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Powell: GOP Should Back Off Attempts to Lower Voter Participation
newmax ^ | 1/21/13 | d well

Posted on 01/21/2013 2:08:06 PM PST by bestintxas

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell says the Republican Party should abandon its efforts to curb voter participation through voter ID laws and restrictions on hours for early voting.

“Should we really have gone after reducing the turnout of voters in those places where we thought it would make a difference?” he told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program, referring to November’s election, Politico reports.

“The Republican Party should be a party that says, ‘We want everybody to vote,’ and make it easier to vote and give them a reason to vote for the party, not to find ways to keep them from voting at all.”

Powell says the Republican Party has turned much more conservative. “That’s perfectly acceptable, but if you stay that far to the right, you’re losing where the country is. “The country is moving more toward the center.”

He notes demographic changes as well. Minorities are growing as a portion of the population, particularly Hispanics. That’s a group that supported President Barack Obama by a whopping 71 to 27 percent margin last year.

“You have to appeal with policies and programs to these people who are going to be the leaders of our country in a generation,” Powell says.

As for voter participation, Florida GOP Gov. Rick Scott appears to have heard Powell’s message. He announced a plan last week to increase the number of early voting days and locations.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: colinpowell; demagogicparty; florida; partisanmediashills; powell; racistjackass; rickscott
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To: bestintxas

Translation: I want millions of fraudulent voters in every election!


21 posted on 01/21/2013 2:22:22 PM PST by YHAOS
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To: Nifster

Republicans want voter ID to make sure that everybody has a fair chance to vote for whom they choose. They also favor vote observers at polling places so we don’t get the obviously fraudulent 100% from various Democrat vote counters like we had in Philadelphia in this last election. When Democrats cheat and vote more than once, or cheat and count votes against their guy as votes cast for him, then THAT is what suppresses the vote. Also I might expect an army officer who is supposedly Republican to be a little more sensitive to the lost and mishandled ballots for our overseas servicemen...who largely vote Republican....but go figure.


22 posted on 01/21/2013 2:22:22 PM PST by AndyTheBear
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To: Nifster

Powell is now a voter fraud cheerleader? I am not surprised; the guy has been a sock-puppet for the left all along.


23 posted on 01/21/2013 2:22:39 PM PST by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: Nifster
In colonial America in 1776, 74% of the populace favored tyranny under king George, while 26% of the populace favored independence.

Powell would be best reminded that we are an elected republic, not mob rule.

Our armed forces succeed only because the 10% tell the other 90% what to do when they wake, what to eat, where to sleep again, and who the enemy is to be.

Powell is developing dementia.

24 posted on 01/21/2013 2:26:57 PM PST by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: Paladin2

Mr. Colon can see the handwriting on the wall that the GOP is about to go the way of the Whigs. Ergo he is positioning himself for his next decade of meal tickets.


25 posted on 01/21/2013 2:29:20 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Nifster

Shucks, vote fraud advocates have enlisted the help of another 95 percenter as a spokesmodel.


26 posted on 01/21/2013 2:35:33 PM PST by Sgt_Schultze (A half-truth is a complete lie)
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To: Nifster

Please GOP, send this colostomy bag out of the party. He belongs in the dems, put him there. He would have little visibility there which is why he remains a RINO.


27 posted on 01/21/2013 2:43:19 PM PST by Mouton (108th MI Group.....68-71)
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To: Sans-Culotte
Man, talk about diarrhea of the mouth! This guy just can’t stop exploding.

What do expect is going to come out of a colon?????

28 posted on 01/21/2013 2:46:43 PM PST by eeriegeno (<p>)
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Ol' Colin is going for some kind of appointment via Obama...Only thing I can think of..
Anyone recall when Rooney went full stupid during the Steelers SB win for his Ireland appointment?
Guaranteed that is what is happening here...
29 posted on 01/21/2013 2:55:56 PM PST by Michael Barnes (Obamaa+ Downgrade)
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To: Nifster

Liberal speak for “let the illegals vote.”


30 posted on 01/21/2013 2:57:22 PM PST by Spok
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To: Nifster

Powell would have made an excellent banana republic, fascist dictator. He’s a regular Hugo Chavez.


31 posted on 01/21/2013 2:57:39 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (HealthCare IS NOT a right. The RIGHT to keep and bear arms is.)
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To: Nifster

facepalm

I am so sick of seeing this piece of sh**’s name on FR threads, I keep throwing up in my mouth a little.

/facepalm


32 posted on 01/21/2013 3:03:16 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Nifster
Powell: Only low info voters, welfare recipients and those with an IQ of under 70 should be allowed to vote.

It's the right thing to do.

33 posted on 01/21/2013 3:09:31 PM PST by publius911 (Look for the Union Label -- then buy something else)
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To: marron

>>If Repubs can’t at the very least stand strong and demand clean elections then they have no further reason to exist.

I was really disappointed with GWB that he didn’t do anything in the wake of all the FL shenanigans in 2000, especially since the Dems were obviously working to disenfranchise military voters by challenging their absentee ballots.

If we ever get the White House back, election fraud clean up needs to be a national Republican priority. Until then, everyone needs to push it at the state level.


34 posted on 01/21/2013 3:10:51 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: MrB

If the president himself does not have to be eligible then why do voters have to be eligible? Heck we have open borders and dems want a blank check with no debt ceiling. Anything goes. Get with the times. :-).


35 posted on 01/21/2013 3:18:20 PM PST by plain talk
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To: bestintxas

It sounds funny now, but there was a time when Colin Powell could have had the GOP presidential nomination almost for the asking. VP for sure.

Since the Scooter Libby ordeal, when he let the man be crucified all the time knowing the truth, when one word from him would have spared the man... he lost his honor and I don’t think he can ever get it back.


36 posted on 01/21/2013 3:30:13 PM PST by marron
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To: Nifster

Powell proved himself to be a coward when he was afraid to tell President Bush he knew who the leaker was.

I have no respect for him in any area now.


37 posted on 01/21/2013 3:33:49 PM PST by savedbygrace (But God.)
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To: Nifster

This phony gasbag used to be in our military and lead our servicemen. And those same servicemen are disenfranchised every election by the democrats that Powell favor. It is a bitter insult and betrayal...


38 posted on 01/21/2013 3:35:32 PM PST by Mamzelle
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To: Nifster

I agree with Powell. The republican party should be exactly what he wants it to be. And I’ll go somewhere else.


39 posted on 01/21/2013 3:37:13 PM PST by Terry Mross
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To: Nifster

Gee, my Dog farts and looks back to see where the sound came from. I just laugh at how my cute little Dog is so entertaining without having a clue.

Nice to know that Colin Powell possesses the same ignorance with the noise he makes opening his pie hole.


40 posted on 01/21/2013 3:43:30 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (I only Fear a Government that doesn't Fear me.)
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