Former GOP Leaders accuse their party of working to suppress the vote to ensure a GOP victory. Former Republican Party of Florida Chairman Jim Greer and former Gov. Charlie Crist said that the GOP knew that early voting would be bad for the party.
The Palm Beach Post reported that the former Republican leaders said that a new Florida law, HB 1355, "contributed to long voter lines and caused some to abandon voting altogether was intentionally designed by Florida GOP staff and consultants to inhibit Democratic voters," and there was never a concern by the party that voter fraud was an issue.
As the GOP leaders at the time, the question is if this story were true, why did Greer and Crist allow such behavior? Clearly, any attempt at voter suppression should result in heads rolling.
Greer is currently accused of funneling campaign funds from the Republican Party and is under indictment. Charlie Crist endorsed Obama for president but has been convincingly painted as a "political opportunist." The former GOP Leaders' accusation is sickening, and shocking. If anyone hints, ever, of policies to "suppress" the vote, that individual should be immediately fired.
Just as importantly, as previously noted, without photo identification requirements, fraud will be easier. This is a simple truth. In order to protect Americans from fraud, a compromise should be reached. Pew Research Center poll found that voters were "increasingly worried about the accuracy of elections," as reported by the Huffington Post. In fact, "Slightly less than a third of voters said they were very confident in the accuracy of national results...." Americans deserve better than these "leaders," who are either complicit in voter suppression or lying.
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Comments: 39
I've been setting the "educated" Leftist straight for years...they're not sharp enough.
For the most part with the exception of one year the documented cases of voter fraud was lower than the documented cases of shark attacks. And most of the fraud concerned local elections.
..Soooo thicke...
As for Crist, she can just get back to the Beach to touch up her Tan.
So many RINO's...so little time.
By defending your rights under the Constitution.
lol
And I could find no case where a person was actually allowed to vote in a national election and was convicted of fraud for that vote.
Most cases are stopped before any actual voting takes place.
Here is one example there are more. You arent good at this research stuff are you?
here is another.
http://www.brennancenter.org/content/resource/policy_brief_on_the_truth_about_voter_fraud/
I am sure even someone with your limited research skills can find more. You do seem to be very gifted with copy and paste so I would just copy voter fraud documented cases and take it from there.
Bush administration officials have pushed hard to find such evidence, too hard in one case, according to an investigation by the Department of Justice’s internal watchdogs, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) and Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR). Their report into the firing of nine United States attorneys concluded that the "real reason" for the firing of New Mexico’s U.S. Attorney David Iglesias was "complaints about Iglesias’s handling of voter fraud and public corruption matters." The complaints included gripes by state Republican Party officials who believed that widespread fraud by Democrats had prevented George Bush from winning the state in the 2000 presidential election. Iglesias launched a task force that worked with the FBI but found that "there was insufficient evidence in any of the cases the Task Force reviewed to support criminal prosecution by the [U.S. Attorney's Office] or state authorities," according to the report of the OIG and OPR. These included cases involving ACORN workers. Republicans charged that Iglesias was showing insufficient rigor in prosecuting the cases.
Actually it wasnt as bad as I made it out to be.