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DNC Press ReleaseDemocratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean today demanded an end to Republican efforts to play politics with voting rights after two recent New York Times reports outlined a persistent campaign by Bush Administration officials to undermine fundamental voting rights for countless Americans. Dean’s comments come as recent reports have highlighted a five-year political campaign by Bush Republicans in the Justice Department, the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) and the White House to trump up charges of voter fraud in order to pursue restrictive voter ID laws that disproportionately disenfranchise minority, senior, student and disabled voters.
DNC Chairman Howard Dean today issued the following statement:
“The Bush Administration’s campaign to undermine and politicize essential federal voter protections while downplaying voter suppression tactics is one of the most chilling and cynical examples of the Bush Administration’s consistent use of our government to put partisan politics ahead of the American people. In our Democracy, every eligible voter deserves the right to cast his or her vote and have that vote counted. But for Republicans, nothing is more important than their narrow partisan interests.
“The list of tools that Republicans have used to enhance their electoral prospects at the expense of our right to vote reads like a shameful litany from past eras: restricting access to voter registration, improper attempts to purge voter lists, the use of voting machines that leave no verifiable audit trails, criminal phone jamming schemes, discriminatory voter ID laws, and inconsistently administered elections. Now, we see the very institutions of our government that are intended to protect the right to vote used by Republican political operatives to undermine that right. This brand of politics is undemocratic and un-American. The time has come for Republicans to stop playing politics with our fundamental right to vote.”
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http://www.dnc.org/a/2007/04/howard_dean_sto.php
On AAR tonight I was listening to someone explain how the GOP had twisted it all around to make it appear that voters were at fault instead of the efforts to suppress them.
I realized this had not been mentioned at any forum at all that I could see. I did searches to check.
So I posted it. It is an attempt to stop allowing the GOP to brand and frame the language.
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