What is happening in Arkansas re Holder/Lincoln voting? This

[monmouth]

really disturbs me that voters are losing 40 voting places and are down to two, in favored Holder territory no less. Have election officials been notified,have Feds been advised, any news. Lincoln is desperate but this is such an obvious attempt to election fraud and so transparent. Any news would be appreciated.

[Bryn]

1. I live in Garland County here in Arkansas where 42 got reduced to 2

I am so pissed off. I checked online where I am registered to vote at my regular voting place and got sent to one of two locations here in Hot Springs, AR. Bill Halter is very popular in this county. I am sure the line is going to be so long! Two voting places for Hot Springs vs 42 places normally. Someone fixed this...

[newspeak]

7. That is absolutely outrageous!!!!

I just can't believe some of the political shenanigans and dirt in this country. Unfekking believable. Are we a Banana Republic yet?

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

2. Sure Arkansas will some seats, but it will lose a DINO n/t

[sinkingfeeling]

3. They ran the polling places in the newspaper here last week. Saw no reduction in voting places in

NW Arkansas.

[Bryn]

4. Here's the link

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/6/6/873529/-Halter-voters-being-denied-their-vote

Halter voters being denied their vote

by Forrest Brown

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The newest Daily Kos-Research 2000 poll shows Bill Halter up 49-45 on Blanche Lincoln. But, as Dkos user jsamuel explained, a major local election official is making it harder for Halter supporters to vote.

Garland County is the most populous county Bill Halter won 3 weeks ago, and could be key to his run-off victory this Tuesday. But election commissioner Charles Tapp reduced the number of polling places from 42 to 2.

Can you help fight back? We're working with Halter's campaign to call thousands of Garland County voters to tell them when/where they can vote -- and we're pumping up turnout in other parts of the state to make up for any lost votes.

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Progressive blog Blue Arkansas writes:

Make no mistake, this is by design.

Remember how rural voters broke so heavily for Halter in the primary? Well now those same rural voters have to travel miles across a mountain range to get to town on a weekday to cast their vote, and Tapp ran away when he was asked about what this would do to disenfranchise minorities. How painfully obvious can this get?

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One of comments below:

Either we fix this corruption or democracy dies

If Blanche Lincoln is allowed to essentially rig a Senate primary in her favor, then forget about the "better" part of electing more Democrats.

Don't kid yourself, this is a watershed moment. If Lincoln wins this, every other corrupt incumbent politician facing a primary will simply turn on the party machine and bribe everyone they need to survive.

It should be ILLEGAL for a political party chairman to also control the electoral voting process. If this is allowed to stand, if the law isn't changed as soon as possible, across all states and counties, then democracy in this nation is on life support, and the corrupt will entrench their power.

How long do you think corporations like BP will be held accountable if they can simply buy a unacountable Senator?

by Norm in Chicago on Sun Jun 06, 2010 at 07:46:09 PM PDT

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This is about Garland County located in Hot Springs, Arkansas where they have cut down from 42 voting places to 2. It's a big place here. (Hot Springs is boyhood home of Bill Clinton and where Bill Halter is very popular.)

[Bryn]

5. By the way it's Halter, not Holder

:hi:

[monmouth]

6. Ooooh, my bad. Thanks...n/t