oxdown.firedoglake.com - 10/15/2008
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Cameron Quinn, who was a director of the Republican voter suppression front group, the American Center for Voting Rights. California Secretary of State Bill Jones, who has long fought for ways to make it more difficult for people to vote. Susan Molinari who cried wolf about voter fraud in 2004 ...
openleft.com - 10/22/2008
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openleft.com —
I did a quick hit on this yesterday,
but this is too important to let scroll away
so quickly. There's a new video out from Brave New Films and ACORN that directly exposes the truth about ACORN--that it scares the right wing, because their power ...
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ACORN / Brave New Films Voter Suppression Video
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Exposing "John McCain’s Voter Suppression Committee"
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
... The GOP has a different definition of clean elections than most of us. For them, it means stealing elections with no fingerprints. But, this time, they're being watched -- and busted: ...
Campaign 08: McCain's Hot Air on Voter Fraud
The Nation: Top Stories —
... and the ability to get them to the polls. So naturally the only thing the McCain campaign can do is pretend that these voters are illegitimate and fraudulent. They've done so in the past. According to a new report by blogger Ari Rabin-Havt, "Nearly a quarter of John McCain's 'Clean Election and Voter Fraud Committee,' chaired by Warren Rudman and John Danforth, have been involved in GOP voter suppression efforts or unfounded partisan claims of voter fraud." Take a look at the list and remember these names next time the GOP cries wolf about voter fraud and attempts to ...
Hullabaloo —
... Our grip on the franchise of voting is so tenuous that a mishit letter at the DMV, poor penmanship on a voter registration form, could be all that stands between you and ineligibility. And this has been exploited by experienced voter suppression operatives in the Republican Party, a number of whom work on John McCain's campaign, who ...
Press Cracks Up When Rep. Tom Davis (R-VA) Claims 'We'd Never, Ever Engage in Voter Suppression'
The BRAD BLOG —
... Obama supporters from also voting for Democrats down the ticket at a press conference in D.C., Rep. Tom Davis (R-VA), a former chair of the National Republican Congressional Commitee (NRCC) said: "Well you're talking about voter suppression and we would never, ever do anything along that line, for the record."
The room broke into laughter during his comment! (video 1:14 mins)...
Ari at the Oxdown Gazette covered it also notes that nearly one-quarter of John McCain's ...
Obama Legal Team Requests OPR/OIG Investigate Politicized DOJ Internal Rulebreaking
Firedoglake —
... a desire to game "the math" and by pervasive politicization in hiring practices within the civil rights division of DOJ ignoring cautionary regulations? Internal rules prohibited this very behavior because incomplete criminal investigations -- not therefore known to be either substantiated or wholly meritless -- should not manipulate an election. (See, Rove; or Schlozman; or Von Spakovsky; among other Republican vote suppression schemers.)
Bauer then reminds Mukasey of his own public promises: ...
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nationaljournal.com 10/29/2008 — Voter suppression is moving off the streets and onto the Internet, but political operatives seeking to spread confusion on Election Day are being countered by tech-savvy voting rights groups employing new Web applications to debunk myths and police ...
Voter suppression phone calls in Indiana
thenextright.com 11/4/2008 — Cross-posted from Election Journal .
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Senate Dems Raise Funds To Fight Voter Suppression
onthehillblog.blogspot.com 10/31/2008 — The Senate Democrats' campaign operation is raising funds to fight what it calls voter intimidation and "shenangians" on Election Day.
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Voter fraud, suppression battle to intensify as election approaches
jsonline.com 10/23/2008 — gborowski@journalsentinel.com Posted: Oct. 22, 2008 For those weary of the battle between Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama as the presidential election approaches, there is another clash sure to intensify in the final days: Fraud vs. ...
Oxdown Gazette » Obama, Arnold, & DiFi in NO on Prop 8 Ad
oxdown.firedoglake.com 11/2/2008 — Hours after the Proposition 8 campaign admitted it had mailed a flyer to African-American voters that lies about Sen. Barack Obama's position on the initiative, the NO on 8 Campaign launched a statewide television ad reminding voters that Sen. Obama, ...
Printable resources - Voter Suppression Wiki
bit.ly 11/3/2008 — Documents to consider printing out My vote, my right My Vote, My Right: One-page know your rights/who to call summaries for each state from the AFL-CIO: http://aflcio.org/issues/civilrights/vrights_pamphlets.cfm Election Protection graphics from ...
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