Rights Groups Say Republicans Aim to Suppress Vote

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Civil rights groups representing blacks, Hispanics and the disabled accused Republican Party workers on Thursday of trying to keep U.S. minorities from voting. "In state after state, Republican officials and operatives are working to deny American citizens the right to vote," said Wade Henderson, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights.


The civil rights groups are all nonpartisan, but historically, strong majorities of U.S. blacks and Hispanics have voted for Democratic candidates. Henderson and others at a news conference outside Republican National Committee (news - web sites) headquarters called on party Chairman Ed Gillespie to tell party workers to stop what the civil rights officials called voter intimidation and suppression.

Jim Dickson of the American Association of People with Disabilities said a survey released on Oct. 19 reported that 22 percent of the disabled said their eligibility to vote had been challenged by poll workers.

Dickson said, "If they (Republicans) were not cowardly, they would meet with us and they would say to their people across the country, knock it off, this is wrong." The rights groups said they had asked both Democrats and Republicans to address their concerns about possible voter suppression, and only the Democrats had responded.

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[Mountainman]

1. Is there any evidence of Dems trying to keep repubs from voting?

Have any of you joined Dem groups who have red lined a repub neighborhood and plan to challenge repubs when they vote?

I don't think we act the same way repubs do. They assume minorities and poor people commit fraud all the time.

[whistle]

2. These are the Dominionists of the republican party who are....

...fully organized and orchestrated with one goal in mind:
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Conquering by Stealth and Deception
How the Dominionists Are Succeeding in Their Quest for National Control and World Power
By Katherine Yurica
September 14, 2004



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