Posted on 11/17/2011 4:43:08 AM PST by Libloather
Wasserman Schultz accuses GOP of rigging elections with 'suppression laws'
By Pete Kasperowicz - 11/16/11 08:43 PM ET
Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Fla.) on Wednesday night said Republican governors and legislatures are purposefully pressing for the enactment of voter identification laws in order to suppress Democratic voter turnout in the 2012 election.
"State legislatures are attempting to impose voting restrictions that are the modern day equivalent of poll taxes and literacy tests," she said on the House floor. "We cannot allow state legislatures to drag our nation backward in what is nothing more than a political quest to protect their governing majority's interests."
Wasserman Schultz said GOP efforts to end early voting is an example of this effort, since in her state, more than half of the early voters were African Americans and Hispanics.
"So do we think it's a coincidence that that group of voters, which voted overwhelmingly for Democratic candidates, now suddenly has their right to vote on that particular Sunday removed from them?" she asked.
She went further by saying Republicans are purposefully trying to limit Democratic voter turnout because they don't think they can win in the upcoming elections.
"Blocking anyone's access to the polls is unacceptable to begin with," she said. "But insidiously trying to influence the outcome of an election through systematically changing the law to prevent people who are likely to go to the polls to vote for your opponent is the most heinous form of anti-democratic policy.
"It's clear that these Republican legislatures led by Republican governors just don't think that they can win an election on the merits," she continued. "And so… they need an insurance policy, because in the event that voters actually decide that — no, Republicans aren't interested in creating jobs, no, they're not interested in getting the economy turned around, and gee, maybe I'd like to actually go to the polls and vote for the candidate of my choice — they are using the insurance policy of voter suppression laws to make sure that people who are likely to go tot eh polls and vote for someone other than them can't do it. That's un-American. That's unacceptable."
Democrats have taken to the House floor several times this year to warn against what they call "voter suppression laws," although Republicans continue to argue that voter ID laws are meant only to ensure that all voters are legal and qualified.
Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said on the floor right after Wasserman Schultz spoke that Democrats seem to be downplaying the rampant evidence of voter fraud.
"I find it a bit ironic that I'm watching the representatives from Florida, New York and Texas speak to the speaker pro temp… about the election situation," he said. "I'm thinking about the 2000 election when it was reported… that as many as 25,000 people from New York voted both in New York and in Florida either for a president from Texas or one from Tennessee."
King said convictions of voter fraud in New York and the ACORN scandal show there is evidence of voter fraud that needs to be policed.
"I think there's too much focus on how you get more warm bodies to the polls as many times as possible and not enough on the legitimate vote," King said.
Who is the ugly one next to the cute looking rat?
Obviously it is a Senate committee, not a House committee, that will be charging our state laws with discrimination against felons, illegals, those who vote multiple times in diverse places, and those who the mass voter registration of people who then vote absentee(all living at the same address) etc.
The question is why hasn't the Senate or House investigated the obvious voter fraud that has been documented elsewhere.
Preventing vote fraud is “rigging elections?”
Blabbermouth needs to look up the word—vote fraud is “rigging.”
During election the GOP and Fox News whines and reports all the DNC voter fraud but no one does anything about it.I remember reading that 2010 election results were only because Obama did not have ACORN,moveon.org all lined up to steal.
Debbie Washerwoman-Schultz marches on doing the communist party’s business.
A. The one on the left.
B. The one on the right.
C. Both.
D. Neither.
E. Cannot be determined from the information given.
A: E
Sorry, the really, really ugly one with the blond straw hair.
Good catch. I did, but Florida's communist, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, didn't. That's who she wants to keep on the voter rolls, Mickey, Minnie, and their 50,000 closest relatives and neighbors.
Put a sock in it, Debbie.
Actually this is a correct assertion. However you have to consider that a good percentage of Democrat votes are fraudulent to begin with and this is an effort to assure that the voters are not dead, illegal, and/or gleefully repeating the activity.
Yea, also the MF word and the F'in B word. . .that's why I can't post either.
Well, Debbie, there are laws on the books that hold people accountable for such actions.
Here's what you do...
First, get something, like a tape of voter intimidation/suppression, to show voters are being suppressed.
Then you turn the evidence over to Eric Holder at the Justice Department so that the guilty are prosecut...
Oh, wait a second...
Former Justice Department Lawyer Accuses Holder of Dropping New Black Panther Case for Racial Reasons
Silly me, prosecutions are for whites and Republicans only.
Never mind.
Her statement is an out and out admission that without voter fraud being enabled, they are toast.
Technically she may be right. After all, applying for a ID card or drivers license may involve reading an application and filling in the blanks.
So in the Dem universe, that is tantamount to barring their illiterate supporters from the polls—because they don’t have enough Acorn community organizers to help all their illiterates fill in the applications for them.
... Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Fla.) on Wednesday night said Republican governors and legislatures are purposefully pressing for the enactment of voter identification laws in order to suppress Democratic voter turnout in the 2012 election.
Dear Deb (may I call you Deb?),
Give it a rest already, ya Barking Moonbat!
That's become as tiresome as 'It was Bushes Fault'.
And the NY Times favorite line of baloney on anything a republican proposes, 'Women, minorities, and poor to be hardest hit',
So please, STOP it!
regards,
We, The Normal People
ps: By the way, while you weren't looking someone stole your hair and put straw on your head.
You can say "communist".
LOLOLOLOL.
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