I like it when the cockroaches come right out in the open like this:
“Ohio and Florida, which provided the decisive electoral votes for President Bush’s two razor-thin national election triumphs, have enacted laws that election experts say will help Republicans impede voting by Democratic-leaning minorities in 2008,” McClatchy reports.
The new Ohio law aimed at reducing voter fraud allows for “caging” — “used in the past to target poor minorities in heavily Democratic precincts, entails sending mass mailings to certain voters and then using the undelivered letters to compile lists of voters for eligibility challenges.” While Republican groups paid for caging efforts in the past, the new law makes the government pay for it. In Florida, the new law “stripped the state’s 10.5 million registered voters of the right to contest challenges at the polls. Now a challenger need only swear to a “good faith belief” that a voter is ineligible to force the voter to file a provisional ballot.”
this is totally insane.
you pal Silber is right. It’s a deliberate effort on the part of the democrats and the republicans to disenfranchise as many people as they can.
america is so fucked.
It’s Hitler all over again.
If only they were real cockroaches, you could step on them.
In Florida, they have these giant, cockroach-looking things called palmetto bugs. Ten times the size of a normal bug.
That’s what these efforts remind me of.