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AtLiberty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-05 02:24 PM
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Brad Blog: Phony GOP 'Voting Rights' Group Delivers Onslaught of Disinfo
Phony GOP 'Voting Rights' Group Delivers Onslaught of Disinfo Today!

'Non-Partisan' Republican Front Group, American Center for Voting Rights Releases Report, Six Press Releases Focusing on Democratic 'Election Fraud'

Massive Republican Voter Disenfranchisement Virtually Unmentioned, Phony Quotes by 'Democrat' Used in Releases


Brad Blog
August 2, 2005


In a massive new attempt today to disinform the American Voting Public and sidetrack the true bi-partisan Election Reform movement in this country, the phony "voting rights" group -- calling...
In a massive new attempt today to disinform the American Voting Public and sidetrack the true bi-partisan Election Reform movement in this country, the phony "voting rights" group -- calling themselves deceptively "American Center for Voting Rights" (ACVR) -- issued a new report today charging that Democrats were "Far More Involved In Voter Intimidation And Suppression In 2004."

Five different heavily Democratic-leaning cities were cited in each of six different Press Releases issued at once via US Newswire within the last hour as being amongst the "top Election Fraud Hotspots" in the country. The sixth Press Release was focused on pushing the ACVR propoganda claim: "Democrat Operatives Far More Involved In Voter Intimidation, Suppression In 2004".

The deceptively-self-described "non-partisan" ACVR, as previously exposed in a series of exclusive articles on The BRAD BLOG, is a Republican front group created by high-level GOP operatives expressly for the purpose of spreading disinformation to sidetrack the Election Reform movement in this country.

Both of ACVR's main players continue to be tied to the upper echelons of the GOP and are longtime Republican partisan operatives. Executive Director Mark F. "Thor" Hearne, has been a backroom player for years in the Missouri and national GOP parties and was most recently the National General Counsel for Bush/Cheney '04 Inc. Their Press Spokesman Jim Dyke was the RNC Communications Director during the 2004 election responsible for arranging to have operatives dress up in "Flipper" costumes at John Kerry election events...

For full story, click:

www.bradblog.com/archives/00001650.htm
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merh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-05 02:27 PM
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1. What a surprise. Maybe they are getting nervous given the
direction the Ohio Coingate investigation is going.



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mpendragon Donating Member (210 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-05 02:33 PM
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2. if only there was a means by which they could verify votes and voters
If there was some sort of reliable paper trail of votes and the number of voters in a district.
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-05 02:44 PM
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3. They always do this. Accuse us of doing EXACTLY what they're doing.
It's irritating as shit. But on the other hand, it makes it real easy to know what they're up too.
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glitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-05 02:55 PM
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4. Really good point. They telegraph their actions to us, we just need to
pick up on that and prevent them.
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Nederland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-05 03:13 PM
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5. Fact Check
The report claims this:

Former ACORN worker said there was “a lot of fraud committed” by group in Florida, as ACORN workers submitted thousands of fraudulent registrations in a dozen states across the country, resulting in a statewide investigation of the group in Florida and multiple indictments and convictions of ACORN/Project Vote workers for voter registration fraud in several states.

This should be easy enough to verify. Anybody hear anything about this?
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AtLiberty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-03-05 06:42 PM
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6. I haven't...
It's hard to keep up with so much fraud, isn't it?
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