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Voter intimidation, Mn-style!
Secretary of State Mark Ritchie today (Wednesday, Oct. 29) held a news conference to alert citizens to voter intimidation tactics occurring in Minnesota.
Ritchie warned voters of telephone calls from individuals falsely claiming to be associated with the Office of the Secretary of State raising questions about the voting practices of the person being called.
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Ritchie's office has alerted the Ramsey County Attorney and the Office of the U.S. Attorney to a complaint filed with the Office of the Secretary of State by a St. Paul resident.
I hope he's not expecting the US Attorney to take any action. New Mexico has had cases of a GOP hired private investigator visiting voters and threatening them, and the DOJ has taken no action.
I guess they're too busy investigating the fraud against ACORN.
Johnson signed an affidavit saying the woman later told him she was working with Jeff Davis, the head of a conservative group, Minnesota Majority, that has been questioning the integrity of Minnesota's voter rolls.
What is Minnesota Majority? It contends Minnesota school children are being indoctrinated into homosexuality, and it also questions the Republican values of former Democrats such as Norm Coleman and Joe Lieberman.
So, basically they are the people who believe "dickishness" is a family value? How dare they question Lieberman and Coleman's dedication to the cause. In the past few years, these men have dedicated their lives to placing politics over integrity!
Lieberman isn't a Republican. Ha ha. I mean, seriously, he's not. He's an Inde-Ha-pendent.
What I'm curious about with Lieberman is this: he's still pro-choice: would he back a SCOTUS pick who wasn't if McCain were (shudder) president? And let's not pretend there's no litmus test.
So what was the intimidation? Did I miss that detail in the story?
Ritchie warned voters of telephone calls from individuals falsely claiming to be associated with the Office of the Secretary of State raising questions about the voting practices of the person being called.
It's a subtle form of intimidation, I suppose, but nonetheless I think I would be quite put off by being querried about my voting practices as though I had done something wrong.
I think it's somewhere between misinformation and intimidation. The story was pretty vague, but it's clearly another "Stamp Out the Vote" effort.
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