Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

The GOP War on Voting
Rolling Stone ^ | August 30, 2011 | Ari Berman

Posted on 09/05/2011 11:31:17 AM PDT by americanophile

As the nation gears up for the 2012 presidential election, Republican officials have launched an unprecedented, centrally coordinated campaign to suppress the elements of the Democratic vote that elected Barack Obama in 2008. Just as Dixiecrats once used poll taxes and literacy tests to bar black Southerners from voting, a new crop of GOP governors and state legislators has passed a series of seemingly disconnected measures that could prevent millions of students, minorities, immigrants, ex-convicts and the elderly from casting ballots. "What has happened this year is the most significant setback to voting rights in this country in a century," says Judith Browne-Dianis, who monitors barriers to voting as co-director of the Advancement Project, a civil rights organization based in Washington, D.C.

(Excerpt) Read more at rollingstone.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012electionbias; boycotttimewarner; cultureofcorruption; howtostealanelection; kochbrothers; obamavoters; rollingstoned; timelieswarner; votefraud; voting
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-62 next last
To: ArchAngel1983

LOL!


21 posted on 09/05/2011 11:53:34 AM PDT by americanophile ("this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives" - Ataturk)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: cake_crumb

It has to be read to be believed.


22 posted on 09/05/2011 11:54:21 AM PDT by americanophile ("this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives" - Ataturk)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: americanophile

Really, any able-bodied person getting a govt handout check should not be able to vote. The rat party would dry up.


23 posted on 09/05/2011 11:54:57 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot ((Read "The Grey Book" for an alternative to corruption in DC))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: americanophile

What a joke.

Not allowing multiple or illegal votes is a war on voting?


24 posted on 09/05/2011 11:55:52 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: americanophile
About the Author, Ari Berman:

Reinforces every snot-nosed lefty stereotype you can imagine.

25 posted on 09/05/2011 11:58:12 AM PDT by americanophile ("this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives" - Ataturk)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: americanophile

No one has read Rolling Stone in over 40 years.

The magazine for wankers that arent cool enough for rock and roll or country for that matter.

A bunch of cocaine addled pseudo intellectuals engaging in mental masturbation.


26 posted on 09/05/2011 11:58:40 AM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: americanophile

What are all those people from Chicago going to do on election day when they don’t have to go to Wisconsin to vote...


27 posted on 09/05/2011 12:00:18 PM PDT by Recon Dad ("Don't forget, incoming fire has the right of way..")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: freespirited

Add Texas to the list.
Perry passed Voter ID.


28 posted on 09/05/2011 12:00:34 PM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: mylife

Why don’t you tell us how you really feel? /s

I think this should be promoted everywhere. Make Ari snot nose famous and see how the independents react to Dems wanting felons and illegals and dead people to vote.


29 posted on 09/05/2011 12:01:51 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: Castigar

If you want illegal office holders, I present not one but TWO Democratic Senators: Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey, and Al Franken of Minnesota.


30 posted on 09/05/2011 12:02:44 PM PDT by GeorgeTex (Obama-Four M President (Mendacious Manchurian Muslim Marxist))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: C. Edmund Wright

Believe me, The rats are showing their colors and they will get what’s coming to them.

You cant run on lies and half truths forever.


31 posted on 09/05/2011 12:05:23 PM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: Shady
Photobucket

32 posted on 09/05/2011 12:10:47 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (The 2012 election is coming. Seems we have MORE TRASH TO REMOVE!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: americanophile

Florida and Iowa barred all ex-felons from the polls...What is an ex-felon? You were either guilty or not.


33 posted on 09/05/2011 12:11:07 PM PDT by Safetgiver (I'd rather die under a free American sky than live under a Socialist regime.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ken21

If bottles of ink accidentally spilled over all the RS’s in the rack, I suppose the store or the distributor ends up footing the loss? How does that work?

Serve them right anyway.

“You just shot an unarmed man!”
“He shoulda armed himself, before he decorated his store with my friend.” Paraphrased, -Unforgiven-


34 posted on 09/05/2011 12:13:22 PM PDT by tarotsailor
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: dila813

This must be related to the practice of busing an entire facility of alzheimer’s patients to the polling station and having a social worker go in with each of them to assist them with voting....Busing, Hell. I worked for the MH/MR Dept. of Welfare in PA for ten years and SAW the Union stewards take absentee ballots into totally comatose MR’s and explain what the form was and they said”So you wanted to vote for Bill Clinton, didn’t you?” If there was never a negative answer, it was a Dem vote.


35 posted on 09/05/2011 12:16:30 PM PDT by Safetgiver (I'd rather die under a free American sky than live under a Socialist regime.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: americanophile

Seriously, the wussiest party in the entire world suppressed ANYTHING!? I’ve been doing this going on 40 years. I wish sometimes. Cut me a break.


36 posted on 09/05/2011 12:18:51 PM PDT by cake_crumb (Obama: the Unholy Won.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: americanophile

Flaming, in need of a significant other.


37 posted on 09/05/2011 12:20:31 PM PDT by cake_crumb (Obama: the Unholy Won.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: americanophile
As the nation gears up for the 2012 presidential election, Republican officials have launched an unprecedented, centrally coordinated campaign to suppress the elements of the Democratic vote that elected Barack Obama in 2008.

TRANSLATION: Ubama was elected on the basis of vote fraud.

38 posted on 09/05/2011 12:35:22 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Palin is coming, and the Tea Party is coming with her.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: americanophile
Just as Dixiecrats once used poll taxes and literacy tests to bar black Southerners from voting...

Nice attempt at deception there, blaming a few "Dixiecrats" for one hundred years of racist laws courtesy of none other than the "Democrats".

The author, being a Democrat sympathizer himself, just can't find a way to speak the truth, can he?

39 posted on 09/05/2011 12:37:15 PM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: americanophile
GOP is against voting rights...
- For the dead
- For felons
- For illegals
- For second, third, fourth votes cast in one election

So essentially, the entire Democrat base is in our cross hairs.

40 posted on 09/05/2011 12:38:13 PM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-62 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson