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In criticizing a column by Leonard Pitts, Robert Meier (Letters, June 29) correctly notes that not all racists are or have been in the Republican Party. In fact, in the past, many racists were Democrats. But Meier neglected to mention that after the Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964 many of the Southern racists in the Democratic Party suddenly became Republicans. Because of that shift, Republicans have had a lock on the South since then.

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Jackson sharply criticized presidential hopeful and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama for “acting like he’s white” garnered comments such as: “Holy crap, who the hell does J.J. think he is to make a statement like that!. What white people cant see what right and wrong is? To call a black man white should be a huge insult to any black man. What is this, the new "thing" to say in order to degrade a black man? Start calling a black man white, or better yet why not just call him cracker. I think it is time for J.J. to step down and get out of his so called social position in life where he is portraying himself as some role model to the people of this country. Clearly he is a racist towards white people and is no role model when he is clearly a hypocrite. He was all for Imus to lose his job over knappy headed ho. I'm all for Jesse Jackson to lose his job he does not deserve it.” and “I would just like to point out how racist Jesse Jackson is saying someone is "acting white". As a "white person" I find it insulting to stereotype someone to get on the news. Shame on Jesse Jackson.”

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Barack Obama angrily denounced his former pastor for "divisive and destructive" remarks on race”, “I am outraged by the comments that were made and saddened over the spectacle that we saw yesterday," Obama told reporters at a news conference Tuesday.“

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The latest scandal rocking the Bush administration has its provenance in the issue of alleged "voter fraud." The original intention to fire 93 US attorneys and the eventual dismissal of seven of them was largely based on questions of political loyalty. The apparent litmus test for said loyalty was the willingness or lack thereof for prosecuting cases of so-called "voter fraud." Those who showed promise for prosecuting so-called "voter fraud" were considered "loyal" to the Bush Republican regime, and those who didn't, were not.

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If Attorney General Alberto Gonzales clings to his job much longer, he may end up as the only remaining employee of the Justice Department. By resigning on Monday, Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty joined Gonzales's chief of staff, D. Kyle Sampson; the department's White House liaison, Monica Goodling; and Justice official Michael Battle, who oversaw the dismissal of federal prosecutors, on the list of Gonzalesites who've left the building. At this point, the number of U.S. attorneys dismissed for political reasons still exceeds the number of Justice officials who've left because of their involvement in dismissing those attorneys or dissembling about it, but the ratio is tightening.

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These days, the old west rail hub of Las Vegas, New Mexico, is little more than a dusty economic dead zone amid a boneyard of bare mesas. In national elections, the town overwhelmingly votes Democratic: More than 80 percent of all residents are Hispanic, and one in four lives below the poverty line. On February 5th, the day of the Super Tuesday caucus, a school-bus driver named Paul Maez arrived at his local polling station to cast his ballot. To his surprise, Maez found that his name had vanished from the list of registered voters. For Maez, the shock was especially acute: He is the supervisor of elections in Las Vegas.

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- A fired US prosecutor levels new charges – accusing leaders of his own party, Republicans, with criminal acts in an attempt to block legal voters as “fraudulent.”
- In 2004, a GOP scheme called “caging” ultimately took away the rights of 1.1 million voters.
- Republican Secretaries of State of swing-state Colorado have quietly purged one in six names from their voter rolls – ten times the average state’s rate of removal.

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Because many voters may not know that their names have been flagged, eligibility questions could cause added confusion on Election Day, beyond the delays that may come with a huge turnout.
In Alabama, scores of voters are being labeled as convicted felons on the basis of incorrect lists. Michigan must restore thousands of names it illegally removed from voter rolls over residency questions, a judge ruled this week.
Tens of thousands of voters could be affected in Wisconsin. Officials there admit that their database is wrong one out of five times when it flags voters, sometimes for data discrepancies as small as a middle initial or a typo in a birth date. When the six members of the state elections board — all retired judges — ran their registrations through the system, four were incorrectly rejected because of mismatches

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Charles McGee, the former executive director of the New Hampshire Republican State Committee, and Allen Raymond, a GOP consultant, pleaded guilty to federal charges stemming from their involvement in the jamming of telephones on Election Day, Nov. 5, 2002. Democrats' computer-generated calls to get out the vote were blocked and thus voters did not receive the intended message due to illegal action by some in the Republican Party [...]

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• Alaska Fraud (Lt. Governor involved in ballot manipulation )
• Arizona Fraud (Sproul shows up as a top donor to Congressman Trent Franks )
• Arkansas Fraud (Allegation that Governor's wife obstructed black votes)
• California Fraud (Observers shut out)
• Colorado Fraud (Republican Secretary of State limits provisional ballots )
• Florida Fraud (Early voting problems, Jeb's gonna deliver )
• Kentucky Fraud (Possible money laundering)
• Illinois Fraud (Ballot errors)
• Iowa Fraud (Limited registration problems )
• Maine Fraud Alleged inappropriate conduct by Rockland's registrar of voters.
• Massachusetts Fraud (GOP encouraging illegal absentee ballots)
• Maryland Fraud (More problems with felon purges)
• Michigan Fraud (Student voters targeted, etc)
• Missouri Fraud (Diminishing ballot access)
• Minnesota Fraud (Canvassers to only turn in GOP registrations)
• Nevada Fraud ( Dem. registrations shredded )
• New Hampshire Fraud (College students targeted)
• New Mexico Fraud (Pro-GOP voting machine behavior)
• North Carolina Fraud Slowdowns due to Challenges
• Ohio Fraud (Blackwell's shenanigans, GOP voter fraud ops moving in, Challenges galore)
• Oregon Fraud (Dem. registrations shredded )
• Pennsylvania Fraud (Moving polling places at last minute)
• South Carolina Fraud (Play hide-the-polling-station)
• South Dakota Fraud (GOP members resign over absentee stink)
• Tennessee Fraud (Planted special Olympics fliers)
• Texas Fraud (Austin electronic vote problems, Gerrymander case not over)
• Virginia Fraud Nader Chief - recent Republican activist/campaign worker
• Washinton Fraud Missing Absentee Ballots
• Washington Fraud Missing Absentee Ballots
• West Virginia Fraud (Absentee phone scams/registrations destroyed?)
• Wisconsin Fraud (Milwaukee urban ballot shortages)

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Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
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