SubscribeSharpton Kicks Off Voter Fraud Campaign
Another press release parading as news from the DNC’s Associated Press:
Rev. Sharpton announces voter campaign
DENVER (AP) The Rev. Al Sharpton said Monday that he and other civil rights leaders are kicking off a campaign to prevent a repeat of the 2000 and 2004 elections when there were widespread complaints of voter obstruction and vote manipulation.
Sharpton said during a gathering at a Denver restaurant that the Democratic National Convention, where Barack Obama will become the first black nominee of a major U.S. party, is just a start.
Sharpton said the civil rights organization National Action Network and others first will go to Florida and then six other states to register voters and make sure people who think they’re registered actually are. Other states the ”Not This Time” campaign will target are Georgia, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Alabama.
”We are coming out of here dealing with voter protection and voter registration,” Sharpton said. ”We’re going to send people into key states in mid-September to go into churches and community centers and have people give us their names to check their registration so that we don’t wait until election day and find out they’re not registered.”
Sharpton said the campaign is called ”Not This Time” because the intent is to prevent the voting debacle of Florida in 2000 when confusion over ballots and recounts landed the decision in the presidential election in the U.S. Supreme Court, giving George Bush the win over Democrat Al Gore. There were reports that black voters were disenfranchised.
In 2004, many voting problems were reported in Ohio, including the accuracy of vote totals in precincts where electronic voting machines were used. Bush scored a key victory in the state over Democrat John Kerry.
”We feel they robbed the election in 2000 in Florida, but not this time,” Sharpton said. ”We feel they robbed the election in Ohio in 2004, not this time.”
People are signing up to help to register voters and check voter rolls, Sharpton added. The National Action Network will work with the National Urban League, the Southern Christian Leadership Council and the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN.
”Before our times, many blacks, whites, Latinos left the North and went south to get the right to vote. We need to go back to the South this time to protect the vote,” Sharpton said.
The first trip will be to Florida the last week of September, Sharpton said. The program is independent of the Obama campaign, he said.
”We’re going to go to sites all around this nation ensuring that our vote is protected, that justice is protected because as happy as we are about what is going down this week, this week is just a kickoff of justice taking place,” said the Rev. Dr. Freddie Haynes of the Friendship West Baptist Church in Dallas and on the board of National Action Network.
This would be hilarious except for the fact that they are stealing our votes with their fraud.
People are signing up to help to register voters and check voter rolls, Sharpton added. The National Action Network will work with the National Urban League, the Southern Christian Leadership Council and the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN.
Yes, let’s put the foxes in charge of the henhouse for when the chickens come home to roost.
On a slightly difference tangent, imagine what a different election we would have if only people who actually paid income tax could vote?
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August 26th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
-’In 2004, many voting problems were reported in Ohio, including the accuracy of vote totals in precincts where electronic voting machines were used. Bush scored a key victory in the state over Democrat John Kerry’- Because with the voting machines - you get the paper copy and the readout - which makes the Vote Early, Vote Often tours neigh on impossible. Silly Dems to think that Cleveland and downtown Columbus can carry the entire state. . .How stupid are they? Yes OH has a large Dem registration - but these people are Catholic, pro-life, family oriented and well you know, the old fashioned Dems - caring but not crazy.
-’Before our times, many blacks, whites, Latinos left the North and went south to get the right to vote. We need to go back to the South this time to protect the vote’- I can not decide which to address first - the utter insult of painting the entire North (which worked tirelessly to stop slavery)[which is a stereotype] as one big racist, the ironic hypocrisy of implying that the North is more racist than the South (which is their eternal stomping ground of inbred, ignorant racists), or the missed point that the Dems need to cheat (while pointing their greedy little fingers at Repubs) to win. . .I thought that the South was the land of the KKK and poll taxes and literacy tests to vote - who knew that I was so ignorant of my own country’s historical past - I never knew that minorities use to flee the racist North to seek the safety of the benevolent South to vote.
Sad that people will buy the race-baiting shyster and his constant race baiting history for a chance to steal some more votes (not to mention a percentage of the government (i.e. taxpayer) funds meant to do this
goodcheating.August 26th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
“Before our time, many blacks, whites, Latinos left the North and went south to get the right to vote.”
Am I reading that right? Is Sharpton saying that the evil South gave voting rights to minorities before the ever tolerant, inclusive North? And is he saying that whites and Latinos also did not have the right to voted in the tolerant, inclusive northern states?
So the pictures of discrimination in the South that Sharpton and Jackson have built their hefty bank accounts on and lined their pockets with, are just so much hype and distortion?
Why would whites have to leave anywhere to be able to vote? Isn’t that the race baiters claim, that whites could vote (all of them) while the blacks were denied the right to vote (all of them?)?
August 27th, 2008 at 12:19 am
Wardmama & Retire,
Though it puts me in the uncomfortable position of giving racist “Rev.” Shyster the benefit of the doubt, I think he was referring to the civil rights marches of the 60’s when he talked about going South. I don’t think that he meant that minorities had to go South to be able to vote.
August 27th, 2008 at 12:38 am
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10.....mp;emc=rss
Is Mr. Sharpton addressing the white voters who were disenfranchised in Missippi? U.S. Says Blacks in Mississippi Suppress White Vote
August 27th, 2008 at 12:59 am
curvyred,
That in a nutshell is Barry’s vision of the future for America IMO. His motto really is It’s Our Turn Now, not Change We Can Believe In.
August 28th, 2008 at 10:46 am
Sharpton says blacks can’t be racist because they aren’t “empowered”. Hey, SG - if Obama is elected does that mean black get to be racists then?