I wonder how many dead people will be voting in the Chicago elections, this year.
No, you don’t.
The Republican gains this year will obviously be due to voter suppression and intimidation. “Wall Street fat cats” will stop lighting cigars with hundred dollar bills just long enough to roam the streets, disenfranchising the noble and oppressed for their evil amusement.
Well, its their country. We just rent.
AGAIN. How about they do it equally for Republican and Democratic registered voters?
Check out the new Voter Suppression Wiki.
I really dont think this line will work anymore:
From here. The city officials in Bell used this rigged victory to push through salary increases and other corruption.
I do not want challenges to be used inappropriately, but I also do not want legitimate charges waved away.
You appear to have overlooked a few words in that quote, such as “investigate”, “potential”, and “may”. Come back when you have evidence. It’s OK, we’ll wait.
This link doesn’t work – it says the domain has expired…?
It worked when I posted it. I got it from the external links at the bottom of the Wikipedia page on Voter Suppression. But, I click that and get the same result you did.
We must have successfully suppressed it.
I got a fundraising e-mail from the Alexi Giannoulias campaign (he’s the Democrat running for Obama’s old Senate seat against Republican Mark Kirk). Apparently Kirk was recorded bragging about how many lawyers he has hired to fight supposed Democratic voter intimidation tactics in Chicago and Rockford (which happen to have a lot of black voters).
Here is a YouTube Young Turks clip:
If you are in Chicago or Rockford, I for one would like to know if you see any weird flyers or posters or get any weird phone calls a la Virginia in 2008. I’m not sure what Kirk is up to, if anything (although I think the fuss over the word “jigger” is just silly). If Kirk really thought there was voter intimidation going on, why would he concentrate on the most heavily black parts of the state?
What could POSSIBLY go wrong? :rolleyes:
Well, probably a lot of them will take it too literally and spend some time poking around fields.
Marshall Field’s, Kim Fields, the Field Museum, Wrigley Field…
Are you suggesting we disenfranchise the Blues Brothers?
Well, they are dead.
I have a cunning plan. Any individual registered voter can challenge someone’s vote, providing the challenger has not already voted. If it turns out the challenger is mistaken and the voter is legally registered, the challenger surrenders their right to vote in this election, and loses the right to challenge any other voters.
This allows challenges if the challenger is confident, and has a punitive element for frivolous challenges. Shouldn’t there be a penalty for attempting to deprive a citizen of the franchise without sufficient evidence?
I think there is a lot of misnomer at play here, the natural assumption that the effort is geared to suppressing the individual voter. The goal isn’t so much to stop as to slow.
Personally, I think it is a disgrace that voter access should be so tied to the economic status of the citizen. Makes me mad as hell. The voter in an economically deprived district must wait longer than his fellow citizen in a posh suburb, it is far more of a hassle, it requires far more determination.
If the Republicans can slow that process down, they will discourage huge numbers of voters who are reliably Dem. As well, if they can circulate rumors that people who have some legal issue (classic example: parking tickets) will be arrested, they can discourage voters.
No one imagines that an election can be swayed by picking off a few poorly documented voters, that’s chickenfeed. But if they can make an onerous and difficult process even more difficult, if they can make the poor voter stand for four or five hours to exercise his right to vote, they will win.
“Voter fraud” is a slimy, disgusting, underhanded effort to achieve by trickery and cunning what could not be achieved by honest politicking. It results in the more affluent citizen having more of a right to vote than his less advantaged fellow citizen, and it is a disgrace. And there isn’t the slightest doubt who’s greasy fingerprints are on it.
You can’t call it fraud, but it certainly is an attempt to suppress voters – a Spanish language TV ad, funded by a conservative group, that specifically says, “Don’t Vote” as a means of protesting the empty promises of Democrats. Here’s one story about it being pulled after Univision refused to run it. But it has been run.