The only people I've seen who wants to deny participation in the Democratic process are Democrats. The Rats want Nadar off the ballot and also prevent the military from voting. Any Vet who support Kerry should hang their heads in shame.
Posted on 10/16/2004 3:16:50 PM PDT by mdittmar
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. - Sen. John Edwards, visiting the state that narrowly put President Bush in the White House in 2000 after a disputed recount and voting irregularities, issued a warning Saturday to Floridians about Republicans.
"We know they're going to be up to their old tricks, right, trying to keep people from voting," Edwards told supporters gathered at a community block party. "We're going to make sure that people get to vote. We're going to make sure those votes count, and here in Florida, democracy is going to decide who the next president of the United States is going to be."
Stumping for running mate John Kerry, the North Carolina senator kicked off a five-day, 12-city tour of the state by the Democratic ticket and their wives at the suburban Miami block party. As he spoke, barefoot children bounced inside two inflatable structures, the heavily black crowd ate hot dogs, and a supporter with dreadlocks banged on bongos and blew a brass horn at key lines from Edwards' speech.
With just over two weeks before the election, the romp through Florida underscored the importance of the state that Bush won by 537 votes over Democrat Al Gore in 2000.
"We are at ground zero for where the decision will be made about who the next president of the United States will be," Edwards said. "And, we know what's coming, right? We know what's coming. The Republicans are already up to it."
The Democratic vice presidential nominee vaguely referred to a newspaper report that Gov. Jeb Bush ignored advice to scrap a flawed election voter list before it went out to county election offices in spite of a warning from leery state officials about the reliability of the data. The governor's spokeswoman has called the allegation "absolutely false."
Edwards also mentioned the rejection more than 10,000 voter registration forms that elections officials say were improperly filled out. That issue is now the subject of a lawsuit against Florida's largest counties.
"Whatever it is," Edwards promised, the Democratic Party will fight to ensure voters voices in Florida are heard.
Christine Iverson, a spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee, dismissed the charge of Republican mischief. "The Kerry-Edwards campaign and the DNC has sent out instructions to Democrats across the country to make up accusations of voter intimidation where none exist. It sounds like John Edwards is following the DNC and Kerry play book," she said.
It was a reference to a manual that the Democratic National Committee distributed in battleground states. The manual has a section telling operatives how to combat voter intimidation, and the GOP argues that the guidelines encourage Democrats to use scare tactics. Democrats deny the charge.
Have to give Drudge a pat on the back for leaking the info, now everytime a lawyer goes to court all they have to do is hold up the dem manual.
But from a trial lawyer that channels dead children in court it's par for the course.
The dems of course, don't keep people from voting; they protect the rights of double voters, dead voters, felonious voters, illegal immigrant voters.....
"Politicians say the stupidest things!!"
the only voters that were targeted to stop their votes in FL 2000 were overseas military voters, and the DNC put out information on how to disqualfy their mail in ballots...
Ok...for the ZILLIONth time...
After the 2000 mess...there were no fewer than 6 separate investigations- several done by liberal groups. Not ONE instance of deliberate voter disenfranchisement. There were a dozen or so people who had difficulty due to language barriers etc.
This is the typical liberal style: Accuse your opponent of what you yourself are doing.
they need to hold up the Dem manual and ask Edwards "tricks like these?"
Well thats good enough for me.
NOT
In Forida, registration just closed 10 days ago, absentee ballots went out this week and you can vote for the Nov 2nd election starting this week; i.e., it "may" be difficult to argue that people are being kept from voting(unless your thought process is that of Johnny Edwards).
Yeah, you little crap weasel. And for our next trick, Bush is also going to promise that if you vote for him, he'll cure you and have you up and out of your wheelchair in no time -- and he'll get you a hot date, too. Yeesh.
Today on NPR they were talking about fraudulent re-registration of voters as Republicans! Of course, what they didn't mention is that this is being done by ACORN workers (ACORN is the late Saul Alinsky's radical left community-organizing group) who are being paid $2 apiece for new registrations or reregistrations. Since being registered as a Republican does not affect your ability to vote Dem, but does get the worker that $2, this was what they were doing. And they've been doing it not only in Florida (it was discovered in Tampa), but all over the country. But of course NPR says it was a GOP plot...
In addition, I suspect that it was coordinated higher up as an attempt to confuse things and call the legitimacy of the whole process into question, thereby enabling the courts to get in again.
Unctious Ed is just not presidential............timberrrr!
If they can get the afflicted up out their wheelchairs, getting the rest of them to the polls should be child's play.
He's an ambulance chaser, what did you expect? Moral? A defense of our country and it's institutions?
When will they get a clue,the goverment won't help,just makes you dependent on it.
Damn this gets old.
They're giving them 4 more days in JAX because the black ministers coalition claimed would-be voters weren't given enough time to correct their registrations. They had left off the DL or ID number (probably because the voters in question didn't have one because they didn't exist) and the ministers said that blacks would be "disenfranchised" if they didn't get an extension. So Duvall County gave in - and the city is also providing free buses to the minority areas so that this particular group of voters can get downtown for early voting, something that everybody else seems to be able to do on their own, oddly enough.
The only people I've seen who wants to deny participation in the Democratic process are Democrats. The Rats want Nadar off the ballot and also prevent the military from voting. Any Vet who support Kerry should hang their heads in shame.
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