Posted on 02/06/2008 9:01:01 AM PST by PsyOp
Reports are rolling into talk radio stations in San Diego about massive Republican vote suppression.
Thousands of Republican voters in San Diego and as far north as Los Angeles showed up to vote on Tuesday only to be told that they were registered "Non-Partisan". This meant that they could not vote for the Republican Primary candidates.
Non-Partisan (independent) voters in California can vote for Candidates in any other party, including the Democrat party, but are prohibited from voting in the Republican Primary unless they are registered as a Republican.
Rick Roberts [http://www.760kfmb.com] is currently reporting on this and has had hundreds of calls and thousands of e-mails from people who showed up to vote only to be told they were not registered as Republcans. Reports began rolling into the Roger Hedgecock show yesterday.
Several people have called in saying they witnessed this happening at polling place they worked at as volunteers. One gentleman stated that he believed at least 20% of the Republicans that showed up to vote were denied a Republican primary form because the roster showed them as "Non-Partisan".
The Republican Party in California has begun investigating this issue, but the mainstream media continues to report that Californias election "went smoothly".
It seems clear that someone or some group managed to tamper with the voter registration rolls. Either by direct access to the Registrars computer system, or by gaining access to voter information and then sending in registration cards in their name.
Southern California was projected to go heavily in favor in Mitt Romny.
Just in time for Rush...thanks for the post!
later ping
Yea, because LA is a bastian of conservatism....
Hmmm...Sinister Juan McCranky, strikes again...
Go to ricks website which i included in the post and you can listen to the streaming audio of his show. Hes on for another hour.
Orange County is heavily Repbulican.
Untrue. They could contest the finding and vote with a provisional ballot. Election laws clearly state this is permissible. The Republicans should have held their ground and demanded their lawful provisional ballots.
If its true, investigate it, but as certain folks have lost their sanity lately, I’m keeping a skeptical eye on this one.
I’m sure that the FEC will jump right on this...right after they figure out the Florida primary mess.
Rush just mentioned your thread!
Look at a map.. San Diego is not in LA... and is very much Republican.
Would this voter suppression have advantaged or disadvantaged one Republican candidate over the others? Is there enough information to tell based upon pattern or geography of the problem?
Indeed. Rush just mentioned this thread.
Massive conservative depression nationwide......
McCain continues to cheat his way to his general election defeat.
“but the mainstream media continues to report that Californias election “went smoothly.”
It did, from their standpoint.
This is not limited to SoCal, the Bay Area also had a large number of folks who experienced likewise. I suspect it is a statewide “phenomena”.
We’ll see.
Every one of these people needs to do immediate public records requests on their forms. Particularly if they were registered properly as of a previous election in which they cast a vote.
Interesting... Wondering if it’s because they told the RNC to FO last time they called like I did?
What??? I have family in SD and LA. I'm calling them to find out if they had this problem.
Yup - happened to me and I live in Northern Cali (Bay Area). Stinks to high heaven as far as I’m concerned.
I’m registered as non-partisan, but I wrote in Mitt Romney. As a non-partisan, I had my choice of ballots from the Democrat party or the American Independent Party. The Republican party closed it’s ballot to registered Republicans only so I wasn’t allowed to get their ballot. I asked the poll worker as I was putting my ballot in, “how do they process the write-in votes?” He gave me a stone-faced answer (but with a twinkle in his eye), “Oh, they’re just shredded up, same as the rest of them.”
See Post 10
He mentioned FR in his opening monologue. It will be a bit to complex for him to detail during the program though. Super Tuesday should go into history as the super sleazy McCain day.
“..... but the mainstream media continues to report that Californias election “went smoothly” AS PLANNED.
This is EXACTLY what happened to me last night in upstate NY. I DEMANDED a paper ballot when told I could not vote and held my ground against the blatantly biased poll workers. I was already annoyed by the snotty voters in the room who overheard all of this, who then proceeded to make remarks about the superiority of Democrats. No way was I going to leave without voting.
Sorry, I don’t see the problem. Non-Republicans apparently are not allowed to vote in the Republican primaries.
Not “supression.” Just the rules.
I could have sworn I read an article that said CA Republicans had decided to have a closed primary. Here in NYS, it’s closed. You have to be a registered Republican to vote in the Republican primary.
Or is the truth that truly Republican individuals were falsely labeled “non-partisan”? Were those who previously were identified as “Republican” re-classified as “non-partisan”? If so, that’s outright corruption.
I’m a bit confused....
I guess I’m just evil... If this had happened to me, I would have seethed internally, then smiled sweetly, asked for the Dem. ballot and voted for the least likely to succeed.
Naughty, I know... Even in High School they told us that was the way to register a protest vote, and that was going on 30 yrs ago!
But those registered as Independants, would go towards McCain. So I doubt this was a huge loss for Romney.
Actually, there is no FEC at the moment. The Dem-controlled senate has refused to confirm any of Bush's appointees to fill the gaps, and there are not enough current members to constitute a quorum.
Lets not start sounding libs stating “XXX” stole the election. If your pissed MCcain or Hillary won CA - get over it.. nothing is going to change that fact. There would have been 100,000 people for anything to change either way. If there is fraud, investigate it... however it had little to no impact on the results.
In FL and SC and NH, McCain ONLY won by getting cross-over democrats and “independents” to vote FOR him. (Against Romney, essentially.) South FL heavily liberal old white women voted for McCain in FL - otherwise, Romney won the rest of the state.
The CA repubbies “could” have been trying to AVOID democrat pollution in their primary by allowing only registered republicans. Or a McCain “leader” in the party could have predicted just this kind of elimination of Romney voters and prohibited them using this tactic.
We don’t know. yet.
Didn’t read the article, did you?
Choose one:
[1] Satan
[2] Antichrist
True. They could have, if they had been informed of that fact at the polling places. Most were not. A few who knew demanded a provisional ballot.
-PJ
Thanks. I had completely missed that. Timing is everything, huh?
Perhaps, Romney supporters should ask Al Sharpton for help. Rev. Al is concerned about voting rights.
Since Romny was heavily favored in San Diego, McCain was the obvious benefactor. However, I doubt he had anything to do with it. This smells of Democrat shenanigans, since their primary is open.
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