Wondering how the Republican Party hopes to steal the election in key swing states such as Michigan and Ohio? Via Talk Left is news of a cunning strategy to disenfranchise black voters.The chairman of the Republican Party in Macomb County Michigan, a key swing county in a key swing state, is planning to use a list of foreclosed homes to block people from voting in the upcoming election as part of the state GOP’s effort to challenge some voters on Election Day.
“We will have a list of foreclosed homes and will make sure people aren’t voting from those addresses,” party chairman James Carabelli told Michigan Messenger in a telephone interview earlier this week. He said the local party wanted to make sure that proper electoral procedures were followed. ...
The Macomb County party’s plan to challenge voters who have defaulted on their house payments is likely to disproportionately affect African-Americans who are overwhelmingly Democratic voters. More than 60 percent of all sub-prime loans — the most likely kind of loan to go into default — were made to African-Americans in Michigan, according to a report issued last year by the state’s Department of Labor and Economic Growth.
Reportedly across Michigan "the Republican Party is gearing up for a comprehensive voter challenge campaign" that will employ the foreclosure strategy. Ohio is another critical swing state and local GOP officials tell the Columbus Post Dispatch they may challenge voters based on foreclosure rolls, too.
This is disgusting. George W. Bush, John McCain and the Republican Party did nothing to prevent the housing crisis and were missing in action while thousands of Americans lost their homes. Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin even criticized the recent bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Now these vultures want to use foreclosure records to deny people the right to vote and to keep themselves in power? Tell me this isn't a winning issue for Barack Obama and the Democrats.
Not surprised...
ReplyDeletenot sure how legal this one is, but it can cause enough muck on election day to get it done. If you are in doubt, most areas let you vote early at city hall or something. That's what I'll be doing just to make sure no election day BS busts me.
ReplyDeleteBy the time this hanky-panky goes through court system and whatnot, McCain would have already been inaugurated. Or worse yet, McCain elected, drops dead, and then we have President Palin being inaugurated.
C'mon Rattler Nation please fully research before sending information to the masses. We don't want to start thinking we are dealing with "The Enquirer"
ReplyDeleteBy DAVID EGGERT | Associated Press Writer - 3:58 PM CDT, September 12, 2008
LANSING, Mich. - Macomb County Republican Party Chairman James Carabelli is denouncing a Web site's claim that he said the GOP will use home foreclosures to disqualify would-be voters in November. "The story is not true, and I never said those things," Carabelli said in a statement Friday. Political Web sites are abuzz about a story Wednesday on MichiganMessenger.com, a liberal site that posts stories written by bloggers, freelance writers and others. Democrats are trying to capitalize on the flap.
"We will have a list of foreclosed homes and will make sure people aren't voting from those addresses," the story quoted Carabelli as saying.
Carabelli and the Michigan Republican Party accuse the writer of fabricating his comments. The writer, Eartha Jane Melzer, stands by her story. "There has never been a plan to use foreclosure lists to challenge voters," state GOP Chairman Saul Anuzis said. "There is no such plan, and there never will be such a plan. Period."
Once the story was posted, it spread to left-leaning sites and drew inquiries from national media outlets. A liberal group in Lansing and a political consulting firm in East Lansing that works with Democrats and was behind the proposal that would have made sweeping changes to the state constitution if it had been allowed on the November ballot began pushing the story to state media outlets Thursday.
Democrat Barack Obama's campaign helped organize press conferences Friday with homeowners in Lansing, Flint and Warren who are at risk of foreclosure. Other activists demanded that Republican John McCain fire Carabelli, even though McCain has no say in the matter.
Michigan Democratic Party Chairman Mark Brewer accused Republicans of creating the housing crisis and "working to deny those most affected the right to vote."
GOP spokesman Bill Nowling said the claim about voter suppression doesn't make sense because foreclosure lists "tell us nothing about where a voter lives or is registered to vote. They're completely useless."
Homeowners with a foreclosed home can still live there unless they are evicted or the home is sold by the lender. Secretary of state spokeswoman Kelly Chesney said voters who move within 60 days of an election can vote at their old polling place. If they move and change their address 30 or more days before an election, they must vote in their new precinct. If they change their address within 30 days of an election, they must vote in the old precinct.
The writer, Eartha Jane Melzer, stands by her story.
ReplyDeleteSounds to me like the GOP chair is back peddling faster than a unicyclist on a steep slope !
That tends to happen when you are exposed!
more lies by the marxists...first palin stole her daughter's baby...now this. what a bunch of idiots.
ReplyDeleteis this who you want running our country?
Ahhh, our GOP friends are indenile
ReplyDeletein denial...like you are tying to deny something... denial - a state of not believing the truth...
ReplyDeleteor .. indenile... which of course means that you are all wet.