CAUGHT: FAKE VOTING FLYERS Distributed To African American Voters in Texas

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" An unknown group handed out misleading fliers to voters in a primarily African American polling place in Houston, Texas, reports KTRK.


The fliers, which were handed out near an early voting location Tuesday night, claimed that "Republicans are trying to trick us" and said that voting Democrat was actually voting for Republicans.



"When you vote straight ticket Democrat, it is actually voting for Republicans and your vote doesn't count," says the flier. "We are urging everyone to VOTE for BILL WHITE. A VOTE for BILL WHITE is a VOTE for the ENTIRE DEMOCRATIC ticket. We have fought too hard to let Republicans use voting machines to deny us our basic rights. We must guard the change and NOT VOTE STRAIGHT TICKET DEMOCRAT! YES WE CAN!"




Democrat Bill White, the former Mayor of Houston, is currently running against Republican Governor Rick Perry.


"I expect this to be illegal ]because it's so inaccurate, no political group would want to associate itself with a lie, this is the under the table stuff that we see in elections," said Dr. Richard Murray, political consultant for KTRK.


The flier claims to be from the Black Democratic Trust of Texas, but no such organization appears to exist.


"These fliers are part of a coordinated effort between the Tea Party and Houston Republicans to intimidate and misinform voters," Chad W. Dunn, General Counsel for the Texas Democratic Party, told TPMMuckraker. "This deliberate attempt to misinform voters is the last ditch effort by the Republican Party that trying to win votes from a public that is skeptical of their failed policies in Texas."


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<http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=7749845>



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<http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/10/fake-fliers-aim-mislead-texas-voters/>

[blondeatlast]

1. To the Greatest with this, stat! k/r nt

[county worker]

2. You can see the hand of tea party brain dead people in this.

They still treat African Americans as if they are stupid little children who will believe anything yet it is the tea party that are the dupes of the corporations!

[Segami]

8. They feel superior in their own minds.

[Up Quark]

13. Isn't treating this as a dire emergency reinforcing that notion?

Surely nobody is actually falling for it, are they?

[drm604]

42. Who's treating it as a "dire emergency"?

Those are your words.

Even if nobody falls for it, this is an illegal act and the perpetrators need to be arrested, and people need to be made aware that these kinds of tricks are being pulled so that they are on the lookout for more clever tricks.

There's always a chance that some percentage of people who will fall for these kinds of tricks, even a dumb trick like this. In a close race that could make a difference.

[kenfrequed]

50. This is a crime

And those responsible are seeking to deprive people of one of the most basic rights in our representative democratic form of government.

This is not a trick, it is not a joke, it is not a tactic. This is a crime.

Why are you so quick to dismiss it?

Even if only one old person gets a bit confused and falls for it, it is still a damned crime.

I recommend hard prison time and a public trial. An example has to be made of this kind of behavoir.

[Zephie]

3. K&R, keep this moving up

[Aramchek]

4. Rick Perry's Goons are getting nervous

[LisaL]

15. I very much doubt this has anything to do with Rick Perry,

considering the voters are urged to vote for Bill White.

[nxylas]

55. I think it's a bit more nuanced than that

Does Bill White actually have a chance of winning? If not, the key may be in the phrase "a vote for Bill White is a vote for the entire Democratic ticket" - in other words, encourage people to think that if they vote for this one no-hoper Democratic candidate, they won't have to vote for any other Ds where the race might be closer. Of course if White actually has a shot at the Governor's mansion, then my theory is obviously discredited and I will happily STFU.

[blondeatlast]

5. k before I must be off. nt

[bushisanidiot]

6. Racist assholes!!

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[Subdivisions]

7. First they set fire to the warehouse that stored Houston's voting machines.

Now this.

When are we going to deal with election fraud?

[Kurovski]

9. K&R

[felix_numinous]

10. K + R

Pass the word, these people haven't hit bottom yet, the slimebags.

[political_Dem]

11. Who says we're in a "post-racial America" now? K and R.

[progressoid]

12. So, not exactly caught.

Clearly we know what side this helps but the actual indivuals responsible haven't been caught.

[butterfly77]

14. Like I keep saying..

how could they be winning when they have disrespected Blacks,Hispanics,Muslims,Gays and on and on and on..

[Overseas]

16. K&R. Seems like the GOP is using all its dirty tricks this year.

I heard they are also planning to challenge voters at the polls in Democratic areas to slow down the voting and discourage people with long lines.

[WillyT]

17. K & R !!!

:kick:

[ampad]

18. They honestly believe black people are stupid

Really who is going to fall for this bull.

[nc4bo]

19. I sincerely believe there is a reason why there is a war on education

The dumber the populace, the easier it is to get over on the populace.

Then there's that voter intimidation problem. You'd be surprised how many black people I know who walk around afraid to question the ways of the white man.

[MadMaddie]

26. They the Republican Tea partiers have lied enough to

themselves that they believe it. That's why they keep doing stupid things.

[sakabatou]

20. Is an investigation underway?

[DearAbby]

21. Bastards

[bigdaddycoles66]

22. Fingerprint every flyer that has been passed out to find a common print.

Remember also Rand Paul wants to repeal the civil rights act to give business owner the right to refuse service to anyone of minority status. It looks like that will include democrats also. I voted with an early ballot today. Please get out and vote. Do not think that your vote doesn't matter. It does. If you don't, your life and as well as America will change to right wing rule. The republicans are handcuffing, arresting, stomping and taking away our civil liberties right in front of our eyes. It is on video! There is no denying what is to come. If you vote for republicans you will reap what you sow.

[AspenRose]

23. Meanwhile..."GOP is the New Black" in Houston

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9405794

They do this every election season. I expect it from them. No one's surprised. At least I'm not.

[The Hitman]

24. Well...

it's a little more subtle than the "don't vote" campaign... right?

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

25. K&R!

[oswaldactedalone]

27. Dammit, I must have gotten the one with the typo

that said the vote for Libertarians was a vote for Democrats so I voted Democrat thinking I was voting Republican. How do I rush this info to Fox News that my Republican votes were lost and I'm the victim of election fraud?

[Trocadero]

28. Who wants to bet it was the King Street Patriots?

[FedUp_Queer]

29. Can we go back to 1859-1860

and say to the South: "Don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya."

[oswaldactedalone]

30. nm

[AlbertCat]

35. Can we go back to 1859-1860 and say to the South: ...

How would that help? Texas didn't secede until 1861.

[Bette Noir]

31. Any chance someone will do time for this?

[Scurrilous]

32. K & R

:thumbsup:

[Very_Boring_Name]

33. I don't support the death penalty except in cases of election fraud

Give the assholes who did this the electric chair for all I care

[Rex]

34. GOPukers must be getting skerrd, they have tried every criminal

thing they know how to do. Scumbags.

[Axle_techie]

36. Um...

I hate to be flamebait, but where is the evidence that it is tea party or republicans? Hard evidence, not supposition leaned towards political gain. If I wanted to make my opposition look bad, I would distribute these and say it was them.

I am not saying they didn't do it, I am simply saying that I am not taking any side until actual evidence is provided that it was them. It could be a maneuver from either side.

[ooglymoogly]

51. Yeah, yeah, yeah, blah, blah, blah, we can tell you are just one fair "minded"

doooood.

[Canuckistanian]

37. Caught? Don't think so.

I haven't heard of anyone arrested yet.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

38. Lonnie Smith is no doubt red-lining the marble tachometer on his grave.

Supreme Court Case

Smith v. Allwright (1944) establishing the right of African-Americans to vote in primaries.
Dr. Smith was a dentist in Houston.


From answers.com:

Justice Stanley Reed applied the Classic reasoning to overrule Grovey, and the white primary was checkmated. Since the primary system was an integral part of the state's election procedures, citizens had the right under the Fifteenth Amendment to vote in party primaries free of racial discrimination. The discrimination was not merely “private.” First, since state law authorized primary elections and regulated the party's procedures, the party in convention acted as an agent of the state in excluding African‐Americans. Second, conducting elections was a state function; therefore, the state was responsible for allowing the private racial discrimination.

Constitutional scholars cite Allwright as one of the seminal cases in the development of the “public function” concept. Certain activities traditionally and exclusively performed by the government—such as elections—are deemed to be state action under the Constitution even when performed by private actors. This doctrine was extended in Terry v. Adams (1953) in which the Court invalidated an unofficial primary held by a private, all‐white “club” despite the lack of state regulation of the club.

After Allwright, the available methods for reducing African‐American participation in elections were limited to those directed at individuals rather than groups, such as literacy tests and poll taxes. These methods proved less effective with time. The federal legislative response came in the Civil Rights Acts of 1957, 1960, and 1964, followed by the Twenty‐fourth Amendment, which banned poll taxes in federal elections, and especially in the Voting Rights Act of 1965 with subsequent amendments.

The broader significance of this decision lies in the Court's focus on substance over form in determining voting rights. This approach became the conceptual foundation for later landmark civil rights cases involving such matters as racially restrictive covenants, school segregation, and political reapportionment.

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I grew up in Harris County (Houston), hung out with Billie Carr and the liberals, and all those great African-American Democrats I hung out with would probably see this as nothing new.

:banghead: :grr:

[xxqqqzme]

39. This must be the 'voter fraud'

the rethuglicans are always warning us about.

I really hate these people.

[happygoluckytoyou]

40. i don't think it is the TEABAGGERS..... it waz spelt korektly

[SalmonChantedEvening]

41. K&R! I smell desperation.

:D

[lib_wit_it]

43. Oh, don't let that upset you. After all, if the RWers blocked every African American from voting in

every election for the next 20 years, it wouldn't begin to make up for all the voter fraud perpetrated by Acorn.

:sarcasm:

[piratefish08]

44. TP'ers are TRULY the stupidest people this planet has to offer.

[woundedkarma]

45. Maybe you guys have it mixed up...

Perhaps it's a well-meaning but clueless dem? I'm not trolling. I'm serious. With the past few elections where there's been voting machine fraud and serious questions of whether the repubs have control of them.

Someone might have fallen for the conspiracy theory that if you vote straight dem the machine changes your vote. True or not even in the recent voting frauds, I don't know. I'm just saying that it doesn't sound teabagger, it sounds more like clueless-conspiracy-man.

[Pacifist Patriot]

47. I wondered the same.

[texastoast]

46. K&R n/t

[Recursion]

48. Short memories? They do this Every. Single. Year. (nt)

[meeshrox]

49. I feel inclined to repost this again...link to DOJ's reporting hotline number

for these crimes...circulate it to whomever you can! Call the number if you see anything like this or people intimidating voters! Then, call the police! This is criminal behavior.

http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2010/October/10-opa-1211.html

[Brewman_Jax]

52. Don't these racist idiots ever quit?

It didn't work last decade, nor last year, nor the year before. Then, they have the unmitigated gall to wonder why black people, and most non-white people, don't vote repub? :crazy:

[Bitwit1234]

53. When Ehrlich won in Maryland

their fake flyer's worked. what they did was print up flyer's that told people in the most predominately areas of Maryland , Baltimore City and PG County that if they showed up to vote, owed utility bills, they would have a police office there and if you didn't pay up you would go to jail. They also went around the neighborhoods and posted "EMERGENCY" flyer's as they called them, telling people because of a mix up in the voting machines, that Baltimore City areas (black again) and the PG black districts would be voting on Wednesday instead of Tuesday. Sensible people didn't believe them, but voting was down in those most Democratic areas and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend lost by a small margin. So don't tell me that republicans will not cheat lie and forcibly keep people from the polls. It won't work this time he is running because people are wise to him. And O'Malley knows all the tricks he and republicans will pull. I wouldn't have the guts to face people with what I did to the state of Maryland, but republicans think people forget and if the republicans win nation wide they sure as hell do. why can't they remember who in the hell got us into this mess. Bush with the enabling of the republicans who held the majority in congress. And just because the Democrats got a slight majority in 2006 didn't mean they could overcome the republican tricks. Like the republicans blocking everything they tried to do for the last two years. But I blame the senate for not getting rid of the out of date rules that stopped them.

[robertpaulsen]

54. When the reich-wing preemptively screams, "VOTER FRAUD!", only one word describes the reality.

PROJECTION

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