This is not a rant on e-mail politeness. It's a partisan rant from
one narrow perspective. I'm sure our Republican friends could come up
with as many or more incidents of Democratic shenanigans at the
polls. Fact is, though, I'm not interested in political regurgitation
from either extreme (or the middle, either), and I hope this stops
here and now. With all due respect, of course. After all, this thread
is about e-mail politeness.
--Bob Whitmire
www.bwp33.com
On Aug 25, 2007, at 8:55 PM, Winsor Crosby wrote:
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> 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 believe) and asked whether her vote could be rescinded because she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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