Block the Vote
Will the GOP's campaign to deter new voters and discard Democratic ballots determine the next president?
On February 5th, the day of the Super Tuesday caucus, a school-bus driver named Paul Maez arrived at his local polling station to cast his ballot. To his surprise, Maez found that his name had vanished from the list of registered voters, thanks to a statewide effort to deter fraudulent voting. For Maez, the shock was especially acute: He is the supervisor of elections in Las Vegas. Full Story »
Posted by Beth Wellington
The authors' focus on stolen votes ignores the real and more crucial problem of stolen elections. In 2000 and 2004, the President was sworn in BEFORE the popular vote was counted. Even if every eligible voter was able to cast a ballot and even if every single ballot was tallied accurately, it would not prevent Congress from swearing in the President before the popular vote is counted and without regard to the popular vote. For more on this see "Stolen Votes and Stolen Elections" at http://globalpundit.org/2008/10/13/oped-stolen-votes-and-stolen-elections/ or http://www.opednews.com/articles/OpEd-Stolen-Votes-and-Sto-by-Mark-E-Smith-081014-17.html