Republican Shenanigans

Incredible! I guess our Republican friends belive that the examples cited below have not “occurred” — please note #3, where a Republican party official has admitted guilt in court. The most malignant of these offenses is #1. Given that we live in America — a shinning example of democracy to the rest of the world — all citizens should be OUTRAGED that anyone would tarnish the name of American democracy by preventing our fellow citizens from exercising their RIGHT to vote. I am pissed off about the Oregon and Nevada voter registration card destruction (#1), which I see as the sort of thing I have come to expect from the Republican party. In my eyes, with this example, that party has proven once again how their rhetoric is completely empty of meaning, and how they’ll do anything to win — even if it means subverting the Constitution and trampling on basic human decency (not to mention federal law).

1. Republicans tear Democratic voter registration cards:

“I personally witnessed my supervisor at VOA, together with her personal assistant, destroy completed registration forms that VOA employees had collected,” said Russell. “All of the destroyed registration forms were for registrants who indicated their party preference as ‘Democrat.’” (link)

2. Ohio Secretary of State, a Republican, tried to invalidate voter registration cards because some of those new voter registration cards did not conform to an “archaic” rule requiring that the cards be on 80 lbs paper. Since the initial announcement the Secretary of State backpedaled and is now allowing those new registration cards to be counted. (link)

3. Phone jamming, initiated by Republican campaign operatives to suppress Democrats from voting in 2002 congressional election.

“Chuck McGee, the former executive director of the state Republican Party, pleaded guilty a few months ago to paying $15,600 to a Virginia telemarketing company to make the calls that jammed the get-out-the vote lines of Democrats the morning of the 2002 election.” (link)