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Good sign….maybe the South Florida Hispanics are finally seeing where a Republican vote will get them…..
In the battle for Hispanic votes this fall, South Florida may well be “ground zero.”
That’s according to Sergio Bendixen, a pollster who released new data Wednesday from a survey funded by the Hispanic voter registration group, Democracia [...]

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Crossposted from Blue Bloggin(an awesome blog):
by Bosskitty
Veterans Administration Bars Voter Registration Drives for Wounded Soldiers
On April 25, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) issued Directive 2008-023, “Voting Assistance for VA Patients,” allowing voter registration drives in VA hospitals, only to reverse itself on May 5 with Directive 2008-025. Without registration drives, [...]

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Oh, we talk the big talk, but…
It’s getting extremely difficult to brag about being an American. Take voting, for example. Doesn’t it make you feel sad when you come to realize that, as far as honest elections goes, your country ranks low on the scale? Even purple-fingered Iraqis laugh at us.
Confusing ballot designs still plague [...]

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You’d have to be a really big FUCK UP to listen to this pimpled-ass, draft-dodging FAT FUCK…
Limbaugh throws support to ‘weaker’ Obama
Rush Limbaugh, between crowing about the success and attention of his “Operation Chaos,” switched sides in the Democratic primary this morning.
“I now urge the Democratic superdelegates to go publicly make your mind up for [...]

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Instead of appending/updating an older post, I opted to give the following it’s own deserving spot.
Washington Monthly commenter, Sparko, has a few things to say about the recent Supreme Court photo ID decision:
I call into question every previous election before the invention of photography then. I say we make the supreme court an elected office. [...]

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Yes, in vain. The wealthy are in charge and the wealthy do not give a damn if you or I go hungry.
They have half of us voting one way and the other half voting the other. You want change? Stop voting against your own self-interests!
Truckers rally in Washington, seeking lower gas prices
WASHINGTON (AP) — Horns [...]

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People are worried that a McCain presidency will move the SCOTUS too far to the right. I think it’s already there.
Supreme Court says states can demand photo ID for voting. From the lead opinion:

It remains true, however, that flagrant examples of such fraud in other parts of the country have been documented throughout this Nation’s [...]

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The politicalization of government…..now there’s something GW was good at.
For at least four years, since the 2004 presidential election, when a veteran, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., was the Democratic Party nominee, the Department of Veterans Affairs has blocked efforts to help U.S. soldiers register to vote at its facilities in all 50 states.
“This is [...]

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Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early

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Yep, they sure did!
A team of university computer experts who examined the machines after the election suggested the problem was voter confusion over a poorly designed ballot that had drawn complaints from voters. The District 13 race was listed at the top of the second page of the ballot without the same type of header [...]

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