>Hey all, >My platoon Sergeant was telling me something about the people not wanting >the military vote to count, and I am googling it but all I can find are >individual states wanting to suppress or restrict the military vote, not the >nation as a whole. Since our satelite has not worked in a while, and >internet time is limited, is there any truth to this? I casted my absentee >ballot and I would hope that it counts. > >Thanks, > >Bruce
found this bit: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081110/gumbel2 Vote Suppression Watch By Andrew Gumbel This article appeared in the November 10, 2008 edition of The Nation. October 22, 2008 * Email * Print * Share o Buzz up! o Buzzflash o del.icio.us o Digg o Facebook o Add to Mixx!Mixx it! o Reddit What is this? * Take Action * Web Letters (1) * Write a Letter! * Subscribe Now Text Size * A * A * A Michigan. The Republican Party chair in Macomb County, in the northern Detroit suburbs, told the Michigan Messenger in early September that he was planning a vote-caging operation aimed at the former owners of foreclosed homes--a group more or less guaranteed to generate a large quantity of returned mail and thus potential challenges. A storm of outrage ensued, and within a week the chair was denying he had launched such an initiative and claiming that he was misquoted. Share this article * * * * * Add to Mixx! * * * Related * Also By * Nader's Stubborn Idealism Presidential Election 2008 William Greider: Ralph Nader is a man of political substance, trapped in an era of easy lies. * Steal Back Your Vote Voters & Voting MSNBC : Rachel Maddow talks to Robert Kennedy Jr. about the systematic purging of voters off of the rolls nationwide, and what you can do about it. * A Bad Case of Electuenza Presidential Election 2008 Annabelle Gurwitch: Incessant cries for help--and money--from people running campaigns are destroying my peace of mind. » More * Vote Suppression Watch Presidential Election 2008 Andrew Gumbel: A close look at dirty tricks in key swing states. * Protect This Election Voters & Voting Andrew Gumbel: Pieces of Karl Rove's plan to suppress the votes of students, minorities, the transient and the elderly are still in place--and could threaten any races that are remotely close. * Justice, Bush-Style Law & Justice Andrew Gumbel: GOP loyalists have taken over the Justice Department and retooled the civil rights division as a political weapon. Montana. The executive director of the state Republican Party tried to have 6,000 voters in Democratic-leaning counties removed from the rolls on the grounds that they had changed their mailing addresses--at least according to an out-of-state vendor who sells change-of-address information for profit. The attempted purge was riddled with problems, not least the fact that many of those changing addresses were military personnel shipping out to Iraq and Afghanistan. The party has now dropped the initiative. Wisconsin. Wisconsin's attorney general, J.B. Van Hollen, who also happens to be co-chair of the state McCain election campaign, has sued the nonpartisan election board to try to force a review of all voter registrations received since January 2006 to make sure they tally with state records. The move, which has yet to be resolved in court, has been widely denounced as a partisan maneuver sure to interfere with the voting rights of as many as 1 million people. Nevada. Nevada's attorney general and secretary of state--both Democrats--ordered a raid on ACORN's Las Vegas headquarters after reports surfaced that registration forms gathered by the group included the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys. ACORN points out, correctly, that it had already alerted the authorities to questionable registration forms (which it cannot, by law, destroy) and suspects the raid is a vote suppression operation. More likely, though, the authorities were under huge pressure from Nevada Republicans to crack down on "voter fraud" and saw this as an occasion to show themselves to be evenhanded and thus prevent a backlash against Democrats on election day. * Get The Nation at home (and online!) for 75 cents a week! * If you like this article, consider making a donation to The Nation. About Andrew Gumbel Andrew Gumbel is the author of Steal This Vote: Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America (Nation Books) and a US correspondent for The Independent of London. more... * Copyright © 2008 The Nation ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:276842 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
