Voting Problems

Michael, Much better story than the signs one. Thanks.

Michael, which party is accused of doing the most voter intimidation? I have a wild guess.

In Drudge’s “Black People Are Taking Over Your World Photo of the Day,” it looks like the second lady is holding a “Voting for Dummies” book.

Registration-related problems rank #1 in nearly every battleground state – hundreds of calls focus on that problem

There’s an important piece of information missing from this sentence. By registration problems are we referring to people trying to vote who discover they aren’t registered or are we talking about people discovering bogus registrations?

Without that key clarification the sentence is almost meaningless.

Paul Dirks, As a general matter, registration problems refers to anything that prevents someone from being listed on the rolls so they can vote. I doubt elections officials, who are the ones who would discover bogus registrations, are calling the hotline in any significant number. They have their own chains of command. Bogus registrations are an election day issue mainly as an issue of voter fraud (that is, voters coming to polls to vote under an improper registration). I am aware of no reports of this problem so far on any meaningful scale.

MS:
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I’m going to venture, that almost without exception, these incidences relate to Republican sponsored or implemented actions.
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Are you going to elaborate, or has this aspect been put on ‘relentlessly ignore’?

Great info, Michael, thanks.

MD I would have liked to give you some credit for reporting on a relevant story — clearly more important than the long lost aunt since you didn’t focus on the illegal leak angle. But I can only must partial credit because I only knew what the problem was because I already knew what the problem was. From you article there is no way to glean that these “registration problems” is a Republican assault on the right of citizens to vote.

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I would have liked to give you some credit for reporting on a relevant story — clearly more important than the long lost aunt since you didn’t focus on the illegal leak angle. But I can only must partial credit because I only knew what the problem was because I already knew what the problem was. From you article there is no way to glean that these “registration problems” is a Republican @ssault on the right of citizens to vote.

MS — did you not understand from Paul’s comment that your post had a glaring deficiency. Obviously you weren’t implying that election officials were calling the hotline. But by not elaborating on the facts you were in essence covering up the fact that Republicans are heavily engaged in tactics that are designed to prevent Democratic voters from exercising their right to vote.
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You want it both ways Micheal. You want to get credit for not being a tire swinger because you are reporting on this most relevant story. But you also want to report the story in a way that is least damaging to the McCain campaign — rendering the post, as Paul would put it, meaningless!

@MS Thanks for the reply. That’s kind of what I tought but I wasn’t sure.

Where is the quotation from?

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