SNAFU brewing in Florida
Pray for Democratic landslide or the Rep. lawyers will have a field day starting Nov 5th...
30 Florida counties won't follow state's voter ID suggestion
Florida's Broward and Miami-Dade counties have announced that they will buck the state's recommendations for handling voters flagged by the controversial Florida Voter Verification Law on election day, streamlining the process to require less paperwork from challenged voters.
30 Florida counties won't follow state's voter ID suggestion
Florida's Broward and Miami-Dade counties have announced that they will buck the state's recommendations for handling voters flagged by the controversial Florida Voter Verification Law on election day, streamlining the process to require less paperwork from challenged voters.
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I guess I don't understand what this means. Will it lead to less provisional votes being counted??
October 28, 2008 9:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
In intent it is a good thing - allowing more people to vote is always a good thing. as the practice of physical ballot box stuffing is a thing of the past. we have seen voting manipulation get far more sophisticated and largely more subtractive in the the last few cycles.
That is by successfully suppressing voting from certain segments rather than the additive strategy of using dead people, etc. The latter has succumbed to better tracking and comparisons of data which stops Mickey Mouse from voting (hence the relative inconsequence of the ACORN brouhaha).
Meanwhile the former flourishes as challenges to ID validity, address verification, etc work to disenfranchise 100s of 1000s of legal voters: usually affecting the less wealthy disproportionately as they don't own cars, move more often, don't have deed to property and are often recently registered voters.
Therefore, the decision of these FL counties to ignore a guideline from the Board of Elections is inviting a legal challenge - one that will certainly occur unless an Obama win is so overwhelming that it would have no possibility to change the result.
October 28, 2008 10:29 AM | Reply | Permalink
Open Letter To The Largest Law Firm In The World
Monday, 27 October 2008, 10:59 am
Opinion: Kyle Hence
AN OPEN LETTER to the largest law firm in the world -- on the eve of the biggest election of our lifetimes
Gentleman:
The world's largest 'law firm' just might have to contend with the largest ever effort to rig, fix, hack, manipulate, suppress and ultimately steal an election. You've got quite a challenge on your hands but you should know that there are millions and millions of people pulling for you; and also counting on you to be as vigilant, savvy and aggressive as you possibly can be within the confines of the law.
Best regards,
Kyle F. Hence
Velvet Revolution
Boynton Beach, FL
October 21, 2008
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October 21, 2008, 7:10 AM
The Richardson Report: How to Rig an Election, the 2008 Edition
As the Republicans target ACORN and try to boot registered voters off the rolls across the U.S., new information surfaces about the 2004 election. Also: Signs greed is dying.
By John H. Richardson
The Republicans Couldn't Steal the Election Again, Right? Right?
It could get ugly at the polls this November. Although experts agree that voter fraud is not a problem these days -- for what it's worth, the Justice Department convicts an average of eight people a year -- Republicans have been using the specter of voter fraud to ramp up their century-long campaign to suppress the votes of minorities, the young and the poor.
More: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0810/S00370.htm
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Good thing Obama very pro-actively formed "The Largest Law Firm In The Country", huh? I hope they're really on point in Florida - and elsewhere!
October 28, 2008 9:24 AM | Reply | Permalink