It's time for COUNTER Voter Suppression

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We've still got some time before the election and the efforts to scare voters away from the polls is already on.

We know who's doing it, but it doesn't matter, I know people who are Republican and I don't want them to be scared away from voting. The votes should be allowed to be cast.

Here's one such story about this anti-Democracy attack known as voter suppression:

"Election officials and watchdog groups are bracing for the wave of sneaky or suspicious phone calls, leaflets and emails that typically hit battleground states in the final 30 days of the presidential campaign.

Young voters at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Penn. have already been targeted, with students reporting that flyers have been posted around campus warning that undercover police will be at the polls on Election Day looking to make arrests.

The flyer reads like a friendly letter to fellow students relaying a warning from an "Obama supporter": "He informed me that on the day of the election there will be undercover officers to execute warrants on those who come to vote based on the anticipated turnout," writes the anonymous student in the letter which was later posted on the Drexel College Democrats website. "He advised me if I had any outstanding warrants or traffic offenses I should clear them up prior to voting."

Political experts say the Drexel flyer is a classic example of voter suppression – a practice that involves scaring, angering, or confusing voters so that they stay at home on Election Day."

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Vote2008/story?id=5963751&page=1

It's time to turn the tables on the Voter Suppressors, it's time for COUNTER Voter Suppression.

Spread the word about the following things:
1. The police will not be out to arrest anyone at the polls, they have work to do, catching people who are in the process of committing crimes, and that'd be horribly messy and inefficient as well.
2. If you receive a letter or a call telling you that the place you vote has changed. VERIFY! This happened to me, but it turned out to be legitimate. There is often a website where one can check this.
3. Never buy into threats or harassment, and short of a revolution, voting is the best way we can change the system. So go out and vote.

[liberal N proud]

1. There is only one party that believes in voter suppression

and only one reason they live by it. They know they will lose without it.

Every American should be compelled to vote and no one should stand in their way.