Archive for September 23rd, 2008
GOP Voter Suppression Campaign Charged
Investigative reporter and blogger Brad Friedman who probes election fraud allegations is charging that Republicans across the nation are engaged in a campaign to suppress votes in Democratic enclaves.
Friedman, during an appearance on News Talk Online on Paltalk.com, alleged that the Democrats are engaged under attack but are oblivious to the fact that they are under siege and are not doing much to stop the tactics.
The author of Brad Blog says Republicans are trying to preclude, for example, college students, from voting by making it difficult for them to prove their residency. One tactic is to demand that the young voters, who trend toward supporting Democrat Barack Obama, show they are receiving utility bills at their claimed residences. Impossible, of course, when living in a dorm.
Friedman, who says he is a non-partisan, is involved in or supports several organizations designed to reveal attempts to suppress voting. Among them Save Voting, Standing For Voters and Poll Workers For Democracy.
Suit Charges Absentee Voter Applications Denied
Brunner
In Michigan, a lawsuit by the Democrats charges that the Macomb County Republican Party chairman is illegally trying to challenge voters whose homes have been foreclosed as a way to suppress votes for Barack Obama.
In neighboring Ohio, another key state in the presidential election, it’s the Republicans who are leveling charges at the Democrats.
John McCain campaign adviser William Todd charges in a lawsuit that Democratic Ohio Secretary of States Jennifer Brunner is failing to honor applications for absentee ballots on the grounds that a required box isn’t checked off on the forms.
The box affirms that the person filing the application is a qualified voter. The Republicans, who printed the forms, say it’s not necessary to check the box. Presumably, if a person’s name appears on the voter rolls, that individual is already deemed “qualified” to vote.
George Will Blasts McCain
Cox - scapegoat?
It’s no secret that John McCain was not the first choice of the conservatives in the Republican Party. But most of those who supported Mike Huckabee or Fred Thompson or Rudy Giuliani during the primaries have gotten in line behind McCain. McCain shored up their support by choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate.
But not all conservatives are so willing to embrace McCain as, at least, the anti-Obama. Conservative columnist George Will, for example.
In his op-ed today in the Washington Post, Will blasts McCain for his reactions to the financial crisis facing the nation. And opines that, neither McCain nor Barack Obama are suited to be president of the United States.
Will is particularly upset that McCain puts the blame on the situation on the head of Security and Exchange Commission Chairman Chris Cox, who the Wall Street Journal previously described as “McCain’s scapegoat.”
Will doesn’t go so far as to endorse Obama. But he certainly isn’t offering a ringing endorsement of McCain either.
