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GOP: DON"T LET THEM VOTE!

The GOP"s Absurd Attack on Your Constitutional Right.

It seems the best strategy the GOP can come up with in the upcoming election is to keep as many voters as possible from voting. Unless of course you're on their side.

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5 Stories

  • November 2008

    • Voter Board: Hey Tim, Wanna Do a PSA?

      TMZ  |  Nov 19, 08 9:14 AM CST

      Voter Board: Hey Tim, Wanna Do a PSA?

      (Newser) - The New York City Board of Elections, headed up by a man Tim Robbins has termed a "corrupt scumbag," is reaching out to the prickly actor with an offer he might well resist—turn his Election Day voting tantrum into a civics lesson. TMZ reports that the board is inviting the Bull Durham actor to produce a public-service announcement on voter participation. No comment from camp Robbins. More »

    • Robbins, Officials Still Sparring Over Voting Snafu

      New York Daily News  |  Nov 11, 08 1:50 PM CST

      Robbins, Officials Still Sparring Over Voting Snafu

      (Newser) - Actor and political activist Tim Robbins, who filed a court order to vote after his name wasn’t in the poll books on Election Day, may simply have been in the wrong place at the wrong time. The election commissioner now claims Robbins filed a change-of-address form when he moved in 2004, reports the New York Daily News —and might have known about his new polling place had he bothered to vote since. More »

  • October 2008

    • Swing States Are Illegally Blocking Voters

      New York Times  |  Oct 9, 08 6:46 AM CDT

      Swing States Are Illegally Blocking Voters

      (Newser) - Tens of thousands of voters in at least six battleground states have been illegally removed from the rolls or blocked from voting, a New York Times investigation has discovered. The actions appear to stem from errors in complying with a 2002 federal law rather than from partisan bias, but it is likely to be Democrats who lose votes. More »

    • The Bush League

      AlterNet  |  Oct 3, 08

      In 2002 conservative political journalist John Miller wrote an extraordinary call to arms in which he declared open season on the civil rights division of the Justice Department. This was the division that, for close to fifty years, had been dedicated to erasing the legacy of Jim Crow and protecting the rights of minority voters. Now those rights are being actively challenged.

  • August 2008

    • Dems, GOP Battle Over New Voters

      Wall Street Journal  |  Aug 12, 08 8:47 AM CDT

      Dems, GOP Battle Over New Voters

      (Newser) - Voter registration has become a hot-button election issue in a year that’s seen millions of new voters, the Wall Street Journal reports. In line with party trends, Democrats are working to register as many people as possible and deploying vote-protection legal experts, while Republicans keep a wary eye on potential voter fraud, scanning thousands of new voters’ documents. More »

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