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maddezmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-23-08 05:34 PM
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Justice Dept. pulls prosecutors from polls
Source: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department will no longer station criminal prosecutors at the polls on Election Day after civil rights groups said that doing so could intimidate minority voters.

The move reverses a decades-long practice that put prosecutors on the lookout for voter fraud, ballot access violations and other polling problems.

Only a small number of prosecutors were among the cadre of election lawyers and other government employees whom the Justice Department dispatches to the polls during federal elections.



Read more: http://www.kwch.com/Global/story.asp?S=9061288
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Demeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-23-08 05:35 PM
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1. Amazing!
First, that some asshole decided to do this in the first place

Second, that some smarter person talked them out of continuing.
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-23-08 05:36 PM
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2. Yah... I don't think they're doing that to protect minorities....
:rofl:
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grannie4peace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-23-08 05:41 PM
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3. i think you are right
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-23-08 05:48 PM
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5. They're taking the refs out so that the cheaters can have free rein, I would assume.
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grannie4peace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-23-08 06:05 PM
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7. i sure don't trust them
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MsLeopard Donating Member (717 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-23-08 06:44 PM
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10. That was my first thought too
Get rid of the law and let chaos rule. It's been the MO of this regime from the start, chaos allows lots of looting to take place. And now these bastards want to walk out with trillions of dollars on the credit cards of We the Peasants, maxed out now and for the next hundred years from what I can tell. The truly sick part of it is that no one (who should) will ever be held accountable the pillaging that's taken place. No justice. :grr: :grr: :grr:
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santamargarita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-23-08 05:44 PM
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4. Check This out from RFK Jr and Pap:


Bobby: “There are about 30 scams the republicans are deliberately using, particularly in the swing states to get democratic voters off the rolls. These scams originate in the so-called Help America Vote Act which was passed after the Florida debacle in the year 2000. It was originally suggested by democrats and republicans but it was passed by a republican congress with a republican senate and a republican president. And instead of reforming what happened in Florida it basically institutionalized all the problems that happened in Florida. And institutionalized a series of impediments that make it very difficult for democrats to register, for democrats to vote and then for democrats to have their vote counted.

“One of these requirements under HAVA is called “the perfect match” and what that does is little known but it is devastating. A quarter of the voters in Colorado have just been removed from the rolls because of this--just this one scam. And what it does is they use a computer system to compare your registration application to all other government records of you in the state. So they’ll look at your social security records, your motor vehicle records and any time you’ve had any interaction with the government and if there is any information on your voter registration that is different than the information on another government record that they find they remove you from the voting rolls.

“For example, if I registered as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and yet my motor vehicle license said Robert Frances Kennedy Jr. I’d be removed from the rolls. If your initial is different, if you leave an initial out, if you leave a “Jr.” out, if you leave a hyphen out in your name. And what they’ve done is a study in New York that said 80% of the errors are errors that were done by state clerks who are taking down this information. And particularly immigrant communities that people tend to vote democratic, people have names…spell Muhammad with an “o” instead of a “u” (crosstalk)

Pap: “Are the democrats suing to stop this?”

Bobby: “No, the democrats are doing nothing to stop it. In New Jersey, which is a swing state, 300,000 voters in New Jersey were just sent letters saying that they are now ineligible to vote. New jersey is nice enough to actually notify them--most states will not even notify them. And New Jersey intends to send out 870,000 letters so that is three quarters of a million people off the voting rolls in a state that could decide this vote by 50,000 votes. And these are democrats that are being pushed off the rolls.

Bobby: “Let me tell you about one other of these scams people should know about. If you’re a newly registered voter--and of course the democrats have done these gigantic registration drives--12 million people on registration--if you’re a new voter you MUST include your license or some other state I.D. when you come to vote. What that means is that if you’re a college kid (and college kids now--they’re sending in absentee ballots--they’re not going to the voting place, they do everything online or they do everything remotely--they don’t dream of going to the precinct house voting on election day and waiting in a long line) so if they send in the absentee ballot and they don’t include a color copy of their license their vote is going to be thrown into a trash can. And none of these people know this because you have had to read the law in order to know it. So there is no notification for when you fill out your registration form, so all of those 12 million people that the democrats have registered: those ballots are going to be just thrown out.

Pap: “And if democrats won’t talk about this how the hell’s anybody gonna know about it? I’m involved with this kind of thing every day--I didn’t know that until you just told me. The media is not talking about it. How in the hell is somebody gonna find this out? It’s just incredible.

Bobby: “Hopefully--Obama is getting 66 million dollars a month--hopefully somebody in the democratic organization is going to pay some attention to this before election day.
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offog Donating Member (263 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-23-08 06:34 PM
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8. Holy shit!
This needs to go viral!
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-23-08 06:02 PM
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6. So now they have two hankies to cya either way. What a disgrace. n/t
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mcg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-23-08 06:43 PM
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9. The Justice Department is turning a blind eye to the voting machine cos. etc.
That's where they would be looking if they were really interested in fraud.
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BearSquirrel2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-23-08 08:31 PM
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11. ELECTION FRAUD !!!

What about election fraud, are they looking for election fraud.

Hey, Anne Coulter was never convicted of the voter fraud that she committed. I don't know why they would be "on the lookout" for anyone else if they won't prosecute a case handed to them on a platter.
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OakCliffDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 04:57 AM
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12. K & R
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