Starlifter
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Fla. Republican: "We wanted to suppress black votes".
.....um, yeah. We know
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In the debate over new laws meant to curb voter fraud in places like Florida, Democrats always charge that Republicans are trying to suppress the vote of liberal voting blocs like blacks and young people, while Republicans just laugh at such ludicrous and offensive accusations. That is, every Republican except for Florida’s former Republican Party chairman Jim Greer, who, scorned by his party and in deep legal trouble, blew the lid off what he claims was a systemic effort to suppress the black vote. In a 630-page deposition recorded over two days in late May, Greer, who is on trial for corruption charges, unloaded a litany of charges against the “whack-a-do, right-wing crazies” in his party, including the effort to suppress the black vote.
In the deposition, released to the press yesterday, Greer mentioned a December 2009 meeting with party officials. “I was upset because the political consultants and staff were talking about voter suppression and keeping blacks from voting,” he said, according to the Tampa Bay Times. He also said party officials discussed how “minority outreach programs were not fit for the Republican Party,” according to the AP.
The comments, if true (he is facing felony corruption charges and has an interest in scorning his party), would confirm what critics have long suspected. Florida Gov. Rick Scott is currently facing inquiries from the Justice Department and pressure from civil rights groups over his purging of voter rolls in the state, an effort that critics say has disproportionately targeted minorities and other Democratic voters. One group suing the state claims up to 87 percent of the voters purged from the rolls so far have been people of color, though other estimates place that number far lower. Scott has defended the purge, even though he was erroneously listed as dead himself on the rolls in 2006.
As Vanity Fair noted in a big 2004 story on the Sunshine State’s voting problems, “Florida is a state with a history of disenfranchising blacks.” In the state’s notoriously botched 2000 election, the state sent a list of 50,000 alleged ex-felons to the counties, instructing them to purge those names from their rolls. But it turned out that list included 20,000 innocent people, 54 percent of whom were black, the magazine reported. Just 15 percent of the state’s population is black. There were also reports that polling stations in black neighborhoods were understaffed, leading to long lines that kept some people from voting that year. The NAACP and ACLU sued the state over that purge. A Gallup poll in December of 2000 found that 68 percent of African-Americans nationally felt black voters were less likely to have their votes counted fairly in Florida.
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The way Repubs win is not very democratic, or American. It's criminal felony fraud.
We not only have this mass voter suppression by the pubs, we have the super secret software electronic voting machines flip an enormous amount of votes, too.
Machines that flip votes from one candidate ( D ) to the other ( R ), is called STEALING those votes. Those votes were for the Democrat, yet the Republican got them. HOW?- By stealing them.
You never hear of machines flipping votes from R to D do you?
The machines, no matter the origin, have had their "applog" removed from the database software. No applog, no record of activity except what is supposedly chosen by the voter. Any backdoor
modification of the table data is not auditable. Mass updates are possible without detection. As to the other obvious maneuvers to suppress voting and so on... I think that's just a nice stew to keep a balance of fraudulent activity - the old "hiding in broad daylight" approach. If they can create a close enough margin with the obvious crap and the media's "balanced" reporting, the machines can then deliver the coup de grace. Afterward, we can look on while the hand wringing starts over the "strange" exit polling and so on.
UNTIL WE FIX THE VOTING, THE VOTING IS FIXED.
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