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Community => Politics and Government => Topic started by: The Illusive Man on November 05, 2012, 03:46:15 pm
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Ladies and gentlemen I present to you the latest wave of voter suppression, True the Vote (http://www.truethevote.org). Run by Catherine Engelbrecht and based in Texas.
Speaks for itself really.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ahohaYl5x0
Some of you may recognize them due to their involvement in the recall of Wisconsin governor Scott Walker, specifically skewering results by falsely having signatures removed. (http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/03/11330/true-vote-or-skew-vote) The people they recruited to do that were from out of state. In fact they could be from anywhere, here is the sign up page online. (http://www.ttvverify.com/volunteer/)
Now they are trying this in Ohio. (http://www.theroot.com/buzz/tea-party-groups-behind-voter-purge-efforts) Combined with measures to prohibit voting (no nights, weekends) by Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted. (http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/08/19/711551/gop-election-board-member-admits-he-canceled-weekend-voting-in-ohio-to-suppress-the-black-vote/?mobile=nc) Just as a reminder, Husted was responsible for this dandy of a quote:
I guess I really actually feel we shouldn’t contort the voting process to accommodate the urban — read African-American — voter-turnout machine (http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/08/19/fight-over-poll-hours-isnt-just-political.html)
Their history and current action have no gone unnoticed. So far the Department of Justice will be monitoring early voting in Texas (http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/October/12-crt-1263.html) and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings has launched an investigation (http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-voting-rights-tea-party-20121004,0,3351653.story). Please do not sit around at let suppression occur:
Voter fraud complaints may be directed to any of the local U.S. Attorneys’ Offices, the local FBI offices or the Public Integrity Section (202-514-1412). A list of U.S. Attorneys’ Office can be found at www.justice.gov/usao/offices/index.html (http://www.justice.gov/usao/offices/index.html) and a list of FBI offices can be found at: www.fbi.gov (http://www.fbi.gov).