Selma re-invented
Selma re-invented
Look at how much American society has advanced in 47 years. Voter suppression has gone from billy clubs to hipster glasses and Apple computers:
It might as well be Harry Potter’s invisible Knight Bus, because no one can prove it exists.
The bus has been repeatedly cited by True the Vote, a national group focused on voter fraud. Catherine Engelbrecht, the group’s leader, told a gathering in July about buses carrying dozens of voters showing up at polling places during the recent Wisconsin recall election.
“Magically, all of them needed to register and vote at the same time,” Ms. Engelbrecht said. “Do you think maybe they registered falsely under false pretenses? Probably so.”
Weeks later, another True the Vote representative told a meeting of conservative women about a bus seen at a San Diego polling place in 2010 offloading people “who did not appear to be from this country.”
Officials in both San Diego and Wisconsin said they had no evidence that the buses were real. “It’s so stealthy that no one is ever able to get a picture and no one is able to get a license plate,” said Reid Magney, a spokesman for the Wisconsin agency that oversees elections. In some versions the bus is from an Indian reservation; in others it is full of voters from Chicago or Detroit. “Pick your minority group,” he said.
Progress! Please read the whole story because it only gets worse -- bands of right-wing whack jobs invading inner-city neighborhhods in a pathetic search for the Unicorn, the Bigfoot, the Lochness Monster (scratch that one, it might actually exist) of voter impersonation, with the real goal of intiminating minority voters. Ironically, I read this story today not long after watching some of an excellent PBS Eyes on the Prize video, "Bridge to Freedom," about the bloody push to win voting rights in Selma, Alabama, in 1965.
Sheriff Jim Clark, True the Vote...it's the same freakin' thing.
Opposition to voter ID laws is tantamount to support of voter fraud. And it is racist.— georgel
It’s the only way the republicans can ever win, election returns rigging and voter suppression. They can’t win on the issues, because a majority of Americans reject their regressive, out of date, out of touch views and policies. Looks like they have a lot of work ahead of them though. Mitt has decided since he can’t win over the swing voters, he’ll double down with the culture war rhetoric to ensure the base turns out, to minimize his damage in the down ticket races. This is going to get real ugly, real fast. And it will turn most voters off. He’s practically handing Obama a landslide.— Independence
Say, most of us way-cool Occupiers sport hipster glasses and Apple laptops, why the dig?— m13sully- I would have thought that the Inky would have given this a rest given that their poster child, Viviette Applewhite got her ID after the hires if two bus rides and a 15 minute wait.— FletcherT
- Straw man, and a poor one at that.— rudytbone
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This is serious. I'm contacting my local Democratic Party HQ today to see what I can do to help prevent this from happening here. These thugs must be stopped.
Philadelphia area Republicans, you should denounce these people, if you have any decency left. (HTML deleted)— Hamlet - Sorry, I used HTML "comment" tags to show the part of the article I was quoting (duh!)
“The first day of early voting, at many of the 37 locations, primarily in minority neighborhoods, dozens of poll watchers showed up sent by King Street Patriots,” Mr. Ray said. The influx of white election observers in black neighborhoods caused friction with voters and poll workers, bringing back memories of a time when racial intimidation at the polls was commonplace in the South, said Gerald M. Birnberg, a lawyer and former chairman of the Harris County Democratic Party. True the Vote has strongly denied that it has engaged in voter suppression.— Hamlet - "bands of right-wing whack jobs invading inner-city neighborhhods"
Really?? Then how do you explain this...AN ACTUAL CONVICTION!!!
"In 2006, four employees of the John Kerry campaign were convicted of slashing the tires of 25 vans rented by the Wisconsin state Republican Party which were to be used for driving Republican monitors to the polls. At the campaign workers' sentencing, Judge Michael B. Brennan told the defendants, "Voter suppression has no place in our country. Your crime took away that right to vote for some citizens"
These treasonous Lib journalistic whack jobs like "Bunch of B. S." continue their lies, cover ups and attacks on a daily basis when their job is simply to report the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help me Barry!!! LOL!!!...then they wonder why people have lost respect for them so quickly!!! No doubt they do deserve jail time for their actions!— sarah89
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