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http://www.alternet.org/3-ways-gop-has-already-disenfranchised-thousands-swing-state-voters3 Ways the GOP Has Already Disenfranchised Thousands of Swing-State Voters
Some of the GOP's tactics can be reversed. But not all of them.
September 10, 2012
The Republican Partys war on Democratic voting blocks is like a game of three-dimensional chess in which their strategies are intended to remain dormant until Election Day, and in the following days when votes are officially counted.
But their game plan is simple. They want to discourage voters by complicating every step for new and existing voters from specific blue cohorts, such as students, poor people and minorities. Theyve adopted new laws or rules that target pathways surrounding polling place voting, while keeping voting by maila longtime GOP strategyfree from similar rules. And they are spreading fears that there will be vastly more policing of the process to scare away voters, when in reality thats not likely to be the case.
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1. Criminalize Voter Registration Drives
This strategy can best be seen insurpriseFlorida. According to a new report by Project Vote, at least 23 states have new rules for groups that conduct voter registration drives. The strictest of these require volunteers to undergo state trainings, set tight timetables for turning in registration applications and ban paying field workers based on the number of registrations filed. These kinds of new rules target groups like Project Vote , which once assisted low-income advocates such as ACORN in its drives.
Floridas voter registration restrictions, which went into effect July 2011 and stayed in effect until this June (when they were thrown out by a federal court) also had big fines for any mistakes made with registration forms. A recent New York Times report noted that groups that previously registered voters in Florida, such as the League of Women Voters, Rock the Vote and Florida Public Interest Research Group (PIRG), stopped while the law was in effect. Compared to this period a year before the 2008 election, Florida has 250,000 fewer new Democratic registrants, the Times said.
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Alternet: Three Ways GOP is Cheating in Swing States (Original Post)
Hissyspit
Sep 2012
OP
The only way the GOP can win elections is to keep large numbers of people from voting.
liberal N proud
Sep 2012
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liberal N proud
(60,332 posts)1. The only way the GOP can win elections is to keep large numbers of people from voting.
Iggy
(1,418 posts)2. And......?
WHAT is the democratic party/DNC doing about this? anything?
Bandit
(21,475 posts)3. The Justice Dept took it to court and got it stopped
What else would you suggest they do?
ananda
(28,834 posts)4. But not all of it.
nt
nc4bo
(17,651 posts)5. I can think of 3 more.....
4. Voter ID Laws
5. Widespread, unnecessary voter purges of voting blocs.
6. Limiting voting hours, eliminating early voting and relocating or completely removing typical polling places.
It's obvious what they are doing and should be illegal as all hell as should tampering with the vote.