--- In [email protected], Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 7, 2006, at 3:10 PM, authfriend wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > <snip> > >> In Maryland, in a heavily Democratic area, > >> flyers are being handed out that identify the > >> Republican candidate for governor and his > >> running mate as Democrats. They're being > >> handed out by people recruited from a homeless > >> shelter by the Republican's campaign people. > > > > The homeless people have been paid $100 each > > for their day's work. > > > > And it's not just the Republican gubernatorial > > candidate and his running mate who are identified > > as Democrats; it's also the Senate candidate. > > Some of this has got to be illegal.
Yes indeedy. > I guess the idea is to do whatever it takes to "win," then > put off paying the penalty as long as possible, all while > tossing the people a few bones until they've more or less > forgotten about it. Cheating is all they've got left. You got it. Apparently Rahm Emanuel, the chair of the Democratic Congressional Committee (he heads the congressional campaigns), has said that this time around it's gone too far, and the Democratic Party is going to sue the pants off them. In some of the robocall-plagued states, the fines are $500 *per call*, which could cost the Republicans tens of millions of dollars. We'll see whether they follow through. What's been posted here is just the tip of the iceberg. In one Hispanic district in Tucson, for instance, three big guys, one of them armed, have been harassing Hispanic voters, videotaping them as they try to enter the polling place, grabbing and questioning them while one of the guys photographs them with a still camera. In a number of places, voters are being called and told their polling place has been changed when it hasn't. And that's not to mention endless major problems with the voting machines not working properly, which is probably not part of some plot, just general incompetence in the way the machines have been built and programmed and are being used by poll workers who haven't been properly trained. So people wait and wait and wait and then finally have to leave to go to work without having voted. In other places, the polling stations are running out of provisional ballots. It just goes on and on and on. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
