As if the lies weren't enough
A county Democratic Party office in a heavily Democratic county in Ohio is broken into, and computers "including the party’s financial information, names and personal phone numbers of hundreds of party members, candidates, and volunteers" are stolen.
In Tennessee, unsigned, rude anti-Bush flyers are found in a Democratic congressional campaign office. Oddly, the flyers had been brought into the office by someone who had never been there before. The were immediately thrown in the trash, where another previously unknown individual "found" them when he first came to the office, and made it public. (In an old Alabama judicial campaign Karl Rove covertly distributed flyers attacking his Alabama candidate as a way of gaining sympathy votes.)
These are different from the cards mailed to voters in West Virginia and Arkansas that claimed Democrats would ban the Bible and allow gay marriage. Those actually had the Republican National Committee's name on them, and have been acknowledged by the GOP.
In Nevada and Oregon, a company documented as receiving payments from the Republican National Committee has been accused of taking voter registrations while posing as another, nonpartisan, organization (or maybe also as official state workers), and then destroying the forms of those registering as Democrats or independents, while keeping Republicans. They are currently under investigation by authorities in both states. This same firm may also have operated in several other states.
In South Dakota, people working for the state Republican committee have resigned following a scandal involving falsely notarized absentee ballot applications. The state Attorney General is investigating. Meanwhile, one of them has been appointed to run the Bush get-out-the-vote effort in Ohio, and is bringing three of the other five with him.
In New Hampshire, the New England campaign manager for Bush has just resigned after being implicated in a 2002 dirty trick where the GOP hired a company to "phone bomb" or jam the lines of the Democratic get-out-the-vote phonebank on Election Day. The former executive director of the state GOP has pled guilt to conspiracy. The Bush campaign manager was named in the plea agreement.
Meanwhile, in Ohio, Wisconsin and Florida, Republican governmental officials are finding a variety of ways to attempt to interfere with voting, ranging from attempting to exclude registration applications and manipulating voter lists, to limiting the supply of ballots on Election Day.
And all this has happened before we even get to Election Day, with the lovely electronic voting machines, the massive number of correctly registered new voters, and the rest. Karl Rove plays for keeps.
In Tennessee, unsigned, rude anti-Bush flyers are found in a Democratic congressional campaign office. Oddly, the flyers had been brought into the office by someone who had never been there before. The were immediately thrown in the trash, where another previously unknown individual "found" them when he first came to the office, and made it public. (In an old Alabama judicial campaign Karl Rove covertly distributed flyers attacking his Alabama candidate as a way of gaining sympathy votes.)
These are different from the cards mailed to voters in West Virginia and Arkansas that claimed Democrats would ban the Bible and allow gay marriage. Those actually had the Republican National Committee's name on them, and have been acknowledged by the GOP.
In Nevada and Oregon, a company documented as receiving payments from the Republican National Committee has been accused of taking voter registrations while posing as another, nonpartisan, organization (or maybe also as official state workers), and then destroying the forms of those registering as Democrats or independents, while keeping Republicans. They are currently under investigation by authorities in both states. This same firm may also have operated in several other states.
In South Dakota, people working for the state Republican committee have resigned following a scandal involving falsely notarized absentee ballot applications. The state Attorney General is investigating. Meanwhile, one of them has been appointed to run the Bush get-out-the-vote effort in Ohio, and is bringing three of the other five with him.
In New Hampshire, the New England campaign manager for Bush has just resigned after being implicated in a 2002 dirty trick where the GOP hired a company to "phone bomb" or jam the lines of the Democratic get-out-the-vote phonebank on Election Day. The former executive director of the state GOP has pled guilt to conspiracy. The Bush campaign manager was named in the plea agreement.
Meanwhile, in Ohio, Wisconsin and Florida, Republican governmental officials are finding a variety of ways to attempt to interfere with voting, ranging from attempting to exclude registration applications and manipulating voter lists, to limiting the supply of ballots on Election Day.
And all this has happened before we even get to Election Day, with the lovely electronic voting machines, the massive number of correctly registered new voters, and the rest. Karl Rove plays for keeps.
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