Republican National Lawyers Association Plan For Losing Candidates: Challenge Absentee Voters

[ProfessionalLeftist]

They're still relying on voter suppression / disenfranchisement techniques to "win":

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Christine Svenson, a vice chair of the Republican National Lawyers Association, warned repeatedly about absentee voter fraud during a panel at the Colorado Conservative Political

Action Conference on Thursday. To combat such fraud, Svenson recommended that campaigns gather the names of local absentee voters and search their addresses on Google to “make sure that those buildings are not crack houses, row houses, slumlord houses.” For the record, people who live in row houses or who have abusive landlords do not lose their right to vote. Neither do people unfortunate enough to live in the same building as a drug dealer.

At the end of the panel, Svenson was asked how to handle unfavorable election results. Her answer strongly suggested that Republicans should try to change the result of the election by challenging absentee ballots:

SVENSON: If an election doesn’t go your way, you’ve got an uphill battle. You’ve got to make sure that you get your operatives out on the streets the day after the election, researching. You’ve got to get the list of the individuals who selected absentee ballots, go to those homes, find out — you can even call them, by the way — get affidavits about whether or not they sent them in, but it really hinges around those absentee voters out there, if you can turn them around.

MORE (incl video):

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/10/05/965361/republican-lawyers-challenge/

[nykym]

1. She forgot to tell them to

bring some form of ID and wear a bullet proof vest.

[summerschild]

2. I've often wondered why people didn't sue to demand that provisional ballots are counted.

I've read if a voter is challenged they have to provided a provisional ballot. But I've read tons of articles that say provisional ballots are collected but not counted.

I understand it would take some time for a voter to respond to a challenge, so a final count would necessarily be delayed, but aside from the generalization that provisional ballots are not counted, I've never seen an explanation of how it actually works.

Aybody know? Can y'all straighten me out?

(With the TrueTheVote crap sweeping the nation, I think the number of challenges/provisional ballots to Democrats will skyrocket this year.)