Alert reader Patti forwards this BBC News article.
It lists 1,886 names and addresses of voters in predominantly black and traditionally Democrat areas of Jacksonville, Florida.
An elections supervisor in Tallahassee, when shown the list, told Newsnight: "The only possible reason why they would keep such a thing is to challenge voters on election day."
Apparently, according to Florida law, operatives of political parties are allowed to hang out inside polling places and identify voters they believe are ineligible for whatever reason, causing that voter to be given a "provisional ballot" and sent on his/her way. According to the report, provisional ballots are almost never counted. No mention of what cause, if any, the operatives have to show to single someone out.
If you watch the video of the report (link on right sidebar), there's another crazy little story.
Election supervisor Ion Sancho recounts the story of his daughter's registration mysteriously being changed to another county. Someone had gotten her to sign a petition to legalize marijuana that had carbon paper and a registration change form underneath it on the clipboard, lined up just so. Her vital information was transfered to the registration form, it was fraudulently signed and mailed in. If her father hadn't happened to be an election supervisor, no one would ever have figured it out.
If these bastards manage to steal this election, I say we kick some serious ass. I'm talking 5 million person marches on Washington, civil disobedience, whatever. If all of this significant evidence of fraud and intimidation has its intended result, we should shut this society down.
Oh, and lest anyone accuse me of ignoring evidence of Democratic election fraud, I honestly haven't seen any compelling evidence of it. I've seen several attempts at smear campaigns, but they were disingenuous at best.
For example, here's an email I received from the RNC today. It's boldly titled DEMOCRAT VOTER FRAUD WATCH and it quotes a story reported by KRQE-13 on fraudulent registrations in New Mexico. New registration for dead people, people no one's ever heard of, etc., etc.
Sounds bad, huh? Well, the report by KRQE-13 never once mentions the word "Democrat" or says a thing about who may be responsible for these registrations. Not a word. Not in the print version or in the video.
And yet, here's the email, titled "DEMOCRAT VOTER FRAUD WATCH". How strange.
So here's a likely scenario: Republicans are scouring news outlets for reports that don't specifically implicate them and using those to implicate us.
