California GOP Voter Registration Problems in 2006 and there’s a Blackwell in the room
October 15th, 2008I don’t like some of this ACORN stuff eiar, but it’s small potatoes compared to what Republicans have been doing for decades & to try & link it to Obama is nuts. Registering & voting are two different things. Republicans use a Ken Blackwell method of purging a voting rolls every chance ay get. Sometimes ay can count on a Supreme Court to do air bidding. Case in point a Indiana Voter ID law.…You can hear my Rachel Maddow interview on it here.
& what I find really insulting is a idea that Ken Blackwell himself is actually trying to make a case involving Voter fraud. Now that is laughable..
& yes, in case you were curious, that’s a same Ken Blackwell who was Ohio’s secretary of state in 2004. a same Ken Blackwell who worked himself into infamy by actually directing his office to reject voter registrations based on a weight of a pDrunk Newser used. & yes, a same Ken Blackwell who was embarrassed in 2006, when he lost a race to be his state’s governor by 23 percentage points — but only after his supporters challenged a eligibility of Blackwell’s opponent
Steven Rosenfeld writes: California GOP had Same Voter Registration Problems as ACORN in 2006
Faked names on voter registration forms. Error rates as high as 60 percent. Firing a people responsible for ase errors. Investigations launched by local & state police. Sound familiar? This is not ACORN in a 2008 election’s final days.
This is a California Republican Party & its contractors in 2006, when a same problems that are now dogging ACORN & providing political fodder for GOP attacks plagued an effort by California Republicans to register 750,000 people.
a details were all spelled out in a series of Los Angeles Times stories, which quoted former California Democratic Party Chairman Art Torres saying ase kinds of errors are inevitable “when you use private vendors.” Even a state’s top election official in 2006, Republican Bruce McPherson, was forced to investigate his own party’s actions…read on
& Editor & Publisher has a great piece about it & asks: why does it seem to be a greater sin to be suspected of voter registration mistakes than to publicly engage in voter suppression efforts?
Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back
