Posted on 03/25/2008 7:13:33 AM PDT by GVnana
At the Montgomery County Board of Elections Office yesterday, there wasn't a single moment when someone wasn't at the counter clutching a voter registration form.
"It's been a madhouse," said Joseph Passarella, the director of voter services, whose office stayed open late - until 8 p.m. - to accommodate the crowds.
At county election boards across the state, lines snaked down hallways as voters rushed to meet last night's deadline for registering to vote in the April 22 primary matchup between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama. According to the Pennsylvania Department of State, 19,639 new voters signed up in the period between March 10 and 17, the latest statewide data available. Of those, 14,256 registered as Democrats.
Also, 29,060 people changed their party affiliation to Democrat in just those seven days.
That increased the total number of eligible Democrats to 4,044,952, an increase of 4 percent from last November. And those numbers don't reflect the major voter registration push that the Clinton and Obama campaigns waged this past weekend, leading up to yesterday's deadline.
It also doesn't include the crush of applications received by election boards yesterday, many of which added staff and stayed open late to keep up with demand. "I drove here from Boston," said Emily Person, 28, of West Chester, who had been visiting relatives in Massachusetts.
"I started getting nervous that I wasn't going to make it," added Person, a Republican who is switching parties so she can weigh in on the choice facing Democrats. "It's been crazy," said James L. Forsythe, head of Chester County's Voter Services, describing the scene at his office yesterday.
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
Operation Chaos in full force.
Go Rush. Operation Chaos Continues.
I though Limbaugh was moving to Pa.
Ha, I thought Limbaugh was moving to Pennsylvania...
L.O.L.!!!...Hey democraps!...Two can play your game!
I recently registered Democrat in PA. After all, what do I get to vote for anymore, but the lesser of two evils? I say if I must vote for lesser evils, I should go to the party with the most evils to vote the lesser of!
I laugh with you.
I still think that somewhere down the road,
Democrats are going to try to use the arguement that these registrations reflect the trend in the country toward Democrat policies.
I look to hear a lot more about them during the next redistricting.
Me too.
Oh, “hurry” to register...got it now.
To: Revolting cat!; Anticommie; Behind Liberal Lines; kinghorse; trooprally; ...
Operation Chaos is working exactly as I had planned. Don't doubt me.
255½ posted on 03/23/2008 10:13:53 PM EDT by Rush Limbaugh (Documented to be almost always right; 97.9 percent of the time!) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]
In the interest of "full disclosure" I was not a participant in Operation Chaos during my primary.
My wife changed to a Demonrat just so she could vote against Hellary..Both of us don’t buy Limbaugh telling everyone to vote for the Skank...The clintons are evil and should b stopped NOW.....I believe that Obama is human, he ain’t a demon like the rotten clintons are...
It will all come out in the wash during the general election, but the twosome from Hell have to be ousted in the primary!!!
Go Mccain
Let them try. They can't. All it takes is articles like this. What are they going to say? "We want to redistrict on the basis of Republican cross-over voters?"
Have you ever heard Limbaugh say the object is to defeat Obama? I haven’t, but I’m not a daily listener.
With all these increased registrations PA might actually have as many voters this time as they have votes!
Do you think the reporters who wrote this story realize the irony in the headline?
LOL!
No, they will lie like they always do, and claim that these are legitimate Democrat Voter Registrations.
Yes, but gerrymandering in this instancing would favor those stealth republicans....I’m more concerned about voter fraud, such as PA counties with voter turnout of 102% in the general election.
The Breck Girl is probably busy getting all primped up for the 'RAT convention in Denver, hoping he will be chosen by consensus as the midway-between "compromise candidate".
Me too!
The racist obama must be stopped and this from your typical white person
Operation Chaos is really working.
Problem is, mimaw, polls are showing he ain't done.
This from "The Long Deafeat" article:
"First, Barack Obama weathered the Rev. Jeremiah Wright affair without serious damage to his nomination prospects. Obama still holds a tiny lead among Democrats nationally in the Gallup tracking poll, just as he did before this whole affair blew up.
Second, Obama’s lawyers successfully prevented re-votes in Florida and Michigan. That means it would be virtually impossible for Clinton to take a lead in either elected delegates or total primary votes."
That was the first I heard of Obama being responsible for shutting out Florida and Michigan.
Obama has "disenfranchised" Florida and Michigan. How juicy is that?
Operation Chaos is insane at this point. We need Obama to win this nomination, on his way to losing 40+ states on Nov 4th.
I think there’s much more to fear from Obama than Hillary. And since Hillary can’t win without the superdelegates stiffing Obama, and losing a sizable portion of the vital black vote, I don’t see a down side to voting for Hillary now. The longer the blood-letting goes on, the better for McCain in November imo.
For now. But it's a long way to November. He's been checked by the doneness testers, but I don't see the fork.
We want to help our fellow activists in PA and send them a signal we are working on this too, and synergize our efforts down here in NC with PA Activists in this next set of Primaries and keep passing this torch from state to state. After all, if savvy Activists had not stepped up in TX & OH, we probably wouldn’t be seeing this awesome situation.
Activists in North Carolina - time is short. April 11 is your deadline to re-register. Don’t re-register as a Democrat - you don’t need to. Instead RE-register as an “Unaffiliated” (what NC refers to for “Independent”). Then you can vote for whoever you want in the Primary & General! Plus, you don’t have to register as a Rat!
You can turn right back around and register back as a Republican after the Primary. You have the right to register and vote however you damn well please and don’t let anyone try to tell you anthing different. After filling out the card normally, also write on your card you are re-registering from Republican to Independent to make it clear to the person in the BOE office what it is you are wanting to do. Just scrawl it on there in any unused space you can find.
Important! A few days after sending in your registration card, be sure to call your county Board of Elections to insure and verify you have been properly Re-Registered! Google up your county and “board of elections” to get the phone number if you need to. They can look up to see how you are registered on the state-wide voter registration system. They are very nice and easy to talk to and act very helpful, and no doubt some are - but do not let that fool you. I called my county office and guess what? They “hadn’t gotten around to it yet”. I informed them I will be calling daily until I am properly registered to my satisfaction for this election cycle.
Why double-check and verify how you are registered? There are Democrat Operatives in various county election boards who will try to “loose” or “misplace” your Re-Registration cards if you are a Republican trying to re-register in this election because at this point the Rat Operatives all think that any Republicans attempting to re-register are trying to “Rush The Vote” (Operation Chaos). The more “Rat” the county is that you live in, the higher the chance is that a Rat Operative will try to stop you from Re-Registering in this election. Rats will do anything to try to stop you from exercising your right to vote in any way you choose. If it was up to them, Republicans wouldn’t be allowed to live in the US, let alone vote here. You have every right to vote however you want and vote strategically if you want. If Rat Operative voter registration tampering surfaces enough, an investigation can be opened.
Hillary is far more beatable than Obama. Obama has the Independent vote locked up - and like all elections lately, it’s the Independent vote that will decide the election - like it or not. Keeping Hillary in all the way to Denver will inject so much self-inflicted poison into the Rats nest that many Obamabots will vote McCain (20% according to one poll) just to defeat Hillary or they won’t vote. The Rats are feeding on each other - embrace the Chaos, do not fear it. Thank your lucky stars for it or whoever you like to thank. Break out the popcorn. This whole situation is an unbelievable break for Republicans. If we are smart, we’ll maximize it to our advantage. Rats desperately want to get control of the government and SCOTUS, why let them? Do you really want to end up being ruled by the KOS-CROWD?
PA & NC Activists, don’t drop the torch that has been passed from savvy Republican voters in TX & OH – Keep Rushing The Vote or “Operation KICK DAMN SIN” (KICK Democrats NOW Square In the Nuts), as I lick to call it. Thanks for listening, feel free to contact me.
I did too. I really like being a demonRAT.
I got my $ 100 in food stamps, six pack of beer, carton of Kools, and three voter registration cards {along with three IDs}.
Being a demonRAT, you get a lot of free stuff.
I'm also getting bombarded with phone call from the bitch.
In one call, she promised to show me how to get stains out of my blue blazer.
Practicing a little bureaucratic repression, are they?
Takes me back to the old Florida recount days. You should post this as a separate thread under Activism.
LOL!
My thoughts exactly! :-)
Amen, brother or sister!
To check to see if your NC voter registration is “active”, you can check here: http://www.sboe.state.nc.us/votersearch/seimsvot.htm
But to check your affiliation, you have to check with your county board of elections, and I doubt they’d give it to you over the phone.
“McCain has those dem blue collar workers over Obama in spite of Nafta. Those dems wouldn’t vote for a black if he were the second coming.”
Sounds like you’re describing union workers in the rust-belt swing states who are among the most reliable Dem voters. As soon as the Dem race is decided, we’ll be treated to months of lying AFL-CIO virulently anti-McCain ads out the kazoo!
Why accept Obama propaganda? We’re aren’t “haters.” They are!
All in PA. Be aware of the Rendell & Clinton cover up!
New FEC Complaint Details Gov Rendell Complicity in FEC Reporting Frauds By The DNC and Hillary’s Senate Campaign
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