by Hazel Trice Edney
NNPA Washington Correspondent
Originally posted 10/31/2006
WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Six years after the 2000 election fiasco that disenfranchised more than a million African-Americans, voting advocates and election officials are taking steps to avert any serious problems during Tuesday's high stakes election.
"We truly have concerns, which is why we've been pushing for preparation. It's because we do believe there's going to be a lot of chaos at the polls," says Melanie Campbell, president and chief executive officer of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation.
"Folks who want to disenfranchise are going to be working overtime to intimidate and suppress Black voters, Hispanic voters, women, seniors, the most vulnerable at the polls."
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In some states where races are especially contentious, lawyers, poll monitors and additional volunteers will be at precincts to assist voters in an "Election Protection" program led by the People For the American Way Foundation, the NAACP, and the Lawyers' Committee For Civil Rights Under Law, all also accessible through 1-866MyVote1.
Full article (kinda long) is here: http://www.amsterdamnews.org/news/Article/Article.asp?NewsID=11108&sID=3
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I suspect that even if Democrats win, they're so determined to find fraud, they will say that Bush stole the election. lol. Did Republicans whine this much when Clinton was elected? I'm too young to remember.
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I have been debating becoming a New York democrat for years just for the health benefits. How many of us can live long enough to vote after we die.
But alas, I'm just an Ohio libertarian. We probably die first - and our votes get ignored anyway.
One of the points I consistently make is that, fraud or no fraud, Gore and Kerry both deserved to lose. Not because they were the lesser candidate, because it would be hard to imagine a lesser candidate than George W. Bush, but because they couldn't insipire enough people to vote for them to win by a really clear margin, one in which all but the most incredibly blatant, large-scale fraud would be lost in the noise. Both of them lost (or won, if you insist, and then had the election stolen from them) by the skin of a grape. If either one of them had actually fired up the electorate, we wouldn't have noticed the frauds in 2000 and 2004, either.
Congratulations on the win GOP in 06' as much as I don't want to say it but that is the way it is going to go.
Sure there will be a lot of wrong doing in the upcoming election, and even if the Democrats think they can steal this one it isn't going to happen. We live in a majority republican controlled nation, any democratic attempts to steal the election will be immediately stopped.
Anyway, If I remember correctly, and I do, Bush in 2004 won by 3 million or so votes. That's a pretty big majority given the atmosphere of that election. But Dems are still saying that the 04 election was stolen. When Gore won the popular vote in 2000, they said he should have won, when Bush wins the popular vote, they said he cheated. It's a bit of intellectual dishonesty going on here, don't you think?
Ohio And probably Pennsylvania totals were so out of wack with exit polls that the UN who monitors elections all over the world, had they been monitoring our election would have invalidated it for fraud, pure and simple. Exit polls are the goldmark of election polls worldwide. How many popular votes were stolen? Who knows?
Oh, and you get a 10 from me, good subject, good article.
Back in 1960, the Dems stole the election using Illinois. Nixon had so much class that he declined to demand a recount so as not to put the country on tenterhooks for so long during hose pre-computer days. So we ended up with that prick JFK and his thieving cohorts.
Dems steal elections time and again. Republicans have class.
Does anyone still care what George Carlin has to say?