[Marxism] Today's report on purged voters, other keep-the-voters-away gimmicks

[Fred Feldman]

This is the latest I find on vote stealing and manipulation efforts. Note
that in Florida, moves to disenfranchise voters through purging voting rolls
have had more success.
Fred Feldman


http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/10/31/2008-10-31_as_number_of_
new_voters_swells_so_do_fea.html

As number of new voters swells, so do fears that they won't be counted
BY KENNETH R. BAZINET and GREG B. SMITH 
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS 

Saturday, November 1st 2008, 1:51 AM 

A huge surge of new voters could swamp the nation's ill-prepared election
systems, creating major headaches and possible vote challenges Tuesday,
officials are warning.

A stunning 184 million citizens have registered to vote for this election,
the National Association of Secretaries of State announced Friday. 

That's a 28% jump over the 143 million registered to vote in the 2004
presidential election. 

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And officials predict a turnout of 130 to 140 million, way more than the 122
million who voted four ago, which itself provided the highest turnout since
Richard Nixon beat Hubert Humphrey in 1968. 

As a result, this year will likely be worse than 2004, when a wave of voters
overwhelmed polling stations in battleground states like Ohio. 

"It's going to be really long lines," predicted Larry Norden of the Brennan
Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law. 

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The proof is in the huge turnout for early voting in states around the
nation where waits stretching for as many as seven hours have become the
accepted norm, Norden said. 

"It's going to make for a really long Election Day and unfortunately some
people don't have the time to wait," he said. 

If the election is a blowout, long lines are merely a headache. If the
election is close, people may not get to vote - and results could be called
into question. 

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The biggest issue is new voters whose eligibility is easier to challenge. 

Already campaigns have been launched in two swing states, Ohio and Florida,
to disqualify new voters whose voter registration conflicts with other
databases. 

In Ohio, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a GOP attempt to challenge 200,000
voters, and the U.S. Department of Justice refused to intervene. 

In Florida, a "No Match, No Vote" law checking voter registration against
various governmental databases survived a court challenge. 

A lower court upheld a challenge to the law by the NAACP, but the law was
reinstated on appeal and went into effect Sept. 8. As of last week 9,000 "no
match" voters had been flagged. 

In Florida, site of the 2000 election debacle, voting machines are also an
issue. 

Palm Beach County, home of the notorious "hanging chad," ditched paper
ballots for touchscreen machines. Unfortunately, during a vote this year on
a circuit judge, phantom votes turned up. 

Electioneering chicanery meant to keep poor and minority voters at home has
erupted around the country in recent weeks, campaign officials reported. 

Some examples: 

 

In states like New Mexico, Nevada, Colorado and Arizona, Latino voters
received telephone calls from people who claimed that they could vote by
phone to avoid long lines at the polls. 
 

In predominantly African-American West Philadelphia, leaflets turned up
falsely warning of arrests at the polls for voters with outstanding parking
tickets. 
 

Flyers with an authentic-looking Virginia state seal told voters in the
Hampton Roads region they could avoid lines at the polls by voting next
Wednesday - a day after the balloting nationwide. 
 

In St. Louis officials found that a woman dead for months cast an absentee
ballot in the presidential primary.