Steal the Vote 2004, part 2
The New York Times has published an article on how the Rpeublican Party in Ohio is
putting thousands of its people inside polling stations to, as they call it, “challenge” those voters they think are “not qualified to vote”. In other words, who plan to vote Democractic.
Republican Party officials in Ohio took formal steps yesterday to place thousands of recruits inside polling places on Election Day to challenge the qualifications of voters they suspect are not eligible to cast ballots.
Party officials say their effort is necessary to guard against fraud arising from aggressive moves by the Democrats to register tens of thousands of new voters in Ohio, seen as one of the most pivotal battlegrounds in the Nov. 2 elections.
A good example of the Republican mindset can be found in the following quote:
“The organized left’s efforts to, quote unquote, register voters – I call them ringers – have created these problems,” said James P. Trakas, a Republican co-chairman in Cuyahoga County.
One party thinks getting more people to vote is a good idea, while their opponents
thinks of them as “ringers”. One party is pro-democracy, the other objectively anti-democracy.