More signature fraud in Oregon:
Among their many examples: use of carbon paper to transfer signatures from one petition signature sheet to another, the apparent use of “writing circles” in which groups gather to manufacture signatures, and scores of signature sheets in which the address and printed name of the purported signer are written in a different hand from the signature.
So what’s the difference between Oregon and Washington that accounts for the annual signature fraud crime spree down there while there’s nary a whisper of fraud up here? Um, nobody’s looking for it here.
Gee, Republicans are crying that they need voters to carry photo ID to vote, but they object to signature gatherers displaying I.D., or requiring the purported voters signing the petition to display ID or evidence that they are registered to vote in Washington state.
I’ve mentioned several times the signature-gatherer in Bellevue I encountered for one of Eyman’s petitions, who tried to talk my boss (a Japanese national) into signing the petition, saying my boss could “register to vote later”.
So apparently someone is looking for voter fraud.
Reverse the question, what is wrong with ID to vote?
I just note that Republicans are for voter ID when they think it will allow them to prevent voters in targeted precincts from voting (i.e., “challenge squads”), and against it when it will prevent them from putting anti-tax initiatives in the ballot.
But you knew that.
As for requiring ID to vote – I wouldn’t have a problem with it as long as it is (a) very, very, easily attainable, and (b) at no cost, and (c) is applied consistently across the board, and in every phase of the electoral process – including initiative gatherers.
Now that we have to register our party preference for primaries, I’m expecting Republican “challengers” to have notebooks of Democratic names, and challenging each one.
But then, my county (Snohomish) is all vote-by-mail, so nobody is going to be checking any IDs for the time being. On the other hand, they could reject your ballot for any reason they deem to do so, and you won’t know about it.
Republicans aren’t above defrauding soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan out of their right to vote! Especially if they’re black. (You reading this, Puddy? Why do you vote for these swine? How will you explain this to your people?)
“A confidential campaign directed by GOP party chiefs in October 2004 sought to challenge the ballots of tens of thousands of voters in the last presidential election, virtually all of them cast by residents of Black-majority precincts.
“Files from the secret vote-blocking campaign were obtained by BBC Television Newsnight, London. They were attached to emails accidentally sent by Republican operatives to a non-party website.
“One group of voters wrongly identified by the Republicans as registering to vote from false addresses: servicemen and women sent overseas.
“Here’s how the scheme worked: The RNC mailed these voters letters in envelopes marked, ‘Do not forward’, to be returned to the sender. These letters were mailed to servicemen and women, some stationed overseas, to their US home addresses. The letters then returned to the Bush-Cheney campaign as ‘undeliverable.’ The lists of soldiers of ‘undeliverable’ letters were transmitted from state headquarters … to the RNC in Washington. The party could then challenge the voters’ registration and thereby prevent their absentee ballots being counted. …
“The BBC obtained several dozen confidential emails sent by the Republican’s national Research Director and Deputy Communications chief, Tim Griffin to GOP Florida campaign chairman Brett Doster and other party leaders. Attached were spreadsheets marked, ‘Caging.xls.’ Each of these contained several hundred to a few thousand voters and their addresses. A check of the demographics of the addresses on the ‘caging lists,’ as the GOP leaders called them indicated that most were in African-American majority zip codes.
“Ion Sanco, the non-partisan elections supervisor of Leon County (Tallahassee) when shown the lists by this reporter said: ‘The only thing I can think of – African American voters listed like this – these might be individuals that will be challenged if they attempted to vote on Election Day.’ …
“The Republican National Committee in Washington refused our several requests to respond to the BBC discovery. … The party has refused to say why it would mark soldiers as having ‘bad addresses’ subject to challenge when they had been assigned abroad. …
“Setting up such a challenge list would be a crime under federal law.”
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Back to the point – what’s wrong with ID to gather signatures?
Remember, the ONLY official voter fraud found in the last Governor’s election was committed by republicans – according to the republican judge in the republican county in an election overseen by a republican Sec of State.
Man that must irk the right wing turds!
Stefan just reported on this case:
http://blog.usefulwork.com/cgi.....y_id=11064
The end justifies any means in Lunatic Moonbatville.
A.C.O.R.N
out.
Yeah like we care what that right wing loooooser Steffy thinks about anything???
He’s just a republican butt boy. He’s a proven liar and a weak ass punk.