No such problems in Canada thank goodness!
jh
----- Original Message -----
From: "Winsor Crosby" <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2007 9:55 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] little rant on e-mail politeness
>
> The list of problems in our last four elections is legion. People
> threatened by police in their homes for organizing get out the vote
> drives in their "wrong" neighborhood(Florida). Rejection of voter
> registration applications because they were on the wrong weight of
> paper after having them printed on the wrong weight paper and issuing
> them to potential voters(Ohio) Volunteer voter registration
> campaigns run by the Republican Party in which all the registrations
> for the opposing party were thrown into trash bins instead of being
> filed so that the person could vote(Nevada). Voting machines counting
> more votes in a precinct than registered voters, all for the party
> that won(Ohio). Voting machines delivered in generous numbers to well-
> to-do precincts and in inadequate numbers to working class
> neighborhoods resulting in hours long waits to vote, while unused
> machines sat in warehouses(Ohio). Voting machines stored without
> security so that they could not be tampered with(Ohio). So called
> "vote caging" which is a fraudulent practice of disqualifying voters
> of the wrong persuasion(Ohio, Florida, New Mexico, Nevada). The
> Republican Party has been under a legal injunction to since the late
> 90's to no longer engage in the practice, but the recent Senate
> judiciary committee hearings revealed that it was still being
> practiced, but with no action by the Justice Department. Voters
> challenged by party operatives because their name is on a caging list
> and prevented from voting. A voter came forward(in Arizona, I
> believe) and asked whether her vote could be rescinded because she
> thought she was not properly registered. Tried and imprisoned for
> voter fraud. Voting machine corporations controlled by CEOs who have
> made public statements to reelect the current regime "by any means
> necessary"(Diebold) and State Officers with election responsibility
> prominently placed in party reelection organizations(Florida, Ohio,
> and probably many others).
>
> Just a few of the documented cases. Lots of reasons for voter anger.
>
>
>
> Winsor
> Long Beach, California, USA
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>
> On / August 25, 2007 CE, at 3:01 PM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
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>> It was my understanding that one of the reasons for poor turn-out was
>> the scarcity of election booths and the fact that voting was on a
>> work day. I may have been misinformed (about the geography, that is!)
>> The 'angry people' was a reference to the voters - you know that
>> they're seething inside. :)
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