give us an article that has an ounce of truth in it.

I kinda doubt Fox will pick up the story so... I'll see what I can do:

To kind of go backwards in time... just recently a GOP party county chair said this wonderful gem:


Ohio Voting Official: Why Accommodate Blacks?

An Ohio Republican Party county chair who also happens to be an elections board member wants voting to be "fair and reasonable"—but his definition of "fair" isn't likely to sit well with many voters. Amid controversy in the state over the decision to kill some early-voting hours (including the Saturday-Monday before the election), Doug Preisse wrote an email to the Columbus Dispatch that reads: "I guess I really actually feel we shouldn’t contort the voting process to accommodate the urban—read African-American—voter-turnout machine." To those calling the shortened hours unfair, his reply is "bull****. Quote me!"​


All after the GOP was trying to shut down early voting in democractic areas while leaving early voting open in Republican areas:




The comedy of which is that some GOP front groups started up lies saying that attempts to stop this voter supression was a voter supression of military votes. There seems to be no limits to the lies.
 
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The Republicans' voter suppression efforts all over this country are literally sickening.

Signs of a party that knows it's in the minority and is going through it's death-throws.
 
Its really sicken that Republicans have to go to such tactics to keep Blacks and minority from voting. I'm surprised Democrats haven't use this issues to paint the picture of Romney and his camp.
 
So are we supposed to vote for Obama? Yeah, right. :lamo
 


Old..but it applies
 
Its really sicken that Republicans have to go to such tactics to keep Blacks and minority from voting. I'm surprised Democrats haven't use this issues to paint the picture of Romney and his camp.

I agree I think Romney should demand they allow people to vote keep the hours the same etc..but Romney won't he is a weak limp wristed idiot ,he didnt denounce Rush when he attacked Sandra Fluke, or Donald Trump and his idiotic Birthers nonsense, he count even call out Ted Nugent when he practically threatened the life of the President why Gop thinks Romney can lead sure beats me....Democrats should all stand together and DEMAND Romney and Ryan denounce the voter suppression in Ohio ,Florida and pennsylvannia ..
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I agree I think Romney should demand they allow people to vote keep the hours the same etc..but Romney won't he is a weak limp wristed idiot ,he didnt denounce Rush when he attacked Sandra Fluke, or Donald Trump and his idiotic Birthers nonsense, he count even call out Ted Nugent when he practically threatened the life of the President why Gop thinks Romney can lead sure beats me....Democrats should all stand together and DEMAND Romney and Ryan denounce the voter suppression in Ohio ,Florida and pennsylvannia ..
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Yeeeaaahhhh!!!

And the rest of the country should demand that Obama resign from the office of President of the United States before we are FUBAR.
 
What math did you use to come up with that conclusion?

The first time I read the line i thought i saw a highly addictive and dangerous drug in the place of "math"
 
Yeeeaaahhhh!!!

And the rest of the country should demand that Obama resign from the office of President of the United States before we are FUBAR.


The country was waaay more fubar when President Obama came into office then now..unless you lived in a hole in the ground in 2008! At least Obama was legitimately elected! He didn't have to cheat by suppressing vote like the lying crooked GOP!
 
The country was waaay more fubar when President Obama came into office then now..unless you lived in a hole in the ground in 2008! At least Obama was legitimately elected! He didn't have to cheat by suppressing vote like the lying crooked GOP!

I hate Bush as well, so I'm not going to defend him at all. But this country is waaayyyy worse now than it was when Obama first took office. $17 trillion in debt now compared to $8 trillion when Obama took office. Are you freaking kidding me??? Not to mention a much, MUCH higher unemployment rate. Are you freaking kidding me???

What hole-in-the-ground have you been living in? Do you really think people should re-hire Obama? Why?
 
I hate Bush as well, so I'm not going to defend him at all. But this country is waaayyyy worse now than it was when Obama first took office. $17 trillion in debt now compared to $8 trillion when Obama took office. Are you freaking kidding me??? Not to mention a much, MUCH higher unemployment rate. Are you freaking kidding me???

What hole-in-the-ground have you been living in? Do you really think people should re-hire Obama? Why?

Your facts are all wrong ..after bush put everything on the credit card, two wars Medicare perscription drug bill, tarp and all those tax cuts for the rich he left us with a whopping 10 trillion in debt , we were hemmoraging jobs in 08 like 800,000 a month! We had afragile banking system housing was going bust it was a chaotic mess! Obama has been trying to turn things around , but we are at 15 trillion in debt, the do nothing GOP has been sitting on their hands not passing jobs bill, transportation bill, small business relief, etc etc you got the picture Unfortunately congress was pure gridlock GOP refused to do anything! At least we've had consistent job growth and I personally think the affordable care act will become a much loved program when the misinformation about it is proven wrong ..and we see cost coming down ..It's funny how Romney says government doesn't create jobs and then blames Obama that there aren't enough jobs! Makes ya wonder if Romney knows what he's talking about..he plans to give more tax cuts for the rich which we cannot afford and deregulate the crooks on wall street again ..if that is what you want go for it ..we tried that for 8 years under Bush and didn't see any jobs ....I'm not falling for anymore trickle down crap it doesn't work! It's a ruse .
 
We're getting to the point where not only does the right not question facially non-discriminatory policies that have a discriminatory effect, but where they openly endorse the discriminatory effects. It is beyond disgusting. The GOP needs to be torn down and rebuilt from scratch.
 
I'm not quite sure how anyone can view unequal voting treatment based on voting distribution as anything but voter suppression.

Cutting ID issuing offices is fine to balance budgets. Cutting them only in Republican or Democrat strongholds is voter suppression.

And let's not forget that the GOP has always played fast a loose with robo callers telling people the wrong voting date. That **** happens every year.
 
Well, Democrats has also been caught trying to get illegals and minorities to vote. I think both parties cheat, and I don't think it has a large effect on the election.

What I think is more worrying is the need to lie. It doesn't seem like Republicans are able to defend their policies at an intellectual level, hence they lie because they know voters don't know any better. Yes, Democrats lie as well, but not as much. For instance a recent attack from Ryan was to blame Obama of something Bush did. Ryan knows that, but he know that voters do not. Romney is worse and is constantly lying, but voters do not know.

The problem with this policy is that Republicans are pushing away intelligent conservatives who know better. There is a reason only 30% of asians support Republicans, and it is not because asians are so liberal. More asians than whites voted for Bush Sn. It is because they can't stand the anti-intellectual agenda. Without intelligent conservatives it is easy for Republicans to follow policies that will **** up the country, for instance the no taxes at any cost pledge. Also, as Republicans are appealing to dumb voters, then no one is rebutting all the false or misleading claims from Democrat think tanks.

While uneducated whites and the rich is still more than 50% of the voting population, it is getting reduced every single year. If Republicans are not doing anything, then I have a hard time imagining Republicans winning many more elections.
 
Well, Democrats has also been caught trying to get illegals and minorities to vote. I think both parties cheat, and I don't think it has a large effect on the election.

Sorry but it can. For example, in Ohio, the head of the election (a GOPer) tried to segregated type election. Poor black and democratic areas were to have less time voting, where as richer republican areas were to have extended voting hours. After a media backlash he was forced to have the same voting hours across the state. Or Back in 2008 (or was it 2004), when the same state, with a GOPer at the head of the election, sent less voting machines to traditionally democratic areas, and more to traditionally republican areas. This lead to massive lines in the democratic areas. Or in Pennsylvania where the new voter registration laws were put in place for the GOP to win the state .. the head of the election committee even admitted so plus the people who put in place the law, admit that the law would not prevent voter fraud... but it would keep up to 10% of the population from the right to vote.... mostly minorities and democrats of course.

Voter ID law may affect more Pennsylvanians than previously estimated - Page 2 - Philly.com

So you cant say it does not have an impact.

What I think is more worrying is the need to lie. It doesn't seem like Republicans are able to defend their policies at an intellectual level, hence they lie because they know voters don't know any better. Yes, Democrats lie as well, but not as much. For instance a recent attack from Ryan was to blame Obama of something Bush did. Ryan knows that, but he know that voters do not. Romney is worse and is constantly lying, but voters do not know.

I agree, but sadly it has been the tactic of the GOP for many decades... throw enough mud and something will stick. Swiftboat comes to mind. And it does not help that the GOP has their own media outlet to promote these lies.

The problem with this policy is that Republicans are pushing away intelligent conservatives who know better. There is a reason only 30% of asians support Republicans, and it is not because asians are so liberal. More asians than whites voted for Bush Sn. It is because they can't stand the anti-intellectual agenda. Without intelligent conservatives it is easy for Republicans to follow policies that will **** up the country, for instance the no taxes at any cost pledge. Also, as Republicans are appealing to dumb voters, then no one is rebutting all the false or misleading claims from Democrat think tanks.

Well to be frank.. it is because of a vocal minority (maybe a majority) in the base of the GOP are dumb religious wackos. Intellectual people challenge their beliefs and hence intellectual people are bad. It has been the standard operating procedure of the church since the dark ages, to attack intellectuals when the facts conflict with religious/political dogma. That is why people like Bachman, Perry and many others have been attacking intellectuals at all levels and saying that having a college education is almost a negative.

While uneducated whites and the rich is still more than 50% of the voting population, it is getting reduced every single year. If Republicans are not doing anything, then I have a hard time imagining Republicans winning many more elections.

I agree. The GOP has problems in the medium term. Hispanics, blacks and Asians will soon be the majority of the US, and since the GOP has gone out of its way often to piss off the Hispanic and black populations, while pretty much ignoring the Asians.. then they have a problem. It is especially the Hispanic problem that should be worrying.

That is also why they are doing voter intimidation. They know that if they can discourage hispanic and black populations in voting, either by lies or by more technical methods.. then they have a bigger chance in winning in the short term. And once they have power, they do everything they can to gerrymander districts so they will always be in power. Hell they are even floating ideas of going from "winner take all" to give out electoral votes per district.. which of course means that even if a candidate wins the state in the popular vote, then he can loose the state in the electoral vote, because of the gerrymandered districts. Pennsylvania Democrats are fighting this as we speak.. here Obama can go from an almost certain win to losing most of the electoral votes but winning the state in the popular vote. And I am against the "winner take all" principle, but going in the other ballpark by giving out electoral votes based on gerrymandered districts... sorry rather have winner take all.. at least the peoples vote would matter.
 
Voter suppression? ACORN, NEW BLACK PANTHERS, NOT COUNTING MILITARY ABSENTEE BALLOTS, DEAD DEMOCRATS VOTING, ILLEGALS VOTING,

The dems have turned voter suppression and voter fraud into an art form and you guys criticize a bill that requires that a voter prove who he is before voting???? amazing.
 
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