Republican dirty tricks at NC early voting place--Watch out!

[mnhtnbb]

In Chapel Hill, a Dem stronghold, a woman was asking people as they approached the voting center on Monday if they were registered Dems. (Kerry took the county by 66% in 04.) She was then handing out a list of "Dem judicial candidates." Judicial elections in NC are 'non-partisan'.
Only problem--the list was all Republicans!

Read the full story on how she was found out--and what it took for her to go away without giving her name to the media when she was confronted and finally admitted to the media that it was a list of Republican candidates.

http://www.newsobserver.com/703/story/505370.html


Beware of people handing out lists of endorsed candidates in non-partisan races!

[mmonk]

1. Yep. Read that this morning.

Anyone out there that has judicial races, make your list before you go to the polls. Tell like minded people to familiarize themselves with these races.

[Ian David]

2. If the woman had said she was a Republican...

I presume the list would have said, "These are Republican judges."

[Generic Other]

3. Someone should have called the cops

She should have been required to explain who gave her her marching orders. Somehow I have the feeling that Rove and his machine is VERY active in college Republican groups. After all, that's where he suckled on the milk of cold blooded lizards.

[mnhtnbb]

4. Is misrepresenting a list of candidates illegal? Or just typical lies/deceit?

[elehhhhna]

13. Temps. LOTS of temps in use by Reeps. Probably "in kind" donations from

temp company owners. These temps are being lied to and intentionally mistrained. They're being instructed to stand at the doors of polling places and worse. It's happening here in TX daily.

GOOD NEWS:

Once a 5.15 per hour (probably Dem) temp is told, kindly, that they're breaking the law and if they don't back off you "have instructions to call" the Sheriff/Cops/etc., they back off fast. So, GO TELL THEM. Kindly, please. They know not what they do. If they're snagged on a misdemeanor, the assignment will cost them more than they'll earn doing it. Help them out.

[SmokingJacket]

5. Campaigning at the polls is ILLEGAL, trickery or not.

I'm an election worker, and we have to tell people even to take of their **pins** before coming in to vote. (Maybe it's a state law -- anyway it's a good one.)

This is why we need poll watchers.

[Toots]

6. How about a pin saying "Grandmothers for Peace"?

Would you demand they take off that pin? or how about a "Support the Troops"? Are either of those considered political?

[SmokingJacket]

16. Nope -- but naming parties or candidates is.

I think it's a good rule.

[elehhhhna]

42. Where do you come UP with this Nazi Commie baloney? Sheesh!

:toast:

You rock, toots!

[Toots]

48. Actually there is a post in LBN about a grandmother being turned away

at the voting poll for wearing that button. :shrug: I'm not really that original

[mnhtnbb]

9. This was outside the polls--and originally discovered by an attorney

whose law partner is a NC State Representative! If he didn't call the cops (and there's no mention of it in the article) it's probably because what this woman was doing is not illegal--just deceitful.

[SmokingJacket]

19. We have a "campaign-free zone" about a hundred feet

from the entry to the polls. If you drive to vote, you're inside the zone when you get out of the car; it's meant to prevent this kind of shit from happening.

We have an official list of parties and candidates AT the polls, if people need it.

[SouthernBelle82]

36. Yep

Here in my district we always see people with campaigning a good bit aways from the polling place. I like the rule too because it keeps all people equal and to where the voters aren't intimidated or anything.

[holboz]

24. Yes, I thought electioneering at poll sites was illegal. At least in AR it is.

eom

[annabanana]

7. Watch for it! This kind of crap will be all over the place

next Tuesday... Everyone should take a camera with them when they vote.
(nom for visibility)

[opihimoimoi]

8. And these Pubs actually can sleep at night knowing they CHEATED

BROKE THE LAW????

WTF?

[marions ghost]

22. So many people

don't see this as cheating or illegal. It's all just "buyer beware" --right?

Reflects on the values of this country quite a bit.

[mnhtnbb]

10. Please, somebody give this a 5th recommend so it won't die!

[blm]

11. No problem - calling local paper to tell them this is happening, too.

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[sutz12]

12. Are you a Democrat?

None of your fucking business.

I've found that rudeness helps with these people.

[Lex]

14. This really pisses me off. There is no low that they won't sink to.

Tells you a little about how hollow and evil they are.

Sheesh!

[timber84]

15. This Charlottean thanks you for the heads up!

[mnhtnbb]

17. You're welcome. I've also posted to a Dem state-wide activist group

on another site.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

46. the DTH had something about this today in a LTTE:

http://www.dailytarheel.com/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticlePrinterFriendly&uStory_id=c1a44887-cd9b-4329-982d-de0d610afb8e

[marions ghost]

47. so....

is it confirmed it was the College Reuglicans? Some values those kids have. Maybe there will be some action taken by the students or University to censure this group?

[brg5001]

18. That lying slug was just doing her religious duty

No doubt she justifies it because the list contains "Godly" judges. My question would not have been, "What's your name", it's "Who the f*&^ sent you??" I also would have called the cops on her for interfering with voting.:rant: :banghead: :nuke:

[marions ghost]

25. yeah

she got off easy...so far.

People just don't object enough to this kind of stuff--I've seen it going on for years. No deterrent to it is working.

[mnhtnbb]

20. News of this incident has gone out state wide in NC from Dem Party Chair

see this posting in NC State forums

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=170x8003

[William Bloode]

21. They gotta try something here.

In 2004 the electronic voting was so screwed up that the people of our fine state demanded and got some electronic voter reform. They can't count on the machines to fix it for them now.

[KoKo]

23. Kick! If it's going on in NC then it's going on with Early Voting everywhere!

:kick:

[mirandapriestly]

26. I heard that on Thom hartmann yesterday, I also heard

that at least 3 elderly women in Oregon have received phone calls telling them it is too late to send their mail in ballots (it's not)

[PATRICK]

27. Like a pickpocket

working the passengers during the great train Robbery. Where and why do they get these clinging little crooks doing such petty crimes for so little? You might expect some nice polite GOP loyalist(edit out the idea, I am afraid they will USE it).

[marions ghost]

28. what I want to know is...

who is going to analyze the results of early voting at this precinct (and perhaps other college campus precincts) and confirm that this strategy DID affect the voting results. I mean, if there are high levels of votes for Republican judges in a strongly Dem precinct this shoudl work as some proof that the election was interfered with.

[mnhtnbb]

31. We'll probably be left to hope that only one week of early voting

won't be enough to change the outcome. But you're right. This may have been happening at college campuses all over the state--and NC has plenty of college campuses.

[marions ghost]

29. kick

people need to be extremely careful where they get their voting recommendations from. If voters weren't so gullible, this strategy wouldn't even be tried. College students who generally ahve no idea about local judges are easy prey, esp when the devil is disguised as one of them. :grr:

[Supersedeas]

30. Maybe Liddy Dole should apologize for the vicarious acts of her filthy party

[brentspeak]

32. Good grief -- don't forget to bring your camera to the polls!

If any funny business happens, you want to capture the election fraudsters' face for posterity.

[marions ghost]

34. yep

I am for that

[RB TexLa]

33. Both Dems and Reps put out fake push cards every election

this is nothing new

[marions ghost]

35. and Dems do this?

falsify a list of Democrats as Republicans, and pay people to give them to Republican voters outside the polls?

Give an example of where that occurs.

[RB TexLa]

37. It happens in Louisiana every election

a group endorses your opponent and has them on their push card, you make a fake push card that replaces your name for your opponent's name or just change the numbers from your opponent's number to yours and leave the name. Or you make up some Republican sounding group name and list a bunch of Republicans for other offices and your name for what you are running for. Same done in reverse. This started as soon as the first push cards hit the street and someone had time to run to the printer.

[mnhtnbb]

38. Have you personally seen such fliers? Or is this rumor?

[RB TexLa]

39. of course, everyone's seen them that is part of GOTV

it's part of why you always want to drive your voters to the polls or are there when they get to the polls. It starts with flyers giving the number to call for a ride to the polls, have to be out and make sure the flyer's with your name have your actual phone number on it. There are flyers printed up with the number to "time and temp," or to your opponent's GOTV drivers.

Also have to remember in Louisiana we don't have party primaries, so it's not always Dem v Rep

[marions ghost]

40. I'd have to see

clear evidence of Dems doing this. It's just so Republican.

[RB TexLa]

41. talk to anyone else who was in the '95 governor's race

The primary was very fun with this stuff, Foster (R), Fields (D) and Landrieu (D).

One of the funniest ones had Mary's name and voter number with Cleo's picture beside it as if someone made a mistake intending to change only the voter number to Mary's and accidentally changed the name as well. Most think that one was put out by the Fields campaign. I actually thought at the time and still think that Foster's people put it out to further divide Democrats, and it did a bit.

There are many people who don't like dealing with GOTV, you know handling bags of cash and such, but hey, politics is a contact sport and it's very fun.

[Eric J in MN]

43. Why the hell didn't the newspaper publish her photograph?

Some accountability is in order.

[mnhtnbb]

44. I don't know that anyone got a picture of her. The radio reporter has her on audio tape

[Eric J in MN]

45. The radio reporter should have brought a camera. NT

NT