>
> --- "onKenneth J. Peters"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Don't worry, Jim - I'm certain the DFL will be
> > shipping enough people into
> > your precinct to more than make up for a few
> > misdirected voters.
> > Unfortunately, they'll only be voting DFL -
> > regardless of who the candidate
> > is.
> >
> > Kenneth J. Peterson
>
> I see the Kenneth is speculating on some kind of
> concerted effort on behalf of the DFL to disrupt the
> election and practice fraud.
>
> Ironic that these conservatives, not Democrats, are
> part of the groups that have been caught time and
> time
> again trying to disrupt the election with illegal
> and
> unethical tactics.
>
> There is nothing unethical or illegal about
> registering people to vote.
>
> It's very American of the groups that support more
> citizens being involved in the process, they should
> be
> applauded.
>
> Of course if you are a blind partisan who belongs to
> a
> Party that feels they have the right to rule over us
> and tend to loose elections when turnout is high-
> you'd probably find those groups threatening.
>
> As a matter of fact, recent evidence points to the
> Conservatives and their ilk as being the ones who
> are
> out to suppress the vote, the minority vote.
>
> So, more than likely these calls are just another
> effort in a long line of suppression efforts(some
> documented below this post) by those on the Right
> aimed at poorer and/or minority communities.
> Not a mistake by the DFL.
>
> Eric Mitchell
> St Paul
>
> 2003: GOP Placed Vote Challengers Only In Black
> Precincts
> Jefferson County Republicans placed challengers in
> 59
> voting precincts
> in predominately Black neighborhoods. The
> challengers
> have the
> authority to question anyone they believe is not
> registered, not who
> they claim to be, or not a resident in the precinct,
> although most of
> the challengers themselves live in communities
> outside
> of the targeted
> precincts. Challenged voters must sign an affidavit
> swearing they are
> valid voters, and anyone refusing will not be
> permitted to vote unless
> an election officer intervenes on their behalf. The
> Kentucky
> Republican Party also announced that it had
> assembled
> a "ballot
> security task force" comprised of more than 100
> attorneys on hand to
> respond to their precinct worker's allegations of
> voter fraud. The
> county GOP chairman denied that the racial makeup of
> the precincts was
> a factor in their selection and claimed that the
> precincts were either
> chosen randomly or because the GOP had trouble
> locating registered
> voters to serve as election workers.
> [Courier-Journal,
> 10/23/03;
> 10/26/03; AP, 10/23/03]
>
> 2003: TEXAS COUNTY TRIES TO BAR BLACK COLLEGE
> STUDENTS
> FROM VOTING
> LOCALLY.
> Waller County's District Attorney, in a November
> 2003
> letter to the
> county's elections administrator that contradicts
> Texas state law,
> alleged that college students did not have a right
> to
> vote from their
> campuses addresses. Waller County is home to Prairie
> View A&M
> University, a predominantly black campus whose 7,000
> students
> represent a politically significant voting-block.
> Waller County has
> repeatedly tried to suppress the student vote. Ten
> years ago black
> students were accused of voting fraud and twenty-six
> years ago a
> federal court ordered Waller County to allow college
> students to vote.
> [Houston Chronicle, 12/10/03; 1/19/04]
>
> 2003: MEN WITH CLIPBOARDS POSING AS LAW ENFORCEMENT
> OFFICALS
> SYSTEMATICALLY TARGETED BLACK VOTERS IN PHILADELPHIA
> In Philadelphia, Tom Lindenfeld, who ran a counter
> intimidation
> campaign for Democratic candidate John Street, found
> that voters in
> predominantly African American communities were
> systematically
> challenged by men carrying clipboards. These
> individuals drove a fleet
> of 300 sedans with magnetic signs designed to look
> like law
> enforcement insignia. ["GOP Deploys," The American
> Prospect, 2/04]
>
> 2004: FLORIDA ELECTION OFFICIALS SOUGHT TO PURGE
> AFRICAN-AMERICANS
> FROM VOTER ROLLS.
> "Florida election officials used a flawed method to
> come up with a
> listing of people believed to be convicted felons, a
> list that they
> are recommending be used to purge voter registration
> rolls, state
> officials acknowledged yesterday. As a result,
> voters
> identifying
> themselves as Hispanic are almost completely absent
> from that list. Of
> nearly 48,000 Florida residents on the felon list,
> only 61 are
> Hispanic. By contrast, more than 22,000 are
> African-American� Anita
> Earls, one of the lawyers for plaintiffs in the
> civil
> rights suit,
> said state officials had not given them the kind of
> access to data
> that might have uncovered the flaw." [NYT, 7/10/04]
>
> 2004: MICHIGAN REPUBLICAN LAWMAKER SAYS GOP NEEDS TO
> "SUPRESS" THE
> DETROIT VOTERS.
> Michigan State Representative, John Pappageorge,
> told
> members of the
> Oakland County Republican party that the GOP would
> do
> poorly in this
> year's elections if it failed to "suppress the
> Detroit
> vote."
> Pappageorge's comments were a thinly veiled mandate
> to
> suppress
> African American voter turnout in a city where 83%
> of
> the population
> is Black and overwhelmingly votes Democratic.
> [Detroit
> Free Press,
> 7/16/04; AP, 7/21/04; Washington Post, 8/26/04]
>
> 2004: Native Americans Were Told "To Go Home" In
> June
> Primary.
> Poll workers demanded identification from Native
> Americans in South
> Dakota's June primary, and they illegally turned
> away
> Native American
> voters from the polls when they did not have it. The
> state's
> elections auditor sent out a memo to state poll
> workers stating that
> all voters must have IDs, but did not widely
> disseminate information
> that said that voters could sign an affidavit in
> lieu
> of showing
> identification. State Democrats say that the actions
> by poll workers
>
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