Voter Purges, Disappearing Votes and More

For the last several months, there have been articles and protests of voter purges and other irregularities. Since my friends ignore those reports and pretend after the election that it's just Sour Grapes, when in fact it's a widespread problem to reduce certain registered voters, I'll begin to post those articles.
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Primarily, the Republicans have been active and aggressive for the last 8 years in this type of tactic, since they seem unable to win legitimate elections otherwise.
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The following appeared in the NYT, but since registration is required and NYT doesn't archive articles for long, it was posted on TO:

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States' Purges of Voter Rolls Appear Illegal Tens of thousands of eligible voters at least six swing states have been removed from the rolls or have been blocked from registering in ways that appear to violate federal law, according to a review of state records and Social Security data by The New York Times.
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Still, because Democrats have been more aggressive at registering new voters this year, according to state election officials, any heightened screening of new applications may affect their party's supporters disproportionately. The screening and trimming of voter registration lists in the six states - Colorado, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Nevada and North Carolina - could also result in problems at the polls on Election Day: people who have been removed from the rolls are likely to show up only to be challenged by political party officials or election workers, resulting in confusion, long lines and heated tempers.

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For the most part, the corporate controlled US Media has ignored the surrounding issues and failed to comment at all. The following to be aired by BBC gets the facts out there.

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BBC-TV: "Set up to steal it again." Is 2008 already fixed?

Friday October 10, 2008

"A lot of Europeans wonder: Why are Americans so crazy, they keep reelecting this guy?" Well the answer is, we don't! They keep stealing these elections! And they stole it in 2000, they stole it in 2004,and they’re all set up to steal it again!" - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on BBC Television Newsnight.

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On Friday at 6pm and 10pm Eastern Time, BBC America will bust open the story of the systematic attack on US voters that could easily cost Barack Obama the White House.

Watch it, beginning Friday night, at www.Gregpalast.com.
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Newsnight investigative reporter Greg Palast travels from the Native pueblos of New Mexico to the war-zone of the 8 Mile neighborhood of Detroit to meet some of the three million voters who have been disappeared by a GOP campaign draining voter rolls of the victims of the economic collapse.
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In Detroit, Palast is bounced out of the local McCain headquarters - housed under the black flag (literally) of foreclosure profiteers. We meet Robert Pratt, a union worker, who fears he will lose his home - and his vote. Are the Republicans turning a economic devastation into an electoral bonanza?
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BBC Reporter Palast follows the path of investigation laid out by civil rights attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - encountering along the way the Republican Party lawyers, funders - and Karl Rove. The GOP charges that the Democrats have registered five million fraudulent voters, a claim backed by a recent US government report. Palast meets the report's author - who claims her words were turned upside down. And they went to court to stop her from speaking out.

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Click here to download the comic, Steal Back Your Vote.
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