Republicans want to preserve our democracy?

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Complaints have surfaced in predominantly African-American neighborhoods of Philadelphia where fliers have circulated, warning voters they could be arrested at the polls if they had unpaid parking tickets or if they had criminal convictions.

Over the weekend in Virginia, bogus fliers with an authentic-looking commonwealth seal said fears of high voter turnout had prompted election officials to hold two elections — one on Tuesday for Republicans and another on Wednesday for Democrats.

In New Mexico, two Hispanic women filed a lawsuit last week claiming they were harassed by a private investigator working for a Republican lawyer who came to their homes and threatened to call immigration authorities, even though they are U.S. citizens.

"He was questioning her status, saying that he needed to see her papers and documents to show that she was a U.S. citizen and was a legitimate voter," said Guadalupe Bojorquez, speaking on behalf of her mother, Dora Escobedo, a 67-year-old Albuquerque resident who speaks only Spanish. "He totally, totally scared the heck out of her."

In Pennsylvania, e-mails appeared linking Democrat Barack Obama to the Holocaust. "Jewish Americans cannot afford to make the wrong decision on Tuesday, Nov. 4," said the electronic message, paid for by an entity calling itself the Republican Federal Committee. "Many of our ancestors ignored the warning signs in the 1930s and 1940s and made a tragic mistake."

Laughlin McDonald, who leads the ACLU's Voting Rights Project, said he has never seen "an election where there was more interest and more voter turnout, and more efforts to suppress registration and turnout. And that has a real impact on minorities."

In his Jewish neighborhood, Stalberg said, fliers were recently left claiming Obama was more sympathetic to Palestinians than to Israel, and showed a photograph of him speaking in Germany.

"It shows up between the screen door and the front door in the middle of the night," Stalberg said. "Why couldn't someone knock on the door and hand that to me in the middle of the day? In a sense, it's very smartly done. The message gets through. It's done carefully enough that people might read it."

"The Voting Rights Act makes it a crime to misled and intimidate voters," said McDonald. "If you can find out who's doing it, those people should be prosecuted. But sometimes it's just difficult to know who's doing what. Some of it's just anonymous."

'Tis the season for tricking voters - Yahoo! News
 
Republicans do worse in elections when the electorate votes in large numbers.

They have been caught red handed and punished for trying to keep people from voting.

They will continue to do so if we allow them to get away with it by just slapping them on the wrist.

This in my mind is treason and should be punished as such.
 
Republicans do worse in elections when the electorate votes in large numbers.

They have been caught red handed and punished for trying to keep people from voting.

They will continue to do so if we allow them to get away with it by just slapping them on the wrist.

This in my mind is treason and should be punished as such.

Acorn should line up for the firing squad then.

And the assholes who tried to steal the Florida election by lying about "disenfranchised" voters that never materialized.

Oh, and JFK's campaign managers, who rigged elections.

Who else?
 
Acorn should line up for the firing squad then.

And the assholes who tried to steal the Florida election by lying about "disenfranchised" voters that never materialized.

Oh, and JFK's campaign managers, who rigged elections.

Who else?
Nixon for one!
 

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