Seaver, are you curious, at all, as to why republicans have been pushing this voter I.D. requirment, so vigorously? Can you provide any untainted support for this new hurdle in the way of casting a ballot? Look at the effort and expense to push this restiriction though the courts. I read that, aside from the now exposed outrageous republican driven misinformation campaign attempting to describe a problem that does not exist, there is no justification for the effort and money expended.
If it is not part of the same partisan operation as the late 90's discredited "Florida felon voter purge", what justifies it? Was it important enough to wreck the DOJ and to destroy it's credibility? I'm pushing back Seaver, and your embracing this with open arms.... It seems to be our reflexive natures. You have an ability to downplay, dismiss, or ignore, the information I find significant enough to post.
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Originally Posted by loquitur
I read the transcript of the oral argument at the Supreme Court.
There is not a shadow of a chance in hell that they will toss this Indiana law on the current record. It'll probably be 6-3 or 7-2. Even Breyer was skeptical of the challenge.
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Yeah, loquitur, they're "gettin" it done, aren't they? I weep for the prospects of the least of us, under the thumb of the criminality of these fucking thugs!
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Rove thanks Republican lawyers for their work on 'clean elections'
RAW STORY
Published: Monday April 10, 2006
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In a speech to the Republican National Lawyers Association in Washington last Friday, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove thanked its members for their "work on clean elections," RAW STORY has found.
"I want to thank you for your work on clean elections," Rove said. "I know a lot of you spent time in the 2004 election, the 2002, election, the 2000 election in your communities or in strange counties in Florida, helping make it certain that we had the fair and legitimate outcome of the election."
Rove then suggested that some elections in America were similiar to third world dictatorships.
"We have, as you know, an enormous and growing problem with elections in certain parts of America today," Rove said. "We are, in some parts of the country, I'm afraid to say, beginning to look like we have elections like those run in countries where they guys in charge are, you know, colonels in mirrored sunglasses. <h3>I mean, it's a real problem, and I appreciate that all that you're doing in those hot spots around the country to ensure that the ballot -- the integrity of the ballot is protected, because it's important to our democracy."
Also in attendance on Friday was Mark "Thor" Hearne, the National General Counsel for Bush/Cheney '04 Inc. and also the Executive Director of the non-partisan American Center for Voting Rights, which Brad Blog described as "a Republican front group created by high-level GOP operatives expressly for the purpose of spreading disinformation to sidetrack the Election Reform movement in this country."
"I ran into Thor Hearne as I was coming in," Rove said. "He was leaving; he was smart, and he was leaving to go out and enjoy the day."</h3>
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I also appreciate all that you've done in our campaigns in the past. I know that for some of you it's meant your partners have been swept away to serve in the government, but don't worry, they'll be back with enhanced reputations and the ability to bill even bigger hours. <h3>And we really appreciate what you all have done on our judges. To think that this president has appointed 27 percent of the members of the federal judiciary, and most -- most of all, that he has been able to appoint such terrific individuals to the U.S. Supreme Court. John Roberts and Sam Alito will serve for decades with distinction and integrity, and it's going to be really -- (applause).</h3>
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