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[ProSense]

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The Bush administration has systematically worked nationwide and notably in Missouri to restrict voter turnout in ways that favor Republican candidates in close races.

Bush admin systematically worked nationwide...to restrict voter turnout

By GREG GORDON of McClatchy Newspapers
Published Sunday, April 22, 2007

For six years, the Bush administration, aided by Department of Justice political appointees, has pursued an aggressive legal effort to restrict voter turnout in key battleground states in ways that favor Republican political candidates.

The administration intensified its efforts last year as President George W. Bush’s popularity and Republican support eroded heading into a midterm battle for control of Congress, which the Democrats won.

Facing nationwide voter registration drives by Democratic-leaning groups, the administration alleged widespread election fraud and endorsed proposals for tougher state and federal voter identification laws. Presidential political adviser Karl Rove alluded to the strategy last April when he railed about voter fraud in a speech to the Republican National Lawyers Association.

Questions about the administration’s campaign against alleged voter fraud have helped fuel the political tempest over the firings last year of eight U.S. attorneys, several of whom were ousted in part because they failed to bring voter fraud cases important to Republican politicians.


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[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. WHERE THE HELL IS THE OUTRAGE?

as Lee Iacoca said,
"We've got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff. We've got corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we can't even clean up after a hurricane, much less build a hybrid car. But instead of getting mad, everyone sits around and nods their heads when politicians say `Stay the course.' This is America, not the Titanic. Throw the bums out."

[madeline_con]

3. There was outrage when they were doing it.

Unfortunately, it's become old news, just one more illegal notch in their collective neocon cowboy belt.


typos bug me :(

[SammyWinstonJack]

2. K&R

[bananas]

4. k&r nt

[formercia]

5. People tire of outrage when nothing gets done

and that just aids the GOP strategy. We just didn't tire as fast as they thought we would.

[paparush]

8. Two Words

taxi driver

[ProSense]

6. Kick! n/t

[paparush]

7. The Neocon 100 year Reicht!!!

I FUCKING HATE that the MSM stops at the phrase "Fired 8 Attorneys General"

TELL US WHY THEY WERE FIRED!!

THEY WERE FIRED BECAUSE JUSTICE AND THE WHITE HOUSE ARE STAMPING OUT THE LAST SHREDS OF DEMOCRACY.

[bdamomma]

19. they want to stack the courts who do not dissent against bushie

they are putting their people in, in all government branches.

[Marie26]

9. And none of this has to do w/electronic voting.

Now that the curtain's being pulled back, we're starting to see how Bushco operates. And they do voter fraud the old-fashioned way - voter suppression, targeting minorities & tossing ballots. None of this has to do w/Diebold. The more we're learning, the more it looks like the "voting machine" uproar was just a huge red herring.

[glitch]

10. Machine fraud and old-fashioned voter suppression are not mutually exclusive. nt

[Marie26]

11. Right, but there hasn't been any evidence

so far, of machine fraud in this scandal. I'm referring to the "new" schemes that have been uncovered since the Dems took power. In Jan. 2007, Rove panicked after the Dems took power & tried to make sure Republicans could win in 2008. So - he fired US Attorneys in swing states, pressured US Attorneys to persue "voter fraud" cases against Democratic organizations, put Tim Griffin in as US Att. for AK. (this is the Rove operative who threw out FL minority registrations in 2000), and made presentations to the GSA & other federal agencies so that they could use the power of these agencies to swing the vote. This is a man who is panicked, not someone who is sure that Diebold has the stolen election in their pocket. Rove's frantic, desperate schemes are a pretty good sign that they DIDN'T have the ability to simply steal the election w/voting machines.

[grannylib]

12. I think they knew they could do it with the machines, but ONLY if they also limited

voter turnout. They can only flip so many votes without it being too damn obvious, so voter suppression has to be part of the 'strategery' as well.
You're right, Diebold alone can't do it consistently; keeping likely Democratic voters away from the polls is key.

[The Count]

14. Hardly. Every trick in the book was used - and then some.

[The Count]

13. And I still see "Kerry Lost" and should've won by a bigger marging than the theft

margin...When will people realize that for many Americans there wasn't even an election going on?

[babylonsister]

15. K&R. nt

[SpiralHawk]

16. kick for America

Why do republicons hate America?

[ProgressiveEconomist]

17. kick

[bdamomma]

18. why doesn't someone just say it, this is a government takeover

of a hostile force, and get them the hell out!!!!!!!!!!!!