I bet you do - but that is not what has occurred here.
It certainly has. And your truthiness occurs again in your reply.
There is nothing wrong with cleaning up the voter rolls....
Certainly not. But it is wrong when Republican controlled Florida does it fraudulently.
To suppress "felons" in earlier elections:
“James Lee testified, before the McKinney panel, that the state had given DBT the directive to add to the purge list people who matched at least 90% of a last name.
Lee went on saying that the state then ordered DBT to shift to an even lower threshold of 80% match, allowing also names to be reversed (thus a person named Thomas Clarence could be taken to be the same as Clarence Thomas). Besides this, middle initials were skipped, Jr. and Sr. suffixes dropped, and some nicknames and aliases were added to puff up the list.”
To me that is criminal voter suppression. After further examination of the Leon County “felon” list only 5% were actual felons. These are examples of some that were to be purged:
Johnny Jackson Jr., Date of Birth, 1970; crime, none, mistaken for John Fitzgerald Jackson who was still in his jail cell in Texas
Wallace McDonald, Date of Birth, 1928; crime, fell asleep on a bus-stop bench in 1959
Randall J. Higginbotham, Date of Birth, August 28, 1960; crimes, none, mistaken for Sean David Higginbotham, born June 16, 1971
Reverend Willy D. Whiting Jr., crime, a speeding ticket from 1990, confused with Willy J. Whiting who have birthdays 2 days apart
Also, more than 1,300 registered voters were matched with felons even though their races or sexes were different.
That was done purposefully and is voter suppression.
Democratic media and talking points do not disclose that 2012 wait times were slightly shorter than in 2008, there were no significant differences in wait times by party identification, voters were satisfied with the voting process, and expressed considerable support for voter IDs. The 2012 election was much the same as 2008 but without the same Democrat gnashing of teeth over voter suppression.
I am talking about
Florida. You and the Forbes article are talking about the
entire country. The voting lines in
Florida were much much worse than the average for the country.
All this tells us is that consultants in the area are aware of a shifting demographic. They would be complete idiots to not be aware of this. It doesn't amount to some widespread, coordinated effort to suppress Democrats.
Again you misunderstood the post. They actually
did admit to a widespread, coordinated effort to suppress Democrats in Florida. Read it again. GOP consultants said,
“"Wayne Bertsch, who handles local and legislative races for Republicans, said he knew targeting Democrats was the goal.” … “were intent on beating back Democratic turnout in early voting after 2008.” … “cutting out of the Sunday before Election Day was one of their targets only because that’s a big day when the black churches organize themselves,”
That is a clear cut admission of Democratic voter suppression by the Florida Republican administration. How could you miss that? And why do you brush that off as a “
shifting demographic”
I also notice you ignored the clear cut evidence of voter fraud and essentially disregard the entire concept and importance of election integrity.
My post you referred to in #84 was about Republican suppression aimed at Democrats in Florida. You keep trying to conflate the Florida problem with Texas, or the rest of the country. I live and vote in Florida and followed the news as it unfolded. Sure there are other problems elsewhere and I don't mean to belittle them, but your conflation is an attempt to belittle Florida's problems.