Your Vote Has ALREADY Been Stolen!

The recently enacted barriers thrown up to deter voters include: 1. Obstructing Voter-Registration Drives 2. Demanding "Perfect Matches" ** 3. Purging Legitimate Voters From the Rolls 4. Requiring Unnecessary Voter ID's 5. Rejecting "Spoiled" Ballots 6. Challenging "Provisional" Ballots **EXAMPLE: My name is Jacqueline <--- 10 Letters long --- But most government computers LIMIT the number of Letters on any License to only 9 LETTERS... ....So, if I sign my ballot USING THE CORRECT SPELLING OF MY NAME ...it can be TOSSED OUT --- LEGALLY Depriving Me of My Right To Vote! READ ON: Since 2003, at least 2.7 million new voters have had their applications to register rejected. 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, (HAVA) the number of discounted votes could surge even higher. Passed in 2002, HAVA was hailed by leaders in both parties as a reform designed to avoid a repeat of the 2000 debacle in Florida that threw the presidential election to the U.S. Supreme Court. The measure set standards for voting systems, created an independent commission to oversee elections, and ordered states to provide provisional ballots to voters whose eligibility is challenged at the polls. But from the start, HAVA was corrupted by the involvement of Republicans. In practice, many of the "reforms" created by HAVA have actually made it harder for citizens to cast a ballot and have their vote counted. In case after case, Republican election officials at the local and state level have used the rules to give GOP candidates an edge on Election Day by creating new barriers to registration, purging legitimate names from voter rolls, challenging voters at the polls and discarding valid ballots. To justify this battery of new voting impediments, Republicans cite an alleged upsurge in voting fraud. (We're already hearing the "rumblings") Indeed, the U.S.-attorney scandal that resulted in the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales began when the White House fired federal prosecutors who resisted political pressure to drum up nonexistent cases of voting fraud against Democrats. "They wanted some splashy pre-election indictments that would scare these alleged hordes of illegal voters away," says David Iglesias, a U.S. attorney for New Mexico who was fired in December 2006. "We took over 100 complaints and investigated for almost two years — but I didn't find one prosecutable case of voter fraud in the entire state of New Mexico." According to a recent analysis by Lorraine Minnite, an expert on voting crime at Barnard College, federal courts found only 24 voters guilty of fraud from 2002 to 2005, out of hundreds of millions of votes cast. "The claim of widespread voter fraud," Minnite says, "is itself a fraud." Allegations of voter fraud are only the latest rationale the GOP has used to disenfranchise voters — especially blacks, Hispanics and others who traditionally support Democrats. "The Republicans have a long history of erecting barriers to discourage Americans from voting," says Donna Brazile, chair of the Voting Rights Institute for the Democratic National Committee. "Now they're trying to spook Americans with the ghost of voter fraud. It's very effective — but it's ironic that the only way they maintain power is by using fear to deprive Americans of their constitutional right to vote." * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The Deck's Been Stacked Against Us, Folks... New Rules (& OLD Trickery) have been put into play that's turned the simple act of voting into a Veritable Obstacle Course (especially for --- but not limited to --- first time voters) <h2>BLOCK The VOTE! The Article Detailing the Deception.</h2>

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Your Vote Has ALREADY Been Stolen!

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