Posted on 10/27/2004 3:27:22 AM PDT by ejdrapes
With Election Day almost upon us, it's not clear whether President Bush is running a campaign or plotting a coup d'etat. By all accounts, Republicans are spending these last precious days devoting nearly as much energy to suppressing the Democratic vote as they are to mobilizing their own. Time was when Republicans were at least embarrassed by their efforts to keep African Americans from the polls. Republican consultant Ed Rollins was all but drummed out of the profession after his efforts to pay black ministers to keep their congregants from voting in a 1993 New Jersey election came to light. For George W. Bush, Karl Rove and their legion of genteel thugs, however, universal suffrage is just one more musty liberal ideal that threatens conservative rule. Today's Republicans have elevated vote suppression from a dirty secret to a public norm. In Ohio, Republicans have recruited 3,600 poll monitors and assigned them disproportionately to such heavily black areas as inner-city Cleveland, where Democratic "527" groups have registered many tens of thousands of new voters. "The organized left's efforts to, quote unquote, register voters -- I call them ringers -- have created these problems" of potential massive vote fraud, Cuyahoga County Republican Chairman James P. Trakas recently told the New York Times. Let's pass over the implication that a registration drive waged by a liberal group is inherently fraud-ridden, and look instead at that word "ringers." The GOP's Shameful Vote Strategy
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Let's not. 35,000 ballots were returned as undeliverable in OH.
What a disgraceful article, even for the Post.
Th WaPo here is just acting as a transciption sevice for propaganda faxes received from the evil Democratic National Committee.
And, let's hope unvotable. I bet the registrars just bogused up some registrations to pad their paychecks and please their bosses.
The media's sympathetic coverage of late-registering voters is ridiculous.
They remind me of those people who put off Christmas shopping until December 23rd...and then complain about the crowds.
Get your party to stop cheating and you won't have to worry about it, butthead. And speaking of vote suppression, stop trying to supress the military vote. And finally, we see right through your feeble attempts at race-baiting, time to come up with a new scam already.
This article has got to be from the OpEd pages since it falls beneath even the Washington Post's low standards for "reporting."
"By all accounts?" "All" of them?
Suppressing the vote is a federal crime, dimwit. Either report these crimes to the authorities or shut up.
This is exactly the kind of lying bilge we can expect from the loony left from now on.
Yes, heaven forbid that the "evil Republicans" monitor the polls and help prevent massive voter fraud! How DARE they disenfranchise people attempting to vote twice or more! (Never mind that monitoring such as this is perfectly legal and above board.)
Where is this moron's sense of outrage about the active voter intimidation happening in the early voting sites in Florida?!? Oh that's right...it's the Dems attempting to ILLEGALLY intimidate GOP voters, so it's OK. What a travesty!
Those of you in battleground states (unfortunately I'm not in one myself) need to get out and make sure this is a legal election. The Dems are crying about nonexistant election theft committed against them while simultaneously trying to get away with stealing this election themselves. Don't let it happen!
I'm glad to hear the GOP is not just allowing fraud to happen.
We all can see what happens when journalists' at the Post(demorat's)start toking on the crack pipe.Bush/cheney 2004
And the thousands of poll monitors and lawyers dispatched by Kerry are okay, because they are working for the forces of light and hood. And the Union thugs that have already stood in line in Florida to harass any Bush voter are just foot soldiers in the war on poverty.
Excuse me while I visit the vomitorium.
Tell the lie, tell it often enough . . . . . .
Yeah, this is really a dreadful editorial, even for the Compost. It's just a litany of the writer's own assumptions and prejudices. There's a smell of Democrat desperation in the air.
"by all accounts" just like "clearly" and "obviously" is often used to prop up a weak argument.
Mary Poppins and Dick Tracey are regstered Democrats.
In front page news stories today, the Washington Post revealed that water is wet, that eating at McDonalds will make you fat and that poor people have less money than rich people.
This is completely irresponsible.
What are the democrats planning? A coup?
In Milwaukee, where they haven't had a Republican mayor in who knows how long they're having a real battle about the number of ballots printed. They've requested 950,000 ballots and the one responsible for following through on it says they don't need 950,000 ballots because that's almost double the number of eligible voters unless you count the dead vote. Smells like there could be a voting scam is going to happen in Milwaukee.
This much hatred in print is about a stinging reality they are facing.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but as I recall it, an investigation started about this, but -- though it found Rollins was guilty of some relatively small-time stuff -- it became apparent that the Dems were operating big-time. For some reason, the investigation dropped off the front pages.
What lying scumbags! I hate these people and their shameful race card tactics! Granny's social secrity is getting cut 45% too.
Yep.
When Stalin wrote, it was easy to tell when he was about to tell a lie because he would begin the sentence "As is well known......."
Number one way to figure out what dirty tricks the democRATS are up to, listen to what they acuse the republicans of doing.
Because after they get caught, they can then scream "well, everybody does it".
But nary a peep about the mountains of evidence for Democrat vode fraud.
Coup d'etat!?
Irresponsible overheated rhetoric unacceptable from a newspaper that expects to be taken seriously.
This one editorial exhibits multiple neuroses and psychoses that it could be a study in abnormal psychology. Just a few: delusions of grandeur, projection, cognitive dissonance, paranoia, et al.
Riiiiggghhhhttt...there couldn't be any voter fraud in a state where voter registration cards are undeliverable, ACORN is involved, and people are forging registrations for crack cocaine.
The obvious race-baiting in this article is a prime example of the left's death throes. They've been on the decline since 1994 and they don't like it. Suddenly, rules don't matter, because it suits their purpose.
Not every vote should count.
We have one person/one vote in this country, if one follows the rules accordingly.
If WaPo doesn't like it, perhaps they should organize a political party, run for office, and attempt to change the rules to their liking.
Bush is a racist Confederate Texan, see?
If you ever doubted that the gloves are off...this article is proof.
This is exactly as I predicted: the Dems are spinning the efforts to stop vote fraud as "suppressing voters".
Expect them to get more and more vocal about this around election day. Watch for cries of "disenfranchisement, intimidation," etc. if you question a person's "right" to vote twice, vote for the the dead, vote in multiple precincts, etc.
Any ideas on how we can prevent/stop vote fraud without the Dems turning it into a "victims" issue?
Let's pass over the implication that a registration drive waged by a liberal group is inherently fraud-ridden, and look instead at that word "ringers."
Harold Meyerson is editor at large of the American Prospect and political editor of L.A. Weekly. His column appears on Wednesdays, and he can be reached at meyersonh@washpost.com.
Well with an honest lawyer leaders like Gov. Doyle and Peg 'the puppet' Lautenslagger on the job
not to worry...
I guess efforts to catch shoplifters are suppressing commerce.
The subtext is: "We are about to get our left-wing asses kicked at the polls and we know it."
Rejoice and Be Glad takes on a whole new meaning. That's exactly what it means!!!!! Yipeeeeeee
The author, Harold Meyerson, is the Vice Chair of the Democratic Socialists of America. In other words, he is a Marxist.
"And the evidence for these conclusions is?"
They don't need any edvidence; *accounts* is all they need.
"By all accounts..."
This is what infuriates me about these leftist newspapers - not only DON'T they report any of the mountain of fraud and voting irregularities perpetrated by Democtrats, they want their readers to believe that it's Republicans committing all the fraud! I hate the NYT, WaPo, LAT and Boston Globe. They are lying assholes that need to be investigated for treason.
Yes, it is shameful to desire that people only vote once, and that their alive when they do so.
Suggestion: Everyone should take one of those cheap throwaway cameras with them to the polls and actually take or pretend to take pictures of the commies standing around with demonrat signs. Then inform them you're turning their picture over to your State Attorney General. Should be great fun! Get em all lathered up.
here we go the liberals and the race baiting...after all the flim flaming the democrats have perpetrated in this election the washington post whines about republicans..
mountain out of molehill alert!
Gee, guess this guy got the DNC Talking Point Memo requiring their stooges to "preemtively" accuse voter surpression.
Hmm, Let's see. Democrat run counties enroll thousands of voters MORE then the census shows living there. The Republican legally, an properly, try to prevent this voter fraud and the Wholescale Propagandist dams the REPBS????
In Ohio, Republicans have recruited 3,600 poll monitors and assigned them disproportionately to such heavily black areas as inner-city Cleveland, where Democratic "527" groups have registered many tens of thousands of new voters.
Gee but those 10,000 lawyers the Kerry Campaign has out there this election day just seems to have eluded the WP's attention.
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