Have you heard about the trouble in Pennsylvania??
Counties which should have had their absentee ballots mailed by September 20, have not done so. In some cases, this is because of a court case attempting to get Nader on the ballot.
Now, many of these same counties are asking for an extention for absentee ballots to be sent in by. Pennsylvania law states that absentee ballots must be received by 5PM on October 29.
A judge has struck down the request for an extention. The only way to get the extention now, is an executive order by the governor.
Their governor is a democrat by the name of Ed Rendell. He has not as yet said he would sign such an order.
Now, the interesting part: Your average Pennsylvania citizen shouldn't have trouble getting their vote in on time. If no extention is granted, the people who's votes will not be counted are deployed military, in Iraq and Afghanistan. This is roughly 16,000 people from Pennsylvania.
Recent polls indicate that 73% of people in the service would vote for Bush.
So, to sum up, it looks like a Democrat is going to disenfranchise the members of our military. Regardless of whether you support the war or not, don't tell me that its right to disenfranchise our military.
And before you start telling me about "black disenfranchisement" in 2000, let me quote some numbers from the Commision on Civil Rights that conducted a 6-month investigation into Florida's election:
From The 2000 Election: Where's the Disenfranchisement?
The Commission's report asserts that the use of a convicted felons list "has a disparate impact on African Americans." "African Americans in Florida were more likely to find their names on the list than persons of other races."
Other points not in the Commission's report:
Whites were twice as likely as blacks to be placed on the list erroneously, not the other way around.
According to the Palm Beach Post, more than 6,500 ineligible felons voted, despite having their names on the 'convicted felons list. The biggest problem then was that the list ended up allowing ineligible voters to cast a ballot--not that it prevented voters from casting a ballot.
The sole piece of supporting evidence it cites a table with data on Miami-Dade County. Blacks were racially targeted, according to the report, because they account for almost two thirds of the names of the felon list but were less than one-seventh of Florida's population. It is not only meaningless but irrelevant. The vast majority of the people on the felons' list were properly listed. It was illegal for them to vote according to Florida law.
Research revealed that 239 for the 4,678 African Americans on the Miami-Dade felons' were eventually cleared to vote which represented 5.1 percent of the total number of blacks on the felons list. Of the 1,264 whites on the list, 125 proved to be there by mistake-which is 9.9 percent of the total. The error rate for whites was almost double that for blacks.
The Commission did not hear from a single witness who was prevented from voting as a result of being erroneously identified as a felon. One witness did testify that he was erroneously removed from the voter list because he had been mistaken for another individual on the felon list whose name and birth date were practically identical to his. However, he was able to convince precinct officials that there had been a clerical error, and he was allowed to vote.
The Commission completely ignored the bigger story: Approximately 5,600 felons voted illegally in Florida on November 7, approximately 68 percent of whom were registered Democrats. The Miami Herald discovered that, "among the felons who cast presidential ballots, there were "62 robbers, 56 drug dealers, 45 killers, 16 rapists, and 7 kidnappers. At least two who voted were pictured on the state's on-line registry of sexual offenders."
Furthermore, the Post found no more than 108 "law-abiding" citizens of all races that "were purged from the voter rolls as suspected criminals, only to be cleared after the election." In fact during all the various lawsuits against Florida, only two people testified they weren't allowed to vote because their names were mistakenly on the list.
Of the 19,398 voters removed from the rolls, more than 14,600 matched a felon by name, birth date, race and gender.