One for the files on poll-watching and vote-challenging in 2012, from an op-ed in the Tennessean in Nashville:
A leader of Tennessee True the Vote attended poll official training with the Davidson County Election Commission by invitation of the Republican administrator of elections. Along with fielding 1 million poll watchers, this group is clearly laying the groundwork to field poll officials. When you go vote in November, the person checking your ID and looking you up in a poll book or instructing you on the use of the voting machines may be affiliated with voter suppression.
True the Vote is a project of the King Street Patriots, a Tea Party chapter in Houston, Texas. One True the Vote leader tells volunteers their goal is to give voters a feeling "like driving and seeing the police following you." In Tennessee, the former elections administrator who wrote the column says True the Vote gave local officials a list of homeless voters who addresses have changed, so those voters can be challenged.
On the flip side, the Protect the Vote Tennessee Coalition is organizing a counter effort at poll-watching, the idea being to help people vote. Hey...
(Bonus read: The Advancement Project's new report (pdf) on new laws and challenge that could discourage Latino voters.)
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Gee maybe we need to get the U.N. involved in ensuring a fair and honest polling?
Oooops we only call on the U.N. when we want to ensure democracy in Foreign countries.Viva the republic!
Hey, according to Mitt's taxes, WE are a foreign country - so bring on the U.N.!
Well Mitt is a multi-national screw up uh I mean corporation.
This issue angers me more than any other. Like the issue of women's
reproductive rights, this is a fight we already fought and won. Before voters
cast their ballots for President, they ought to know what each candidate's party
is up to behind the scenes. Will this election be bought or stolen by Republicans?
I laugh at anyone that pulls the "this fight has already been decided" line. It reminds me of growing up, the gambling lobby had a bill every year to legalize gambling, and every year for it seemed like ten years, it lost. Then they did it in a minor election and didn't get much turnout and won -- and ever since then they would say it's been voted on and decided and you can't go back and fix the mistake.
It's like asking an illiterate to monitor the national spelling bee finals..
Two heads are better than one, I say to even the playing field, we make it fair and send some Occupy protestors to help out.
There is going to be a fight break out in one of these polling locations and I wonder which side the police will be on?
Which side are the police always on? The side of the white moron giving non-whites grief or....
Being a denizen of TN, and having been told by a Metro cop that it was my fault the Tea Party racist waved a gun in my face in the middle of downtown Nashville, I would suggest that keeping the police away is probably the best course.
How did the poll watchers initially verify a homeless person's address to enable them to challenge it at the poll? Is there a secret mass effort to move all large cardboard boxes prior to election day?
Now, that they won't allow dead people to vote, how will they get all the Republican votes they need?
No the GOTP doesn't want dead republicans to vote, they just want to ban anyone they think might vote against them.
I hope one old those senile old morons tries to show up at my polling place. There are places in the San Fernando Valley where old fundamentalist fools from Porter Ranch (the only guaranteed Republican area left) ought not to go.
To bad there cannot be a national guard presence. This suppression reeks of racism and I hope the voters will not tolerate it.
I am disapointed in this disgaceful act by politicians. I would rather lose honestly than win by cheating. All this says to me is they don't feel the same way.
It's actually Screw the Vote. The members of the group all happen to have the exact same speech impediment.
Voter surppression by the GOP is a new form of slavery. If you take away a man's vote you take away his voice. If you take away a man's voice you have taken away his choice in his future. Once you have taken away a man's choice regarding his future he is now at the mercy of those who deprived him of his voice. DonT let them take our voices!
Voter suppresion by the GOP is a new form of slavery. If you take away a man's vote you take away his voice. If you take away a man's voice you have taken away his choice in his future.Once you have taken away a man's choice regarding his future he is now at the mercy of those who deprived him of his vote.
Don't let them take your voice.
Catherine Englebrecht, the founder of King Street Patriots and True the Vote does not live in Houston, TX as reported in the MSM. She is not a maven from an oil and gas background as previously reported. She lives in a normal tract house in Rosenburg, TX. She is the sister in law of Arthur George Wallace Englebrecht of Flower Mound, Texas. Catherine Englebrecht's husband Bryan Englebrecht registered a new company in Texas after the 2008 election. The name of the company? Plan B Firearms Inc. This is one creepy family with BAD intentions. Nothing is "true" or "patriotic" about them. They scare the hell out of me.