So, any news about the possible suppression of votes in Louisiana yesterday?

[hedgehog]

I can understand a few people thinking they were registered Democrats and finding out at the polls that they are not, but apparently this was a big problem yesterday. Even though my guy won, I'd like to see this checked out. If voters were turned away illegally yesterday, the same thing could happen (will happen?) this fall.

[WilyWondr]

1. Where are you getting your facts?

"this was a big problem yesterday." - Posted by hedgehog


I have not seen or heard a single story about this.

[Kittycat]

2. were you online yesterday?

[WilyWondr]

3. Yes

....thanks for the link.

Alot of opinions floating about with nothing to back them up.

Were you online yesterday? WTF does that have to do with the OP not posting any facts to support the opinion?

[neutron]

6. Obama Smear Tactiics as Usual

They pulled this in NH, forced a recount, and it turned out Clinton
got MORE votes!

Yes, Kucinich is an Obama supporter - and Obama people had crap
circulating all over the web that Clinton rigged the election.

[hedgehog]

7. So, how do you know it wasn't Hillary's voters who were turned away?

Fraud is fraud, no matter who benefits.

[newmajority]

10. Somebody needs to pull this bot's plug.

Its preformatted nonsense responses don't even fit the threads it posts in anymore.

[LowerManhattanite]

13. You know, I recently referred to this odd style of post as a “bot”...

...comment. You know the type—weird, oddly-syntaxed, non-sequitir posts that seem burped out from a just-shaken “Magic 8-Ball”. The target of my comment, yet another of the new, high-post count, just joined a month ago “members” seemed to throw a disk platter or something and got verrrrrrry defensive, tapping out a terse, defensive “what?” n/t as a reply. A hard-core supporter of Senator Clinton then chimed in, (this one “claims” to be a reporter of some sort :) ) and totally muffed the moniker I threw out there, saying that “bot” was a derisive term for Clinton supporters only—NOT a computer term for weird, automated response programs designed to seem like real people communicating. Said bot then reverted to “character”, overplaying its handle/name “personality” in the follow-up post.

It's freaky. There seems to be a lot of it on the boards lately. They have small attempts at personality built in—generally little tics that are offshoots of their DU handle or something that they fall back on clumsily to appear sentient. but invariably, they go off the rails and spit out peculiar “WTF”-quality stuff when things get intense. As if their systems have simply crashed out.

I can only hope that Skinner's changes around here include an encrypted number or phrase-reading element to confound these silly, automated trolls.

We shall see, I guess. :(

[hedgehog]

4. Here you go:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4508320

[Exultant Democracy]

5. There were a lot of people who should have been given provisional ballots.

[Barack_America]

8. What I'm *hoping* happened...

Was that we had a lot of people come out to vote in primaries for the first time. And that, as a result, they might not have been aware of what their registration was. I'm hoping that these are old *mistakes* and don't represent disenfranchisement of newly registered votes.

[hedgehog]

12. I agree with you. Years ago I would have expected that it was

the individuals involved who made the mistakes. It's possible, especially if people came out to vote who haven't bothered with primaries before. There may be mix-ups dating back to Katrina as people moved or registration records were reassembled, etc. These days though, my motto is to trust no one when it comes to voter registration. This needs to be looked into before November.

[pdxmom]

9. Here is the link to the story out the New Orleans newspaper:

http://blog.nola.com/updates/2008/02/issues_with_party_affiliation.html

It was about voters being disenfranchised, regardless of who they were voting for. I'm glad Obama spoke up.

[jwirr]

11. If this happened during the GE would you all be so upset with the

poster?