Thanks to a dear friend bringing today's NY Times article to my attention. The article describes how tens of thousands of voters in at least six swing states have been removed from rolls or blocked from registering.
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— Submitted by me as editorial comment to the NY Times on October 9, 2008
My immediate thought was "not again"! 2000, 2004 and now 2008? The fact that this is happening in the swing states is highly suspicious. One thing I do not understand is for a law/act that was put into place in 2002...why are states just now enforcing it (or trying to figure out the process) DAYS before an election? Shouldn't they have already created a process and gotten the bugs out in last 5-6 years with the help of local elections?
It angers me tremendously to learn the Republican party is trying to stop people from voting in Ohio. Yes, this is definitely a sign of a maverick. A maverick whose thinking (add entire Republican party to this) is COMPLETELY removed from that of the general population.
Please, please, please make everyone aware of this excellent piece of investigative news done by the NY Times. Not all news sources try to get relevant, timely and useful information to the public. Encourage and motivate all you know to check with the county clerk BEFORE Election Day to make certain their voting rights are secure. If you are able to vote early, DO IT so you will still have time before November 4th to correct any wrongs that may happen at the voting booth.
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in addition to my response below, your removal my response to your question clearly proves my point that you have no intention on having a discussion of issues but rather are pushing your one sided political agenda which is fine and expected on a blog, but you represent your question as something otherwise when you post it on linkedin. i look forward to your response to my questions below
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what names did i use that are unusable in public discourse, "partisan hack?" in all honesty, i would like to know how to make my point on that in what you would consider a more polite and respectful manner. i am not being sarcastic of glib with this question.
furthermore, you presented a one sided arguement and pretended that it was non-partisan. i pointed out that unless you were willing to admit the offenses committed by your team it is not really a discussion of the problems of the system just the problems your team was having dealing with the other team.
I made two assumptions- which i labeled as such. the first was based on the fact that i dont think anyone could defend such a practice. for the second i explained the reasons for my assumption, i could have instead referred to it as a conclusion, would that have been better? disprove my reasons and i happily retract the conclusion i came to.
if what i posted or this response is rude and disrespectful to you then i encourage you to think about what exactly you found so out of bounds and why you react in such a way when someone questions you. Let me know what you come up with.
Good Luck
GM
I'm really excited that you decided to actually submit your letter to the New York Times. A critical part of civic engagement that our community to often does not participate in is communication with the mainstream media! I hope they decide to publish it :-)
peace.
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