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Welcome to the new world order of American democracy
This is especially true if you've moved, registered recently through a drive (like a volunteer on the street), haven't voted in a while, or have a 'black sounding' name.
On election day, GO EARLY. If they give you any shit, push back and find out who the Democrat observer is and ask them for advice. Try to force your way into voting on a regular ballot, and only vote provisionally as a last resort. Make sure to take down the provisional ballot number.
Taking a camcorder as well is great advice. Especially because one of the favored tactics in Ohio was to simply not have enough voting machines in black neighborhoods, then closing while there were still huge lines. Call the local news if that happens, but home video of this will be moving.
Black Box Voting is an election watchdog site that has all kinds of information on Diebold machines an how to protect your vote:
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/
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That image in the context of voting in a western democratic republic is simply shocking.
People, we all need to take responsibility for confronting this shit. All of us.
DON'T PUT UP WITH IT
If you are a member of a church group, go to the polls as a group, with cameras recorders ANYTHING
We're going to meet with Parliament this week. They are going to get me an interview with black members of the House of Commons...just for my benefit, because I am the only African-American on this study trip and I will say that when Black Brits see me walking on the Oxford campus, their chests puff out a little more and they grin huge. LOL.
I will do a post on my time here in Oxford at the university for JJP readers.
Gordon Brown isn't well-liked either, but the Brits aren't screaming for his head and he's wisely distanced himself from Bush, so that earned him brownie points.
The Black and Brown vote will deliver a landslide. We've got to get over the Steal Threshold in this election.
We must.
Are there alternatives for someone who shows up on election day and is not registered?
What if some of these purges took place after the initial Vote for Change registration drives?
In Maine, people do not get a receipt, for lack of a better word, of their registration. I urge folks to keep copies of their registration forms. At this rate, they will have to be notarized before being turned in, with registrants keeping a copy of the notarized form.
This sucks. Voting rights should not be at the mercy of partisan politics.
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TruthSpeaker
41-point lead among Hispanic voters is huge.
There was a massive campaign to limit communication among the career workers and rig the process to determine which cases to pursue. Career lawyers, who were presumed to lean Democrat because they were working in Voting Rights, were barred from discussing their cases with each other. That way they couldn't complain that their boss, an appointee, told them to drop the case or settle. Talking about your cases was a firing offense, so they could get rid of liberals more easily. Being more idealistic than your average lawyer, most tried to stick it out, but after Kerry lost a lot of them left to be replaced by repug lackies.
Bush also tried to limit the publics ability to bring suits under the Voting Rights Act so that only the DoJ could sue. Of course there was a complete fall off in voting rights suits. Oh, but they did file complaints on behalf of white voters in the south.
The purging of rolls is just despicable. Minorities in any state or district with Republicans in control of the rolls should be absolutely frightened. I hope that somehow the Obama campaign is moving forward with a serious ground operation to correct and prevent these abuses, even though he's not really addressing the subject to a wide audience.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/07/28/late-e...
I have such a man-crush on Obama. He's just so.... normal. When's the last time you could say that about a presidential candidate? Bill had that quality, but not as much as Obama does. What happens when, after the conventions and debates, a large part of the population that still think of Obama as an "other" realize that he's actually the most normal guy on the scene in decades. I think come late October, all the vote rigging in the world won't save McCain from a landslide defeat.
Alan Keyes.
What is wrong with the Monday Open Thread?
You cannot see the commoents.
McCain 49%
Obama 45%
Now let's see if the networks tell us they don't believe this, that this poll must be an outlier.
And then I woke up.
Wonder if they simply switched the names.
The network executives just creamed their pants
The Virginia GOP is claiming they want a probe of voter registration fraud because some teenagers allegedly stole some woman's id and went down to the voter registration place and changed her registration. The GOP claims this has been happening statewide but won't say where else it's been happening.
Yeah, I think I'll steal somebody identity and instead of charging up their credit cards or stealing their money, I'll go to the voter registration place and change their registration!
To my knowledge you don't have to register as a "Democrat" or "Republican" in Virginia. My voter registration card just has my name, address and districts I live in.
And it's happened on both sides of the aisle.
ACLU: www.aclu.org/votingrights/index.html
Fair Vote: www.fairvote.org
NCLR: www.nclr.org
NAACP Legal Defense Fund: www.naacpldf.org
NUL: www.nul.org
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law: http://www.lawyerscommittee.org/2005website/hom...
LCCREF: www.civilrights.org/about/lccref/index.html
The Interfaith Alliance: www.interfaithalliance.org
League of Women Voters: www.lwv.org
Common Cause: www.commoncause.org
MALDEF: www.maldef.org
Color of Change: www.ColorofChange.org
MoveOn: www.MoveOn.org
Other Ways To Get Involved:
(a) Encourage your friends and family members to become election judges. That way, you can have an on-the-ground view of how the elections are proceeding in your district. You should be able to find out more information about becoming an election judge by visiting your Secretary of State's website or municipality's website.
(b) Become an election escort. All you need to do is read about your state's and municipality's election rules and policies and volunteer to escort the elderly or uninformed voters to the polls.
(c) Bring cell phones that are outfitted with recording devices (e.g. digital cameras and cam corders) and digital cameras to record any unscrupulous behavior.
It's time out for saying that this is someone else's problem. That kind of thinking has gotten us nearly eight years of incompentency, indifference and injustice. Let's help elect Barack Obama to the White House.
One article said it could be as many as 150,000 who have their voting restored. I'm sure it won't be that many based on numerous reasons.
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Black Vogue Popularity Sparks Conde Nast's first ever reprint
hey how do i link so that the headline shows and not the link, some of y'all seem to be up on how that's done....please share :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyDvUwRalXY
in the meantime, enjoy this heartwarming story of how one young man lives the American dream, fails upward and becomes POTUS through the efforts of his rich, politically connected daddy....
http://www.stealingamericathemovie.org/
WHAT YOU CAN DO
STEALING AMERICA can become a tool not just for the issue but for your group in particular; many theaters will allow us to “table” in the lobby to hand out literature. At some it will be possible to hold benefits for your own organization. The attached flyer explains all.
I urge you to make the most of this opportunity, and at the least put out the call to your members to fill the theaters near them. At the moment, it is especially important that there be a huge turnout in NYC and LA. But also contact friends and colleagues in all the various cities -– let’s fill those theaters to overflowing!
Sally Castleman
Grassroots Coordinator,
STEALING AMERICA Vote by Vote
* If you have suggestions of additional theaters in your area to the ones listed below, that you think ought to be contacted as possible venues, please write to me at20SallyC@ElectionDefenseAlliance.org.
here's a list of cities
http://markcrispinmiller.blogspot.com/2008/07/s...