Crist and GOP Officials Accuse Republicans of Voter Suppression

[ODENTON]

Voter suppression, the Dems knew this all the time.
Good for them for speaking out.


"According to a report in the Palm Beach Post, current and former Republican Party officials in Florida have confirmed what voting-rights advocates have long suspected: That the GOP has hyped concerns about voter fraud as a means to reduce Democratic election turnout."

"Wayne Bertsch, who handles local and legislative races for Republicans, said he knew targeting Democrats was the goal."



http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012...rida-crist-gop

[Calamari]

Wow, that's a lot of egg on the faces of the folks here defending voter suppression.

[ODENTON]

Wow, that's a lot of egg on the faces of the folks here defending voter suppression.

They're use to it by now. All the work the GOP put in legal and illegal trying to get shuffles elected and still fail is of historic proportions.

I think more repubs will be speaking out about this voter fraud malarkey in the near future.

[zenwalk]

Former Governor Charlie Crist told the Post that party leaders approached him when he was governor to see if he'd back efforts to limit early voting. While he didn't recall the officials explicitly saying their intention was to target black voters, Crist said that "it looked to me like that was what was being suggested. And I didn't want them to go there at all."

In 2011, Crist's successor, Republican Gov. Rick Scott, signed a bill passed by the GOP-controlled legislature that slashed Florida's early voting period from two weeks to eight days. (The bill also tightened restrictions on voter registration laws, although many of those provisions were tossed after a court challenge.) This November, Florida was plagued with long early voting lines that extended into Election Day and may well have disenfranchised voters.

The only way to stop crime is to prosecute. Arrest and charge them. Florida has been corrupting the process since the GOP stole the 2000 election. It's all a big joke to these basturds.

[zenwalk]

Crist's claims were echoed by former Florida Republican party chairman Jim Greer, who told the Post he was first approached about restricting early voting in 2009. Greer told the Post: "The Republican Party, the strategists, the consultants, they firmly believe that early voting is bad for Republican Party candidates. It's done for one reason and one reason only…'We've got to cut down on early voting because early voting is not good for us.'…They never came in to see me and tell me we had a (voter) fraud issue. It's all a marketing ploy."

Arrest therm. It will stop. These people are cowards.

[zenwalk]

“The Republican Party, the strategists, the consultants, they firmly believe that early voting is bad for Republican Party candidates,” Greer told The Post. “It’s done for one reason and one reason only. … ‘We’ve got to cut down on early voting because early voting is not good for us,’ ” Greer said he was told by those staffers and consultants.
“They never came in to see me and tell me we had a (voter) fraud issue,” Greer said. “It’s all a marketing ploy.”
Greer is now under indictment, accused of stealing $200,000 from the party through a phony campaign fundraising operation. He, in turn, has sued the party, saying GOP leaders knew what he was doing and voiced no objection.

And we wonder where we went wrong. Time to pull on this weed called the GOP and see where the tap root leads.



http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/ne...er-play/nTFDy/