{"id":2534,"date":"2008-10-15T17:39:34","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T22:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=2534"},"modified":"2008-10-15T18:25:16","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T23:25:16","slug":"a-little-lot-of-cheating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/15\/a-little-lot-of-cheating\/","title":{"rendered":"a <strike>little<\/strike> lot of cheating&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<br \/>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2008\/10\/15\/145257\/29\/169\/631398\"><strong>Montana Republicans in Disarray<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<p>   <\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">After most <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2008\/10\/7\/1718\/77381\/323\/623092\">misguided attempt at voter suppression<\/a><\/strong> the Republicans have ever attempted, the backlash has forced <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missoulian.com\/articles\/2008\/10\/15\/news\/local\/news03.txt\">the Republican Party&#8217;s director to resign<\/a><\/strong>:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<div align=\"justify\">  HELENA &#8211; In an unusual move three weeks before the election and after a failed attempt to challenge voter registrations in some Democratic strongholds, the Montana Republican Party said Tuesday night it was changing executive directors.<\/div>\n<p>   <\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">Former state Rep. Larry Grinde of Lewistown was named the party&#8217;s executive director after Jake Eaton resigned &quot;to pursue other interests,&quot; the news release said. <\/div>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"justify\">That&#8217;s good for Montana Dems, but, as Jay Stevens points out, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/leftinthewest.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=2300\">not the end of the story<\/a><\/strong>.<\/div>\n<ul>\n<div align=\"justify\">&#8230;Eaton&#8217;s obviously the fall guy here. There&#8217;s no way Eaton, a recent college grad, challenges the voting eligibility of 6,000 Montanans on his own. The methods too closely resemble voter suppression efforts elsewhere to be coincidence. Take, for example, the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.detnews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20081014\/POLITICS01\/810140364\/1374\/POLITICS01\">voter suppression effort in Michigan<\/a><\/strong>, which was smaller in scale (&quot;only&quot; 1,500 voters), but had a similar outcome. There, the federal judge ruled that the Michigan Secretary of State&#8217;s office &#8212; run by a Republican &#8212; violated federal law in its efforts to purge the rolls of voters because voter cards were returned as &quot;undeliverable&quot; or because voters applied for a driver&#8217;s license in another state. And, as if on cue, John McCain, using ACORN as a <em>causus belli<\/em>, is calling for an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-acorn15-2008oct15,0,1595987.story\">&quot;<strong>immediate investigation&quot; of &quot;voter fraud<\/strong>&quot;<\/a> in battleground states&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>These people are unmerciful in their attempts to disenfrachise voters, suggesting to me that this has been a standard procedure for longer than we&#8217;ve known. Remember <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/04\/23\/voter-fraud\/\"><strong>this<\/strong><\/a>? It was a Conference to look into voter fraud two years ago. There wasn&#8217;t any evidence that this little campaign of Mr. Rove&#8217;s had any validity, but there was one group:<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"451\" width=\"440\" vspace=\"7\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/voter_fraud.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">That group was&nbsp; a front formed by a Republican group specifically put together for this Conference led by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sourcewatch.org\/index.php?title=Mark_F._%28Thor%29_Hearne\"><strong>Thor Hearne<\/strong><\/a>, a Rovian protege` and the Lawyer for <strong>Bush-04<\/strong>. Then there was the notorious <strong>U.S. Attorney Scandal<\/strong> in which the DoJ fired U.S. Attorneys who wouldn&#8217;t file their bogus voter fraud suits. And even now, one of the circuit talk t.v. pundits is one of their active operatives &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sourcewatch.org\/index.php?title=Hans_von_Spakovsky\"><strong>Hans von Spakovsky<\/strong><\/a> from Georgia.<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">These people are crooks, trying to rig the vote &#8211; nothing more, nothing less. I hope the current vigilance is stepped up even further, and that they are brought to justice like in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/m.s.-bellows\/republicans-top-lawyer-go_b_127983.html\"><strong>New Hampshire<\/strong><\/a>&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montana Republicans in Disarray After most misguided attempt at voter suppression the Republicans have ever attempted, the backlash has forced the Republican Party&#8217;s director to resign: HELENA &#8211; In an unusual move three weeks before the election and after a failed attempt to challenge voter registrations in some Democratic strongholds, the Montana Republican Party said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}