Voter Intimidation and Fraud - Link Farm and Editorial, reposted from Facebook

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I am writing this as a note because there are simply too many links to repost individually even if I'd posted each one right as they came up.

It's a shame, as in a truly shameful practice, that people who feel threatened by groups of "others" or threatened by people who disagree with their ideas, would channel that feeling into trying to stop others from exercising their RIGHT to vote, instead of harnessing that energy for positive action. But, then, fear is often a reaction to change or perceived change, and I doubt many of these groups and individuals like change or have the skills to accept it.

I believe that intentionally depriving any citizen who is legally eligible to vote, of their ability to vote, is treason.

Some of these links are about predatory and misleading Voter ID and Fraud ads in predominantly non-Caucasian areas, some of them are about prevention and intimidation tactics, about "losing" or destroying voter registrations, about "accidentally" printing the wrong voting date or other crucial info on materials only going to non-English-speakers, about private citizens banding together to challenge the eligibility of other private citizens to vote, about high numbers of early votes already cast by poor people and African-Americans being lost to "glitches", about scams occurring in all parts of the country trying to convince the elderly and other populations that they do not need to go to the polls if they just vote by phone, some about electronic vote hacking in previous elections. As recently as just this Friday, we see Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted drastically changing requirements for submitting provisional ballots at the eleventh hour, forcing voters rather than poll workers to fill out confusing proof of ID forms that disqualify and trash otherwise legal votes if the form is filled out incorrectly.

I do not expect any person to read each one of these links, but if you at least scan the list of URLs you will get a sense of the stories most of them are covering. What I do expect is for every person to get out there Tuesday and VOTE.

VOTE DAMNIT.

http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-city/index.ssf/2012/11/oregon_department_of_justice_i_1.html [NEW]

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/11/ohios-provisional-ballot-order-the-biggest-legal-story-of-the-weekend/264498/

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/true-vote-intimidating-minority-voters-polls/story?id=17618823

http://www.theuptake.org/2012/11/04/mn-voter-restriction-author-has-history-of-voter-suppression/

http://www.nbc29.com/story/19858475/rockingham-police-make-arrest-in-trashed-voter-forms-investigation

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/10/18/arizona-county-lists-wrong-election-date-on-spanish-language-voter-documents/

http://articles.philly.com/2012-10-17/news/34527190_1_voter-id-law-cathy-engel-menendez-peco-spokeswoman

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/16/voter-suppression-tricksters_n_1970272.html

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/10/15/1010051/pennsylvania-ads-still-suggest-id-required-to-vote/

http://pdacommunity.org/arizona/2332-election-date-error-on-more-az-forms

http://www.thenewsdispatch.com/articles/2012/10/24/news/local/doc5085f15b0788d784162625.txt

https://www.facebook.com/senatorhowell/posts/536534116360063

http://americablog.com/2012/11/computer-glitch-votes-black-florida-county-election-fraud.html

http://www.14news.com/story/19994058/ca-couple-find-absentee-ballots-dumped-near-home-more-than-once

http://truth-out.org/news/item/2319:new-court-filing-reveals-how-the-2004-ohio-presidential-election-was-hacked

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/26/1150485/-Retired-NSA-Analyst-Proves-GOP-Is-Stealing-Elections

http://www.themoneyparty.org/main/2012/10/rigged-elections-for-romney/

http://www.ukprogressive.co.uk/breaking-retired-nsa-analyst-proves-gop-is-stealing-elections/article20598.html

http://signon.org/sign/ohio-secretary-of-state.fb23