BUSH's - Dept Of Justice Helped To - STEAL 2004 ELECTION - By Illegally Refusing To Enforce The Law

[kpete]

How the Republicans REALLY stole 2004.
by Eternal Hope
Wed Jun 06, 2007 at 09:02:05 PM PDT

The fallout over the politicization of the Justice Department is just getting bigger.

Now, it turns out that attorney generals John Ashcroft and Alberto Gonzales illegally refused to enforce laws that were aimed at getting millions of poor and minority people registered to vote. This is just one more example of the rampant racism that is happening at the Justice Department.

The law states that all public assistance agencies must ask people applying for help if they would like to register to vote. This was a law that was passed in 1993 and signed by Bill Clinton. But the Justice Department refuses to enforce that law, which resulted in enough people not registering to vote that it tipped the 2004 election to George Bush instead of John Kerry.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/6/7/025/31773
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The Bush Justice Department, they said, has largely ignored the voter registration sections of the law while aggressively using a narrower provision to sue or threaten to sue states that have failed to purge the names of allegedly ineligible people from voter rolls.

Such selective enforcement, in effect, benefits Republican candidates at election time.

The Knight-Ridder article http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/17333144.htm focuses
on three voter registration groups who fruitlessly tried to get John Ashcroft's Justice Department to enforce the laws requiring these agencies to get people to vote. Instead, they engaged in selective enforcement of the law and aggressively threatened to sue states that did not strike allegedly ineligible voters from the voter rolls. And the article quotes Joseph Rich, who worked at the Justice Department:

Joseph Rich, a former chief of the Justice Department's voting rights section, said that without enforcement of the registration requirement of the 1993 law, which a Democratic Congress passed, fewer Democrats are signed up to vote. Similarly, he said, purges aimed at ineligible voters hurt Democrats by knocking poor voters off the rolls even though they're legitimately registered because they frequently change addresses.

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/17333144.htm

[AndyA]

1. It looks more and more like this could be what finally snags Bushco.

The politicization of the Justice Department seems to have lots of little fingers that stretch into many other areas, things you'd never consider at first.

Could this be what finally undoes Bushco?

[Gman]

7. No, it won't undo them and

they'll continue the same thing through the election next year.

[blm]

12. This is just ONE area of manipulating the votes - media has barely scratched the surface of

the election fraud issues.

The Dem PARTY has got to commit more time and resources to PUBLICIZE attention on what has been happening. Terry McAuliffe's deliberate neglect of this issue after the 2000 hearings on election fraud tactics used by the GOP should have been considered a CRIMINAL ACT of treason against our party.

[tbyg52]

20. Right you are

If they don't get on *this* issue, the 2008 elections will be stolen just like the rest.

[Hubert Flottz]

2. The GOP has to cheat to win...

They know that we the people despise them.

[Morgana LaFey]

17. and lie, and steal

The country is overwhelmingly liberal, for one thing, and the coming Demographics will support Dems even more. Without cheating and lying and stealing, the GOP is toast.

[rodeodance]

3. Will anything be done about this????

[malaise]

5. Let's hope n/t

[Supersedeas]

14. Our 'leadership' has their hands to sit on...

[rodeodance]

4. McClathey has done some good reporting in newspapers

[eShirl]

6. K & R!

WHEN are these unAmerican traitors going to be brought to account for anything??

[demnan]

8. Why Americans aren't out in the street demonstrating

every day against this evil criminality is beyond me.

[The Backlash Cometh]

9. "Refusing to enforce"

Boy, does that tell you everything you need to know about why the system just doesn't work, ANYWHERE.

[fasttense]

10. Selective law enforcement, just like in the days of old where the king's

whim was law. See, since you can't count on any one law being properly enforced, there really is no justice. It is simply at the discretion of our crazy king george. We are no longer a country under the rule of law but a country under the rule of the king's whim. I hope you enjoyed Democracy, while you had it.

[The Count]

11. "among other means" should be added to the title...A whole array of methods was used

Over prosecuting Dems, not prosecuting GOP-ers, and other methods - some employed by diebold, some by RNC, some by local operatives.

[kpete]

15. that is for sure COUNT

everyway they could - every opportunity and when there is no opportunity - they create one...kp

[porphyrian]

13. Don't tell Congress, they're trying to be helpless. - n/t

[BornagainDUer]

16. It is simply amazing how corruption in one sector

spills over into others until it swamps the entire governmental apparatus.

[L. Coyote]

18. How the Republicans REALLY stole 2000 and 2004?

The BIG picture is the incredible number of ways and the SUM of them ALL.

This just adds one more way to my already very long list.

[Senator]

19. They Remain "Stolen" Because DC Dems Refuse To Speak (... let alone impeach)

This is the root of it all.

Our problem is not really with the neofascists, or their Euphemedia minions.

It is the inability of those who (claim to) oppose them to share the same reality. The simple recognition that this regime was never elected, thus never legitimate, would break the spell of madness that enslaves our public dialog and continues to eat through our social fabric like an acid.

Unless and until this happens, we will remain virtually inert as a force for good.

"We outsiders" will continue to treat them as corrupt, and "those insiders" will continue to treat us as crazy.

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[tbyg52]

21. Right you are!

They're not just corrupt, they were NEVER ELECTED!

[Sancho]

22. Jail is too good....

:kick: