St. Petersburg Times: A cagey way to keep voters from being counted

[L. Coyote]

A cagey way to keep voters from being counted
By ROBYN BLUMNER August 26, 2007
http://www.sptimes.com/2007/08/26/Opinion/A_cagey_way_to_keep_v.shtml


The Republican Party learned well at the knee of Southern Democrats how to keep African-Americans from the polls.

After the party took over from the boll weevils as the political home for those standing against the expansion of civil rights, black voters swarmed into the ranks of the Democrats. In the last presidential election, African-Americans gave John Kerry 88 percent of their vote.

This stark imbalance has led to an aggressive campaign by Republicans to find a new iteration of the repudiated poll taxes and literacy tests of the Jim Crow past.

In 2000 the successful tactic was the padded felons list. George Bush was essentially handed the presidency by brother Jeb thanks to a felons list of ineligible voters that included the names of thousands of people who were valid voters. .......

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[avrdream]

1. Call me suspicious but I believe that's why Karl Rove left:

to have more time to figure out stunts like that.

[L. Coyote]

2. Rove was fired. He'll keep working though, just w/o the USG paycheck!

More: Has Rove's Egg Hatched? The Firing of KARL ROVE or Why His Family Needs Him Now.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1591504

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

3. I'm glad people are trying to keep this on the front burner where it belongs

Greg Palast gives the best coverage on this topic.

[L. Coyote]

4. Perhaps the new AG will give it attention. I hope they ask about this at confirmation

Will you investigate voter caging and other felonious irregularities of 2000 and 2004?