How do you think our now Chief Justice Rehnquist got his job??? He got
a name for himself doing just that (vote suppression of minorities)
during the Goldwater campaign of 1964.
The Republicans have been doing that since they allied themselves on
the racist side during the civil rights era and black people finally
left the once great party of Lincoln (which actually ceased to be a
progressive party after WW1 or sooner). After 1968. Richard Nixon
marvelled at George Wallace's ability to harness southern racism
without using the pointy headed hoods openly and the republikan
"southern strategy" was born. The once solid democratic south became
solidly Republikan ever since and George "dubya" Bush doesn't even
have to campaign there. The democratic party is known as the party of
northerners, balck people and public schools, and the republicans are
for "true" (white) Americans, those that attend private or "christian"
(LOL) schools to avoid having to mix with blacks since the can't have
their state sponsered segregation any more.
On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 16:29:33 -0500, Animated GIF Man
<AGMLiteForU@aol.com> wrote:
>On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 03:03:45 GMT, Animated GIF Man
><AGMLiteForU@aol.com> wrote in alt.binaries.playgirl :
>
>>
>> Dear friend,
>>
>> I hope you will join me in signing this petition from MoveOn. It's
>> about Republicans' use of voter suppression tactics, which undermines
>> fair elections and the rights of all Americans to vote and have their
>> votes counted.
>>
>> http://www.moveonpac.org/suppression/
>>
>> Preventing eligible voters from voting is a basic affront to our
>> democracy. It undermines the basic principles of our electoral system
>> and calls into question the legitimacy of our elections.
>>
>> Join me in calling for President Bush and the Republican Party to
>> publicly disavow voter suppression tactics and to condemn and hold
>> accountable those in their party who use them.
>>
>> http://www.moveonpac.org/suppression/
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> *** [Look for a HOT new series of scans from me soon.]
>>
>> * * * * * * * * * *
>>
>> Last month John Pappageorge, a Republican state representative in
>> Michigan, told a journalist that the Republicans would do poorly if
>> they failed to 'suppress the Detroit vote.' Detroit, of course, is 83%
>> black.[1]
>>
>> Democratic officials expressed their outrage, and Pappageorge
>> eventually apologized for his words, but his statement spoke to a
>> bigger truth: Republicans continue to actively suppress black and
>> minority votes in order to win elections through intimidation,
>> misinformation, and tampering with voter rolls and records. In 2000,
>> the black voters who were not allowed to vote would have almost
>> continues: a recent report from the NAACP and the People for the
>> American Way Foundation documents suppression tactics in use right
>> now.[2]
>>
>> with Julian Bond, Chairman of the NAACP*, Reverend Jesse Jackson,
>> President of the Rainbow/Push Coalition*, Congresswoman Maxine Waters
>> and Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. and others to demand that the
>> Republican Party abandon these racist, unfair, and undemocratic
>> tactics and condemn anyone in their ranks who uses them. Please join
>> us by signing the petition below:
>>
>> http://www.moveonpac.org/suppression/
>>
>> Many of the leaders above and other signers will personally deliver
>> this petition to the Bush/Cheney campaign headquarters next month, so
>> please sign today and ask your friends to sign.
>>
>> Just last week, Bob Herbert of the New York Times wrote a column
>> describing armed, plain-clothes officers from the Florida state police
>> (which reports directly to Governor Jeb Bush) going into the homes of
>> elderly black voters and interrogating them, supposedly as part of an
>> investigation into voter fraud. While ostensibly random, several of
>> those questioned were members of the Orlando League of Voters, a group
>> that has been very successful in mobilizing the city's black vote.
>> According to Herbert, this supposed "investigation" has resulted in a
>> blanket of fear, leaving organizers afraid to work and voters afraid
>> of contact with campaign workers.[3]
>>
>> Four years ago, Florida election officials removed over 52,000 voters
>> from the rolls under the guise of 'cleansing' the list of felons. Over
>> 90% of those purged were not guilty of any crime and 54% were
>> African-American, a group which, in Florida, are likely to vote
>> Democratic over 90% of the time.[4] The company that provided the
>> purge list warned Florida officials that thousands of eligible voters
>> would likely be disenfranchised in the process, but Katherine Harris,
>> the Florida Secretary of State who also served as state campaign
>> manager for George W. Bush, went forward with the purge anyway. The
>> result was thousands of voters not allowed to vote in an election that
>> was decided by just over 500 votes.
>>
>> Foundation and the NAACP "The Long Shadow of Jim Crow: Voter
>> Intimidation and Suppression in America Today" highlights recent
>> attempts to suppress African-American and minority voting, documenting
>> instances of the following:[5]
>>
>>
>> Challenges and threats against individual voters at the polls by armed
>> private guards, off-duty law enforcement officers, local creditors,
>> fake poll monitors, and poll workers and managers.
>> Signs posted at the polling place warning of penalties for 'voter
>> fraud' or 'non-citizen' voting, or illegally urging support for a
>> candidate. Poll workers 'helping' voters fill out their ballots, and
>> instructing them on how to vote. Criminal tampering with voter
>> registration rolls and records. Fliers and radio ads containing false
>> information about where, when and how to vote, voter eligibility, and
>> the false threat of penalties. Internal memos from party officials in
>> which the explicit goal of suppressing black voter turnout is
>> outlined.
>> Here are a few other incidents highlighted in the report and
>> elsewhere:
>>
>>
>> In 2003, in Pennsylvania, men with clipboards bearing official-looking
>> insignias were reportedly dispatched to African American
>> neighborhoods. Tom Lindenfeld, who ran a counter-intimidation campaign
>> for Democratic candidate John Street, said there were 300 cars with
>> the decals resembling such federal agencies as the DEA and ATF and
>> that the men were asking prospective voters for identification. In a
>> post-election poll of 1000 African-American voters, seven percent said
>> they had encountered such efforts.
>>
>> In 2002, in Louisiana, fliers were distributed in African American
>> weather is uncomfortable on election day [Saturday, December 7th],
>> remember you can wait and cast your ballot on Tuesday, December 10th.'
>> In a separate incident, apparently targeting potential supporters of
>> Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu, the Louisiana Republican Party
>> admitted to paying African American youths $75 to hold signs aloft on
>> street corners in black neighborhoods that appeared to discourage
>> African-Americans from voting.
>>
>> Last month, in South Dakota, Native American voters were sent to the
>> wrong polling places, and given misleading information about the ID
>> they need to vote.[6]
>> Stopping eligible voters from voting is a basic affront to democracy.
>> It is an outrage for any political party to condone or encourage the
>> practice, especially given the history of African-Americans and other
>> minorities being disenfranchised in our country. In the vast majority
>> of these cases, Republicans are the perpetrators or it's a Republican
>> candidate that stands to benefit. Call on Republican leaders to
>> publicly disavow the suppression of the minority vote by signing the
>> petition at:
>>
>> http://www.moveonpac.org/suppression/
>>
>> Thanks for all you do,
>>
>> -- James Rucker, Laura Dawn, and the rest of the MoveOn PAC team
>> MoveOn PAC
>> Thursday, August, 26th 2004
>>
>> 1 http://www.freep.com/news/statewire/sw101420_20040721.htm
>> 2 http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oId=16368
>> 3 http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/081704C.shtml
>> (original: http://nytimes.com/2004/08/16/opinion/16herbert.html?hp )
>> 4 http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040517&s=palast
>> 5 http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oId=16399
>> 6 http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oId=16362
>>
>>
>> Other links:
>>
>> 1 million black votes didn't count in the 2000 presidential election
>> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/06/20/ING2976LG61.DTL
>>
>> Commentary in Detroit Free Press
>> http://www.freep.com/voices/columnists/eholl27_20040727.htm
>>
>>
>> "The Long Shadow of Jim Crow: Voter Intimidation and Suppression in
>> America" (pdf)
>> http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/dfiles/file_459.pdf
>>
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>>
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