This time we're watching.
When the NY Times released a report stating that some states, including my own home state of Michigan, were possibly breaking the law in the way they were removing voters from the rolls - Secretary of State Terri Lynne Land (R)called foul.
Let's see, who are we going to believe ... the NY Times ... or a republican?
Surprise!
As it turns out, Michigan was indeed illegally removing voters from the rolls. And today a federal judge ordered nearly 15 hundred of those names restored as eligible voters. Unfortunately, the voter suppression was so pervasive, 200,000 names will be lost to the roll because according to the judge there's no comprehensive way to insure that they could restore them without restoring possibly fraudulant names simultaneously.
Murphy said a second practice -- removing the names of people who apply for driver’s licenses in other states -- also is illegal, but the prospects of restoring the names of about 200,000 people, only a few of whom were wrongly removed, "would risk grave harm to the public interest by permitting a large number of ineligible voters to vote."
The NY Times was charitable in saying that a coordinated effort by republicans in six seperate states to remove voters ... states which just happen to be swing states in the 2008 Presidential election ... didn't necessarily suggests that republicans were trying to defraud anyone.
How nice of them. I, on the other hand, wouldn't expect anything less than breaking every single law necessary to keep republicans in power. There's nothing but circumstantial evidence, the fact that the vast majority of these voters will likely be Democratic voters, to suggest that there's anything afoot.
Well, there's that - and history. A republican is someone you can not trust. If they are saying one thing, put your money on the other.
(See Also Kossack Glownz's diary for more background on this story)
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