My God, The GOP is Full of Bastards

[Brassmask]

This is beyond the pale.  Republicans should root the a-holes who set this up and make sure they are prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

Absolutely unconscionable indeed.

(But I'm sure RR and sirs or perhaps even BT will have some article somewhere that claims that Clinton did the same thing in '96 or some bullshit so they don't have to take responsibility for their team's extreme dedication to lies and deceit and felony.)

VA-Sen: Voter suppression in Virginia
by kos
Mon Nov 06, 2006 at 04:01:07 PM CST
Republicans are so afraid to run on their merits that they continue to resort to dirty tricks.

Listen to this robocall (.WAV) being sent to Virginia voters:



Tim Daly from Clarendon got a call saying that if he votes Tuesday, he will be arrested.  A recording of his voicemail can be found online at: www.webbforsenate.com/media/phone_message.wav

The transcript from his voicemail reads:

"This message is for Timothy Daly.  This is the Virginia Elections Commission. We've determined you are registered in New York to vote. Therefore, you will not be allowed to cast your vote on Tuesday. If you do show up, you will be charged criminally."

Daly has been registered to vote in Virginia since 1998, and he has voted for the last several cycles with no problem. He has filed a criminal complaint with the Commonwealth's attorney in Arlington.



More from the Webb campaign (from an email):



Widespread Calls, Allegedly from "Webb Volunteers," Telling Voters that their Polling Location has Changed.

A couple of examples:

a.  Norman Cox has been registered to vote in the same location in Arlington since 1972.  Someone from a 406 number (in Montana) called to tell him that his polling place has changed. [Note: The Webb Campaign is NOT making any such phone calls.]  Cox said he believed that he was being mislead and the caller hung up.

b. Peter Baumann in Cape Charles, VA (North Hampton) got a similar call from a "Webb volunteer" saying his polling location had changed. He said: No, I'm a poll worker and I know where I vote. The girl--who was calling from California--hung up.

The Secretary of the State Board of Elections Jean Jensen has logged dozens of similar calls, finding heavy trends in Accomack County (middle peninsula) and Essex County (outer peninsula) [as reported by the counties' registrars].

3) Fliers in Buckingham County Say "SKIP THIS ELECTION" (paid for by the RNC) have caused many in the African American community to call the Board of Elections to see if the election is still on. The full tag line says: "SKIP THIS ELECTION... (and then in smaller print): Don't Let the Tax and Spend Liberals Win."

4) Voter Machine Problems.

a. On many ballots in heavily Democratic neighborhoods, Jim's name is cut off. The ballots say: "James H. (Jim)" with no Webb.

b. New reports that ballots in Essex County have Jim's name split on 2 pages.  The "James H (Jim)" on one page, "Webb" on the next.

c. Reports of voting machines in Isle of White that do not provide a clear image of the ballot, making voting a challenge.



Voting issues need to be a foremost priority in the next Congress. This is unconscionable.

And the best solution, by far, is still the Oregon vote-by-mail model.

[Amianthus]

Try reading this http://www.politicalgateway.com/main/columns/read.html?col=434 and see if you still want to limit that comment to Republicans.

If you still feel that way, then you are nothing more than a partisan dupe.

[The_Professor]

Brass, Brass, Brass...where's your sense of perspective? Where's your independent thought? Why aren't you voting for Shuler?

[Brassmask]

Look I was just talking about this particular instance.  Are Dems guilty of voting irregularities?  Sure.

Is that what you need to hear in order to keep from feeling the absolute revulsion at your own party's fascistic ways?

[sirs]

Look I was just talking about this particular instance.  Are Dems guilty of voting irregularities?  Sure.  Is that what you need to hear in order to keep from feeling the absolute revulsion at your own party's fascistic ways?

Priceless. 

When Dems pull election tricks, it's simply "voting irregularities". Dead people voting, pulling homeless people off the street and giving them packs of cigarrettes to vote, giving folks in densely poor minority urban areas free flu shots at polling places, suppressing the military vote at every opportunity, those are all simply "voting irregularities"

But when its the GOP, well, its chalk full of Fascist Bastards, ala Hitler

[Plane]

Every method has a drawback of some kind.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2004/10/mailin_ballot_a.html

"...it could easily have worked.

From "Alas A Blog"

On Monday, someone came into our yard, knocked over our "No on 36" sign, and stole our mailbox (with Monday's mail inside it).
I doubt this was just random vandalism; Oregon mailed out voter ballots last week (Oregon does the vote entirely by mail), and a huge number of Oregonians got their ballots on Monday. So I think someone grabbed our mailbox and ran hoping that they'd get our ballots and thus keep us from voting against measure 36.


I doubt this was part of any widespread ..."

[Plane]

If we start doing this the Oregon way I am getting one of these.

http://www.seattleluxe.com/cgi-local/SoftCart.exe/aMbx/oasis/index.php?E+scstore

[Amianthus]

If we start doing this the Oregon way I am getting one of these.

I knew a guy that kept on loosing mailboxes to people running over it or "mailbox baseball."

So, he got a 12' steel frame support for a high volume embroidery machine (bought it from my father), had an 8' deep by 4' diameter hole dug at the end of his driveway, had the frame support put into the hole and the hole refilled (mostly) with concrete. A 6" layer of dirt and sod was then put on top and a new steel mailbox was welded to the top of the frame support.

Next time a car hit his mailbox, the car was totaled. The mailbox is still there.

[Brassmask]

But when its the GOP, well, its chalk full of Fascist Bastards, ala Hitler

Now, you're getting it.

[Plane]

If we start doing this the Oregon way I am getting one of these.

I knew a guy that kept on loosing mailboxes to people running over it or "mailbox baseball."

So, he got a 12' steel frame support for a high volume embroidery machine (bought it from my father), had an 8' deep by 4' diameter hole dug at the end of his driveway, had the frame support put into the hole and the hole refilled (mostly) with concrete. A 6" layer of dirt and sod was then put on top and a new steel mailbox was welded to the top of the frame support.

Next time a car hit his mailbox, the car was totaled. The mailbox is still there.

In Georgia it long ago became popular to build fortress mailboxes of block , brick and steel.
Now it is against the law to place a mailbox on a post larger than four inches on the roadside of any state maintained road.

On county roads you still see the tiny fortresses of mail distribution , next to the disposable sort.

[sirs]

I knew a guy that kept on loosing mailboxes to people running over it or "mailbox baseball."  So, he got a 12' steel frame support for a high volume embroidery machine (bought it from my father), had an 8' deep by 4' diameter hole dug at the end of his driveway, had the frame support put into the hole and the hole refilled (mostly) with concrete. A 6" layer of dirt and sod was then put on top and a new steel mailbox was welded to the top of the frame support.

Next time a car hit his mailbox, the car was totaled. The mailbox is still there.

 

[sirs]

When Dems pull election tricks, it's simply "voting irregularities". ...But when its the GOP, well, its chalk full of Fascist Bastards, ala Hitler

Now, you're getting it.

But of course.  I'm usually quite accurate in my deductions of how the left hypocritically laments, cries, complains, and condemns

[Plane]

"....make sure they are prosecuted to the full extent of the law."



I am for this.


There never seems to be enough prosicution for voter fraud.


But let us agree then to not sheild the cheaters who are tring to cheat on behalf of our favoriates .


If ten times as many Democratic cheats were caught than Republicans I would no more expect to hear you complain than I would expect you to listen to my complaints in the reverse situation.