Ron Paul says something stinks in this primary

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http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/01/paul-alleges-bo.html



Paul campaign statement:

The failure of the Louisiana GOP to properly determine who was and wasn't eligible to vote threw this entire process into disarray," said Ron Paul campaign manager Lew Moore. "The party needs to correct this mistake by counting all the votes immediately, and releasing the results."

Due to mistakes by the Louisiana GOP, hundreds of voters were forced to file provisional ballots, including nearly 500 that could change the outcome of the election. According to party officials, caucus locations relied on a voter list from November 1, 2007 despite the fact that under caucus rules, voters must have registered Republican by November 30, 2007.

In multiple instances, state-certified Ron Paul delegates that were on the ballot were forced to file a provisional ballot despite the fact they were pre-approved as delegates.

The Louisiana State GOP also changed the rules at the last minute to allow other candidates to file more delegates. At the time of the original January 10 deadline, Ron Paul had the largest number of delegates pledged to him. The party then changed the rules to give other candidates until January 12 to file more delegates.
 
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Not to worry Desh....the Cons saw the light back in 2000 when Gore attempted to steal the election with selective recounts, protesting military overseas ballots, the super humans attempting to divine voter intent by staring a dimpled chads under magnifying glasses, trying to changes election rules after the election and other such bullshit....
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Central_Voter_File#Errors_in_the_list


May 2000, DBT discovered that approximately8,000 names were erroneously placed on the exclusion list, mostly those of former Texas prisoners who were included on a DBT list that turned out never to have been convicted of more than a misdemeanor. Later in the month, DBT provided a revised list to the Division of Elections (DOE) containing a total of 173,127 persons. Of those included on the "corrected list", 57,746 were identified as felons.

Examples:

Thomas Cooper, Date of Birth September 5, 1973; crime, unknown; conviction date, Jan. 30, 2007
Johnny Jackson Jr., Date of Birth, 1970; crime, none mistaken for John Fitzgerald Jackson who was still in his jail cell in Texas
Wallace McDonald, Date of Birth, 1928; crime, fell asleep on a bus-stop bench in 1959
Reverend Willie Dixon, convicted in the 1970s at the latest; note, received full executive clemency
Randall J. Higginbotham, Date of Birth, August 28, 1960; crimes, none mistaken for Sean David Higginbotham, born June 16, 1971
Reverend Willy D. Whiting Jr., crimes: a speeding ticket from 1990 confused with Willy J. Whiting who have birthdays 2 days apart

[edit] Demographics of the purge list
According to the Palm Beach Post, among other problems with the list, although blacks accounted for 88% of those removed from the rolls, they made up only about 11% of Florida's voters. [2]

Voter demographics authority David Bositis, a senior research associate at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies in Washington, DC, reviewed The Nation's findings and concluded that the purge-and-block program was "a patently obvious technique to discriminate against black voters". He noted that based on nationwide conviction rates, African-Americans would account for 46% of the ex-felon group wrongly disfranchised. [3]


[edit] Pre-election cleansing

Florida Secretary of State Katherine HarrisBetween May 1999 and Election Day 2000, two Florida secretaries of state, Sandra Mortham and Katherine Harris, distributed the scrub lists produced by the cleansing process to counties and ordered the 57,700 people identified as "ex-felons" to be removed from voter rolls. Together the lists comprised nearly 1% of Florida's electorate and nearly 3% of its African-American voters.[citation needed]

At the time of the election, the purge list contained a number of false positives — people identified as felons who were not actually felons.
 
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Not to mention the 0 accountability Republicans demand from electronic voting machines, but want to force voters to have IDs to discourage the poor from voting. I knew plenty of poor adults growing up who didn't have a driver's license. They wouldn't be able to vote, unless they bought some other kind of picture ID. That's money, and it's a poll tax. Also illegal.

They can't even get their own GOP primary done fairly.
 
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Not to mention the 0 accountability Republicans demand from electronic voting machines, but want to force voters to have IDs to discourage the poor from voting. I knew plenty of poor adults growing up who didn't have a driver's license. They wouldn't be able to vote, unless they bought some other kind of picture ID. That's money, and it's a poll tax. Also illegal.

They can't even get their own GOP primary done fairly.
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Holy fuck that quarter is the difference between life and death?!
 
I mean, honestly, if the difference between passing it and non passing it was charging for the voter ID, I don't think anyone would oppose making them free. I don't see why anyone would propose charging for them at all anyone.
 
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8ST00J80&show_article=1



The alleged ill that this is out to correct doesn't really exist," said Justin Levitt, counsel for the Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law, which filed a brief arguing against the law. "There's no real justification for putting these people through this."

The survey, led by a researcher at the University of Washington, found that 86 percent of white eligible voters had current, valid photo identification, compared to 73 percent of black eligible voters.

While many people have driver's licenses or other identification, the study confirmed that many others don't, said researcher Matt A. Barreto.

"It is a very significant issue and one that most people take for granted," he said.

Politics was also found to be a factor. About 41 percent of those who have valid identification said they were Republican, while 32 percent were Democrats. Of those without ID, 34 percent were Republican and 38 percent were Democrats.

Among registered voters in Indiana, nearly 91 percent of those between 55 and 69 had a current ID, compared with about 80 percent of people 18-34 and about 84 percent of those over the age of 70. About 88 percent of registered voters making at least $40,000 a year had current ID, compared with about 82 percent of those making less than $40,000 a year, the study found.

all the studies come up with this same basic conclusion
 
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