Mind Meld
Posted on 02/06/2008 9:01:01 AM PST by PsyOp
Reports are rolling into talk radio stations in San Diego about massive Republican vote suppression.
Thousands of Republican voters in San Diego and as far north as Los Angeles showed up to vote on Tuesday only to be told that they were registered "Non-Partisan". This meant that they could not vote for the Republican Primary candidates.
Non-Partisan (independent) voters in California can vote for Candidates in any other party, including the Democrat party, but are prohibited from voting in the Republican Primary unless they are registered as a Republican.
Rick Roberts [http://www.760kfmb.com] is currently reporting on this and has had hundreds of calls and thousands of e-mails from people who showed up to vote only to be told they were not registered as Republcans. Reports began rolling into the Roger Hedgecock show yesterday.
Several people have called in saying they witnessed this happening at polling place they worked at as volunteers. One gentleman stated that he believed at least 20% of the Republicans that showed up to vote were denied a Republican primary form because the roster showed them as "Non-Partisan".
The Republican Party in California has begun investigating this issue, but the mainstream media continues to report that Californias election "went smoothly".
It seems clear that someone or some group managed to tamper with the voter registration rolls. Either by direct access to the Registrars computer system, or by gaining access to voter information and then sending in registration cards in their name.
Southern California was projected to go heavily in favor in Mitt Romny.
LOL
Ive been voting in this county for years. This is the first time anything even close to this has happened.
I am not given to conspiracy theories (simple search of my posting should prove that for you).
I would love nothing better than to be proved wrong on this, but sincerely doubt that will happen.
Vote fraud in Ca has been rampant for years, but SD has always managed to keep it at bay and remain a bastion of conservatism in the state. But we’ve been under major assault down here for the past several years.
In the last election, Democrat candidate for City council Mrs Busby was recorded telling hispanic voters they did not have to be legal citizens to vote for here. Airing of that recording killed her campaign, but it proves the kind of things dems are doing and trying to do all the time, here and accross the state.
This is real.
Pretty much the same in my part of NYS too. I’ve never had any problems.
I agree. But then you have missed the point. These were registered life-long Republicans who had their affiliation changed without their knowledge, thus preventing them from voting in the Republican primary.
I will say I didn't, but then my sample ballot matched my paty registration.
It’s just a dry run. The Clinton machine needed a little practice.
Send lawyers guns and money, or just lawyers. If McPaIN was half a man, or a man half his age, he’d take note of this scandal and give a couple or four of his delegates to Romney. But a thought like that is above his pay grade, or at least his honesty grade.
Actually, there is no “article”
It is an opinion based on listening to the radio. If all these voters can show me a REP voter guide with their name on it, and them listed as IND at the lists at the polls, I will buy into some shenanigans.
Nothing wrong in having a healthy dose of sketicism. However, when it is clear that Orange County (where this is alledged to have happened) is heavily populated with registered Republicans, where there is smoke . . .
Me neither. I'm glad that I live where I do. Don't like big cities.
Do you see a problem if they were registered Republicans but someone altered their registration and changed it to independents? Especially if this were done in heavily conservative districts?
Or it could be Dems trying to sway the vote to McCain
I'd agree with you if the article didn't say this: Thousands of Republican voters in San Diego and as far north as Los Angeles showed up to vote on Tuesday only to be told that they were registered "Non-Partisan". This meant that they could not vote for the Republican Primary candidates.
The last open primary in CA was 1998...the GOP sued and won to close it again.
That’s the way it works in Virginia. They sign a provisional ballot, BUT it is only counted if “needed”. Needed is defined bythe number of percentage points difference in the count.
If you find proof that any of these people who are complaining have actually voted in a Republican Primary previously and haven't moved and re-registred since then, then we'll have something to worry about. If these people didn't put a check mark in the Republican box they can't vote for Republicans in the primaries. Even if they forgot to check a box they will be listed as non affiliated.
My guess is that we'll discover that those who are complaining weren't registered as Republicans. But we'll see.
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