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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
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?
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Of course I don't have a problem with preventing voter fraud. But this goes far beyond that. It is dirty politics of the lowest variety, and I can't believe you are defending this.
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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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I note there are no links substantiating these claims, much like there was nothing to substantiate the claims of intimidation in Florida. That said, I have heard that some of this is going on on both sides, and that is extremely unfortunate and should be stopped immediately and the guilty should be thrown in jail to rot. But the mere fact that the site leads with this stuff is evidence that they've been caught red-handed and are now in spin mode.
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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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I have no problem with part 1. It's part 2 that is offensive.
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Catch up on your reading. You may have to go outside Posner to understand why African Americans feel so threatened.
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This is not 1960. It is 2004. The major reason why they feel threatened is because the DEMs have been stroking the unsubstantiated claim of voter intimidation from 2004. There was a complete justice department investigation of this right after the 2004 election. They found NO EVIDENCE of voter intimidation or suppression. But facts don't matter in this country anymore. We have truly become a nation of spin.
