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Voters contend they were duped into registering as Republicans
LA Times ^ | 10/17/2008 | Evan Halper and Michael Rothfeld

Posted on 10/17/2008 3:03:43 PM PDT by Hadean

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To: Hadean
Texas has a good system. Your vote in a primary election is what registers you to one party or the other. After voting in one primary your card is stamped either dem or republican and you can't go and vote in the other primary. I guess since I didn't vote in either primary I could call myself an independent but I am not. I am Republican all the way.
21 posted on 10/17/2008 3:24:42 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: Hadean

Michigan voter registration. You would have to be pretty dense to think you were signing a petition.

It’s a pdf file

http://www.mi.gov/documents/MIVoterRegistration_97046_7.pdf


22 posted on 10/17/2008 3:30:05 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Paying taxes for bank bailouts is apparently the patriotic thing to do. [/sarc])
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To: Hadean

sure hope this gets investigated real quick.


23 posted on 10/17/2008 3:30:50 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: Hadean
Freaking lame attempt at phony moral equivalence. “The GOP is ACORNING too...”
24 posted on 10/17/2008 3:40:37 PM PDT by AmericaUnited
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To: Hadean

In order to believe a crime has been committed, you must first believe there is a motivation.

What motivation would anyone have for getting someone registered in a party they are not interested in?


25 posted on 10/17/2008 3:42:08 PM PDT by TaxRelief (Walmart: Keeping my family on-budget since 1993.)
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To: Hadean
It was a dumba$$ test. They passed.
26 posted on 10/17/2008 3:48:05 PM PDT by Niteranger68 (Conservatives..Â…please stop funding liberalism! Scrutinize every dollar you spend!)
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To: Popman

Big difference between party registration and fraudulent/multiple registration. No one is disenfranchised if each person votes once and only once, regardless of their official party.


27 posted on 10/17/2008 3:53:44 PM PDT by TaxRelief (Walmart: Keeping my family on-budget since 1993.)
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To: DoughtyOne
Let’s see, one person/one state/dozens (claimed) vs thousands of ACORN persons/14 states/at least 200,000 that we know of.

That's the old game that the dems/media play. I remember a while back (in the Clinton years) when questions about foreign donations were in the news. I don't recall the numbers but the ratio was along the lines of $10 million going to the Democrats and $5,000 to Republicans. Ah but that was enough for the media to shrug and say "see, both sides do it."

The old "both sides do it" trick.

They are getting even better at performing this trick though. Hundreds of negative ads, many hateful and demeaning comments directed at Sarah Palin, some truly disgusting anti-Palin shirts. All of this from the Obama side. A handful of incidents on the McCain side, some of them questionable as to whether they really happened. Ah but it's the Republicans who are full of hate and it's McCain who is running a negative campaign. Obama and his team are squeaky clean.

28 posted on 10/17/2008 3:57:37 PM PDT by Humbug (ignore the media and the polls and keep fighting)
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To: Hadean
Not so amazing.. Democrats have been being tricked into being members of the so-called party of the people for decades.. Democracy is not now nor ever has been democratic.. Democracy is always operated by an elite..

Democracy is MOb Rule by mobsters..

29 posted on 10/17/2008 4:01:16 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: Humbug

You’re right on target IMO. My cure for that is to send folks to DU and the other miscreant sights where the left hangs out.

The contrast between our demeanor here and their’s there, should make it plain for all to see.


30 posted on 10/17/2008 4:02:08 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Is Obamanation what our founding fathers, our fallen men in combat, and Ronald Reagan had in mind?)
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To: Hadean

Ah... your party affiliation does not prevent you from voting any way you chose. Dumbass. Second, this is pure bullshit thrown-up as a screen to ACORN’s stealing elections in OH, PA, and FL.


31 posted on 10/17/2008 4:03:07 PM PDT by pabianice (Inexplicable and infuriating.)
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To: Question Liberal Authority
I hope this doesn’t hurt McCain’s chances in California.

Good one :-)

32 posted on 10/17/2008 4:03:57 PM PDT by vbmoneyspender
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To: Hadean
Dozens!

What does the L.A. Times think about the millions of fraudulent registrations by ACORN?

*crickets*

33 posted on 10/17/2008 4:05:07 PM PDT by B Knotts (Calvin Coolidge Republican)
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To: Hadean

And, what; they are so stupid they think because they “registered as Republicans” they have to now vote for the Republican ticket? Well; good deal for John McCain.


34 posted on 10/17/2008 4:18:47 PM PDT by Tucson (In G-D we trust; all others provide data)
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To: Hadean
Oh, rubbish. Republicans wouldn't stoop to such an amateur attempt at that which Dems are the experts.

Even if it really happened, who would go along with switching parties because they were told they had to in order to support some initiative? Such a person is not smart enough to be trusted with the vote.

35 posted on 10/17/2008 4:46:48 PM PDT by informavoracious (Oust all incumbents.)
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To: Hadean

Sounds like they are trying to create the equivilent of ACORN on our side by saying this?


36 posted on 10/17/2008 5:09:28 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: Hadean

This could have merit.

I say this because something similar happened to me in 2006 in Maryland. I had moved from the suburbs to Baltimore and wanted to update my voter registration to vote in the mid-terms. I figured the easiest way to do it was at the MVA (DMV to most states) while renewing my tags.

I filled out the form the lady gave me. She looked up at me after reading it and said “Republican??!” Having learned by living in a city/state where a white male Republican is not universally well liked, I politely just said, ‘yes, ma’am.’ She clearly was upset with me the rest of the time I was there. A week later I got my voter registration card in the mail.

I was now a Democrat.

One of those things that wasn’t worth making noise about at the time, just fixing quickly and mumbling #@!*ing Maryland for the 836th time.


37 posted on 10/17/2008 6:15:52 PM PDT by Cap74 (God is a Republican, Santa Claus is a Democrat -P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: Hadean
I am trying to understand the charge here.. are they like saying.. that folks think if you trick a Democrat to having their name listed as a Republican that makes any difference?

I don't know, in California are they still waiting for primaries? Can't they switch parties at a primary anyway? It seems completely pointless to "force" the change of a person's party affiliation because its so easy to switch it back.

But, how in heck does this equal 200,000 fraudulent registrations that no one even plans to check?

Get REAL!

38 posted on 10/18/2008 1:06:57 AM PDT by dalight
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To: nickcarraway

L O L


39 posted on 10/18/2008 1:09:03 AM PDT by ovrtaxt (Only a coalition of Marxists and Islamists can destroy the United States. ~ Carlos the Jackal)
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To: Hadean

...added a few keywords...


40 posted on 10/18/2008 1:12:11 AM PDT by ovrtaxt (Only a coalition of Marxists and Islamists can destroy the United States. ~ Carlos the Jackal)
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