California GOP Voter Registration Problems in 2006 and there's a Blackwell in the room
By John Amato Wednesday Oct 15, 2008 3:11pm
I don't like some of this ACORN stuff either, but it's small potatoes compared to what Republicans have been doing for decades and to try and link it to Obama is nuts. Registering and voting are two different things. Republicans use the Ken Blackwell method of purging the voting rolls every chance they get. Sometimes they can count on the Supreme Court to do their bidding. Case in point The Indiana Voter ID law....You can hear my Rachel Maddow interview on it here.
And what I find really insulting is the idea that Ken Blackwell himself is actually trying to make a case involving Voter fraud. Now that is laughable..
And yes, in case you were curious, that's the same Ken Blackwell who was Ohio's secretary of state in 2004. The same Ken Blackwell who worked himself into infamy by actually directing his office to reject voter registrations based on the weight of the paper used. And yes, the same Ken Blackwell who was embarrassed in 2006, when he lost the race to be his state's governor by 23 percentage points -- but only after his supporters challenged the eligibility of Blackwell's opponentSteven Rosenfeld writes: California GOP had Same Voter Registration Problems as ACORN in 2006
Faked names on voter registration forms. Error rates as high as 60 percent. Firing the people responsible for these errors. Investigations launched by local and state police. Sound familiar? This is not ACORN in the 2008 election's final days.And Editor & Publisher has a great piece about it and asks: why does it seem to be a greater sin to be suspected of voter registration mistakes than to publicly engage in voter suppression efforts?
This is the California Republican Party and its contractors in 2006, when the same problems that are now dogging ACORN and providing political fodder for GOP attacks plagued an effort by California Republicans to register 750,000 people.
The details were all spelled out in a series of Los Angeles Times stories, which quoted former California Democratic Party Chairman Art Torres saying these kinds of errors are inevitable "when you use private vendors." Even the state's top election official in 2006, Republican Bruce McPherson, was forced to investigate his own party's actions...read on
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My wife went by Obama's campaign office here today. She bought a bunch of stuff. But she found out she had been purged from the registration.
She got registered again and found out where her poll was at.
I never thought it would happen here in Monterey Ca.
They're gonna need all those lawyers. And probably more.
I am 56, started routinely voting in the early 70's. I heard about canivote.org one day on the radio and checked my name. I was not on the roles. It's easy to re-register, and it took 2 days to get the new card. Please check, even here in the liberal Bay Area of San Francisco, I was dumped.
Has it ever occurred to anyone that Republican operatives are the ones filling out these fraudulent registration forms in order to cast suspicion on whoever is taking the form? Certainly that is what is happening, more often than not, with ACORN. A few of their workers may be filling out bogus forms, but I believe there is a concerted effort to throw as many bad forms into the system as possible just to cause chaos.
Look at what they did to AirAmerica when they first started out.
The MSM is owned by the vote suppressors. So, they never fairly report on voter suppression. The SCOTUS knew they could suppress the vote by stopping the recount in Florida because they could count on the MSM to cover up the truth.
This voter registration stuff is irrelevant. Acorn calls all of its names to verify accuracy and flags the questionable ones. The law requires that all registration forms be submitted to the government. C'mon, Mickey Mouse ain't gonna fraudulently vote.
The vote suppressors need to go to prison this time.
I mean, really!! As someone said... lots of employees steal from Macy's, but no one would call Macy's a criminal organization! There was massive embezzlement from the United Way, yet no one equates publicly derides the United Way and all the good that it has done because of the action of its employee.
right on!
You don't like some of this ACORN stuff? what does that mean... that you're sick of the smears or that you're disgusted by the fact that they pay people low wages to gather signatures and you expect some pristine miracles of voter registration to appear out of that?
get off ACORNs jock. they've done more for this country than all of the blogs combined. you know, actual real world work. look into it. get involved. and DO something other than bitching about people who do it.
The REAL story in regard to Ohio and Kenneth Blackwell is WHO was instrumental inBlackwell's bid. Remember Rod Parsley- one of McCain's spiritual advisors. The TV evangelist from Ohio that wanted adultery to be declared a capital offense? ead on:----------Nose Holding in Ohio
By Ezra | June 26, 2008 -
John McCain’s messy break-up with televangelist Rod Parsley had the potential to hurt him most in Ohio, a swing state necessary for McCain and the place where Parsley built a network of electorally-charged “Patriot Pastors” in 2004 and 2006. Now McCain is making amends by delving deeper into the state’s Religious Right.
Ken Blackwell, the former Ohio secretary of state who helped Bush win there in 2004, is a close ally of Parsley; the two campaigned heavily together during Blackwell’s losing bid for governor in 2006. In an AP story today, Blackwell was critical of McCain’s ham-handed efforts to enlist the Religious Right:
"He has never identified with the evangelical and Christian movement and therefore he can, at times, misread or misinterpret certain activities in the political field of play or certain comments that are offered," said Blackwell, now at the Family Research Council, a conservative think tank. "I personally would like for John to get to the point of comfort with some of our issues and policy positions, through understanding and genuine acceptance."
Despite these warnings, Blackwell is a Republican politician at heart and is supporting McCain (who endorsed Blackwell in 2006)—he even recorded a robo-call for the Arizona senator before the Ohio GOP primary in February. But other activists are even more cagey about how much they’ll work for McCain.
In the same AP article, Chris Long of the Ohio Christian Alliance (which broke away from the Christian Coalition when it got too soft) warned, “There’s certainly a little reservation about Mr. McCain.”
Phil Burress, a leader of Ohio’s Religious Right, has been skeptical of McCain’s judges promises and emphasized in March that McCain had a lot more sucking up to do:
Burress, who heads Cincinnati-based Citizens for Community Values, says although he would vote for McCain in the general election, the Arizona lawmaker has thus far failed to energize the bloc Burress refers to as "values voters."
"They are not mobilized right now -- and in fact, they're just going to be sitting back waiting to hear what he has to say to try to get these people to engage in his campaign," explains Burress.
Burress contends McCain needs to apologize to evangelical Christians and values voters for the way he has treated them over the years. He says because the senator is not likely to make that apology, he must strengthen his pledge to appoint strict constructionist judges to the Supreme Court.-------------------RightWingWatch
Ohio secretary of state ordered to verify voter registration against other records
“Plaintiffs assert, and the court agrees, that it is hard to imagine a public interest more compelling than safeguarding the legitimacy of the election of the president of the United States,” Smith wrote in his ruling.
http://blog.cleveland.com/open.....t_v_1.html
The hypocrisy is suffocating. Where were these Republican judges in 2000 and 2004? Selective “safeguarding” of voters rights and votes is rampant
in the Republican party
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http://blog.cleveland.com/open.....les_oh.htm
Ohio Republican Chairman Bob Bennett accused Brunner of pursuing a partisan agenda and said, “Her delay in providing this matching system leaves little time for election officials to act on questionable registrations.”
Bennett said Brunner was destroying the public’s trust in Ohio’s elections system.
“Her shameful actions to disenfranchise Republican absentee voters, block the transparency of early voting and refuse the proper verification of newly registered voters have rightfully damaged her credibility as a nonpartisan election administrator,” he said. l
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http://blog.cleveland.com/pdex....._stat.html
October 14, 2008
COLUMBUS — Statement of Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner regarding an ‘en banc’ (full court) review of the US Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals overturning a Sixth Circuit three-judge panel’s October 10, 2008, stay of Judge George Smith’s TRO regarding HAVA matching for new or revised Ohio voter registrations since January 1, 2008.
In directing Ohio’s 88 county boards of elections today to thoroughly review and investigate specific allegations of voter registration fraud, illegal voting, or voter suppression, I announced plans to further improve the statewide voter registration database, so as to be prepared for a possible adverse decision from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals en banc such has occurred this evening. On Friday, October 10, 2008, three-judge panel stayed Judge George C. Smith’s temporary restraining order requiring that the Secretary of State modify the statewide voter registration database to provide lists or searches based on nonmatching data from state and federal databases.”
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Last night on “Countdown” Rachel Maddow said the Republicans could shave off 200,ooo votes this way in Ohio.
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what an irresponsible article. it is obvious that you are a democrat in support of Obama. Obama was, and is directly connected to Acorn, and if this issue as associated to mccain, your article would be all over MCCain. The fact that you have theorized in a rather paranoid way that somehow it is a republican conspiracy is laughable. do you really think that American people are that stupid???
obama has been repeatedly dishonest:
ayers was just in th neighborhood when he was 8 years old? lie
he didn't know ayers was a terrorist? lie.
he didn't know trinity church was racist? lie
he is not a muslim? lie
he lied numerous times in his debates.
he lied about his stance on infanticide.
will his tax plan work?> Nooo
acorn????????/ it is a republican conspiracy theory. lol
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