It's about the supression, stupid!

[TeyshaBlue]

Not on thinkprogress
Bridgeport State Rep. Christina Ayala arrested on 19 voting fraud charges

http://www.nhregister.com/government...-fraud-charges


:facepalm

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More Repug voter suppression
Need an ID to vote? Sorry, your DMV office is closed.




If you need an ID to vote in Wisconsin you may be out of luck depending on where you live.While thirty-five Democratic lawmakers have been pleading for the governor to extend hours at DMV offices across the state, Governor Walker has stated:

"I think you're gonna hear a lot of talk about it, but in the end, we've actually seen fewer people seeking free ID's recently than we've seen in the past couple years.
There's no barrier. That's a lot of hype and hysteria by some on the left."

Governor Walker, that is not hype. Across 40 counties there are DMV service centers that are only open two days a week or less. That is sixty percent of the state DMV locations only being open a handful of days before the election.

Assemblyman Andy Jorgenson (D-Milton) has stated:

If Wisconsin doesn’t offer DMV service hours that make sense for its citizens, in effect, it will be stripping thousands of people of their right to vote.

Wisconsin only has one DMV office for every 689 square miles—extending the hours now is not about hype, it is not about partisanship. It is about making sure every eligible voter in Wisconsin has the ability to cast a vote.

Scott Walker has proven time and again that he does not care for the people of Wisconsin, if he did, he would extend the operating hours of the DMV to ensure that every citizen who wants an ID can get an ID.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/1...28Daily+Kos%29

Repugs, they're nasty mother ers

[Wild Cobra]

Why are liberals/democrats/progressives such crybabies?

[SnakeBoy]

Repugs, they're nasty mother ers

Democrats, too stupid to figure out how to get an ID.

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bubbas, right-wingers, tea baggers, too stupid to know they're being played by right-wing oligarchs.

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Appeals court says Wisconsin voter ID law is cons utional

“Both the prevention of voter impersonation on election day and the preservation of public confidence in the integrity of elections justify a photo ID requirement,” the judges said in their 23-page ruling.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/appeals-court-says-wisconsin-voter-id-law-cons utional/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaig n=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29

ing judges, buying the VRWC/ALEC/Repug propaganda!

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off shill no one ever reads your links

[Nbadan]

bubbas, right-wingers, tea baggers, too stupid to know they're being played by right-wing oligarchs.

If your poor, in other words, working-poor, and your in a red state and you vote GOP

at you!!

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If your poor, in other words, working-poor, and your in a red state and you vote GOP

That's the genius of the Repugs, getting low-info, low-wage racist WHITE MEN to vote against their own best interests REPEATEDLY, plus positioning the Repugs as the Christian party. ALL LIES!

God, guns, gays, feminazis, furriners, abortion, blacks, browns: the red staters fall for it every time, and get ed by Repugs every time.

The most beautiful example was dubya in 2004 running as the war president, saving America from terrorists and gays, then after the election he on his risible, FAILED national sales tour to privatize Social Security so Wall St could loot SS.

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Voter-ID ruling to carry consequences in Wisconsin

A federal court in April ruled against Wisconsin’s voter-ID law, concluding that the restriction violated the Voting Rights Act’s ban on racial discrimination. Last month, however, a three-judge panel on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals – featuring three Republican-appointed jurists – lifted the lower court’s injunction, creating some election chaos in the Badger State.

Yesterday, as Zach Roth reported, the same 7th Circuit panel finished the job, ruling on the merits.

The 23-page ruling, written by Judge Frank Easterbrook, finds that the law is cons utional and does not violate the Voting Rights Act’s (VRA) ban on racial discrimination. The opinion is striking for its blithe tone in upholding a law that could disenfranchise many thousands. One prominent election law scholar called it “horrendous.” […]

The law has likely disenfranchised voters already. When the appeals panel abruptly put the law into effect last month after it had been blocked for over two years, hundreds of people had already returned absentee ballots without ID, since the ID requirement wasn’t in effect at the time they voted.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has also already approved the voting restrictions, concluding that “voter fraud” is a legitimate “concern.” The ruling specifically pointed to a Republican voter in Milwaukee accused of 13 counts of voter fraud – none of which, ironically, would have been prevented by a voter-ID law.

In April, when District court judge Lynn Adelman issued an injunction against the law, he estimated that 300,000 registered voters across the state lack the IDs they need to vote. The judge arrived at that estimate by comparing the testimony of two witnesses, a statistical marketing consultant, Leland Beatty, and a professor at the University of Georgia, M.V. Hood III. Beatty and Hood both crunched through the DMV records with registered voter files to determine how many registered voters in the state lack either a driver’s license or state ID card, the two most common forms of identification. Using different methodologies, the two men produced different estimates. Hood said between 4.9 percent (167,351) and 10.9 percent (368,824) of registered voters lacked ID, while Beatty estimated 9.4 percent (317,735).

Even Hood’s low-end estimate of 167,351 disenfranchised voters is enough voters to swing a tight election. Walker won in 2010 by only 124,638 votes. According to the Huffington Post Pollster, Walker is currently leading Burke 48.3 to 46.3.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-s...nces-wisconsin

Repug judges CHANGED THE VOTING RULES AFTER mail-in voting had begun.

WI Repug legislature REFUSED all funds to educate people about the Voter ID requirement, to make sure Repug voter suppression was most effective.

Walker is a Kock-sucking puppet. His WI job creation he promised is actually way below the national average, proving once again that Repugs lie that cutting taxes does nothing for job creation and economic growth, we saw 2001 - 2008.

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Six States Where GOP Voter Suppression Tactics Could Sway The Outcome

1. Ohio.

Last week, one day before early voting was to begin, the U.S. Supreme Court, voted 5-4 along its usual divide to uphold a cut in the early voting pushed by that state’s Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted. While Ohio still has 28 days of early voting, its Republicans have long groused that on the very first weekend of that option Ohians could both register to vote—and cast ballots. That friendly window was closed by Ohio Republicans and locked shut by Supreme Court’s conservative majority, all appointed by Republican presidents.

2. Kansas.

As most political junkies know, a half-dozen of 2014’s U.S. Senate races were already nail-biters over whether Democrats would lose their Senate majority before something surprising happened in Kansas. The Democrat in the race, Chad Taylor, dropped out, boosting Independent Greg Orman against in bent Republican Sen. Pat Roberts. In response, the state’s partisan Republican Secretary of State, Kris Kobach, went to court to force Democrats to name another candidate. A state court told Kobach to back off.

3. North Carolina.

This state had some of the South’s most progressive election laws until rightwingers took control of the Legislature and governor’s office and this year rolled back the clock on voting rights. Those moves have been tied up in court, with a federal appeals court suspending two of the more insidious changes: ending same-day voter registration, and not counting ballots turned in at the wrong precinct, which could just be a different table in a high school gym. Late Wednesday afternoon, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled the Fourth Circuit's decision, meaning the GOP's new and restrictive rules will be in effect this fall.

4. Wisconsin.

There are a handful of states where Republicans have used the myth of rampant voter fraud—one person voting many times—to impose tougher statewide ID requirements before getting a polling place ballot. Nevermind that this almost never happens, and if it does, whoever initials a poll book to get a ballot has essentially signed a confession for the cops. This tactic is intended to deter first-time voters, like students and poorer people, from voting, as they're seen by Republicans as supporting Democrats.

In Wisconsin, where the union-busting Republican Gov. Scott Walker is seeking a second term, the GOP has narrowed what forms of ID can be used to get a ballot. Voting rights groups have sued to block that, but a federal appeals court just deadlocked on whether to reconsider an earlier ruling that left the tougher ID law in place. That has pushed voting rights advocates to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene. Its response is expected any day now.

5. Arkansas.

This is another state seen as determining whether the U.S. Senate will be held by Democrats or Republicans for the last two years of Obama’s presidency. Here, too, the GOP-controlled state govermment imposed tougher voter ID standards, which were put on hold by a trial court. That state’s Supreme Court recently heard arguments over whether suspending the new law was proper.

6. Texas.

While Texas is not seen as affecting the national political landscape in 2014, Republicans in that state also toughened voter ID requirements. Texas has a very contentious governor’s race, where Democratic state Sen. Wendy Davis, known for trying to stop a major anti-abortion bill that passed, is challenging the rightwing Republican Attorney General Greg Abbott.

http://www.alternet.org/election-201...age=1#bookmark

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Judge blocks Texas voter ID law


A federal judge in Texas has ruled that a stricter voter ID law passed by the state legislature violates the federal Voting Rights Act and is uncons utional.

"Evidence in the record demonstrates that proponents of SB 14 within the 82nd Texas Legislature were motivated, at the very least in part, because of and not merely in spite of the voter ID law’s detrimental effects on the African-American and Hispanic electorate. As such, SB 14 violates the VRA as well as the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Unite[d] States Cons ution," U.S. District Court Judge Nelva Gonzales-Ramos wrote in a 147-page opinion released Thursday evening and posted here.

"Under the injunction to be entered barring enforcement of SB 14’s voter identification provisions, Texas shall return to enforcing the voter identification requirements for in-person voting in effect immediately prior to the enactment and implementation of SB 14," wrote Gonzales-Ramos, an Obama appointee.

Civil rights groups and the Justice Department argued during a recent trial that the enhanced voter-ID rules in the law made it harder for minorities to vote and that requiring voters to get acceptable ID amounted to a poll tax.

The Texas Attorney General's office plans to appeal the decision.

"The State of Texas will immediately appeal and will urge the Fifth Circuit to resolve this matter quickly to avoid voter confusion in the upcoming election," Lauren Bean, Deputy Communications Director said in a statement. "The U.S. Supreme Court has already ruled that voter ID laws are cons utional so we are confident the Texas law will be upheld on appeal."

http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-...865.html?hp=l6

the 5th circuit, packed ROTTEN with Repug hack judges, will allow voter suppression.

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About 42,000 voter registration/application forms, filled out, missing in .... Georgia!

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Voter Fraud EVERYWHERE! The sanc y of voting DESECRATED!

Colorado reporter fact-checks Megyn Kelly: No, you can’t print ballots from home

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/c...ots-from-home/

Fox es: Pretty Poison

[Winehole23]

Why are liberals/democrats/progressives such crybabies?

over the right to vote? one wonders why.

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"Why are liberals/democrats/progressives such crybabies?"

Why are Repugs so insistent in suppressing non-existent voter fraud?

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Fox es pushing voter fraud to their ignorant viewers

Rachel Maddow rips Fox News’ Megyn Kelly for made-up Colorado vote fraud ‘scandal’

Friday night, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow took Fox News Channel anchor Megyn Kelly to task for a deeply inaccurate story Kelly ran on Tuesday alleging that Democrats in Colorado are stealing the 2014 election by allowing people to print their ballots at home and hand them over to political operatives.

Mediaite reported that on Tuesday, Kelly breathlessly reported on “a new law” in Colorado that would allow Democrats to sway “a critical Senate race” because it “literally allows residents to print ballots from their home computers, then encourages them to turn ballots over to collectors.”

According to Maddow, the only people who can print their ballots on home computers and mail them in are active duty military personnel who are stationed abroad. This option is available to service personnel from all 50 states.

For whatever reasons, though, said Maddow, “Fox has now decided that in the state of Colorado, that’s terrifying, even if it doesn’t terrify them anywhere else in the country.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/r...e+Raw+Story%29

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Six of the most unbelievable Republican statements about voter suppression




You would think that making it easier for citizens to vote would be something for everyone in a democracy to celebrate. But the shocking remarks by these six government officials — some of whom will be on the November ballot — tell a different story.

Governor Chris Christie: Same-Day Voter Registration Is a “Trick” and GOP Needs to Win Gubernatorial Races So They Control “Voting Mechanisms”

Earlier this week, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie spoke at a US Chamber of Commerce gathering in Washington, DC. In his comments, The Record reports that Christie“pushed further into the contentious debate over voting rights than ever before, saying Tuesday that Republicans need to win gubernatorial races this year so that they’re the ones controlling ‘voting mechanisms’ going into the next presidential election.”

This isn’t the first time Christie’s come clean about GOP intentions at the ballot box. In August, while campaigning in Chicago for Bruce Rauner, the GOP candidate challenging Gov. Pat Quinn, Christie complained that Illinois would become the 11th state to permit same-day voter registration this November — a move supporters say will increase turnout and improve access. Christie didn’t see it that way, calling it an underhanded Democratic get-out-the-vote tactic. Christie said of Quinn: “I see the stuff that’s going on. Same-day registration all of a sudden this year comes to Illinois. Shocking,” he added sarcastically. “I’m sure it was all based upon public policy, good public policy to get same-day registration here in Illinois just this year, when the governor is in the toilet and needs as much help as he can get.” He added that the voter registration program is designed to be a major “obstacle” for Republican gubernatorial candidates.

Fran Millar: Georgia Senator Complains About Polling Place Being Too Convenient for Black Voters

Georgia state Senator Fran Millar (R-Dunwoody) wrote an angry op-ed following the news that DeKalb County, part of which he represents, will permit early voting on the last Sunday in October. The voting will take place at the Gallery at South DeKalb mall. Here’s what Millar wrote in The Atlanta-Journal Cons ution: “[T]his location is dominated by African-American shoppers and it is near several large African-American mega churches such as New Birth Missionary Baptist… Is it possible church buses will be used to transport people directly to the mall since the poll will open when the mall opens? If this happens, so much for the accepted principle of separation of church and state.” Millar, who is senior deputy whip for the Georgia Senate Republicans, promised to put an end to Sunday balloting in DeKalb County when state lawmakers assemble in the Capitol in January.

Doug Preis: An Ohio GOP Chair Says We Shouldn’t Accommodate the “Urban — Read African-American — Voter-Turnout Machine”

In 2012, Republican officials in Ohio were limiting early voting hours in Democratic-majority counties, while expanding them on nights and weekends in Republican counties. In response to public outcry, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted mandated the same early voting hours in all 88 Ohio counties. He kept early voting hours from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays from October 2 to 19 and broadened hours from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. from October 22 to November 2. But he refused to expand voting hours beyond 7 p.m. during the week, on weekends or three days prior to the election — which is when voting is most convenient for many working-class Ohioans. Here’s what the Franklin Party (Columbus) Ohio GOP chair, Doug Preis, and close adviser to Ohio Gov. John Kasich, said about limiting early voting. “I guess I really actually feel we shouldn’t contort the voting process to accommodate the urban — read African-American — voter-turnout machine.” (And yes, he actually said “read African-American,” that wasn’t inserted.)

Greg Abbott: Texas AG Says Partisan Districting Decisions Are Legal, Even if There Are “Incidental Effects” on Minority Voters

The 2010 Census results showed that 89 percent of the population growth in Texas came from minorities, but “when it came to fitting those new seats in the map, Republican lawmakers made sure three of them favored Republicans, who tend to be white,” according to the Associated Press. The Justice Department claims that Texas lawmakers intentionally redrew the state’s congressional districts in order to dilute the Hispanic vote. Attorney General Greg Abbott, who is running for governor of Texas, wrote the following in a letter to the Department of Justice defending the state’s voting maps:

“DOJ’s accusations of racial discrimination are baseless. In 2011, both houses of the Texas Legislature were controlled by large Republican majorities, and their redistricting decisions were designed to increase the Republican Party’s electoral prospects at the expense of the Democrats. It is perfectly cons utional for a Republican-controlled legislature to make partisan districting decisions, even if there are incidental effects on minority voters who support Democratic candidates.”

Ted Yoho: Only Property Owners Should Vote

While running for a Florida congressional seat in 2012, Ted Yoho suggested that only property owners should have the right to vote, as you can watch in this video. Here’s what he said: “I’ve had some radical ideas about voting and it’s probably not a good time to tell them, but you used to have to be a property owner to vote.” He also called early voting by absentee ballots “a travesty.” And yes, Yoho won the election, and is now a member of Congress.

Don Yelton: North Carolina GOP Precinct Chair: Voter ID Law Will “Kick Democrats in the Butt” and Hurt “Lazy Blacks”

In an interview last year with The Daily Show, Don Yelton, a GOP precinct chair in Buncombe County, North Carolina, defended the state’s new voter ID law, saying so many offensive things, he was asked to resign the day after it aired. Yelton admits at the start of the segment that the number of Buncombe County residents who commit voter fraud is one or two out of 60,000 a year. The interview correspondent, Aasif Mandvi, replies that those numbers show “there’s enough voter fraud to sway zero elections,” and then Yelton replies, “Mmmm…that’s not the point.” He goes on to say that “if it hurts a bunch of lazy blacks that want the government to give them everything, so be it.” and then adds, “The law is going to kick the Democrats in the butt.” After the segment aired, the Buncombe County GOP Chair issued a statement on Yelton’s comments, calling them “offensive, uniformed and unacceptable of any member within the Republican Party” and called for Yelton’s resignation. He obliged.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/s...r-suppression/

"Repugs aren't racsist" and "Voter fraud is a huge problem, violating the SANC Y of democracy"

[angrydude]

Putting Boutons on ignore was the best decision I ever made.

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Putting Boutons on ignore was the best decision I ever made.

yep, if you chicken s can't stand the heat ...

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Judge offers BS reasons for refusing to rule on 40,000 missing voter registrations in Georgia


In a Tuesday decision called "outrageous" by one leading voter advocate, Superior Court Judge Christopher Brasher of Fulton County denied a pe ion demanding that the Georgia secretary of state process 40,000 voter registrations missing from a public database. Alice Ollstein reports:

Though early voting is well underway in the state, Judge Brasher called the lawsuit “premature,” and said it was based on “merely set out su ions and fears that the [state officials] will fail to carry out their mandatory duties.”

Angela Aldridge, an organizer with the group 9 to 5 Atlanta Working Women who has been working to register voters for several months, told ThinkProgress she was “furious” when she learned of the outcome: “That impedes people’s rights,” she said. “People need information before they go out to vote and they don’t even know if they’re registered or not. They were discouraged, upset, kind of frazzled, not really knowing what was going on. What can you even say to people who want to vote but possibly can’t? They might get disengaged and say, ‘Why vote? It doesn’t matter.’ It’s really disheartening.”

Those missing 40,000 voter registrations represent 1.5 percent of the Georgians who voted in 2010. So, if it turns out the missing registrations don't get processed and some losing candidates come forward after the election to say they might have won had the registrations been processed, what can be done to fix things? Nothing. Because there are no election do-overs. This might not only affect some obscure down-ballot candidates. After all, Democrat Mic e Nunn and Republican David Perdue are in a tight race for the Senate seat of retiring Sen. Saxby Chambliss.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/28/1339861/-Judge-offers-BS-reasons-for-refusing-to-rule-on-40-000-missing-voter-registrations-in-Georgia?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_ campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos%29

[TeyshaBlue]

yep, if you chicken s can't stand the heat ...

Cant stand the ing spam.

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Cant stand the ing spam.

TOO-HOT BUTTERED SPAM! EAT IT!

[RandomGuy]

Not on thinkprogress
Bridgeport State Rep. Christina Ayala arrested on 19 voting fraud charges

http://www.nhregister.com/government...-fraud-charges


:facepalm

Ah, the ever present wide-spread in person voter fraud.

How many people are being indicted in this huge conspiracy to affect elections? Any candidates having their elections annulled?

I want deets.

[tlongII]

What the 's the big deal about requiring ID to vote anyway? It makes sense to me.