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From this week's Rolling stone...
...Suppressing the vote has long been a
cornerstone of the GOP's electoral strategy. Shortly before the
election of Ronald Reagan in 1980, Paul Weyrich — a principal
architect of today's Republican Party — scolded evangelicals
who believed in democracy. "Many of our Christians have what I call
the 'goo goo' syndrome — good government," said Weyrich, who
co-founded Moral Majority with Jerry Falwell. "They want everybody
to vote. I don't want everybody to vote. . . . As a matter of fact,
our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting
populace goes down."
Today, Weyrich's vision has become a national reality. Since
2003, according to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, at
least 2.7 million new voters have had their applications to
register rejected. In addition, at least 1.6 million votes were
never counted in the 2004 election — and the commission's own
data suggests that the real number could be twice as high. To purge
registration rolls and discard ballots, partisan election officials
used a wide range of pretexts, from "unreadability" to changes in a
voter's signature. And this year, thanks to new provisions of the
Help America Vote Act, the number of discounted votes could surge
even higher....
Complete piece in the link provided...
So I say this. How dare they piss and moan about a few workers
who are actually frauding ACORN, not swinging any election, while they
have purged this many people from the voter rolls. And how dare the
media not mention this!
