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On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:51:58 +0000, Snarky aided th' terraists with the
following claims :

On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:13:04 -0400, Cliff wrote these lies, denials,
arrogant assertions, erroneous presuppositions, and/or obfuscations:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert..._b_138390.html
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Drinking the ACORN Kool-Aid: How Cries of Voter Fraud Cover Up GOP
Elections Theft

Virtually the entire mainstream electronic media drank ACORN Kool-Aid this
month brewed up by the Republican National Committee. Almost no one
seriously challenged John McCain's comical assertions that ACORN, a
grassroots voter registration group, "is now on the verge of maybe
perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history in this country,
maybe destroying the fabric of democracy."

While the Republicans had the distracted media searching for links between
Obama and ACORN, RNC operatives were busily completing one of the most
massive voter suppression and purging efforts in American history,
stealing hundreds of thousands of Democratic votes across the embattled
swing states and striving to arrange chaos and endless lines at the voting
booths next week. ....
David Iglesias of New Mexico was one of seven U.S. Attorneys fired by the
White House for their refusal to bring voter fraud prosecutions. "We took
over 100 complaints," from the GOP, he told us, "We investigated for
almost 2 years, I didn't find one prosecutable voter fraud case in the
entire state of New Mexico."
Iglesias, a McCain supporter, has, for the first time, leveled a new and
serious charge: Despite finding none of the 200 voters guilty, he says the
White House nevertheless ordered him to illegally prosecute baseless cases
against innocent citizens, just to gin up voter fraud publicity. His
refusal, he says, cost him his job. "They were looking for politicized --
for improperly politicized US attorneys to file bogus voter fraud cases."
....
Finally, the removal by GOP officials of hundreds of thousands of
legitimate voters from voting rolls over the past year provides ACORN with
a sound rationale for obtaining new registrations, even from voters who
believe they are already registered.
....
The GOP is ginning up hysteria about non-existent vote fraud by Democrats
in order to distract the press from its own campaign to disenfranchise
millions of American voters.

The Republicans have created an obstacle course of barriers designed to
suppress the vote, purge tens of thousands of Democratic voters from
voting rolls, create mayhem and delay at voting venues on Election Day,
and stop millions of votes from being counted this election cycle.

Jailed GOP activist Jack Abramoff and his fellow convict, Congressman Bob
Ney, wrote the most sinister provisions of the Help America Vote Act
(HAVA) which Congress passed in 2002 creating a series of diabolically
cunning new voting impediments. HAVA, for example, allows state voting
officials to purge tens of thousands of voters from the polls using
algorithms and voter ID requirements that disproportionately
disenfranchise black, Hispanic and minority voters, and other Democratic
demographics including senior citizens and young people.

In 2004, highly organized GOP tacticians helped disenfranchise no less
than 2.7 million American voters. Almost a million of them were African
Americans. The The Federal Elections Commission has found black voters
were nine times more likely to have their votes discarded than white
voters and that over one-third of the million provisional ballots cast in
2004 -- ballots handed disproportionately to African Americans -- were
never counted but simply thrown into dumpsters.
....
In this election, new HAVA mandates permit voting officials to precisely
match registration form information with the voter's driver's license and
other government records. While it may sound reasonable, in practice, any
change, even a dropped hyphen, is cause for eliminating the voter from the
rolls. Since 2004, Colorado's Republican Secretaries of State have purged
one out of every five voters from the rolls. The current Secretary of
State, Mike Coffman, a Republican also running for office, recently purged
an additional 37,000 voters and discarded 6,400 new voter registrations --
overwhelmingly Democratic -- based upon an obscure technical mistake that
Coffman's office encouraged voters to make in the first place.

The GOP "anti-fraud" campaign resulted in one in nine New Mexico
Democratic voters finding their names had disappeared from voter roles
during this year's caucus.

Despite a recent Supreme Court decision upholding Ohio's refusal to
disenfranchise 200,000 legitimate voters based on this absurd demand to
"match" voter names to databases, White House operatives are still
fighting to purge these names from the rolls. President George Bush last
week personally asked his Attorney General Mike Mukasey to renew
Republican efforts to disenfranchise these voters.

Contrary to Mr. McCain's assertions, the real threat to democracy is from
the GOP itself.
....
]
None of that surprises me in the least. I wonder why?

Because they keep trying to strip voters from the roles?
Interfering with the vote is the GOP's last dying gasp:
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2008/10/28-2

Actually, running an ENTIRE campaign devoid of policy but long on lying
smears is the last dying gasp.

The fact that it has worked twice (with the aid of certain, shall we
say, less than honest vote counts) gives them hope. If the vote is
one-sided enough, they may not be able to pull it off. Let's hope.

Dan