And it's about Gorram Time somebody finally called these Spades a pack of Freedom Jacking Tea Baggin' Spades!
In his appearance this morning on the Melissa Harris-Perry Show Rep. Cummings (D-MD) put True The Vote on notice. You are being Watched, by Congress, and they don't like what we see. He sent a Letter to True the Vote.
At some point, an effort to challenge voter registrations by the thousands without any legitimate basis may be evidence of illegal voter suppression. If these efforts are intentional, politically motivated and widespread across multiple states, they could amount to a criminal conspiracy to deny legitimate voters their constitutional rights.
This letter naturally was merely a shot across the bow. The next one shot is likely to go to Attorney General Holder who has already called some of the types of suppresion efforts A Poll Tax.
“Many of those without IDs would have to travel great distances to get them and some would struggle to pay for the documents they might need to obtain them,” Holder said in a speech to the NAACP on Tuesday, referring specifically to a law being implemented in Texas. “We call those poll taxes.”
As a result I don't think he'd take kindly to the idea of a widespread multi-state
conspiracy to try and suppress or block legitimate voters from the polls simply because they may be young students, elderly, minority or most horrible and heinous of all.. Democrats.
So what's True the Vote's response?
True the Vote stands by the well-intentioned efforts of these citizens and is disgusted by the attempts of some within government and media to warp what should have been a simple, legal process into a calculated partisan charade.
As the rest of us know these guys are a hammer in search of voter frauduent nail that doesn't exist in a house of cards, in the process they are poised to knock giant holes in the walls of our democratic process.
But somehow I think, the Tea Party and GOP don't really care. Don't ask me why, I just have a bad feeling about this.
Many voter supression efforts that have been coming through various GOP legislatures have been blocked or delayed by the courts which have repeatedly sited to complete and total lack of any significant evidence of in-person voter fraud.
Rather than ensuring the integrity of the vote - this is their true mission.
[True the Vote National Elections Coordinator Bill] Ouren and Americans for Prosperity gathered these recruits in Boca Raton in July to instruct them on how they could become “empowered” vessels for True the Vote’s poll watcher program. True the Vote is most widely known for its advocacy of restrictive photo voter ID laws. But while that might garner headlines, the group’s real focus is on policing the act of voting itself. As Ouren declared during the group’s national summit in April, and repeated again in Boca Raton, his recruits’ job is chiefly to make voters feel like they’re “driving and seeing the police following you.” He aims to recruit one million poll watchers around the country. […]
Because everyone knows the proper way to feel when you excersize a
hard a viciously fought for Constitutional Right is like your travelling through some dusty Central American or Eastern European town with
El Policia giving you the stink-eye.
Doesn't that just reak of hot, steaming Freedom fresh from the broiler?
Or is that sulphur I smell?
Yet the RNC can be caught re-hiring a consulting firm they previously knew had engaged in shady and illegal voter suppression and fraud with nary a peep from the suddenly oh-so-non-partisan "True The Vote".
"We registered almost 100,000 voters, hired nearly 5,000 workers, and when you hire that many people and do that large of a project, inevitably there's going to be a few people who try and cheat the system," Sproul said. "When that happens, we fire those folks and turn them over for prosecution. That's what happened here," he said.
"When law enforcement looks into this situation, what they will find is that our company had a systematic effort of quality control," he said. "The handful of people who we caught cheating the system were fired and turned over to investigators for prosecution." The Florida Democratic party has branded the company’s work as “illegal third party voter registration activities.”
Brad Friedman, of the voter issue website Bradblog.com, has been especially pointed about Strategic Allied Consulting’s work. "They are filtering out Obama supporters. They are keeping potential Democratic voters from being able to register at all," Friedman charged. "I find this deeply offensive."
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/...
I find it more than offensive. I find it a potential Felony under
18 USC § 241
If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same;
They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both;
What was that about making people feel like they're being
"Followed by the Police"? What's another word for that again....?
Oh yeah, Intimidation. And I always thought we were innocent until proven guilty in this country, not the other way around.
When Acorn found that some of the voter registration forms may have had problems, they flag and identified which one themself, yet we still have massive claims that someone an organization that had only registerd 2 Million was behind the "fraudulent" landslide victory of President Barack Obama 12 Million Votes 4 years ago.
Didn't Congress Stop All Business to have a huge. important. critical. vote. to. DEFUND ACORN when they had a few "bad apples?"
But in this case on defending the Nation from the scurge of the Dread Pirate Voter Fraud: Wither art thou True the Vote, Wither Art Thou?
Oh yeah, sorry, that's right you guys are standing at the polling place door right next to the spot that used to be reserved for people like George Wallace and Bull Connor. How do those shoes fit ya?
Vyan
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