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kuozzman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-04 04:37 PM
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Congress can't even pass a bill that simply states their support of
peoples' voting rights. It's currently in the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. Why, I don't know, but it acknowledges organized vote fraud in every election, especially recently.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/C?c108:./temp/~c108nJp8KU

HRES 793 IH Condemning all efforts to suppress and intimidate voters in the United States and reaffirming that the right to vote is a fundamental right of all eligible United States citizens.

"Whereas, despite the gains made by African Americans in securing their right to vote, new roadblocks have been successfully erected, including diluting the African American vote by switching to at-large elections, preventing African Americans from becoming candidates or obtaining office, voter fraud, the discriminatory selection of election officials, denying African Americans access to precinct meetings, and the harassment and outright exclusion of African Americans from polling places;"

"Whereas voters in the United States, particularly African Americans and other minorities, have faced calculated and determined efforts at voter intimidation and suppression in every national election since the Reconstruction era"

"Whereas examples of voter intimidation and suppression during the previous 2 decades include challenges and threats against individual voters at the polls by armed private guards, off-duty law enforcement officers, local creditors, fake poll monitors, and poll workers and managers; signs posted at polling places warning of penalties for voter fraud and non-citizen voting or illegally urging support for a candidate; poll workers assisting voters in filling out their ballots and instructing them on how to vote; criminal tampering with voter registration rolls and records; fliers and radio advertisements containing false information about where, when, and how to vote, voter eligibility, and threats of penalties; roadblocks near polling areas that intimidate voters; and internal memos from party officials in which the explicit goal of suppressing African American voter turnout is outlined"

"Whereas there were a number of troubling instances of voter intimidation in addition to the myriad technical problems during the November 2000 Presidential election in Florida"

(5) calls upon the Attorney General to vigorously monitor and investigate all credible allegations of voter intimidation and suppression and to expeditiously prosecute all offenders to the full extent of the law.


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