Posted on 04/10/2005 3:27:40 PM PDT by paulat
Kerry: Trickery Kept Voters From Polls
8 minutes ago Politics - U. S. Congress
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, Associated Press Writer
BOSTON - Many voters in last year's presidential election were denied access to the polls through trickery and intimidation, former Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry told a voters' group Sunday.
AP Photo
"Last year too many people were denied their right to vote, too many who tried to vote were intimidated," the Massachusetts senator said at an event sponsored by the state League of Women Voters.
"There is no magic wand. No one person is going to stand up and suddenly say it's going to change tomorrow. You have to do that," he said.
Kerry supporters have charged that voting irregularities in largely Democratic areas made it difficult for voters to cast ballots in the November election. A lawsuit in Ohio cited long lines and a shortage of voting machines in predominantly minority neighborhoods, but the Ohio Supreme Court dismissed the suit.
Kerry also cited examples Sunday of how people were duped into not voting.
"Leaflets are handed out saying Democrats vote on Wednesday, Republicans vote on Tuesday. People are told in telephone calls that if you've ever had a parking ticket, you're not allowed to vote," he said.
Kerry has never disputed the outcome of election, saying voting irregularities did not involve enough votes to change the result. Bush won the pivotal state of Ohio by 118,000 votes, giving him enough electoral votes to win re-election.
Bush supporters have denied using voter intimidation tactics to keep people from going to the polls. A call to the Republican National Committee media office was not immediately returned Sunday.
Earlier this year, Kerry joined Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., in filing voting reform legislation. The Count Every Vote Act would create a federal holiday for voting, require paper receipts for votes and authorize $500 million to help states upgrade voting systems and equipment.
Congress' investigative agency, the Government Accountability Office, has also begun looking into the handling of provisional ballots and malfunctions of voting machines. The study could lead to changes in the election process.
Kerry, using crutches as he recovers from knee surgery, suggested the United States should spend as much time promoting democracy at home as it does abroad in countries like Iraq.
"We need to go about the business of making our own democracy in America work better," he said.
He gets sillier every day.
"Kerry also cited examples Sunday of how people were duped into not voting.
"Leaflets are handed out saying Democrats vote on Wednesday, Republicans vote on Tuesday. People are told in telephone calls that if you've ever had a parking ticket, you're not allowed to vote," he said. "
So all the stupid people got caught.
"Hi. I'm irrelevant and paranoid. Look at me!"
People stupid enough to fall for that shouldn't be voting anyway.
Sore Loserman.......
Kerry is certfiable.
...I know...does he have any idea of how people are laughing at him? I don't think so....
Sick...
Hahaha! He must listen to Glenn Beck.
Did anybody else hear the funny things that Glenn Beck's Waffle Head float was saying?
The things Kerry is saying sounds like a soundtrack of the float recording.
I see this a lot with students and young adults I work with.
It's a strange mentality where their victories are 100% to their credit, but their defeats are consistently through some dirty trick, fluke, accident, chicanery, unfairness, etc.
One of the first things I do with people I work with is get them to accept that the one common denominator among all their successes and all their failures is themselves.
Many can't cope with that. Pathological, really.
Why does this just reek? In other words, they called the RNC media office on a *Sunday*, and what does "immediately" mean? Probably 10 minutes, so they could rush out and make it seem like the RNC is avoiding this latest idiocy by Kerry.
LOL. Exactly!
No, people just saw you for what you are, a traitor. The Swifties should all be given the Medal of Honor for having the courage to stand up to him as they did.
He and Al Gore will soon merge into a single, hideous creature.
I wouldn't respond to this sort of idiotic crap either. It just dignifies it.
But isn't there a magic hat? LOL.
Does anyone have the Far Side "push/pull" cartoon?
Agreed, but my point was that the AP's agenda seems pretty transparent once again.
This is strange I thought the Nov 2nd turnout was the largest voter turn out since the 60's.
LOL. Exactly!
EXACTOMUNDO!!!!
sKerry is morphing into Alice Gwhore.....fun to watch!
John who? Does anyone know if this guy served in Vietnam? Just curious.
He's still talking?
He's recovering from knee surgery? Oh, I guess that if you throw like a girl, it puts an extra strain on your knee.
On election night one of our local newscasts went out and interviewed voters. One woman complained that she was tired of waiting so she was going to go home. She claimed it meant she was being disenfranchized.
Better than the Effin' Rat Bastards who shot up Republican offices, trashed campaign offices, spraypainted swastikas on homes with Bush-Cheney signs, and beat up children up Bush voters.
Kerry who?
Take a gander at these headlines...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=electionviolence
Maybe it's the pain killers!
AND....are still trying to steal an election in the State of Washington....yeah, folks, it ain't over YET, here.....our Governorship is STILL in question....King County found more ballots this past week.....but....you won't see Kerry, et al...talking about THAT! OH, and MOST of the ballots fixed in the 2nd re-vote went for the Dem.....
BTW...I ask my more gifted FReeper posters...have you ever seen Camilla and JF'nK in the same place at the same time?
bet, as little boys, they were always hanging onto mommie's skirts and wahhhhhing
Shoulda got their ears boxed then, maybe we wouldn't be "blessed" with 'em now
This losers won't be happy until they're allowed to go door-to-door on election day (in the inner cities only, of course) and let the residents fill out and turn in ballots from their own living rooms.
Hell, they'd rather just skip that part and "divine voter intent" from the courthouse on election night. "Well, Zogby's last poll said..."
this = these, of course. Blah.
Maybe he means like slashing tires on vans intended to drive voters to the polls.
Another new Democratic symbol.
Oh my the lefties are in rare form. Kerry is saying his loss was trickery and Fonda is blaming treason on her Daddy. Nothing to the left is their own fault unless that would be success at something and then they believe they earned it. My sons grew out of this type of behavior before they reached high school.
I can hardly wait to hear what he's going to say about the voter photo ID law that recently passed in GA. It's really got the dems riled up around here.
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighting Troops
The Iraqi's took their lives in their hands to cast ballots and Kerry complains that Democrats were disenfranchised by long lines!
For some Democrats there is no depth they will not plumb.
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