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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-31-04 03:21 PM
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this vote suppression shit is pissing me off.
Keep a camera handy and your eyes open, folks. We need to nail these fuckers in the act.
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-31-04 03:22 PM
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1. You got it!
 Vote as if your life depended on it, because it does.

Call 866 687-8683
If Poll Workers refuse you to vote for any reason

If there is a late opening or early closing of a polling place.
If your polling place runs out of ballots or has an incorrect ballot
If you experience poll worker insensitivity or discrimination in the voting process

The civil rights community have set up a toll-free Election Day hotline. This line is
staffed now and, in addition to logging your complaint, the civil rights organizations have law
students and attorneys who can provide assistance on Election Day.

the hotline number is
866 687-8683
202 457-0473 fax

When you call the hotline, be prepared to give your name, telephone number, and note as many
details as possible, including the names of the people who are involved.
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pacalo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-31-04 03:23 PM
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2. The Repugs can't win fairly - pathetic, isn't it.
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R3dD0g Donating Member (625 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-31-04 03:24 PM
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3. I'm taking my camera.
I'm almost hoping for a challenge. I'm so pissed off now, I'd happily get arrested for breaking the face of a repuke challenger.
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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-31-04 03:26 PM
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4. do it now, not just Tuesday.
Fliers are getting posted now, falsely advising primarily African-American voters concerning their voting rights.
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Nicholas_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-31-04 03:40 PM
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5. They are trying to supress the vote.
But not doing all that good of a job. The decision in Ohio to keep out people who will attempt to challege voters is a very good sign that things are not going the way Republicans wanted.

If you consider all of the support Bush has lost among groups who supporrted him in 2000, he is in trouble. A Miami Herald Poll today indicated that Bush had only 33 percent Support among hispanic in Dade County. While other polls indicate that Bush has only lost 5 percent of his support among Cubans, this figure from Miami indicates that Bush's loss in support among Cubans is likeloy to be higher than that. Bush must get a minimum of 83 percent of the Cuban vote in order to win FLorida. Bush has picked up 5 percent of the Jewish vote since 2000, however Kerry has picked up 80 percent of the Muslim vote, which is the percentage by which Muslims supported Bush in 2000. The Jewish population of Florida has gone from 750,000 in 2000, to 500,000 in 2004. The Muslim population of FLorida has gone up from 350,000 in 2000, to 700,000 in 2004.

The Bush Administration would have to challenge far more than merely new Black voters in order to have any effect, and besides, the failure of their legal efforts to challenge 30,000 new voters is a sore blow to the Republican efforts.

Given these large number of new voters, the current polls are likely to be inaccurate. Zogby's latest poll of people who only use cell phones is indicative of these inaccuracies. Among people who use only cell phones, Kerry has a fifteen percent lead. Given the number of nnew voters, and given the fact that more of the new voters are democrats, it may be that other polls may be far off the mark.
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