The Hill Congress Blog: “Democratic party still disenfranchising & oppressing votes”
RNLA Executive Director Michael Thielen had an Op Ed published on The Hill's Congress Blog detailing just how Democrats are still disenfranchising voters, fail to recognize that vote fraud does exist, and how elected Democrats have stacked the deck to help vote fraud to continue. You can check out the op ed here or see key highlights below.
Former American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) voting rights project attorney Christopher Coates recently left his job as the Civil Rights Division's Voting Section chief at the Department of Justice because he believed in the principle of race neutrality. And race was not the only area where DOJ would not enforce the law as it was written.
Part of the Help American Vote Act (HAVA) sponsored by retiring Democratic Senator Chris Dodd, involved provisions making certain types of vote fraud more difficult to execute. For instance, problems that had allowed the dead to vote or for people to vote twice were addressed by removing them from the voter rolls. But, in the Obama Department of Justice, Coates and others were told that they were no longer enforcing those parts of the law.
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But worst of all is the continued, systematic disenfranchisement of those serving in our military. Just like in the early days of the Civil Rights Movement, a few good Democrats in the Northeast are crying foul and trying to stop the disenfranchisement. In the extremely close 2000 presidential election, the Gore campaign and its lawyers attempted to steal the presidential contest by disenfranchising Florida military voters with hyper technicalities. The situation only stopped when then-Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Joe Lieberman agreed it was wrong.
In 2010, Senator Charles Schumer of New York co-sponsored the MOVE Act, which gave overseas military voters a better chance to have their votes counted. But here again, the Obama DOJ knowing that the majority of these ballots were to be cast for Republicans, did very little to guarantee the right of those in uniform to vote, outside largely symbolic actions taken in places like Guam.
Yet only when Schumer and others complained, did the Department of Justice respond by finally reacting in key states such as Illinois but as a result of all these DOJ efforts, military voters in Illinois have a few extra days to send in their ballots despite the fact election officials sent ballots weeks late to our men and women in uniform fighting abroad to defend our democracy.
Liberals will have you believe that disenfranchisement, intimidation, and other forms of vote fraud do not exist and make no difference in election results. But in the last two elections, the balance of power has been altered significantly due to vote fraud.
For instance, after the narrow election of John Tester in Montana provided Democrats with control of the United States Senate in 2006, Governor Brian Schweitzer of Montana bragged how he got Tester elected.
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The ultimate irony is that while some Democrats continue to disenfranchise our military, enforce our laws on the basis of race, condone the intimidation of elections officials and take away the right of people to have their votes counted, they continue to blast Republicans with groundless and hollow allegations of intimidation and disenfranchisement. This strategy was first discovered as part of their 2004 Colorado victory guide where Democrats were told to manufacture allegations of intimidation, even if none existed to generate publicity. That is exactly what's happening this year