The GOP’s October “Surprise” continues…Even as it’s no surprise at all that they are hoping to cause absolute bedlam at the polls. They are off to a good start, as the Democrats seem to be caught flat-footed, despite years of warnings about all of this.
The latest Republican assault on democracy began earlier this week with a ‘stunt’ raid in (swing state) Nevada, then unsubstantiated allegations in (swing state) Missouri last night (raid coming soon, no doubt), and just hours ago as AP reports, it’s (swing state) Ohio…
Greene County Sheriff Gene Fischer and representatives of County Prosecutor Stephen Haller have contacted the local Board of Elections asking for the voter registration cards of everyone who voted during the six-day window, which ended Monday.
Haller is the former law partner of Mike DeWine, the former Republican senator who is chairing presidential nominee John McCain’s Ohio campaign.
[Update: In an updated version of the AP report quoted above, it’s noted that Sheriff Fisher is “a Republican,” that Green County is “rich with Democrat-leaning college students,” and that Fisher requested the voter information after “he had been inundated with phone calls from people concerned about possible fraud.” In other words, no actual evidence of anything, just angry Republicans, fired up by chasing their own tails after Fox/RNC told them too. Smelling the rats here, yet?]
Of course, the GOP’s ACORN “Voter Fraud” Scam was picked up today by John McCain on the stump (and, mercilessly, on Fox “News” all morning, naturally). Here’s McCain putting the scare tactics first, and democracy and country second, if even that high on his list. Here’s the shameful video…
Neither McCain nor Fox Republican National Committee “News” had anything to say about the stunning New York Times front-pager today showing that thousands of perfectly legal voters were being purged from registration rolls, illegally, in state after state, for every new one that’s been added!
Recently related…
10/7/08: ‘Stunt’ Raid at NV ACORN Office
10/8/08: RNC Issues Fox ‘News’ Transcript on ACORN ‘Voter Fraud’ as Press Release
10/9/08: GOP Election Official Claims ACORN ‘Voter Fraud’ in MO
I hope you’ve been contacting the Election Protection Org. Whenever you get a new story you should email them at http://www.866ourvote.org/contact to make sure they are up-to-date on what is going on out there.
Has anyone ever connected these jackoffs to John McCains IRI yet?
We know that Ken Blackwell was (is?) a prominent member, and they know how to rig one.
No Surprise here.
Voter Suppression is in full swing. Never mind that Groups such as “Voters Outreach of America” will register voters (or potential Republican voters) and throw away registrations of minorities and Democratic potentials. ACORN is under strict guidelines and Laws to deliver ALL registrations and they dutifuly did that noting the glaring miscreants registrations, that screw around with the canvassers. Remember, some of these individuals are the results of “No Child Left Behind” answering questions of folk just doing their jobs. Government is not trusted or held in confidence with the likes of George W. Bush or John McCain. This is once again a major fraud on the part of the Republican Party/Fox News Propagandists and anti-democratic operatives (aka Corporatists).
The multi-tiered Program of undermining voting and voters is underway in Colorado (Repub. SoS, Mike Coffman), Indiana Repub. SoS, Todd Rokita), Ohio (Dem. SoS Jennifer Brunner inheriting the filth from Kenneth Blackwell – who gave the 2004 Election to Bush), Michigan (Repub. SoS, Terri Lynn Land), Nevada (Dem SoS Ross Miller…besieged by the Fox Noise contingent of morons and the “ACORN” completely bogus allegations, knowing that they are required to report /turn over all registration forms while Repub. operatives can trash any forms they don’t like….wow), North Carolina (Dem. SoS Elaine Marshall…surrounded by Republicans gone berserk…HAVA and machines, iVotronic touch-screens, Election Systems & Software or AutoMARK voting system in play)since her taking office in 1997 has been holding the line…but may have become another Pelosi? or the technology just slipped in there in its glorius, uncertifiable magnanimus way and with a wave of her imperious hand it is deemed So.
Under no circumstances is any Election result that missmatches Exit Polls by 3% to be allowed to stand or be accepted WITHOUT A RANDOM RECOUNT!!!!!!!! Any lame ass, excuses must immediately be challenged as vote tampering suspects and taken into custody. In Ohio, they were caught. Hey Mike Connell, where’s your testimony, huh?
Greg Palast is Karl Rove’s (The Uber Planner of this Election fiasco aliong with Bobby Gates…) greatest nightmare….many thanks in this are to Greg!!!! BBC is amazing.
Charlene Davis is currently on Fox news touting her bollocks.
Jesus…Fox news if it’s isn’t Bill Ayers it’s Acorn, Acorn, Obama, Acorn, Voter Fraud, Acorn.
This is insane. Can SOMEONE get on there and at least set the record straight!?
Just think of the two candidates whipping-up fear and doubt amongst its crazy base and compare it to these tactics
Notwithstanding the fact that the GOP has indulged in vote fraud in previous elections, ACORN is currently being investigated by the attorneys general of eight different states in addition to a multitude of district attorneys. This is too many instances of the same accusation to believe that its due to dirty tricks by the political opposition.
Consequently, I cannot buy into the argument that the Republicans are manuipulating the system to disenfranchise the poor.
JustTheTruth –
I’m gonna assume you’re comment isn’t a joke, and that you actually believe that because Republicans are filing complaints, that something must be amiss. Let me know when you find that “voter fraud” that Fox “News” keeps telling you is there.
And no, Repubs would never want to disenfranchise the poor.
First day off the turnip truck, JustTheTruth?
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And the sad fact is that we’ve known this was going to happen for years. In the meantime the Dem’s have raised lots of dough for the campaign and organized a bunch of lawyers to run around holding their “Richards” AFTER the fraud has been perpetrated on November 4th.
Remember that if Democrats are lucky enough to win on November 4 by 2% percent and gain a slim majority, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid will be running around congratulating themselves on their great surrender strategy (civil rights, subpoenas, corruption, wiretapping, ignoring vote purging, etc.) Instead they should be winning by 10-15% and a 60+ count in the Senate in the midst of this national train wreck..
Are you really that blind or do you not care? Accurate and legal voting is what this site promotes until your party gets caught red handed. The only votes that are being supressed are the illegal ones.
You all sold out.
Ever heard of stacking the deck Smithy?
All it takes is a couple of graduates of the Leadership Institute or the IRI to go in and jam up the works at ACORN
It’s all planned out
I have read this website frequently for the excellent information contained in it. What I have read encouraged me to volunteer to do voter protection work on election day. that is why I was extremely offended today when I opened this site and the add at the top of the site was in support of Proposition 8 in California. Proposition 8 amends the California Constitution to deprive gay people of their fundamental right to marry. I always thought Brad Blog was dedicated to protecting Americans fundamental rights and such an ad on this website is either a thoughtless oversight or it evidences a concerning perspective of the website.
Nancy Hoffman –
Just so you know, I hadn’t seen that ad, but it’s likely one of the Google ads that rotates in, that I have little control over. Some ads on the site here, I approve before they are seen, others, like that one, are rotated in from a network.
In general, I only disapprove ads (those I have control over, anyway) when they are misleading propaganda of sorts. I’ve had to disapprove of ads even from folks I like on that basis.
As to the Protect Marriage ad (which I haven’t yet seen, as not all ads show in all places for all users here) I’ll look out for it and see if it needs to be removed, and if I’m able to do so.
For the record though, I don’t disapprove comments based solely on content. Eg., if John McCain wanted to advertise here (even though it’d be a cold day in hell before I voted for him), I’d likely accept his money, as long as his ad wasn’t deceptive. Same would be true for Obama (who I can’t imagine voting for either!).
Where I can, I try to keep a separation between ad and editorial here, and try to design the page so that it’s very clear what is an ad, and what is actual content.
To JIMCT:
Hopefully, Cindy Sheehan will have won out over the Vichy Democrat Nancy Pelosi. Harry Reid is just another walking sphincter.
As a former exit poll surveyor, many years ago getting a Masters, science has become the whipping boy of the ignorants dominating the political scene simply because they can yell louder? McCain IS fomenting uprising in keeping with the rumored withdrawal of a battalion from Iraq for domestic upheaval/unrest in preparation for this election. Let’s not forget, many of these yellers and screamers are un-American, disruptive, and promoting the agenda of conflict to have the provisions of the Patriot Act(s) kick in. This is as planned as it gets and the MSM think its just individuals?? These people are more than likely PAID operatives of the RNC.
But, back to science and statistical sampling….Exit Polls are 98%-99% accurate..Period. They are not partisan and they are founded on mathematical, scientific principles developed over decades..or more. They (Exit Polls) are in competition with greed and avarice. Your quote by Joseph Stalin, Brad, is absolutely true. Republican Lawyers challenging Voters, Republican Judges adjudicating over results, and finally Republican SoS’s (oh yes, those fond memories of Katherine Harris come to mind..Kenneth Blackwell, et.al.) that exhibit outragous behavior towards the democratic and lawful election process of “Jim Crow” in Sheep’s disguise…..ID’s, Voter Purge Lists, Provisional Ballots, Electronic Uncertifiable and hackable machines…..spell domestic outcry.
Every single instance of this most corrupt Administration…..from Top to Bottom…has been prefaced by “just trust us.” We absolutely trust you and almost every RNC and Government Operative to Deceive, misdirect and obfuscate. The Russians collapsed because of that. No one was safe in their own beds or knew their own parents or trusted their government…during the entire reign of Soviet/Communist rule. And here we are with the Corporatists….isn’t AIG too real? Another $35 Billion and they take a lavish junket on the back of the Taxpayers….LOL.
So, it’s part of the Plan to CAUSE DOMESTIC UNREST TO KICK IN THE PATRIOT PROVISIONS (AND BUSH WILL REMAIN IN OFFICE AS SUPREME UNITARIAN EXECUTIVE (SooIE… a pig call). DO NOT FALL FOR THIS!!
‘O wau iho no me ke aloha, Buckley
I disagree…the media didn’t “take the bait”, the media is IN ON IT!!! You’re assuming the corporate media is “legit” when you say they took the bait…
Brad,
I am from the O-State and the latest Grand Oppressive Party actions are not going to met without a fight. Believe that! There is no way that they will be pulling their actions of suppression without having to deal with the public at large.
Dan’s got you on the bait thing, Brad. 🙁
[Except the part about this being on the wrong thread.]
BRAD, how can you get to be on the Keith Obermann, and/or Rachel Maddows show. You need to be heard.
It’s your calling, get on the news. Many of us would love to see you spear head this. We’re depending on you. God speed.
I’ve long felt that ACORN was being infiltrated and sabotaged. So much about them makes them the ideal target for Nixonesque dirty tricks.
Hopefully, the desperation to get this smear out there will be its undoing. Watch the completely unhinged Lou Dobbs introduce this story on 10/09:
DREW GRIFFIN, CNN SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT: Lou, let me set this up a little bit. Lake County is a very Democratic county in the Republican state of Indiana. Barack Obama wants to turn Indiana this election. And if it turns his way it will be largely because of the voters in Lake County who turn out again heavily Democratic.
ACORN who supports Barack Obama in this presidential campaign went out and tried to register as many new voters in Lake County as they possibly could. The deadline was October 6th. They came in with 5,000 new applications. And when the registrations office began going through them, they found a pattern — every single one of them was fraudulent.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
GRIFFIN (on camera): A lot of them?
RUTHANN HOAGLAND (R), LAKE COUNTY ELECTIONS BOARD: 50 percent. We had close to 5,000 total from ACORN, and so far, we have identified about 2100.
GRIFFIN: So roughly half of them…
HOAGLAND: Roughly half.
GRIFFIN: … are bad.
HOAGLAND: Correct.
The same cr*p happened here in Florida in 2004. When the ACORN case finally went to trial, the judge said that not only was it cr*p, it bordered on defamation:
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/12/...harges_c.shtml
This is another distraction from the GOP and to try to supress the black and the poor vote who are support Senator Obama. Racism: plain and simple. TJE GOP is trying to steal the election again. )=
GOP AND RACIST WHITES TRYING TO STEAL THE ELECTION!! They have so much hate for blacks. You can see steam coming out of their ears. Palin the dummy and McCain is promoting this hate and racism. Where the stories of the GOP don’t want people who lost their homes due to foreclosures or IKE to vote. That is so low. Voter registration fraud happen on both camps and Obama nor McCain has any control over it.