Christie says GOP gubernatorial candidates need to win so they control 'voting mechanisms'

[George II]

Source: North Jersey News (Bergen Record)

Last updated: Wednesday, October 22, 2014, 8:02 AM

Governor Christie pushed further into the contentious debate over voting rights than ever before, saying Tuesday that Republicans need to win gubernatorial races this year so that they’re the ones controlling “voting mechanisms” going into the next presidential election.

Republican governors are facing intense fights in the courts over laws they pushed that require specific identification in order to vote and that reduce early voting opportunities. Critics say those laws sharply curtail the numbers of poor and minority voters, who would likely vote for Democrats. Christie — who vetoed a bill to extend early voting in New Jersey — is campaigning for many of those governors now as he considers a run for president in 2016.

Christie stressed the need to keep Republicans in charge of states — and overseeing state-level voting regulations — ahead of the next presidential election. Christie made his push at a U.S. Chamber of Commerce event in Washington, D.C., where he ran down a list of states he’s spent time in recently as chairman of the Republican Governors Association questioning whether a Republican presidential nominee would rather have the incumbent GOP governor in power or the Democratic challenger.

“Would you rather have Rick Scott in Florida overseeing the voting mechanism, or Charlie Crist? Would you rather have Scott Walker in Wisconsin overseeing the voting mechanism, or would you rather have Mary Burke? Who would you rather have in Ohio, John Kasich or Ed FitzGerald?” he asked.

Read more: http://www.northjersey.com/news/christie-says-gop-gubernatorial-candidates-need-to-win-so-they-control-voting-mechanisms-1.1113989

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Damn, he's not even trying to hide republican organized voter suppression!!!

[peace13]

1. May we please go back to paper ballots now....? nt

[gordianot]

2. Still walking free no orange jump suit yet.

Hope he gets a cell someday with Governor Ultrasound.

[Botany]

3. Sometimes they forget to keep thoughts inside their "thought bubble."

[Zambero]

4. Well that just about sums it up

Christie et al simply cannot control themselves. Hook or crook, whatever secures power is "legitimate".

[sammy750]

5. Christie confirming GOP taking over the nation and rights of the people

This is scary folks, when the GOP tells you they want control of the votes and you elect them to office. This is the first step in losing your freedoms, rights and Democracy. The Republicans will actually do this do. The US Supreme Court has given the Republicans and big donator and big corporations the power to run this nation and control the people. This is the first step in being a dictatorship in the USA. Wake up voters and defeat Republicans as they will defeat you if they gain control. THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION IN DECADES AND DECIDES WHETHER YOU SURVIVE OR DIE UNDER THE GOP.

[turbinetree]

8. RIGHT ON

If people do not wake up to the facts that this blog is presenting and the warning of what is transpiring before it is to late if the so called transparent media does not get engaged to this stuff, they will be screaming about there rights and then see what happens, just look at IRAN and its state run media, how about Indochina and its state run media it all around us and these hypocrites want this country to become like them and a right wing oligarchy.
This election is crucial to this country more than ever and I really do HOPE that people are paying attention if not we are so screwed

[turbinetree]

6. What can you say

Instead of trying to circumvent the rights of this countries citizenry by "LETTING" its citizens the power to vote , just maybe this jerk needs to be brought down a couple of notches and have the citizens of New Jersey start a petition to have this self righteous ass IMPEACHED and I mean start a petition to get his ass IMPEACHED.
His state is 2.8 billion in the proverbial hole and falling further into debt ( and he wants to be president, he can't balance his own goddamn check book let alone the nation, and then he attacks the very foundation of this country, the right to vote).
His contempt of his own citizens just makes you wonder if he his physiologically sound with his reason to even govern.
And I think if one citizen of the sate were to file a petition he would at first try to blow it off and all of his supporters would do the same thing, right along with the media, but enough is enough.
To show his further contempt its being reported that some of the Hurricane Sandy homes have still not been re-built and this is going three years now, how would this jerk feel if he and his self righteous wall street wife and kids and all of his cronies and supporters were to live were to live in an motel room for three years, does anyone see a pattern of absolute ineptness in this mans hypocrisy.
It is absolutely amazing that these hypocrites when they get voted into office they go around and then try to circumvent the right for people to vote, who gave them that right to do this.
Anyone that tries to do this crap anywhere in this country should have petition filed against them to explain there motive, enough is enough

[hobbit709]

7. Translation: We need to win by stealing the election fair and square.

[MaeScott]

9. When they show you who they are, believe them. Goes double for Christie. eom

[rogerashton]

10. apparently Stalin really did say

"I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how."

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin

So Christie agrees with Stalin.

[PatrynXX]

11. oh smart ass woke up

damnit. fortunately his ratings are so low nobody's gonna listen

[SmittynMo]

12. Similar post

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5697923

[Gothmog]

13. The GOP knows that they need to win by cheating

Voter suppression is a key GOP tactic

[turbinetree]

14. After Thinking

I know I injected my rant into this earlier , but I would like to make a further comment of this right wing hypocrite jerk called Chris Christie.
His job description is to ensure everyone's right to vote, that his is number one job description
His job description is to make sure that this country does not become a fascists state and that his state is not the first one to do so, we are suppose to be a united democratic republic, not little dictatorships run by a supreme dictator like the republicans want
His job description's to balance the state books instead of stealing from it and from the citizens coffers to buy elections
His job description is to NOT inject himself into other states voting rights he is not a self appointed dictator
It is not his description to taint the right to vote, where does it say that in the New Jersey Constitution, where?
His job description is to ensure that the post offices of his state are left open
And you the citizens of New Jersey, you have a battle ship parked on your side of the Delaware river called the U.S.S New Jersey, what in the hell do you think it represents, please tell us all , please tell us all that the 450,000 Americans who died to prevent this fascists' crap in WWII, is your state that big of an embarrassment to not recall this hypocrite I mean really, it called responsibility
Don't you think its is un-American that a lobbying firm that is supported by corporations making millions off its citizens and corrupting the planet would align it self to deny the fundamental right to vote, that is just outrageous, who do they think they are U.S Chamber of (Corruption) Commerce they are not even a U.S. government agency.
We need a government that will investigate this crap , enough is enough
I support all the democratic governors running against these fascists

[Jack Rabbit]

18. +1 and welcome to DU, turbinetree

Voter suppression is as low as it gets in a so-called democracy. Once that sets in, it is no longer democracy.

Once it is not democracy, what other kind of tyranny emerges? One that strikes me as ironic is that the Republican plan is to raise taxes on the poor and what's left of the middle class in order to pay for upper class tax cuts. Somewhere in that broad group that will see its taxes go up is the subset of those who right to vote was denied by Republicans. How is this not taxation without representation? Can the Republicans get any more un-American?

Somewhere, back in my days in high school and college, some teacher or professor said that freedom and equality were opposites. I could never quite get my head around that. Ask a slave about it. He is not equal, and therefore he is not free. Unless freedom means the freedom to own slaves, then freedom and equality and joined at the hip. Otherwise, freedom truly is slavery.
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[Orsino]

15. It's amazing how comfortable he is in his skin. n/t

[SmittynMo]

16. Controlling “voting mechanisms” going into the next presidential election?

My post from an earlier thread:

Let's see here. We have a corrupt Supreme Court, recently siding with the GOP in Texas. All because the GOP leaning people in the SC favor voting restrictions. This includes polling taxes, and possibly limiting voting rights for hundreds of thousands of people. I'd say that's one way of controlling voting mechanisms. YEP. TOTAL CORRUPTION.

And then of course we can't forget that the same SC voted to allow unlimited funding to the voting process. MORE CORRUPTION!!!

And this airbag is now supporting the GOP to continue in this manner? WTF!!!

Conclusion: The GOP is a corrupt party, and now insistent of corrupting our voting rights. Talk about butchering and trampling all over the constitution. OMG. When will people wake up an realize the entire GOP is very, very BAD for this country.

Land of the free? Yeah right.

[McCamy Taylor]

17. Republicans will tell you to your face that they don't think the poor and minorities have a right to

vote. I have heard them. They are not ashamed of their views at all.

[Monk06]

19. Federal election rules and constituency boundaries should not be in the hands of the states.

It is an open invitation for vote rigging a gerrymandering.

The GOP governors are trying to control the federal government via the Republican Governor's Association, which is a private white man's club and undemocratic in the extreme.

Such a set up does attempts to do an end run around the 14th amendment and takes the US back to pre Civil War states rights political corruption and human rights abuse.

Governors should not be allowed to form an organization devoted to subverting federal elections and federal policy making. The GOPGA should be designated an illegal combine. Same for a similar Democratic org if one should evolve.