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

[ophymirage.livejournal.com]

A group called Project ACORN seems to be what the Repubs are pointing to. They paid people to register voters - the more registered, the more money they got. Unsurprisingly, some individuals registered many people many times for more money. Not so much voter fraud as it is money fraud, and an extra headache for the election committees to sort out. This group has ties to the AFL-CIO, according to their website. They do NOT have ties to the DNC.

The group that DOES have ties to an NC - the RNC - is Sproul and Associates, run by the former head of the Arizona GOP. They are "also known as" Project Voter Outreach for America (very close to a non-partisan/liberal organization, Voter Outreach for America, just coincidentally. They are funded directly by the RNC. They operate in many swing states. They register Democrat and Republican voters, and then tear up the Dem registrations.

Tell me which is worse..