Discussion: A Huge Reported Voter Drive In Ferguson Apparently Didn't Happen

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People who don’t vote get screwed in America. People who don’t find a way to get registered to vote (despite GOP roadblocks) get screwed in America.

Look at exit polling in poll after poll. The people who get shut out of the American dream are the people who don’t vote.

We’ll get equality for more people in America when we get more people to the polls exercising the power of the vote. Period.

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I love the term “hanky-panky.” I just do. Calling disenfranchisement hanky-panky somehow makes it all so mid-century adorable.

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Something about this smells like shit.

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Wonder if Yakkity Sax was playing in the background when she said that?

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fraud… disenfranchisement? no way… not even a little hanky panky to see here…

hmm…

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Probably that truckload of registration cards that just ended up at the incinerator.

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There was a post at Raw Story about a young Black man who stood up at the Ferguson city council meeting and declared ‘we have the power’.

I caught hell in the comment thread because I expressed doubt that he had any power, because Blacks did not bother to register to vote in Ferguson. Not happy that I was right in the end.

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3,287 residents changed addresses since Aug. 9? That seems unlikely. What was this report and how did it get “mixed up” with a report on voter registration? This whole situation needs a much better explanation. I certainly hope Dylan Scott is still trying to contact the local NAACP and League of Women Voters.

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Sounds like vote caging to me, although it was done pretty quickly if it was the direct mail gambit so common since we all came to know and love Katherine Harris in 2000.

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Sorry, but this just doesn’t pass the smell test.

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Hopefully this story isn’t true, or else it pretty much guarantees that nothing will change there.

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And speaking of voting, here’s a federal court decision that augurs well for the future.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/10/07/3577120/breaking-federal-court-declares-virginias-congressional-maps-unconstitutional/

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It’s not just that. It’s also:
(a) In assessing any democracy, you would reasonably expect that a result of continually poor voter turnout would be corrupt and/or incompetent government. So it says a lot about the GOP–and none of it good–that low turn-out favors their party; and
(b) The Rs have an astonishing degree of difficulty in processing the fact that Americans who don’t look or think like themselves are, in fact, Americans. (This is similar to their problem in comprehending that the 50% of Americans with ovaries are not, in fact, a special-interest group of negligible importance.)

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At the very least, does it seem reasonable that a concerted effort to register voters in Ferguson post Brown would yield only 128 new voters?

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Don’t vote…don’t complain.

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“The Rs have an astonishing degree of difficulty in processing the fact that Americans who don’t look or think like themselves are, in fact, Americans. (This is similar to their problem in comprehending that the 50% of Americans with ovaries are not, in fact, a special-interest group of negligible importance.)”

Times a thousand.

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Nyuh huh. Uh huh. Yeah. Nothing suspicious about that change.

The idea that the NAACP and the LWV only managed to get 128 new registrations is what’s ridiculous. (And that’s assuming none of the 128 registered themselves on their own initiative.)

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Don’t forget the Southern Poverty Law Center. And too bad Holder didn’t make this his last, perhaps, signature act to investigate St. Louis County law enforcement.

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Holder isn’t gone yet.

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