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Politics : Actual left/right wing discussion
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To: JBTFD who wrote (3163)10/18/2006 6:35:39 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 10087
 
Well lets start with the headline, that Republicans prevented 350,000 voters from registering or voting. If they mean 350,000 legitimate voters than I think its very unlikely. If they mean what they seem to be implying that 350,000 selected voters were dropped off as part of a deliberate design to eliminate democratic votes, than I think its outright false.

I don't consider the exit polls to be as reliable as the actual election itself. To the extent that they don't match its more likely that the fault is in the polls.

Kenneth Blackwell may be a partisan Republican. I don't know much about him so I can't reasonably dispute the claim. But that isn't evidence for, much less proof of fraud. And if being partisan is such an issue than we should discount the Rolling Stone article.

In a ruling issued two weeks before the election, a federal judge rebuked Blackwell for seeking to ''accomplish the same result in Ohio in 2004 that occurred in Florida in 2000.''(51)

Sounds like a very partisan judge if the claim is even true.

Also what happened in FL might very well be that the Democrats tried and failed to steal the election.

II. The Strike Force
In the months leading up to the election, Ohio was in the midst of the biggest registration drive in its history. Tens of thousands of volunteers and paid political operatives from both parties canvassed the state, racing to register new voters in advance of the October 4th deadline. To those on the ground, it was clear that Democrats were outpacing their Republican counterparts

I've heard the exact opposite claim from the other side both before and after the election. I see no reason to give either claim any weight.

There is a lot more in the article. Why don't you point out a few points that you consider particularly telling.
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