Bill Moyers Journal: "ACORN flap is a pretext for ongoing GOP voter disenfranchisement"

[NYC_SKP]

Watch online here: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10172008/watch3.html

Mark Crispin Miller and Show Profile here: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10172008/profile.html

"October 17, 2008

As election day approaches and both Democracts and Republicans warn that the other side may be planning to tamper with the results, voters may be wondering if their vote will be counted properly.

Mark Crispin Miller joins Bill Moyers on the JOURNAL to discuss challenges legitimate would-be voters face at the polls — from voter purges to electronic voting — and reforms the U.S. should make to ensure everyone's right to vote is protected and every vote is counted."

Included are tips and strategies for making every vote count.

Please keep kicking. :kick:

[babylonsister]

Rachel Maddow said the same thing. This is big. The last two

elections were also talked about.

I did try:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4257832

[NYC_SKP]

3. So there's a new K and an R for your post over in GD.

This is where we fucking lose this thing, though I trust the campaign is doing all it can.

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Anyone who is not a MORAN knows that....

[NYC_SKP]

6. Really? Does every MORAN know all the things to do to fight it?

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hmmmm? :shrug:

[NYC_SKP]

2. Great quote and link to full text transcript here:

"The point I'm making to you here, Bill - and this is the most important thing I'm going to say to you tonight - is that this is a pretext being used by a party, okay, that is itself committing election fraud and vote suppression on an enormous scale.

In other words, we have a party that is itself engaged in disenfranchising, actively disenfranchising millions of Americans. It is itself complaining about a group that is supposedly planning to do the same thing but that isn't doing that at all."

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10172008/transcript4.html

Scroll down to nearly the end of the page for the interview with Crispin.

[global1]

4. Isn't That Always What The Repugs Do - Blame The Dems First For Something......

they are doing themselves. The best defense is a good offense.

[NYC_SKP]

7. Yep, becoming more overt this year, IMO, yet not covered by media much. nt

[Waiting For Everyman]

5. K&R

[Greyskye]

8. I watched this tonight. Thanks for this thread!

:kick: & R

[NYC_SKP]

9. Thanks, but sorry that the fraud part didn't come until 38 minutes in!

But it's online and I linked to the transcript.

:donut:

[jsmirman]

10. K&R - my sister worked for Bill

and after a very regrettable period in his life, that guy has been a beacon of truth and sensible thought.