NEWS: GOP Vote Suppression: A Crime Against the U.S. Constitution

[AmyCrat]

GOP Vote Suppression:
A Crime Against the U.S. Constitution
by Edward Spannaus (Executive Intelligence Review)
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2004/3145ohio_fraud.html
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"The kinds of fraud which were perpetrated by the Republicans alone in this election, were sufficient to send these guys to jail, if not to un-elect them," declared former Democratic President candidate Lyndon LaRouche during his Nov. 9 webcast. "Voter suppression! ... That's tyranny! That's dictatorship! And there was a lot of it," LaRouche emphasized.
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Disenfranchising Voters
Criminal vote-suppression operations were run by the Republicans and their allies in many states, ranging from illegal purging of voter rolls, to dirty tricks to keep minority voters from going to the polls, to preventing them from casting a ballot if they did make it to the polling place. But the state of Ohio has become Exhibit A in the expanding indictment against the Republican Party for efforts to suppress the vote before and during the November elections.
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GOP Goes to 'Plan B'
But with the GOP challenge scheme under such scrutiny in the courts and the news media, Republican voting officials went to "Plan B," according to Bob Fitrakis, a professor at Columbus State Community College, who served as a legal advisor for the Election Protection Coalition in Columbus. This plan was to depress the Democratic vote, by not providing enough voting machines in Democratic and especially African-American areas. This meant that voters in these polling places frequently had to stand in line for three to four hours, and in some cases up to seven hours, often in the rain, before they could vote. In contrast, in white and suburban areas around Columbus, for example, the average waiting time was only 20 minutes. There are reports, now being investigated, that a large number of voting machines were held back at the Board of Elections warehouse, instead of being delivered to polling places where they were desperately needed.
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Read entire article here

[yourout]

1. Sleazy but not suprising.

I hope someone goes up the river for this.

[serryjw]

2. Someone is assuming we still have a Constitution......

n/t

[NEOBuckeye]

3. Wasn't it replaced by the PATRIOT Act? n/t

[DieboldMustDie]

4. I thought the Constitution was being replaced by Biblical Law.

:scared:

[fearnobush]

5. Plan B according to Randy Rhodes is a felony. And may be our best

legal defense as it violates the voting act and the constitution.

"Plan B," according to Bob Fitrakis, a professor at Columbus State Community College, who served as a legal advisor for the Election Protection Coalition in Columbus. This plan was to depress the Democratic vote, by not providing enough voting machines in Democratic and especially African-American areas.

I think we ought to do some prior case study in to actual Plan B cases of the past.

[regnaD kciN]

6. Maybe, but...

...I could think of far better "authorities" than the LaRouchies.

:puke: