GOP = scum

Why do they hate America for its Freedom?

If these guys couldn't cheat, they wouldn't want to play the game. Sickening assholes.

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There's really no logical justification for having a voter registration deadline unless it's being used as an administrative period to, you know, fix mistakes.

I had a mistake on my card -- I forgot to put the city -- and the road I live on runs over into the next county. My county registrar mistakenly forwarded my card to the neighboring county, where I was erroneously entered onto their rolls.

I figured this out yesterday and have spent the last day getting this fixed. I am now listed on my county's Web site as a registered voter.

I fail to see why the Republicans would find that objectionable, aside from simply trying to disenfranchise people like me.

They don't care about legal voting they only care about suppressing the vote. McCain camp keeps bringing up the Bradley effect just as a justification for when they attempt to steal it..("voters must have changed their minds at the last minute and not want a black president but too embarrassed to admit it or tell anyone...that's why exit polls are inaccurate"). Be prepared...there will be repercussions if repukes try to install McCain against an overwhelming majority of Obama voters. We may have to postpone the elections until all these purged and suppressed voters get their registrations straightened out so republicans can see they are being voted out.

In case you didn't notice, Ross Miller is a democrat. What the hell is his story?

They could not be any more obvious. This is simply another attempt to keep legitimate voters from casting a regular ballot.

It is unacceptable and we shouldn't let them get away with it. Please consider signing Progressive Future's petition which goes to the political operatives that operate schemes:

http://www.progressivefuture.org/voter-suppression/petition2

Will someone in Nevada please check this out? I attended a MoveOn party in my neighborhood (Lawrence, KS). We were given lists of Obama supporters in Nevada to call to ask them to volunteer. Someone who I reached told me that there was an advanced ballot scam in which FAKE ballots were being sent to people for advance voting. Has anyone else heard this?

Whatever we hear we should make sure it gets through to the Obama campaign. Supposedly there are a team of lawyers ready to be involved all over the place.

I think we should all just plan for a long drawn out election that takes time because we want all of the provisional ballots to be counted.

They count on us being too impatient to wait for all of the votes to be counted. If we don't let 'provisional ballots' get discounted and make them count it gives the less incentive to keep this up.

There may be more to the Nevada ACORN case than meets the eye.

I looked into Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller's background. Miller may have had other reasons to discredit ACORN, especially if ACORN was promoting better working conditions for low-income workers in Las Vegas.

His father, Bob Miller, was governor of Nevada from '89 to '99 and he strongly endorsed Hillary Clinton.

Bob Miller has been a principal in the huge lobbyist firm, Dutko Worldwide since 2001 as a partner in a Dutko affiliate, Kaufman Pattee Branstad & Miller.

In addition to Dutko, Bob Miller serves on the boards of International Game Technology, Newmont Mining Corporation, Wynn Resorts and Zenith National Insurance Corp. He also a partner in Miller and Behar Strategies in Sofia Bulgaria but is not registered in the FARA database.

Secretary Ross Miller's chief deputy is Nicole Lamboley who was a senior regional manager for the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and deputy chief of staff for former Governor Miller.

NAM, of course, is the strident anti-labor outfit that provides funding for Grover Norquist's Americans For Tax Reform and other shady non-profits operated by Howie Rich's crowd.

If you read the application and request for the ACORN search warrant, Colin Hayes, lead investigator, began investigating ACORN in the beginning of July 2008.

Despite the fact that he met with ACORN management and legal counsel several times during July and August, Hayes apparently never found out that ACORN had hired felons on a work release program until late September.

According to Hayes, Choices Group Inc runs a work release program for felons on behalf of the Nevada Department of Corrections. Choices Group is a subsidiary of a public company named Providence Services.

Between March and July 2008, ACORN hired 59 people on work release through the Choices Group program. On July 31, all of the work release employees were terminated, according to Hayes.

Hiring felons on work release to register voters was, of course, the nail in the coffin for ACORN because that fact lends substantial support for the case against ACORN and makes for great headlines.

But I find it incredible that Hayes investigated ACORN employees using records provided by ACORN for almost three months without knowing about the work release program. It seems as if Hayes "investigated" this aspect of the case just in time to make a big splash in the national media during the height of campaign season.

Someone should ask ACORN if it fired its employees on the work release program at the end of July in order to try to eliminate the problems caused by fake voter registration and clear up problems with the Clark County registrar of voters.

Someone should also ask ACORN if Investigator Colin Hayes knew about ACORN's arrangement with the work release program in July. If he did, I'd like to know why he didn't interview any of these workers until October.

The Nevada ACORN case seems fishy to me and I don't know as I'd count Secretary of State Ross Miller as being on my side just yet.

How come voter fraud occurs only in heavily Democratic areas?

Being fairly new here as a blogger, I don't know if this issue had been discussed earlier,but here goes. I find it odd that the ACORN issue of voter registration fraud is NOT being questioned in Florida. Florida has MANY Hispanics who were registered to vote by ACORN. McCain himself was keynote speaker at MIAMI ACORN conference two years ago. Secondly, the states that have had this brouhaha over ACORN ,like OHIO and NEVADA,are states that have high incidence of unionized workers. The GOP and the US Chamber of Commerce,along with Rick Berman, have been waging a war against this act,which has yet to become a law. The corporate interests are scared to death that if it were easier to organize, the corporate retail giants wouldn't have record profits for their shareholders. In Minnesota a few months back, there were TV ads ,funded by RILA,(retaiol industry lobby) likening this EFCA to Mafia tactics. Remember, Minnesota is home to Target,and is the state where Batsh*t Bachmann, Norm Coleman,and Al Franken are ALL in political races....also, the robo call compant that is doing the vile GOP calls FLS-DCI has a headquarters in St. Paul,Minnesota.

Well this is very interesting in light of the fact that I just got e-mail today from the McCain campaign about "crucial" Nevada. They are bussing folks out of L.A., Orange, Sacramento, and San Diego for the ground campaign. Northerners will travel to Reno, Southerners to Clark county. Didn't get one of these in '04.