Category Archives: vote suppression

Steal This Vote

Posted on November 5, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Steal This Vote”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailSo how’s that election thing going? Well, judging by the lede at Huffington Post this morning, it’s not going very well in Florida, where the tea tide hit like a tsunami in 2010: Restrictive measures … Continue reading →

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Morning Awful: Regressive South Carolina

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Morning Awful: Regressive South Carolina”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailRepublicans across the country are doubling-down on everything that made Americans mad at them last year, like union-busting and abortion laws. All their promises to create jobs were cover for austerity measures and … Continue reading →

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South Carolina’s AG is Full of Crap

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “South Carolina’s AG is Full of Crap”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailAlan Wilson, South Carolina’s AG (pictured right) has notified the US Justice Department of 953 cases of possible vote fraud. Mind you, South Carolina is in near-open revolt these days over … Continue reading →

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Morning Awful: Disenfranchisement

Posted on October 20, 2011 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Morning Awful: Disenfranchisement”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail Tweeting an AP article which found that South Carolina’s new voter ID bill will hit African Americans harder than whites, Republican operative and self-described Christian Wesley Donehue remarked that the article “proves EXACTLY why … Continue reading →

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Occupy Voting Booths

Posted on October 12, 2011 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Occupy Voting Booths”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail Clausewitz observed that war was the continuation of politics by other means. At this blog, we have observed many times how politics seem to become a furtherance of warfare by other means. Politics is … Continue reading →

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Morning Awful: Voter Caging

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Morning Awful: Voter Caging”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailIt’s when someone targets Democratic voters for ballot-challenges: A coordinated plot by the Republican Party of Wisconsin, Americans for Prosperity-Wisconsin and organizations in the so-called Tea Party movement targeting minority voters and college students … Continue reading →

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Vote Suppression in Alabama (UPDATE)

Posted on June 12, 2009 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Vote Suppression in Alabama (UPDATE)”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailIt was my fond hope to never again mention the existence of Dale Jackson, the Rush Limbaugh of Huntsville. But he did something yesterday that deserves mention: WVNN’s morning show host, Dale Jackson, … Continue reading →

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