More Florida Fraud

Continuing on the voting fraud kick, the BBC caught the Florida GOP red-handed this time, via Daily Kos, check out the story here.

The critical part:

A secret document obtained from inside Bush campaign headquarters in Florida suggests a plan - possibly in violation of US law - to disrupt voting in the state's African-American voting districts, a BBC Newsnight investigation reveals. Election supervisor Ion Sancho believes some voters are being intimidated. Two e-mails, prepared for the executive director of the Bush campaign in Florida and the campaign's national research director in Washington DC, contain a 15-page so-called "caging list". It lists 1,886 names and
addresses of voters in predominantly black and traditionally Democrat areas of Jacksonville, Florida. An elections supervisor in Tallahassee, when shown the list, told Newsnight: "The only possible reason why they would keep such a thing is to challenge voters on election day." [...]

The story in the New York Times this weekend about the GOP's "challenge" of newly registered voters in Ohio was just the tip of the ice berg. We have to remember who we're dealing with here - the Karl Rove-controlled GOP is a tight network of operatives who get their marching orders from a single source - these are not isolated incidents.

This "challenge" garbage is a systematic attempt by the GOP to suppress voter turnout and prevent minority (heavily Democratic) voters from being counted. I recently posted on some other activities here and here.

Denying someone their right to vote is morally reprehensible, and for one of the two major political parties in this country to be actively pursuing such a strategy smacks of facism. The names of the people behind this must be recorded, and after the election, these crooks must be held criminally responsible. They are not fit to be involved in the American political system in any way, shape or form.