Republicans love to wrap themselves in the flag and quote the constitution. They love beating Liberals, Progressives and everyone else over the head with it.
Yet, if you look at all their actions, they really do not care about the constitution, democracy, or equal access for all. They believe in democracy solely for those who are pre-programmed to vote for them. What is funny is that their policies also prevent equal access not only for those that generally do not vote for them but for some of those who always vote for them (makes the book “What’s the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America” required reading for all including their minions).
The story below is true and important. We cannot wait until we are at the election to fight the REAL voter fraud that is being effected by the Republicans under the premise of combatting voter fraud, a non-existent problem in this country. Do you really think an undocumented worker or undocumented resident is going to take the chance to get caught by voting in one of our elections. The premise lack credulity.
Republicans are on their last straw fighting the demographic and intellect shift in the country. The majority of the country comprised of Progressive Whites, Blacks, Hispanics, and other minorities is where we are already as a country. These groups see value to humanity in what the Democratic platform stands for. While many Democrats, specifically Blue Dogs have been an embarrassment to true Democratic values, going forward as the country continues to move forward they as well will be purged. We now must ensure we vote as we really are and not where the Republicans would like to keep us, the 1950s where there was no dignity for assertive women, minorities, and “others”.
LEARN ABOUT VOTER SUPPRESSION AND RECOURSE HERE.
May 28, 2012 09:30 AM
What This Election Is Really About | Crooks and Liars
By karoli
In Ohio, students who register to vote as Democrats are seeing their voter registrations routinely challenged by right wing groups for bogus reasons. This is intentional. When a voter registration is challenged, the county registrar sends out a card to that voter telling them that they must respond by a certain date in order to preserve the integrity of their voter registration. That card gets buried in the pile of election materials, bills and other mail sent to that student’s household, and quite often they don’t respond, particularly when the reason is ridiculously stupid. If they don’t respond, they can be purged from voter rolls without further notice.
Organizations like TrueTheVote.org have actually created tools for at-home "researchers" to use so they can comb through the voter rolls and target voters’ registrations for challenge ahead of the election. It shouldn’t surprise anyone to discover that the challenges are mostly to people with Hispanic surnames and young, first-time voters who have registered with the Democratic Party.
The right wing isn’t subtle about this. JudicialWatch.org claims millions of voter records are flawed, and it’s up to them, and them alone, to fix that problem.
In Florida, Rick Scott’s purge of voter records in advance of the November election has caused hundreds of citizens to be told they’re ineligible to vote when they clearly are eligible. In Miami-Dade County, over 1600 people received notice they were ineligible unless they proved their eligibility. Of those, nearly 400 have proven their citizenship and eligibility. Another 1,200 have not responded to the letter.
The Florida lists were developed by comparing voter registrations to DMV records. That yielded a list of 182,000 — yes, 182,000 — names and was rife with errors. Still, the Governor’s office notified election officials of 2,600 people they were certain were not US citizens, only some of them actually were. Kurt Browning, Florida Secretary of State, resigned last year after declaring that he had no confidence in the integrity of the lists Scott was relying upon to purge voters from the rolls.
This election in November isn’t about what Mitt Romney will do to the economy or whether Barack Obama understands the economy or whether John McCain thinks Romney’s Bain record is perfectly fine.
It is not going to be about Social Security or Medicare or tax cuts or billionaire birthers like Donald Trump. It’s not going to matter whether a so-called "bipartisan panel" sits around a round table on Sunday morning and pearl-clutches over this week’s gaffes and surges.
None of that matters. Not one whit. The only thing that is going to matter is whether or not Republican astroturf organizations like TruetheVote, Republican governors like John Kasich, Rick Scott and Scott Walker, and Republican True Believers will team up to suppress the vote in enough states to guarantee a stolen election.
And from our mainstream media, our Sunday talkers, and our newspapers, we hear….crickets. They spew forth reams of speculation and handicapping about the election, but no one wants to talk about the real deal, which is that this election will be decided by states that have actively suppressed the vote.
Maybe it’s time we woke up the sleeping corporate media and started forcing their eyes on this BEFORE we’re facing recounts in November.
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