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[madfloridian]

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[BeFree]

1. Gee....

...do you think Robert F Kennedy's name will be brought up? Or will there be a silent hush if it is?

If they were smart, they'd come out with a statement saying that they wholly support the efforts of the son of one of the best democrats ever, in his quest to protect America's vote.

Ya think they is smart enuf?

[madfloridian]

2. I deleted it.

I don't think anything they do there will matter or please anyone.
And if someone else is willing to post it and take their lumps, fine, but not me.

[BeFree]

3. Here's what Dean said

Governor Dean at the Voting Rights Summit
Posted by Tracy Russo on June 20, 2006 at 07:18 PM

Governor Dean spoke this afternoon at the Voting Rights Summit. He opened by talking about the Democratic Party’s efforts, here in Washington, and in the states, to fight legislation that would require voters to produce photo IDs in order to vote, specifically mentioning the Indiana Democratic Party’s challenge to their state’s new photo identification law. He said the laws are aimed at “voter suppression” and are not about protecting Democracy or preventing fraud.

The Governor then went on to talk about voting machines saying, “We are also going to talk about the machines. I don’t think these machines work. If they do work, the public has no way to verify that they work, and I don’t understand why people in Washington aren’t more concerned. I believe that these things can not be relied on and we do need to spend time and energy on this.”

Governor Dean also praised the efforts of the National Democratic Lawyers Council and the work that they have done. The Lawyers Council is a national organization which is working to recruit local attorneys who can assist in election protection efforts – one example the Governor gave, “During the Virginia elections in 2005 we had an irregularity and we were able to get to the clerks who were running the election and fix the problem on the spot. We have that capability and it matters.”

Yet he cautioned that it isn’t just technical problems that Democrats have to be wary of, but old hat tactics that hope to intimidate voters at the polls, or challenge an individual's right to vote. He gave the example of Dartmouth College students in New Hampshire who were denied their right to vote by a single town clerk who decided registering with their college addresses was unacceptable and who were then challenged by poll watchers on Election Day, infringing on the voting process. “Often it is race based,” he said, “but we know there are two groups that are challenged more often than others – African Americans and people under 45 – all people under 45.”

Governor Dean closed his remarks by saying, “This is a really huge issue, because it’s not about the future of the Democratic Party, but the future of a Democracy that has been the greatest Democracy for 200 years. When you begin to believe winning is more important than America, you have hurt your country, and we can’t have that – we want to make sure that America is always first.”http://www.d


http://www.democrats.org/a/2006/06/governor_dean_a_3.php