"The Wolfe"

markyb:

biteofpythias:

This makes me literally sick to my stomach. This is voter fraud. This is disenfranchisement. This is targeted voter suppression in urban and democratic leaning districts. For those of you making hay about ACORN and purposely misleading to possibility of some rogue voter registers creating “mickey mouse” registrations that would then be voted on - if you don’t read this and realize where the real threat to integrity of elections in this country comes from you are morally and intellectually bankrupt. This is right from the republican machine - the same machine that is looking at home foreclosure lists to target improperly listed home addresses in order to challenge democratic voters. This is the same machine that undertakes efforts to push people toward provisional ballots, which largely go uncounted. Kyle Berry in this linked article is a college student excited to vote for the first time and in a completely unsubstantiated claim from somewhere - is now having her citizenship questioned and is dropped from the roles a week before the election. And she is one of 10’s or even 100’s of thousands in this country at risk of similar treatment. If the media had any gonads at all this sort of stuff should see the end of the republican party and plenty of people in jail. There are whole hell of a lot of moral conservative people in this country and I just wish they could step back for a minute from the passion of the contest to recognize that what this political party has become is disgusting and weakens their arguments in the political process. This party is bankrupt and should be the last group of people around to be throwing terms like un-American around.

Look, as awful as this is, I think a lot of people are going overboard with the conspiracy theories behind it. It very well could have been a computer malfunction, and then you know who is to blame? Not the republican party, but the manufacturers of the system. The reason people are blowing up is because it happened in Georgia, a battleground state. But if it had happened in a red state, everyone would just assume it was a mistake. So at the cost of popularity, I’m giving the GOP the benefit of the doubt on this one. I just hope I’m not wrong.