Suppressing the vote

[deminks]

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/10/31/914469/-Suppressing-the-vote?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

The late Chief Justice of the Supreme Court William Rehnquist cut his political teeth suppressing the vote in Arizona. It was an issue at his confirmation hearings, but it didn't prevent his being seated.

One of the more under-reported stories about the stolen Florida presidential election of 2000 was the racist and partisan purging of legitimate voters, to suppress the Democratic vote count. And in Florida, it didn't end there.

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We later found out that the Bush White House had been replacing U.S. attorneys for refusing to play along with their attempts to intimidate voters.

In 2007, the Republican Secretary of State of Louisiana purged tens of thousands of mostly minority voters, without going through proper procedures.

This year, groups tied to Koch Industries are continuing their efforts to suppress the vote in Wisconsin, where a champion of campaign reform may lose his Senate seat to a climate denier and enabler of pederasts.

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The Republicans want you to stay home. They're counting on it. They know that many Democrats are disappointed in the pace of progress, which is one of many reasons they worked so hard to obstruct it. Now they want to stop progress dead. An enthusiasm gap is their greatest joy. All the efforts they make to suppress the Democratic vote are as trivial compared to the possibility of Democrats suppressing their own votes. If you don't avail yourself of your right to vote, you will be doing the Republicans' bidding. You will be doing their work for them.

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[mrcheerful]

1. I know that in 2008 I was purged from the voting records twice and had to get ahold of the D's in

the area to stop from being purged a third time because I refused to answer calls to my house from the R's checking to see if I lived at my address. Caller ID comes in handy and I don't have to deal with robo calls from the R party who I wouldn't vote to clean dog crap from the side walks.