Jail them all

[erikred]

According to the New York Times and other news groups, the GOP is engaged in out and out voter disenfranchisement. Their excuse seems to be that Democrats do it, too.

So let's set the record straight: Anyone, Dem, Repub, Green, Libertarian, Indie, ANYONE who mucks about with voter registrations or prevents anyone else from getting people to register to vote deserves to go to jail.

As much as I really don't want GWB to be President again, it's absolutely more important to me that every American eligible to vote gets the opportunity to vote. Yeah, I know we live in a Republic, but that Republic is based on certain Democratic principles; namely, one person, one vote. Anyone who sabotages that (by tearing up registration forms of people who register for the opposing party, or by calling registered voters and falsely telling them they're not eligible, or by putting up road blocks to make it hard to get to polling stations, or by standing around polling places asking for people's IDs, or any bloody thing else your sick and twisted minds come up with) should be put in jail cell to rot. This is treason of the basest sort!

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Re: Dem vs. Rep. "He did it first!" PISSES ME OFF..

[erikred.livejournal.com]

Try KLAS-TV. Eric Russell, the accuser in question, is supported by his girlfriend, who also says she witnessed the destruction of the registration forms. Their boss says Russell destroyed the forms himself. The girlfriend points out that all completed forms have to be signed for, and that if the boss checked out the log, she would see that Russell was not listed as signing them out.

You're right, it is tough to tease out what's really happening, but it strikes me that if there has been any destruction at all of completed and legitimate registration forms, voters should be allowed to confirm that they are in fact registered an be allowed to register if it turns out their registrations have been lost or trashed.

Re: Dem vs. Rep. "He did it first!" PISSES ME OFF..

[therobbergirl.livejournal.com]

As always, it's very important that people know that they have the right to vote with a provisional ballot. That news has been getting out in Califonria better than it used to (thanks to tons of people needing provisional ballots because they tried to use the DMV motor-voter fiasco). I don't know how well that news gets around in other states. I also don't know if other states have provisions for provisional ballots.