Wed Jun 27, 2012, 07:20 AM

Scurrilous (24,740 posts)

State (FL) moves to block voter-registration group

State officials are considering ways to stop a Washington nonprofit from sending any more registration forms to voters

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"By their own estimate, officials with a Washington nonprofit have registered 200,000 voters in Florida the past eight years.

This year, the same group, the Voter Participation Center, has mailed another 420,000 registration forms to residents hoping to enlist more.

But state officials are considering ways to stop the center from sending any more registration forms, which the state calls confusing.

“We have contacted the organization, expressed our very serious concern that they are misleading voters, offered to provide them the complaints sent to the department about their mailings, and asked that they make a concerted effort to improve their lists so that only eligible voters who aren’t registered are being contacted,” Chris Cate, a spokesman for the Secretary of State’s office said in an email to the Times.

The objections come as the state has made other moves to block greater access to the ballot box."

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/06/26/2869358/state-moves-to-block-voter-registration.html#storylink=cpy

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11 replies	Author	Time	Post
State (FL) moves to block voter-registration group (Original post)	Scurrilous	Jun 2012	OP
The GOP voter suppression efforts continue	Gothmog	Jun 2012	#1
Yep.	Scurrilous	Jun 2012	#9
I can't believe how blatant they are; you'd think they'd	babylonsister	Jun 2012	#2
They rule by plutocracy.	Baitball Blogger	Jun 2012	#7
Tell them to start mailing them to my state! Perry will never figure it out and Lord knows we need	Dustlawyer	Jun 2012	#3
Yes, we need to push that message continuously.	Auntie Bush	Jun 2012	#4
don't we have LAWS against voter suppression?	spanone	Jun 2012	#5
Steal, cheat, lie and distort	Iliyah	Jun 2012	#6
Gov Rick Scott is a valuable Republican. Once you commit Medicare fraud for corporate profit, voter	Overseas	Jun 2012	#8
Shameless, un-American,	Chorophyll	Jun 2012	#10
The confusion being complained about is bogus	Gothmog	Jun 2012	#11

Response to Scurrilous (Original post)

Wed Jun 27, 2012, 07:30 AM

Gothmog (4,526 posts)

1. The GOP voter suppression efforts continue

The GOP does not want people to vote and so they want to make it difficult for voters to register

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Response to Gothmog (Reply #1)

Wed Jun 27, 2012, 11:55 AM

Scurrilous (24,740 posts)

9. Yep.

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Wed Jun 27, 2012, 08:21 AM

babylonsister (144,376 posts)

2. I can't believe how blatant they are; you'd think they'd

want their residents to be able to vote. This totally disgusts me.

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Response to babylonsister (Reply #2)

Wed Jun 27, 2012, 10:11 AM

Baitball Blogger (11,657 posts)

7. They rule by plutocracy.

In my city they connected local government directly into a charitable organization which became a shell for illegal contacts between government and the right kind of people. This way they were able to throw up a smoke screen of confusion when people, who got screwed by their conspiracies, began to realize that their community leaders were selling them out.

THAT's how Republicans rule. By plutocracies. They want to connect with an elite group within the community who are essentially, corrupt. People who are willing to sell out their neighbors. If the Republicans get their way, the only ones who will have an American way of life are these crooked subgroups.

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Wed Jun 27, 2012, 08:40 AM

Dustlawyer (1,436 posts)

3. Tell them to start mailing them to my state! Perry will never figure it out and Lord knows we need

it. Rick Scott needs to be in jail. I keep having to check to see what year this is. This is something I thought we had left behind. I hope voters recognize that this is wrong and make the Republicans pay for being so UN-AMERICAN!

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Response to Dustlawyer (Reply #3)

Wed Jun 27, 2012, 09:03 AM

Auntie Bush (15,362 posts)

4. Yes, we need to push that message continuously.

ReThugs are un-American because they try to prevent people from voting which is the most Democratic thing we can do in America. Voter suppression is indeed an evil practice...and heads need to go to jail!

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Response to Scurrilous (Original post)

Wed Jun 27, 2012, 09:04 AM

spanone (72,278 posts)

5. don't we have LAWS against voter suppression?

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Wed Jun 27, 2012, 10:04 AM

Iliyah (2,504 posts)

6. Steal, cheat, lie and distort

repeat, steal, cheat, lie and distort, that is the GOP way. How Gawdly they are.

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Wed Jun 27, 2012, 10:20 AM

Overseas (10,889 posts)

8. Gov Rick Scott is a valuable Republican. Once you commit Medicare fraud for corporate profit, voter

disenfranchisement for the good of your party must seem like some kind of noble deed.

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Wed Jun 27, 2012, 12:01 PM

Chorophyll (5,042 posts)

10. Shameless, un-American,

and ultimately desperate. The GOP knows it's got nothing to offer, so it has to steal elections. The one bright spot is that the mainstream media is FINALLY covering this story. Took 'em long enough.

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Wed Jun 27, 2012, 03:15 PM

Gothmog (4,526 posts)

11. The confusion being complained about is bogus

Basically, the GOP is complaining that some people who are already registered may be getting forms to register again. So what. This happens all of the time.

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