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Florida's disgraced former GOP chairman says the party had meetings about "keeping blacks from votin
Topic Started: Jul 28 2012, 03:36 AM (2,027 Views)
Mal

The RepubliThiefs realize their backs are up against the wall, and the only way they can hope to win in 2012 is to steal the election through voter suppression and disenfranchisement, curtailing the hours for weekend voting or absentee ballots, concentrating their efforts in districts and against populations that are primarily black, inner city and pro-Obama.
http://ibw21.org/news-and-commentary/the-conspirac...
They have already accomplished much in Ohio, in which the GOP controls both houses of the Ohio Legislature, the governorship, the secretary of state's office, and the state supreme court.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Four-Ways-Ohio-Re...
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Mal

It seems that trying to cut black voters from the roll is now working,
Last July, a Florida voter suppression law — enacted by the state legislature’s Republican majority and signed by Gov. Rick Scott (R) — went into effect, putting major new restrictions on groups who work to register new voters. HB 1355 imposed harsh new restrictions on third-party voter registration groups, requiring them to turn in completed registration forms 48 hours — to the minute — after completion, or face fines. Though the bill was put on hold in late May by a federal judge, a new report shows the damage was done: Democratic voter registration in Florida ground to a virtual standstill.
In blocking the new law, U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle wrote that HB 1355 would “impose burdensome record-keeping and reporting requirements that serve little if any purpose, thus rendering them unconstitutional even to the extent they do not violate the [National Voter Registration Act].” He granted an injunction, he wrote, because the bill could cause “irreparable harm.” When a voter-participation group “loses an opportunity to register a voter,” he noted, “the opportunity is gone forever.”
That lost opportunity over 11 months had a significant effect. The Florida Times-Union reports that over the 13-months period beginning July 1 of the year before elections in 2004 and 2008, the number of registered Democrats in Florida increased by an average of 209,425 voters. Since July 1, 2011 — the HB 1355 went into effect — that number was just 11,365:
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