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Originally posted by sgtclub
As you would have noticed had you clicked the link, #1 is on the website.
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Apologies. I've clicked the link now and reviewed the document as a whole. Do you have a problem with preventing voter fraud? And, if you're in a jurisdiction where the voting is expected to be close but all election apparatus is controlled by the other side, wouldn't you want to create awareness on this issue? From the link we have learned:
THE REPUBLICAN RECORD ON VOTER INTIMIDATION - THIS YEAR ALONE
Yesterday
Reports surfaced in Nevada, Oregon and potentially other states of the RNC paying half a million dollars to a company who was ripping up democratic voter registration forms. These activities are currently under investigation.
Last week
A former Republican Party executive filed a bogus lawsuit, which was dismissed, trying to knock 17,000 Democratic voters off the voter rolls in Nevada. He told the Las Vegas Review Journal – "I am looking to take Democrats off the voter rolls."
July
Republican official John Pappageorge told the Detroit Free Press, "If we do not suppress the Detroit vote we’re going to have a tough time in this election cycle."
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What is so incidious is that they are mapping out a strategy to claim voter intimidation even if none exists.
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Step (i) under Section II. (2) (hey, this is a pretty long document containing a lot of issues not addressed by drudge) calls for:
"Reviewing Republican tactic used in the past in your area or state"
If the Republicans haven't used any voter intimidation tactics in the past, the rest of the steps don't really mean anything. If the Rs don't want to see memoranda like this in the future, they should intimidate fewer voters, particularly those from readily identifiable ethnic groups.
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The other curious thing is that they use the word "yet" as if it's inevitable. This coupled with the not so quiet stoking of the myth of black disenfranchisement is WAY out of bounds. It is absolutely reprehensible.
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Catch up on your reading. You may have to go outside Posner to understand why African Americans feel so threatened.
