http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/board-auth.cgi?file=/1954/73758.html

This story may need to be sourced a bit more.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/5/5/141313/9290/18/509493

Good point about using sources, which weakens my post because I'm just adding "I read somewheres." But I DID read somewhere that there's been very little evidence of voter fraud taking place by individual voters (despite the occasional Republican claim of Democrats "busing people in.") The greater threat is from the system itself, such as Diebold machines and, oh, hanging chads.

I hope people protecting us from voter fraud are looking into THAT, as well.

Funny, because every time there are problems with counting votes, such as in New York, California and New Hampshire, they always seem to reflect upon votes that would be cast for Barack Obama. Is that a coincidence?

No.

Voter suppression is best when under the guise of the law: State IDs, sounds fair, except most without IDs are AAs, disabled or senior. Robocalls seeming to advocate voting, confusing voter on location, rules (no felons), registration. Returned to sender caging mailings to "purify" voter rolls, except they target AA communities largely. Enforcing voter fraud laws so flimsy even GOP US Attorney "A Few Good Men" David wouldnt prosecute- to scare away voters.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/003945.php

David lost his job in the attorney scandal largely due to this, replaced by the author of the GOP caging strategy himself and wholly inexperienced, who stepped down weeks later when it became public

My bet is that this is more of the same. This purge will go that extra mile in and student communities. Any takers?

Glad you agree. I would differ only in that dissent is healthy to overturn the rules in the future. Some "legal" suppression issues can be dealt with even before the general. Illegal ones can be dealt with as well, but your reps arent helping, two weeks ago they decided paper ballots werent necessary. This shouldnt be a biased issue! I want more info on reported illegalities in Tx caucuses too. Why do you sound more outraged about straw man hypocrisies than vote stealing?

PS- Florida will be seated.

It didn't suppress the vote in Ohio - record turnout for the primary.

I have been horrified, though not astonished, at the complete lack of attention the MSM has given the Supreme Court ruling of late April that effectively sanctioned voter registration bias in Indiana. So I anticipated this article, if not the numbers cited, which fill me with despair.

Voter registration fraud is a clear and present danger. As are rigged voting machines and other forms of election result manipulation. If you are skeptical, then please read RFK, Jr.'s June 2006, 5-page, thoroughly footnoted article on the subject in the archives of Rolling Stone.
And I offer a personal eyewitness testimonial. Three months into the aftermath of Hurricane Ivan (which devastated Pensacola in August '04, a year before Katrina made hurricane damage ongoing national news) the local election commission offered a special "courtesy" to the population: we were invited to vote early, over a two-day period, if we were willing to vote at the court house. Many, many people showed up in the hope that the process would be more professionally and efficiently run than it tended to be in neighborhood polling places. What a surprise, then, to discover that the voting was being done on the 4th floor, although the elevators were mysteriously "out of order." In blistering heat, nonetheless, slow lines inched up the firestair wells, in which there was not a breath of air. Predictably, the elderly and the infirm began to wilt; they, as well as people on a tight work schedule (many of whom were black) began to waver and then, regretfully, give up. But there was more; on the fourth floor, there were more delays. Voter registration verification was being handled by well-known local GOP officials, who were rejecting IDs, faulting addresses, etc.. Curiously, many of the rejectees were black. College students were having problems. I (a female WASP) was greeted with a smile -- they must have assumed I was a Republican -- until I submitted my own voter registration card that marked me as a Democrat and then upped the ante by asking for verification that my husband's absentee ballot had been received and counted. No record of it could be found, although he had mailed it from his extended project in Europe well in advance. Finally it was my turn to vote. Oops. The machine to which I had been directed was "down." I was invited to go to the end of the line for the machine that was working. Eight hours after I arrived at the courthouse I left, wondering how many votes for John Kerry had been lost or subverted that day. Did I mention that a TV was on in the voting room that was tuned into Fox?
All this makes me wonder what the margin of victory will be for HRC today, versus what result would have been tallied for all the people who wanted to vote Obama?