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If you've somehow not picked up, Mr. and Ms. Swing Voter, on the fact that Republicans have no qualms about using dirty (read: illegal) tricks to suppress voter turnout in communities that don't traditionally vote their way, it's time you caught up. And Paul Krugman's column in today's New York Times is an excellent plce to start.
Here's a bit of it:
Block the Vote
by Paul Krugman...Florida is the site of naked efforts to suppress Democratic votes, and the votes of blacks in particular.
Florida's secretary of state recently ruled that voter registrations would be deemed incomplete if those registering failed to check a box affirming their citizenship, even if they had signed an oath saying the same thing elsewhere on the form. Many counties are, sensibly, ignoring this ruling, but it's apparent that some officials have both used this rule and other technicalities to reject applications as incomplete, and delayed notifying would-be voters of problems with their applications until it was too late.
Whose applications get rejected? A Washington Post examination of rejected applications in Duval County found three times as many were from Democrats, compared with Republicans. It also found a strong tilt toward rejection of blacks' registrations....
That excerpt focuses on Florida, where electoral shenanigans have, sadly, become business as usual.
But the rest of the article reminds us that similar dirty pool is being played in many other states around the country, including Oregon, Ohio, Wisconsin, Nevada, and many others.
Could anything be more vile and un-American than voter intimidation and even robbing ing American citizens of their legal right to vote?
They're flirting with fascism, Mr. and Ms. Swing Voter. Pull the plug on these shameful practices on November 2nd, please. Show these lying thugs the door once and for all.
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