Kennedy and Palast are accusing the republicans of such things as:
- at least 2.7 million new voters have had their applications to register rejected
- a Republican secretary of state blocked 43 percent of all new voters in Los Angeles from registering in early 2006
- states reported scrubbing at least 10 million voters from their rolls on questionable grounds between 2004 and 2006
- Colorado holds the record: Donetta Davidson, the Republican secretary of state, and her GOP successor oversaw the elimination of nearly one of every six of their state's voters.
- In 2004, a third of all provisional ballots — as many as 1 million votes — were simply thrown away at the discretion of election officials [as a result of caging operations].
- Add up all the modern-day barriers to voting erected since the 2004 election — the new registrations thrown out, the existing registrations scrubbed, the spoiled ballots, the provisional ballots that were never counted — and what you have is millions of voters, more than enough to swing the presidential election, quietly being detached from the electorate by subterfuge.
Jerry, is the Colorado statistic in the Rolling Stone article, or do you have another source?
ReplyDeleteAll the bullet points are direct quotes from the article. I probably should have referenced that better.
ReplyDeleteGotcha, thanks.
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