Report Warns Votes Will Be Suppressed in Key Swing States

THE REPUBLICANS ARE AT IT AGAIN TRYING TO STEAL THE VOTES JUST LIKE 2000

I’m sitting looking at my absentee ballot here in FL, and Ohio has early voting that has already started. There shouldn’t be a problem if you are smart enough to know how to vote.The problem is the people themselfs, there just not smart enough to know how or who to vote for.
Ex Republican

The only trick the republicans have, cheat the poor.

Fewer machines and poll workers per voter is more than “extra waiting in line”.
This year, hopefully there will be enough poll watchers to prevent the worst – or do we now need the UN to send in election fairness experts as in Third World countries?

They can’t wait in line? I’ve waited to vote before. If you take your right to vote seriously, then waiting isn’t going to stop you. Stop complaining and just do it.
Posted by: samhiguchi
******************************************** Did you wait for 8 hour? Like people did in Ohio in 2004?
Did you wait for 8 hours and give up a badly needed days pay and paying for child care on top of that?
Many of the people who had to give up and leave after hours of waiting, had to finally give up and leave with out voting were interviewed as they were leaving the polls.
Some were so disappointed in not being allowed to cast their vote, they were crying. But for some it came down to either voting or not having enough money to feed their children for the week. Some employers threatened to fire the employees if they didn’t show up on time for work.
The people who were determined to stay until they could vote stood in line for 8 hours with no water.
Meanwhile in the Republican dominated districts of Ohio, there were plenty of machines and people were able to vote and get to work in 20 minutes.
So the Republicons will use the same tactics that have worked for them in the past and once again prove to us that, for them, personal power trumps Democracy every time!

Mickey Mouse will have to stand in line!?

Did you posters even read the report? They are talking about 3-4 hour waits, with the ability to acommodate the last voter only if the polls stay open until 11:30 PM.

So it’s called voter suppression when you don’t have enough machines to have near instantanious access to vote in a black neighborhood. What’s it called when I have to stand in line and wait to vote????

Folks – We’re not talking about a 30 minute wait. We’re talking about between 2 and 5 hours, and as much as 7 hours in line waiting to cast your vote. That’s what happened in Ohio in 2004 in minority precincts with not enough voting machines.
I’m lucky; I can afford to take an entire day off to vote. Many cannot. And if it’s a choice between waiting 5 hours in line to vote and losing a day’s pay (or your job), then it’s not really a choice.

Don’t worry – Obama’s campaign is flush with cash.
They have children singing his praise.
They have their own TV station plus the media in their pocket.
They vote early and often.
They will have the military vote thrown out.
Obama can buy the election.
Once elected – Obama, Pelosi and Reid (the three stooges) can change the rename of the Country to the United Socialist America.
Keep sending the poor government checks and make them so dependent they have no choice but to vote for you.

The comments clearly display the Republican attitude of entitlement. They need not wait – they are white and rich. But ….OOOOh, Acorn registered someone more than once – (even though they didn’t vote – which is a different matter all together) but ooooh – they tried to get the poor to believe that their voice might actually be heard – oh nooooo!
And now – even in the face of every poll around saying Barack is way ahead – with only 10% of Americans saying we are heading in the right direction – they are whining about the ginned up notion that the only way they can loose is if the Dems “steal it”. Same delusional behavior we have seen for the past 8 years.

Chuck – nobody’s listening to that garbage anymore and nobody cares. Waste your time if you want to but that’s all you’re doing – wasting your time.

Why don’t they just let Jesse Jackson and his teams go out and mark the ballots for these poor folks? Gee, he’s done that before. I like better what Clarence Thomas once said……..”I resent having my politics assigned to me because of my race. I am a free man in America and I choose how I vote.” Sadly, black Americans are enslaved by the Democrats, who only throw them a scrap or two just to placate them for election days. I’ve met some who have broken away from the Democrats and choose their own paths. These good folks have realized that by removing the floor of security, they also destroy the ceiling of limitations.

neo-cons are desperate to stay in power and shove their antiquated beliefs down our throats.

Susie,
The false voter registrations (which occur on both sides in every election) are and WERE caught by the screening process all voter registration applications go through.
I have served as an election judge, and I can tell you, no one named “Mickey Mouse” gets to vote.
This entire ACORN story is a smokescreen fanned by Republicans to keep stories like this one about voter suppression out of the public eye, and to pave the way for challenges to election results they don’t like
Remember, it was Republican George W. Bush, not a Democrat, who was appointed President by the Supreme Court as the result of a legal challenge.

It’s too important. Too bad Republican posters don’t seemed to be outraged at the discussion of voter suppression. You’d think a party whose motto is Country First would be outraged by something so unpatriotic. Does patriotism really just mean wearing American flag shirts from Walmart that were made in China?
Posted by: Party First? | Oct 14, 2008 12:03:49 PM
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Yes, their motto is COUNTRY FIRST….What they neglect to mention is what that means to them.
It means if their power is threatened in any way, then they are willing to destroy and take down the entire COUNTRY FIRST!

May be the neighborhoods with more machines are paying more taxes. Pay more taxes and get more machines. Of course, don’t count the dead and the same person 73 times to come up with your population density. Also, show the same eagerness to server this country and not just to complain about this country.

Marcus…are you referring to Obama?

Nice try to discourage Obama’s supporters from voting. Not at all surprised. There will be voter fraud this year, whether from ACORN or other sources, on both sides. I hope it is all discovered and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, again, on both sides. We need an honest election. And to those of you who just have to smear Obama cause you got nothing else, and cannot stand the thought of him winning this election – too darn baaaaadddddd. We had to put up with an administration whom we Dems. detested for 8 years (Bush/Cheney), now its your turn!!!!! Get over it.

McCain and Palin are the joke of the year. He cannot decide which side he wants to affliliate with, and she is the pot calling the kettle black. I feel kind of sorry for McCain. He looks like a lost soul who has the “angel of death” (in lipstick) going against everything good he used to stand for.

They can’t wait in line? I’ve waited to vote before. If you take your right to vote seriously, then waiting isn’t going to stop you. Stop complaining and just do it.
Posted by: samhiguchi | Oct 14, 2008 11:35:42 AM
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You know, I read much of what you post on these blogs and not much I can agree with or appreciate for that matter. But on this one, I’ll have to agree with you. I don’t know why people complaint about everything. In fact we have early voting, which should alleviate this situation. If you really take this seriously, just go out and vote. As a minority myself, I just want to see how huge will the African American vote be this year. People should just go out in droves and vote regardless of how hard circumstances may present themselves.
This is a historical election. Not that I expect Obama to be anything favorable to minorities, but the historical pride should itself be irresistible to African Americans especially.
Who cares how long the lines are? Maybe it’s because we have grown too comfortable that we feel staying in lines to vote does become a burden. I’m just waiting to see how engaged people were this year.

Sam Higuchi,
Have you ever waited in line for 4 hrs to vote.
If YES, where and when and how many times (list years).

“It’s not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody that is behind you, that they have a chance for success too.”
Senator Obama!
This guy is the downfall of American society as we know it .. has no clue! I don’t WANT TO punish you .. but I am going to! LOL!! Now everyone will come back and say this plumber who he said it to SHOULD pay up .. LAUGHABLE!!!

“This guy is the downfall of American society as we know it .. has no clue! I don’t WANT TO punish you .. but I am going to! LOL!! Now everyone will come back and say this plumber who he said it to SHOULD pay up .. LAUGHABLE!!!’
Exactly. If he is elected it will be the beginning of the end of America as a super power. We’ll be the armpit of the western world.

” so people have to wait WAY too long and during the waiting period are harrassed and bigoted. I guess you have never lived in the south and seen what ”
How long is too long to exercise your rights? How will they be bigoted and harrassed if they are voting in their neighborhood?

angie-I’m surprised that you can actually say Bush has taught us anything. And it’s not fear, it’s fact!
I knew two people who died in 9/11, both had small children at home; if you think the terrorists are sitting in wait for an Obama Presidency, YOU ARE FOOLING YOURSELF!!!

angie-by the way Catholic priest molesting children is a whole other topic! It is called “DOMESTIC TERRORISM!” We’re talking about foreign countries that hate Americans, ie., all Americans, no discrimination on age, gender or race!

McCain was ACORN’s keynote speaker at a rally in Florida on Feb. 20, 2006. He loved ACORN when his immigration bill was at stake.

Another thing I have noticed, in 2000 I was a volunteer in the inner city. Most of the people there volunteering their time were white, not black. There may have been 3 in the location I was in. Black people seem to be the first to complain, but are the last to do anything to help themselves. Same thing after Katrina in Louisiana. I no longer volunteer outside the community I live in.

FairVote-lol call your congressman, see how far you get!

For all of you worried about voter supression-NO NEED TO WORRY…ACORN TO THE RESCUE!!! “Association of Corrupt Obama Reformation Now”!

CC
THANK YOU!!

ACORN’s goal is to clog up the registration verification system.
In 2000 we had all the time in the world
with those ‘hanging chads’.
Now Democrats are claiming ‘there’s not
enough time to check.’
We might not know who won on Nov. 4.
We might be checking until Thanksgiving.

During this year’s early voting in Ohio -
Investigators probing ACORN have learned that an Ohio man registered to vote several times and cast a bogus ballot with a fake address, officials said yesterday, as they revealed that nearly 4,000 registration applications supplied by the left-leaning activist group were suspect

JimmyT , i have to admit the rolling stone is (in general) about as unbiased as fox news ,especially when it comes to a liberal agenda.
i am a liberal democrat but i still use common sense to sift through the giant hodgepodge of lies and truth that is out there.
i quit reading the rolling stone regularly about 1982 or so , for varying reasons but as i recall one main reason for my disinterest was the largely one sided reporting.
i think maybe they are somewhat more objective now ,but not enough for me to resubscribe.

I’m from New Orleans. People do not
understand that it is the job of the
Governor of each state to declare that
‘help’ can come into your state.
THE DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR OF LOUISIANA WAS
KATHLEEN BLANCO. She would not do anything. She would not give the ‘okay’.
New Orleans’s mayor at that time was
Ray Nagin – a DEMOCRAT.
He did not have a plan for his fellow
New Orleaneans to EXIT New Orleans.
(Guess what? they re-elected him; he’s
still in office.) -
The ‘Katrina’ people did not deserve
Blanco or Nagin – TWO DEMOCRATS
(Nagin is still in office.
However, the people in Louisiana elected
Bobby Jindal – A REPUBLICAN.
Of course, nobody deserves being treated like that. THAT IS WHY ONE HAS TO BE CAREFUL WHO THEY VOTE FOR.

I repeat, we need a better system to
register and to verify voters.
It’s not that complicated.
More registration offices are indeed
needed. We do have computers and
computer programs now.
It would be to everyone’s advantage if
a better system was in place.
It protects both sides of the coin.
MY ISSUE IS THIS: why do we have multiple registrations for the same person? why do we have dead people on
registration forms (that has been filled out after their deaths)?
What was ACORN thinking? I believe it was to clog up the verification system.
Look, cheating can take place anywhere-
anytime – no matter what party you belong to.
It would be to everyone’s benefit when
people decide ‘enough is enough’ -
we demand a better registration/verfication program.

The real fact of the matter is this. Voter polls should be dealt out accordingly based on populous of voters in that district. Regardless of race, color, or creed. Reading some of these posts is like reading something out of the 1950′s. I can not believe ppl. are so caught up on skin color.
And you neo-cons; obviously all politicians have skeletons in there closet. Why do you only focus on the other sides flaws? Maybe you should take a nice long look at your own party. John McCain is far from a saint and there is documented evidence Sarah Palin “Is pallin around with terrorist”. So take your own religions advice “Let he without sin cast the first stone.”

I have no idea why your country has the most hard-to-verify election practices in the developed world. No, it is not a fair election when voters in the “homelands” have fewer machines available per capita than the Afrikaaners do. Our election is today; we have lines at the polling places at busy times of the day. We can register to vote or change our address by presenting proof at the poll. We do not mention party affiliation–that is left elsewhere. You mark your paper ballot and it is placed in a secure metal container in the custody of the Returning Officer, witnessed by volunteers of each party. Employers are legally required to allow time today to vote. Recounts are done by hand. I don’t look forward to another BushNorth leading our Government.

“Typical of the liberal old media,that you’d run a story like this but completely ignore the obama associated ACORN voter fraud.Another fine job from the press wing of the DNC”
Let me get this straight: a few corrupt, lazy individuals working for ACORN and registering dead people is suddenly OBAMA’S fault because the organization was skewed in his favor? OK, let’s apply the same logic:
Every intolerant bigot spouting hatred at a McCain rally is McCain’s fault.
Poverty of the indigenous people in Alaska is Palin’s fault
Alaska’s seccession movement is Palin’s fault
Every POW left behind in ‘Nam is McCain’s fault
Ollie North and crew is Reagon’s fault
The Hurricane Katrina response was McCain;s fault, afterall he supported Bush.
9/11 was McCain’s fault becasue he supported Bush, who trusted Condi who didn’t read the CIA memo.
The voter fraud in 2000 was McCain’s fault since he was a Republican, and so was Jeb Bush, who’s attorney general presided over the recount that gave George Bush the election.
How far you want to take this kind of logic?

Let me get this straight: a few corrupt, lazy individuals working for ACORN and registering dead people is suddenly OBAMA’S fault because the organization was skewed in his favor? OK, let’s apply the same logic:
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Before you apply your faulty logic let’s apply the $800,000 paid by Obama to a subsidiary of ACORN to “get out the
vote”..in his favor..of course. You know he didn’t pay them to get people to vote for McCain. And then lets apply the speech Obama made in Dec. 2008 to Acorn and associates telling them he was going to include them in forming his agenda for the first 100 days. I know you Democrats like to ignore all the facts..but fact is.. America is on to Obama and just what a sleeze ball he is..add Pelosi and Reid. That’s just two more reasons no body will vote for Obama.

Some here in Ohio waited more than 10 hours. If you can’t miss a day’s work, or you have kids to pick up from school, or someone at home to care for, it is not possible to wait 8, 10, or 12 hours to vote.

I just read more of the comments and it is clear that most of the electorate are unaware of the voting fraud that was perpetrated in Ohio in the last presidential election (Ohio Secretary of State Blackwell – responsible for election oversight – was also co-chair of the Re-elect Bush campaign).
Google Rolling Stone, Ohio Vote 2004 by RFKennedy Jr and get informed.

Yes, people have a right to vote -
However, it’s one per customer – live
customer, that is.
It would be to everyone’s benefit if
we could come up with a better way to
register and verify each vote.
You can’t tell me someone can’t come up with something better.
Instead of crying, let’s get a better system.
We might have the name of the next president by Thanksgiving.

If poor areas have to wait in line longer, that’s the way it goes. My tax dollars paid for those voting booths and more than likely their housing, thier food (foodstamps,) their daycare and countless other things that the poor get for free in this country that I have to work for.
If more middle & upper class districts have more voting booths, it’s because their tax dollars PAID for those voting booths!

wow, just wow.
Why are the Republicans responsible for a shortage of voting machines in a Democrat district?
Several people made comment that the Republicans “rounded up” machines and redistributed them?
I can’t believe that anyone posting to this thread believes such nonsense!
Districts buy what they can afford and it is based upon need. If they have outgrown their ability to serve then they need to buy more machines!
Republicans are under no obligation to spend their election resources helping districts who have failed to provide.
If Democrats are worried about long lines in poor districts then they can pony up their resources and help.
But to call this voter suppression is an absolute fabrication! It is a Democratic leaning district that failed to provide for it’s constituents!
Way to many of you need to pull your own head out and take a breath of fresh air!
Then start thinking for you self again.

I wish some people can just take some minutes out of there busy schedules to get facts.
Know the truth and the truth shall set you free.
The modus operandi of ACORN are:
1. Recruit people for voters registration drives.
2. Set targets for the canvassers, as they are paid according to number of Voters they are able to register.
In order for the Canvassers to maximize their income, they fill the forms with fictitious names and they get paid.
You will see from the simple analysis above that ACORN as an Organization does not engage in Fraud.
But Americans that are engaged by ACORN perpetrates the Fraud on ACORN to get extra pay.
Here ACORN loses. Because it pays these canvassers for Jobs not done.
These fictitious names are not real People resident in such districts and hence, they are not enfranchise since they can not vote.
As an analogy, a real person, Dwight Aaron resident in Dover can not come to Ohio on the day of voting to vote despite having his name on the voters reg. list in Toledo.
Hence, the Candidates need not fear because it is ACORN that loses money to the smart alec for work paid for but not done.
The two Campaigns know this as a fact. Any of the Campign shouting blue-murder is only trying to take undue advantage of the ignorance of the recipients of such information.

Obama could have used that $800,000 he gave ACORN to register voters and instead BUY voting booths for the dumb democrat districts that need more.
And to the person who said these fake registrations won’t result in votes…have you heard of fake id’s? It is VERY simple in this day of computers and color printers to fake an ID and therefore vote 2, 3, 4xs. As close as the last 2 elections have been, even a few people who get to vote multiple times can skew the results!!