Comments: Bush-Cheney Suppressing Vote in FL

Somehow none of this surprises me. I've also written about this particular story and one that was in today's Waco Tribune-Herald with n 82-year-old woman who has not gotten her ballot yet. She thinks it may be because she identified herself as a Democrat in McLennan County, which is supposed to be a big no no.

Short story shorter, something is up.

Posted by Nate at October 26, 2004 07:12 PM

Check out http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/archive.html?blog=/politics/war_room/2004/10/26/palast_florida/index.html

It has a different explanation of what caging is. Caging - a common term in the jargon of direct marketing, meaning, according to one online source, "the process of receiving, processing, and reporting the mailing results."

Those Excel spreadsheets may just be part of a direct marketing campaign.

Posted by texprodigy at October 27, 2004 07:49 AM

I know some shady stuff happens on election day all over the place, on both sides of the aisle. Still, voter irregularities are mostly hot air. In every case that someone charged voter fraud or intimidation, nothing illegal had happened, and the person in question voted legally. On top of that, it's impossible to "see" a computer record a Democratic vote for a Republican. That's the point of secret ballots. I'm not saying funny things don't happen, but most of it is hysteria promoted by Democrats who don't like it when GOP wins. Damn Lawyers.

Posted by Adam at October 27, 2004 08:51 AM

What?! GOP suppressing the black vote?! Surely you jest!!

BTW, Adam--Dems don't like it when Repubs *steal elections*, thus appearing to win. There is a difference.

Posted by Andrea M. at October 27, 2004 09:48 AM

emphasis on the quotation marks in "steal elections." Translation...Dems hate losing fair and square. If they lose, they cry foul. Victim mentality permeates that party from the ground up. If Bush wins, I predict plenty of Dems crying foul...some legitimately, most of it illegitimately. Still, no one stole any election. That damn Constitution got in the way of Democrats plans. Boo hoo.

Posted by Adam at October 27, 2004 02:09 PM

I've run into several progressives that ask, ?Why should we bother when it is obvious that the
Republicans are determined to do whatever they can to win this election including
lying,cheating and stealing (i.e. Florida 2000,Nevada Registration scandal,ect.)"
Well here's how I answer. Of the 129,549,000 registered voters in 2000, 110,826,000 actually showed
up to vote. That leaves 18,723,000 that were registered but that did not
bother to vote. Oddly enough, of those registered non-voters, registered
democrats generally outnumbered registered republicans two to one. (that's
66% registered democrats) That comes out to be 12,357,180 registered
democrats who did not feel that there was any reason for them to vote in
the 2000 election, an election that was resolved by less that 400 votes in
Florida.
By some estimates the republicans were successful in physically
disenfranchising some 1 million votes in the last election. If just half of
those registered dems who didn't vote in 2000 actually get off their butts
and vote this time, the republicans will need to figure out how to
disenfranchise another 6,178,590 votes this time around. A tall order in an
election were many of the highly contested polling places in swing states
will be monitored by at least one of the three volunteer nonpartisan poll
monitor agencies that have sprung up in the last year, that include a host
of volunteer lawyers & computer scientist. Not to mention the Democratic
National Committee, who emboldened by record donations of $100 dollars or
less to their coffers have been able to saturate swing states with teams of
legal support should voting discrepancies arise.
Don't give up yet, there is definitely a reason to bother with this
election!
The Republican National Committee:
Hiring security guards to pose as police and immigration officials at
polling areas in poor neighborhoods
to ward off potential democratic voters:
$2,000,000
Contracting an organization sadistically called "Voters Outreach of
America" to register thousands of democrats and
then throw their registration forms away:
$1,500,000
Disheartening and demoralizing the democratic base with your dirty tricks
and rigged polls* that showPresident Bush winning, so that 12,357,180
registered democrats don't bother to vote
PRICELESS
(sorry for the damn mastercard parody, but it had to be done by somebody)
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1309994,00.html

Source:
http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/p20-542.pdf

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Posted by johnpaxton at October 28, 2004 08:48 PM
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