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.
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.
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