RFK Jr. "Votes are being stolen, now, by hundreds of thousands"

[ensho]

"and the Democrats aren't doing anything about it"


http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/24/01946/7406/888/608305


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 votes counted.

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RFK, Jr.: 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.

Let me tell you about one of other 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 had to have to read the law in order to know it. There is no notification 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.
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read on, get depressed

[fascisthunter]

1. So I Guess Democratic Leadership Wants Obama to Lose

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

2. New Jersey is a swing state?

If NJ is a battleground, we are in deep trouble.

:scared:

[Sugarcoated]

3. I was told by the Obama people who trained me on voter registration

that when you get the absentee ballot in the mail the instructions on the ballot tell you you have to send a color copy of ID, a drivers license being one on the list of acceptable forms of ID.

I'm in PA.

[goclark]

4. And where is the PLAN to alert voters??? OBAMA needs to address

this and all of the speakers should too.

There should be a real CLEAR "pass this On" Message that is user friendly because it is way to late to keep ignoring it.

I love the Obama campaign but in my view this is a critical weak link.

[Sugarcoated]

6. In PA I've been told it's on the absentee ballots

to include a copy of ID. Is that not the case in other states?

[GreenTea]

5. !

:kick: