Tell the DNC to wake up and smell the voter purge

[Amaryllis]

Tell The DNC To WAKE UP And Immediately Seek An Injunction To Reverse The Purge Of Democratic Voters In Ohio
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You had to know this was coming. The further they fall in the polls the more massive the voter fraud and preemptive vote suppression the other side will attempt. The key word here is “attempt”. We’re not supposed to let them get away with it without a fight. That fight must start NOW!
Reports are breaking that the pathologically partisan Ohio secretary of state has been secretly using the master database of voters to systematically purge hundreds of thousands of likely Democratic voters from the registered rolls. Their latest version of an old scam is to put a discriminatory burden on voters in heavily Democratic precincts to meet a special hurdle of verification of their address, a guilty until proven innocent routine. And they have been doing this without any public notice that such a massive operation was underway, and timed in such a way that voters would have no recourse to re-register.

Never again will we allow such outrages against democracy to go unchallenged by the fullest force we can bring to bear. Bob Fitrakis, who has been fighting the election criminals in Ohio for years, has announced he will file a lawsuit no later than this coming Monday. Please tell the DNC, and also the Ohio Democratic party (if you are an Ohio resident), to bring every resource to bear to join in this battle for the soul of our electoral process.

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[fooj]

1. KandR

This will NOT stand.

[Melissa G]

2. Done ! Thanks for Posting! n/t

[jazzjunkysue]

3. I wrote to my NY congresswoman, Nita Lowy. K&R!.

[EFerrari]

4. Done, kicked and rec'd

Thanks!

[EFerrari]

5. Amaryllis -- go see this thread kpete put up:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2438002

[Apollo11]

6. Fitrakis & Wasserman warn of GOP "victory"

Sorry if someone already posted this. I couldn't see it anywhere ...

A loaves & fishes/Holy Ghost victory for the GOP in November?

by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman

The Free Press - October 17, 2006

The polls all point to a Democratic sweep in November. The news pours in about pedophile Republicans and Team Bush contempt for their fundamentalist bedmates. Iraq implodes. Deficits soar. Katrina lingers. Scandal is everywhere.

On the other hand, there are rumors of an "October Surprise." An attack on Iran. A new terror incident. Osama finally captured.

Gas prices are down, the stock market up.

None of it dampens the Democrats' euphoria. They think they are about to win. In conventional terms, they should.

But think again. Please.

It will take just two Biblical fixes for the GOP to keep the Congress, and thus solidify their power in this country, possibly forever: a loaves and fishes vote count, a Holy Ghost turnout.

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Read the whole article here:
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2006/2181

[babylonsister]

7. Ask the DNC about the purge of TX Dems. Where were they when

Van Os needed help with Greg Abbott, the criminal? Where is the TX DNC, seriously? WHO are they working for, the lobbyists or the rethugs? They haven't been working for TX Dems.

[madfloridian]

8. So you guys are NOT going to give the new DNC a chance?

Is that what this is about?

How can they do anything when the voting activists are saying not to call them?

I plan to let this be known by having some friends post it around.

The party needs to know about the problems.

[madfloridian]

9. 1-888-Dem-Vote...the DNC hotline. At least register problems here.

I think some here are advocating against helping the DNC records problems.

[madfloridian]

10. They are working there in Ohio.

You need to be sure of some facts before you post. They are not putting everything out there in public.

Who is behind the People's Email Network? I have been trying for a long time to find out. PEN doesn't tall about themselves.

http://www.usalone.net/main_index.html

[madfloridian]

11. Here is what I posted and am sharing around.

And asking others to share around. I think it is fair for me to do so. The DNC is required to keep records, Dean and others will be asked about problems. If some are saying not to tell them...how can you think that is helping?

Too territorial.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/539

[madfloridian]

12. Here is a post at Daily Kos about the purge. Who is right?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/10/19/202627/72

"I'm a journalist in Cleveland, Ohio who has followed election issues closely. I hadn't heard about this so I started to make calls. By last night, I had talked to seven people: election protection activists, organizers and attorneys, and people with Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs-Jones' office and the Ted Strickland gubernatorial campaign. I spoke with Vicki Lovegren, founder of Ohio Vigilance http://www.ohiovigilance.org/
and organizer of two big election conferences here, who is all over anything she perceives as an attempt to game the system. I spoke with the Cuyahoga County election protection coordinators, Chris Nance (also of the congresswoman's office) and attorney Lesley Huff. I spoke with the election observer coordinator in Strickland's Cleveland campaign office and with a spokesperson in his Columbus campaign office. None had seen such a letter or heard of anyone receving it. It seemed incredible to me that such a letter could go out and no one in the most urban, Democratic county (or anywhere else) in the state had heard about it.

I would have posted this diary last night, except that in the evening, a piece from OpEdNews came to my attention, purporting that Columbus lawyer, investigative journalist, election activist and also our Green candidate for governor, Bob Fitrakis, was going to court over voter purging, the implication being (although it wasn't spelled out in the article) that it was over this particular letter. I wanted to speak to Bob before posting anything. I left a message for him this morning and didn't hear back, although I did speak in the meantime to Randy Borntrager, the communications director of the Ohio Democratic Party, who said the same thing as everyone else: "If there is such a letter, we haven't seen it."

"This afternoon at 4:30 p.m., I went on the Ed Schultz Show to talk about this. (I wrote to the show an e-mail last night in response to a caller I heard on the way home and this morning I got a call from his producer asking me to go on). A few minutes later, I got an enraged phone call from Fitrakis's campaign manager, who insisted I speak to him immediately. I'm not sure what she was enraged about, because when I spoke to Bob, he simply reiterated what everyone else has said. He has seen no such letter, and the concerns he's legally pursuing (he's always going after some election travesty and you don't have to invent them to find them in Ohio) have nothing to do with any such letter. He mentioned a whole bunch of voter-purge attempts (the man is a fountain of elections-related information -- if you're interested, go to his website
http://www.freepress.org/ and check out his articles and books), but none vaguely similar to this one or within the same time-frame. He also echoed what Borntrager said about this particular ploy not being valid.


I am sad to see that all these groups are attacking the DNC when they are not really sure what the DNC is doing, and when there is other stuff perhaps questioning the purge.

Here is another post on the topic.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/showdown06/archives/individual/2006_10/009835.php

Just trying to figure it out.