41 days ago by Mary Mancini

Guber Candidate Ron Ramsey takes aim at fair elections. Last week, Lt. Governor and gubernatorial candidate Ron Ramsey appeared with Republican Secretary of State Tre Hargett and at an event in Kingsport and told business leaders that not only wouldn’t they follow the law and implement the Tennessee ...

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41 days ago by Mary Mancini

Below is a list of voter suppression tactics used by those in power to suppress voter turnout. There are two reasons why it is important to pay attention to voter suppression tactics now even though we do not have a statewide election until next year: 1) Some of these tactics are being used in Tenne ...

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48 days ago by Hackwhackers

Daily Kos has picked up on a nugget in a NY Times story on Wingnuttia's latest hero, James "O Crap" O'Keefe, whose videos have targeted ACORN. Asked why he targeted ACORN, O Crap said it was because ACORN registers minority voters who are likely to vote against Rethuglicans. It's been a rule of poli ...

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51 days ago by David Schraub

Last April, the Supreme Court uphold an Indiana voter ID law which disenfranchised folks for literally no tangible reason. The intangible reason was to prevent voter fraud. I call that reason "intangible" because Indiana had never, in its history, had a prosecuted case of voter fraud of a form this ...

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51 days ago by Hal

Here in Texas we have been watching as Indiana wrestles with its Voter ID law, which up until today was the law of the land in the Hoosier State. Up until today, voters in Indiana were made to provide some evidence that they were citizens of the United States and residents of Indiana. Today an India ...

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87 days ago by clearlyjd

During the long dark night of the struggle for Civil Rights, poet Langston Hughes asked, “ What happens to a dream deferred?” Today Pat Rogers could be asking this very question because yesterday we learned that Bush White House operatives also had a dream. And he was it. In late 2008, their reverie ...

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121 days ago by Ryan

The state of Indiana has been sued over failure to comply with Federal laws mandating that voter registration is offered to people who sign up for public assistance, such as food stamps. With growing numbers of people becoming unemployed and having to file for both unemployment insurance compensatio ...

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122 days ago by Hal

Oh, this is timely. I just had a dental procedure today and I am not up to my usual drollery. The Lone Star Project, however, has bailed me out. They just put up on You Tube a short movie about the scandalous behavior of Harris County Tax Assessor Collector Leo Vasquez (although I am betting that fo ...

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122 days ago by Mary Mancini

The day after Karl Rove testified before lawyers for the House Judiciary committee about his role in the United States partisan Attorney firings, and three months after Tennessee Attorney General Bob Cooper said that politically motivated firings could be found unconstitutional, comes the news that ...

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135 days ago by Bene Diction

Opps. The Ontario Conservative Party is holding it’s leadership convention June 27th and the leadership race now contends with a criminal investigation. Steven Taylor of the Blogging Tories has the documentation of the alleged voter suppression. (the fake letter is based on this) A few weeks ago dur ...

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