romney rules in iowa

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by Riot

Yes, that is fanning the flames.

There is plenty of documented voter intimidation (True the Vote, billboards) but that is all being investigated and pretty apparent.

There is concern about Romney family owning part of the company that supplies the voter machines in Texas and Ohio, but that's probably just hysteria.

There was a reporter who tried to early vote in Texas this week, using his utility bill (legal voter ID) and the poll worker wouldn't let him vote, until he made a fuss and got a supervisor. They didn't know he could vote without a drivers license, which is just wrong. What if that was a spanish-speaking person, or someone who didn't know the poll workers were wrong on the voting law? They would have left without voting.

There are currently cases of people in early voting states who have voted by mail having their votes being discarded without their knowledge or further comment because signatures "don't match" the signature on the voting rolls.

There have been thousands of voters taken off voting rolls in various states illegally in purges, and that has been pursued at the state level and via lawsuit by DOJ and ACLU.

It just came to light that the Romney pollworkers in Wisconsin were being taught things as pollworkers (regarding ID) that was not legally true. They were just given wrong information. And they were told to arrive at the polls and register as "independent" observers, rather than "republican" workers. That doesn't breed trust, especially in an imported state like Wisconsin.

There is the long history of the first mayor Daley of Chicago, which has tarred and feathered every other Democrat since in the minds of the shallow regarding "union thugs" and "dead voters", etc.

The problem is the 2000 election has made everyone distrustful: Gore won Florida. Gore won the popular vote. But the Supreme Court stopped the count and gave the election to Bush via electoral college. In retrospect, yes, I think that election was "stolen" (and I voted for Bush!)

Have the FBI voter intimidate number with you, go to the polls, and vote. And don't let backwater jerks as polling workers stop you. Know your state voting laws.

I totally disagree with you about Florida in 2000. Bush won Florida. Gore tried to steal it. Some members of the all Democratic Florida Supreme Court tried to help him steal it. They were going to keep tampering with those ballots until Gore had more votes. Luckily the US Supreme Court put an end to it.

I don't know if you remember but even democratic judges in Florida said the election was over and Bush won. But then Gore would appeal to the Florida Supreme Court. All 7 Justices on the Fla. Supreme Court were democrats and the Court kept overturning every decision and ruling in favor of Gore. Their rulings weren't even unanimous in any of their pro-Gore rulings. There were a couple of Democrats on the Florida Supreme Court who said the election was over and Bush won, but they got out-voted by the other partisan democrats on the Court each time that Gore would appeal to them.

People talk about the US Supreme Court being partisan in their ruling. What about the Florida Supreme Court? That court was a joke. Even a couple of the Democrats on that Court thought it was disgraceful what they were doing.