It was like Mississippi in the fifties

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http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=26346

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As far as I'm concerned, this election was clearly stolen. What they did in Ohio was systematically deny thousands of African Americans, and other suspected Democrats, the vote," charged progressive author, commentator and activist Harvey Wasserman of Franklin County, Ohio.

"It was like Mississippi in the fifties, and it was deliberate ... had there been enough (voting) machines, and had people equal access to the polls with a reliable vote count, there is no doubt that John Kerry would have carried Ohio," he told IPS.

The Nov. 14 'Cleveland Plain Dealer', one of the country's top 50 broadsheets, reported a Nov. 13 voter hearing where: "For three hours, burdened voters, one after another, offered sworn testimony about election day voter suppression and irregularities that they believe are threatening democracy."

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Shameful for 2004!
The Republicans do want to return to the fifties, starting with not giving miniorites equal access to vote.

[candy]

1. I loved the fifties but was not in Mississippi,thank God. n/t

[roseBudd]

3. Ohio DUers we need diseenfranchised voters to call Judge Nathaniel

Jones of Cincinnati. We need someone of stature, a civil rights figure who is not Jesse H+Jackson or Al Sharpton to speak out,

Judge Jones can be reached at:
1700 PNC Center • 201 East Fifth Street • Cincinnati, OH 45202
[phone] Fax [phone]

Please call as we do not know if he checks his own email.

Judge Nathaniel R. Jones (ret.)
[e-mail]




His resume:
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:AXCAG4DlH3EJ:www.blankrome.com/Attorneys/Resumes/jonesn.doc+Judge+Nathaniel+Jones+kids+voting&hl=en

[Eloriel]

2. It's really only Democrats they want to deny the vote to --

if African Americans were voting for Repugs, they sure as hell woudln't be trying to disenfranchise them. Unluckily for us, the minorities who are our base tend to cluster in geographic areas where it makes it easy to play tricks that disenfranchise them.

And THIS year I've seen NEW tricks, scads of them.

[crasmane]

4. A Mississippi 50s motif is the neocon grand cultural design

for America's future.
I'm reminded of Reagan's speech in Philadelphia . . . Mississippi.
No capital of brotherly love there. No sir.
Yes, in my nightmares I see all gingham dresses, white lace curtains with the different elements, the ones we can't escape from:
an empty refrigerator, an empty table, more ragged clothing, and absent parents and children.
They'll never get the 50s back, even though they want it.
Our country's become too poor to oblige.

[Political_Junkie]

5. good article, thanks

[gizmo1979]

6. i live in wi.

and my daughter was a poll worker,registering new voters there was a repug lawyer from tenn as a watcher,anyways he challenged every single new voter that came in he was finally removed when he grabbed some of my daughters paper work. so it wastough all over!