To Freepers The Voting Rights Act is a "Loophole" and Voters are "Rats"

[McCamy Taylor]

"Freepers Against Voter Fraud! The whole point of this exercise is to get more conservative voters involved in changing the laws to close loopholes which make it easy to cheat, to promote the enforcement of existing election laws and to take part in the election process at the local level all with the goal of intercepting future fraud campaigns. In other words our goal is to STOP THE RATS FROM HIJACKING THE ELECTION PROCESS AND TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK!" From the Free Republic Website

The "laws" and "loopholes" that make it easy for us "rats" to "cheat"? Actually, it is one law, the {Voting Rights Act. The Acting White House Counsel, Al Gonzales has rendered it virtually void by failing to enforce it over the objections of his career DOJ staff and the rulings of multiple courts including the SCOTUS. However, that isnt enough for the righteous white folks at the Free Republic. They have a posse of state and local officials who are using and abusing their authority to re-institute poll taxes, literacy tests and every other barrier of Jim Crow, this time on a nationwide basis and this time aimed at any demographic group that Karl Rove says is likely to vote Democratic.

Here is some art work that I have done over the last couple of years that should raise your blood pressure further, if you are not already mad enough. I have many more posted at www.grandtheftelectionohio.com :

Don't Mess With Georgia's Poll Tax! http://www.grandtheftelectionohio.com/051023.htm

Bad Day in Franklin Co., Ohio, or The Texas Strike Force Rides Again http://www.grandtheftelectionohio.com/051107.htm

Way Out West, A Tale of Election Fraud in California http://www.grandtheftelectionohio.com/060102.htm

No Way To Treat a Lady, A Tale of Election Theft at the Department of Justice http://www.grandtheftelectionohio.com/060705.htm

Everyone of these real life stories contains a violation of the Voting Rights Act. Everyone is a Freeper "success" story. I am sure their mamas and daddies are real proud.

Since you are still reading, you are mad enough to vote, but are you mad enough to take your video phones with you and keep watch at polls where GOP election fraud is likely? Are you mad enough to donate one more check to the Democrats so they can counter the flurry the last minute avalanche of RNC negative ads? If you have no money but you have time, are you mad enough to volunteer with your local Democratic Party or with a local campaign? Are you mad enough to round up all your friends and acquaintances and make sure that they make an informed vote? Are you mad enough to write a letter of endorsement to the editor of your local newspaper, spelling out an issue that will make other voters push the straight party ledger?

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[bluestateguy]

1. "Voting is for the white folks"

This is an actual quote someone said to me with a straight face back in 1994. His logic was that white people paid all the taxes and had jobs, while black people just took money from welfare and other government programs, so white people should be the only ones doing the voting.

I decided that day that that would be the last time I talked about politics with someone in a Jiffy Lube.

[Hav]

2. .

They must live in another world. In a world where Dems have 70+ Senate seats and where Gore stole the election twice.

[badgerpup]

3. They may be shooting themselves in the foot on one of these...

"...a posse of state and local officials who are using and abusing their authority to re-institute poll taxes, literacy tests and every other barrier of Jim Crow...".

Judging by what one sees at Freeperville and on a lot the AOL boards, the literacy requirement would prevent a LOT of Repub voters from exercising their franchise.

What does that mean? For you lurking Freepers, I'll type slowly.

IF YOU CAN'T READ, YOU WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO VOTE.
OOOOH-KAAAAY?

I did try to keep it to one syllable words, honest.

I'm volunteering at my local precinct...offered to drive a van to transport grannies and granpas who otherwise might not be able to get to the polls.

[McCamy Taylor]

4. Someone posted at Salon how an old white man in Arizona got

mad when they said that hewould have to fork up a photo ID to prove that he was who he said he was. He thought the law was just for wetbacks when he voted for it.

And when they throw out 1000 newly registered Dem voters because their ballots were delivered by UPS rather than UP Service that is a valid literacy test, but when Republican voters can not fill out their ballots correctly in Florida in 2000, a judge has to protect their right to have local election workers correct their ballots---because they were all white, presumably, and if the ballot was too hard for a white person to figure out it must have been too hard.

Or when the military voters could not get their votes cast on time in 2000, they had to be protected and allowed to vote after the fact, because they were going to vote Republican, but now that they are likely to vote Democratic, their absentee ballots are being mailed late or not at all, and suddenly the GOP sees no problem with this. Presumably this is the soldiers fault for being away from home during election time.

Republicans sure have a lot of senate seats for a group of people who all live in one state, a state called Denial.