Florida 2000 could be USA 2004

[tmooses]

reading this article makes me sick. These people don't care anything about democracy just their own need for more and more power. We already have registration problems in Ohio, Florida and now Nevada--it's still 3 weeks before the election. At this rate we're going to have election challenges in half the country! Funny how it always seems the right wingers get away with this shit. These guys should be tracked down and let them squeal on whoever bankrolled them.

(Oct. 12) -- Employees of a private voter registration company allege that hundreds, perhaps thousands of voters who may think they are registered will be rudely surprised on election day. The company claims hundreds of registration forms were thrown in the trash.

Anyone who has recently registered or re-registered to vote outside a mall or grocery store or even government building may be affected.

The I-Team has obtained information about an alleged widespread pattern of potential registration fraud aimed at democrats. Thee focus of the story is a private registration company called Voters Outreach of America, AKA America Votes.

The out-of-state firm has been in Las Vegas for the past few months, registering voters. It employed up to 300 part-time workers and collected hundreds of registrations per day, but former employees of the company say that Voters Outreach of America only wanted Republican registrations.

Two former workers say they personally witnessed company supervisors rip up and trash registration forms signed by Democrats.

"We caught her taking Democrats out of my pile, handed them to her assistant and he ripped them up right in front of us. I grabbed some of them out of the garbage and she tells her assistant to get those from me," said Eric Russell, former Voters Outreach employee.

Eric Russell managed to retrieve a pile of shredded paperwork including signed voter registration forms, all from Democrats. We took them to the Clark County Election Department and confirmed that they had not, in fact, been filed with the county as required by law.

So the people on those forms who think they will be able to vote on Election Day are sadly mistaken. We attempted to speak to Voters Outreach but found that its office has been rented out to someone else.

The landlord says Voters Outreach was evicted for non-payment of rent. Another source said the company has now moved on to Oregon where it is once again registering voters. It's unknown how many registrations may have been tossed out, but another ex-employee told Eyewitness News she had the same suspicions when she worked there.

It's going to take a while to sort all of this out, but the immediate concern for voters is to make sure you really are registered.



http://www.klas-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2421595&nav=168XRvNe


Bush is right about one thing in this election. We are fighting for freedom-but it's not in Iraq, it's right here in the good old USA.

[bluestateguy]

1. This is why I support capital punishment for white collar crime

and I bet you that a lot of the death penalty opponents here at DU would change their tune real quick once we start to see suit-wearing, gary haired white men going off to the death chamber for their crimes.

[flordehinojos]

2. The intro to an article by Rahul Mahajan, entitled "The Bush Definition of

Democracy",reads as follows: "Be it in Iraq or Afghanistan, the Bush administration has a track record of fixing elections to produce the winner it desires."

It seems they are applying their definition of "democracy" to our country, and it seems we are powerless to stop them.

The pundits on television keep asking why, if Kerry has gained so many points over bush in his quest for the presidency, is bush still at 46 or 47% ... implying Bush isn't going down. I think the corporate media is toeing the Bush/Rove line to make it easier for them to steal the elections and tell us Bush was ELECTED to the presidency.

You are right, we ar fighting for freedom. Not in Iraq. Not in Afghanistan, but right here in the good old USA.

[Selatius]

3. I'll tell you this

If Bush wins on Nov. 2nd, you should begin to see the beginnings of the first mass opposition movement seen in this country since the 1960s. I don't know if it will be as large a movement as was during the 1960s, but I feel confidant a Bush victory is going to get many people off their couches and out into the streets.

Good can come from something so bad. If that many people take to the streets, it could provide us progressives an opportunity to set the agenda. It might be enough to be heard loud and clear. We could actually gain the opportunity to set the agenda for politicians, not the other way around. We could demand they address things such as election reform, universal health care, and better public education as well as a solution to the war, be it stay the course or withdrawal depending on how well or poor it goes.