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Penn Judge Rejects GOP Suppression Bid
Add Pennsylvania to the list of states where GOP voter suppression efforts are going down in flames.
A state judge yesterday declined to support a grab-bag of a lawsuit filed by the party, which had sought to require ACORN both to turn over a list of the 140,000 voters it says it has registered, which could have made it easier for the GOP to challenge voters at the polls.
The suit also sought, among other things, to force ACORN air public-service announcements reminding first-time voters that they must bring identification to the polls, and to compel the state to provide more provisional ballots.
According to the Associated Press, the judge, Robert Simpson Jr., said "he was not convinced that the party and its fellow individual plaintiffs can ultimately prove their allegations that ACORN is fostering voter-registration fraud and that the state's election system lacks the safeguards to stop it."
Another one, apparently, bites the dust.
Josh
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October 31, 2008 9:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
I can understand why McCain would pour all his remaining resources into PA, at this point it is his only remaining shot. The early voting in the rest of the country means that he has almost certainly lost already unless he can somehow pull PA out.
But voter suppression tactics really aren't going to work for McCain in New England. And certainly not when the GOP does not control the state government.
The Florida fiasco in 2000 was only possible because the GOP controlled the state government, the Congress and the Supreme Court. This time round they only control the Supreme Court and in this particular matter it does not have the final say.
If the GOP were able to swing a state through suppression tactics, or by preventing counting of the votes or by any other mechanism, there would be hearings in the lame duck session of Congress. And the incoming Congress can disqualify the electoral college votes of any state. That is how the Republican party stole the 1876 election.
To win the GOP needs to disqualify hundreds of thousands of voters, almost certainly in more than one state. And they need to be able to justify the disqualification after the fact when the disqualified voters are telling CNN how their right to vote was stolen.
The ultimate decider in this instance is the Congress. They can throw out the electoral college votes. And thus unlike in 2000 there is nothing that the Supreme Court can do to throw the election to the GOP a second time.
October 31, 2008 10:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
I can understand why McCain would pour all his remaining resources into PA, at this point it is his only remaining shot.
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I'm not co certain. I think he has a shot in Arizona.
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The early voting in the rest of the country means that he has almost certainly lost already unless he can somehow pull PA out.
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There's also a chance he can pull out Arizona.
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But voter suppression tactics really aren't going to work for McCain in New England. And certainly not when the GOP does not control the state government.
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Yeah, something about New England "so far left it's left America," or whatever Raygun's slander of the region.
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The Florida fiasco in 2000 was only possible because the GOP controlled the state government, the Congress and the Supreme Court. This time round they only control the Supreme Court and in this particular matter it does not have the final say.
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The SC didn't have the final say in 2000, Constitutionally. It had final say only because the vast majority have never read the Constitution.
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If the GOP were able to swing a state through suppression tactics, or by preventing counting of the votes or by any other mechanism, there would be hearings in the lame duck session of Congress.
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Maybe.
_____
And the incoming Congress can disqualify the electoral college votes of any state. That is how the Republican party stole the 1876 election.
To win the GOP needs to disqualify hundreds of thousands of voters, almost certainly in more than one state. And they need to be able to justify the disqualification after the fact when the disqualified voters are telling CNN how their right to vote was stolen.
The ultimate decider in this instance is the Congress. They can throw out the electoral college votes. And thus unlike in 2000 there is nothing that the Supreme Court can do to throw the election to the GOP a second time.
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The Constitution STIPULATES the ONE branch of gov't which has the authority to decide election disputes, including that in 2000:
CONGRESS.
The SC has NO legistmate role in the matter EVER.
One does not put ELECTION disputes into the hands of the UNELECTED when there's an ELECTED body to decide the matter (and pay the potential consequences).
October 31, 2008 1:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
I can understand why McCain would pour all his remaining resources into PA, at this point it is his only remaining shot.
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I'm not co certain. I think he has a shot in Arizona.
_____
The early voting in the rest of the country means that he has almost certainly lost already unless he can somehow pull PA out.
_____
There's also a chance he can pull out Arizona.
_____
But voter suppression tactics really aren't going to work for McCain in New England. And certainly not when the GOP does not control the state government.
_____
Yeah, something about New England "so far left it's left America," or whatever Raygun's slander of the region.
_____
The Florida fiasco in 2000 was only possible because the GOP controlled the state government, the Congress and the Supreme Court. This time round they only control the Supreme Court and in this particular matter it does not have the final say.
_____
The SC didn't have the final say in 2000, Constitutionally. It had final say only because the vast majority have never read the Constitution.
_____
If the GOP were able to swing a state through suppression tactics, or by preventing counting of the votes or by any other mechanism, there would be hearings in the lame duck session of Congress.
_____
Maybe.
_____
And the incoming Congress can disqualify the electoral college votes of any state. That is how the Republican party stole the 1876 election.
To win the GOP needs to disqualify hundreds of thousands of voters, almost certainly in more than one state. And they need to be able to justify the disqualification after the fact when the disqualified voters are telling CNN how their right to vote was stolen.
The ultimate decider in this instance is the Congress. They can throw out the electoral college votes. And thus unlike in 2000 there is nothing that the Supreme Court can do to throw the election to the GOP a second time.
_____
The Constitution STIPULATES the ONE branch of gov't which has the authority to decide election disputes, including that in 2000:
CONGRESS.
The SC has NO legistmate role in the matter EVER.
One does not put ELECTION disputes into the hands of the UNELECTED when there's an ELECTED body to decide the matter (and pay the potential consequences).
October 31, 2008 1:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
I can understand why McCain would pour all his remaining resources into PA, at this point it is his only remaining shot. The early voting in the rest of the country means that he has almost certainly lost already unless he can somehow pull PA out.
But voter suppression tactics really aren't going to work for McCain in New England. And certainly not when the GOP does not control the state government.
The Florida fiasco in 2000 was only possible because the GOP controlled the state government, the Congress and the Supreme Court. This time round they only control the Supreme Court and in this particular matter it does not have the final say.
If the GOP were able to swing a state through suppression tactics, or by preventing counting of the votes or by any other mechanism, there would be hearings in the lame duck session of Congress. And the incoming Congress can disqualify the electoral college votes of any state. That is how the Republican party stole the 1876 election.
To win the GOP needs to disqualify hundreds of thousands of voters, almost certainly in more than one state. And they need to be able to justify the disqualification after the fact when the disqualified voters are telling CNN how their right to vote was stolen.
The ultimate decider in this instance is the Congress. They can throw out the electoral college votes. And thus unlike in 2000 there is nothing that the Supreme Court can do to throw the election to the GOP a second time.
October 31, 2008 10:51 AM | Reply | Permalink
:snicker:
"what else is there TO say!?"
October 31, 2008 12:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
nice new sub-site for obama:
http://truth.voteforchange.com/
get the facts, jack.
leave it all on the road, joad.
October 31, 2008 12:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
nice new sub-site for obama:
http://truth.voteforchange.com/
get the facts, jack.
leave it all on the road, joad.
October 31, 2008 12:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Individual failures mean nothing to this malevolent bunch. Republican voter suppression tactics are an ever-evolving technique they will employ For.Ever.
October 31, 2008 12:25 PM | Reply | Permalink