Ugh — this scares me
From The Debates Won’t Matter in the Jewish Journal (reprinted on HuffPo):
My fear is that the Electoral College results will hang on the swing state voting systems’ vulnerability to sabotage.
It’s already happening.
In El Paso County, Colo., the county clerk — a delegate to the Republican National Convention — told out-of-state undergraduates at Colorado College, falsely, that they couldn’t vote in Colorado if their parents claim them as dependents on their taxes.
In the towns of Mount Pleasant and Middleton, Wisc., Democratic voters received a mailing containing tear-out requests for absentee ballots pre-addressed to the wrong addresses. Both mailers were sent by the McCain campaign.
Florida, Michigan and Ohio have some of the country’s highest foreclosure rates. “Because many homeowners in foreclosure are black or poor,” The New York Times says, “and are considered probable Democratic voters in many areas, the issue has begun to have political ramifications.”
If you’re one of the million Americans who lost a home through foreclosure, and if you didn’t file a change of address with your election board, you’re a sitting duck for an Election Day challenge by a partisan poll watcher holding a public list of foreclosed homes. In states like New Mexico and Iowa, the number of foreclosures is greater than the number of votes by which George W. Bush carried the state in 2004.
In the 2006 election, according to the nonpartisan Fair Elections Legal Network, black voters in Virginia got computer-generated phone calls from a bogus “Virginia Election Commission” telling them that they could be arrested if they went to the wrong polling place; in Maryland, out-of-state leafleters gave phony Democratic sample ballots to black voters with the names of Republican candidates checked in red; in New Mexico, Democratic voters got personal phone calls from out of state that directed them to the wrong polling place.
Does anyone think this won’t be tried again in 2008?
Please. Dem’s pretty much invented voter fraud. While I don’t believe there is any truth to the jewish journal article, I will tell you, THIS scares me:
http://governor.mo.gov/cgi-bin/coranto/viewnews.cgi?id=EkkkVFulkpOzXqGMaj&style=Default+News+Style&tmpl=newsitem
If you are worried, sign up to be a poll worker on election day … Ohio is important! (I think you knew that. :-))
If you know any attorneys … the Obama campaign has a program called the “Voter Protection Program” where attorneys can volunteer to work at the polls on election day and try to minimize monkey business.
http://www.barackoblogger.com/2008/08/lawyers-needed-for-obama-voter.html
Sorry that is not a link from the Obama website … it is a little hard to find (which is stupid). But pass on the info!!!!!