F R I D A Y , O C T O B E R 1 5 , 2 0 0 4All's Fair In Love and Politics...Actually, It'sNotby Michael in New York on 10/15/2004 03:40:00 AMPaul Krugman does a nice roundup about some of the Republicandirty tricks to disenfranchise voters.</p><p> Of course, these are just theones we know about.</p><p> He also previews an upcoming Harper's articleabout those Florida felon lists."The case of Florida's felon list - used by state officials, as in 2000, totry to wrongly disenfranchise thousands of blacks - has been widelyreported.</p><p> Less widely reported has been overwhelming evidence thatthe errors were deliberate."In an article coming next week in Harper's, Greg Palast, whooriginally reported the story of the 2000 felon list, reveals that few ofthose wrongly purged from the voting rolls in 2000 are back on thevoter lists.</p><p> State officials have imposed Kafkaesque hurdles for voterstrying to get back on the rolls.</p><p> Depending on the county, thoseattempting to get their votes back have been required to seekclemency for crimes committed by others, or to go through quasi-judicial proceedings to prove that they are not felons with similarnames."For heaven's sake, deluge your favorite media outlet and ask them tolook into this pattern of deception and report on it.</p><p> Anyone with infoabout Democratic organizations doing anything even remotely similar,bring it on.</p><p> We'll gladly blast them too.</p><p> But guess what? The historyof the Democratic Party is trying to HELP people vote (women,blacks, immigrants), not KEEPING them from voting the way theRepublicans have always done.</p><p> MORE POSTS ABOUT: PAUL KRUGMANU.S.</p><p> Conviction RecordsSee if anyone you know was ever Convictedin a court of lawGovernmentRegistry.orgConvicted Felons JobsFound: 379 Jobs In Your Area. $25-$75/hr.Sign Up & View Now!Felon.View-Local-Jobs.comSkokie Voting Rights LawyerFind local civil rights attorneys in the Skokiearea.www.DexKnows.com Add New Comment Logged in as AnonymousUser Logout from DisqusLogged in asusing Facebook Connect (Logout)Type your comment here.</p><p> Daily Kos"Difference isn't a threat" - Dave Neiwert, theblogosphere's leading expert on the eliminationistmovement, has a typically excellent post about theweekend's tragic shooting at Croo...27 minutes agoFiredoglakeConyers Explains Failure to Impeach - The HouseCommittee on the Judiciary Majority Staff haswritten a Final Report to Chairman John Conyers,Jr. last month (March 2009), REINING IN THEIMPERI...36 minutes agoHuffPost PoliticsAllison Kilkenny: Obama, Nukes, and the World -While Obama's pursuit of nuclear disarmamentwould be noble, double standards, favoritism, andfear-mongering are cancerous elements that robthe U.S. of res...41 minutes agoEschatonBig Shitpile - Still growing...53 minutes agoCrooks and LiarsNCAA Basketball Open Thread - Satire from TheOnion.</p><p> Yeah, yer brackets are in the toilet.</p><p> Openthread for the NCAA Championship game, a regularopen thread appears at 8:30 Pacific Ti...1 hour agoJ O H N ' S P H OT O S Show AllA M E R I C A B L O G T VU.S.</p><p> Conviction RecordsSee if anyone you know was everConvicted in a court of lawGovernmentRegistry.orgConvicted Felons JobsFound: 379 Jobs In Your Area.$25-$75/hr.</p><p> Sign Up & View Now!Felon.View-Local-Jobs.comSkokie Voting Rights LawyerFind local civil rights attorneys inthe Skokie area.www.DexKnows.comConvicted FelonFind more sources/options forConvicted Felonwww.webcrawler.com Awkward moment formormonNext 6AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth: All's Fa...http://www.americablog.com/2004/10/alls-fair-in-love-and-polit... 1 of 64/6/09 10:57 PM
