ABC News: 'Tis the Season of Election Dirty Tricks: Scaring Student Voters

when more poeple vote dems win.. sayign undercover police is intimidating.. you did read that the flier said if you had unpaid parking tickets to clear them up before voting?

 Now if their was the slightest chacne you may be detained for long periods for a simple unpaid ticket.. woudl you show up?

or how about a felon in a state where he woudl still have the right to voe even if convicted,.. and he knows he has warrants.. do you think he will show up? I know many dont care if a felon loses his rights but when you start thinking like that we might as well throw out america.

 Or how about if you just look like one of those poeplt hat gets "harassed" byt he police often, a skater, a hippy, a minority.. dotn think they might say "Screw the hassle?"

That's true, I never thought of that.

Wow, that really is scummy.

Are you guys saying that more Democratic voters have legal issues than Republican voters? Why would you attack the Democratic Party like that?

Again, are you saying the Democratic Party is dependent on black youth with outstanding legal issues to win this thing? You're making a terrible statement about the Democratic Party.

What they're saying, Fred, is that if you can keep a portion of a party's constituency from voting, you've weakened the entire party's chances of winning the election. Winning an election relies on EVERY legal voter doing his/her part. Not just the "perfect" ones.

These tactics just focus on the easiest parts of that constituency to intimidate.

Okay wheel, so you've said that it's a tactic to keep the black youth with legal issues from voting. In the state below mine, Virginia is fighting to have convicted fellons vote. Apparently, the democrats need those votes to get the state in Obama's camp. I tell you what, let's do a study and figure out what would happen to a government if we had more and more people who had trouble keeping within the law vote. Maybe, if you're lucky, we'll have a fellons and law breaker's voting rights group. They can gather and, who knows, if Bill Ayers is running the show, maybe they can legalize bombing as a means of attaining what they want. That should be a dems utopia.

Right now, I'd rather go after whoever's responsible for the Wall Street mess. Because, whatever damage you may think Bush and Cheney have done, believe it or not, it pales in comparison to the havoc that will befall the Earth if this financial crisis deepens any further.

And by the way, you didn't say anything about blacks and it's "telling" about me? Here's a quote, your words, not mine, written before I mentioned any race "it's an effective way to limit democrats, usually younger and often black, from showing up at the poll." So don't give me this "telling" crap like I'm racist or something. You're the one that brought up race, not me.

There are still a lot of conservative states that block people from voting if they have records.

I take care of an ex fellon who was trapped in a sex violation when he was barely of age, At age 55, he thought he would never be able to vote because it had been the law when he was younger.  He's a high school dropout, but paid his debt and worked before being completely handicapped from a car incident.

It actively took somebody like myself to not only change his mind about what he thought, but also to get him registered. He's actually too conservative for me, and tends to vote along the lines of his union -- teamsters.

Does it mean that he shouldn't vote? Hell No.

There are still many states in the country that are vindictive, refusing to let someone with an arrest record from ever voting again.  There are ten's of millions of adults in this country who have drug arrest records they picked up as kids.  Should they be permanently be disallowed by conservatives who control state governments where this behavior goes all the way back to the chain gang racism of the past?

Its simple.  Racist tactics continue to be used.

George Bush had it right when he said "They hate us for our freedoms."  However, he was targeting the wrong group.

Good counterpoint! Unfortunately.

LMAO! The Republicans hate America? This coming from the Jeremiah Wright crowd. You guys are hysterical.

We're pretty big on freedom from taxes, freedom for ridiculous political correctness, freedom from the media trying to tell us what to think.

But it won't happen this time. If they steal the White House by trickery, then we'll take it back by force. Never again!

The Republicans have shown their ugly side and now the Democrats, or are you an Independent Mr. Snyder, have shown theirs. Who is going to be the one who decides trickery has been used? If Obama looses, is that the go for you to commit violence against the government? Or will you let the courts take action? But what if they find in favor of the Republicans? What is your standard for proof of trickery Mr. Snyder?

Sounds like someone has been reading from the Ayers book of insurrection. Nice to see that there are some militant types backing Obama.

Whats funny about this whole thing is, is that when Palin was revving up the McCain supporters and neither she nor McCain were admonishing them for saying the things they did, many Viners were up in arms. Anyone want to join in and agree with me about threatening violence against the government if things don't go someones way? What is it that some Obama supporters have been saying...oh yeah...pot meet kettle.

littlereddog------I've been one of those poll monitors, in Ohio in 2004. Everyone in my family did it.
There are some mean, arrogant GOP election workers to deal with; they can kick us out for no good reason. The odd thing was, in Ohio we were forced to do it because the GOP demanded to have their "poll monitors"---read: operatives----in the polling sites, so we were there, too. They paid theirs, Dems just volunteered ;-)
And we need every possible person to volunteer to do this during Nov. 4th, plus filming the vote and vote-count processes.
Please consider volunteering & share this info with every Dem or Obama supporter you know & encourage vounteering to do this monitoring or other duties. This will be the biggest turn-out of any US election in history.

It is just not enough to show up to vote this time; we all need to contribute a bit more, if only for this single day. Drive people with transportation problems, volunteer at polling sites, bring snacks & drinks for people who will be standing in line for hours. One day, only one day for our nation, to wrench it back for our future and for the rest of this planet.