Cheat the Vote! Part III: Dream Warriors

Since my attempt at non-politics blogging was by varying accounts whiny and boring, it's back to The Usual, and it's time for the long overdue 3rd segment of Cheat the Vote!^tm

Remember how, in Episode One, we visited James & Andrew's home town of Jacksonville, Florida? Let's check back in on the old boys and see if things have improved down there.

In Duval County, 31,155 black voters had been added to the rolls by the end of last week. [...] But hundreds more could show up at the polls only to find they cannot vote. The office has flagged 1,448 registrations as incomplete, and as of last week had yet to process 11,500 more.

A Washington Post analysis found nearly three times the number of flagged Democratic registrations as Republican. Broken down by race, no group had more flagged registrations than blacks.

This, in a heavily GOP county where records show that the number of blacks added to the rolls since 2000 approximately equals the number of non-Hispanic whites.

Sweet Christmas! How could such a thing happen? Who could possibly be to blame? I think the culprit is pretty obvious. It's the Democrats.

[The Jeb Bush-appointed Republican Secretary of State's office] said the real blame belongs with the Democratic-leaning groups that targeted minority voters and then turned in sloppy and incomplete registrations. The disproportionate number of black Democratic registrations flagged...is a function of "who those groups are targeting."

According to the article, a lot of the registrations are being flagged because of a new directive -- ignored by many counties, but diligently enforced in Duval -- that new voters must both sign an oath and check a box attesting to their citizenship. Failure to do either one is like crossing your fingers behind your back. Thanks, Duval County, for so diligently protecting our rights!

Oh, but the fun doesn't stop there! Let's take a plane to the city named "City We Most Often Fly To" by furdell.com three years running! That's right, it's...Las Vega$!!!

If the stuff in Jacksonville irked you, you're gonna love this...

[An out-of-state firm called Voters Outreach of America, aka America Votes] has been in Las Vegas for the past few months, registering voters. It employed up to 300 part-time workers and collected hundreds of registrations per day, but former employees of the company say that Voters Outreach of America only wanted Republican registrations.

Two former workers say they personally witnessed company supervisors rip up and trash registration forms signed by Democrats.

"We caught her taking Democrats out of my pile, handed them to her assistant and he ripped them up right in front of us. I grabbed some of them out of the garbage and she tells her assistant to get those from me," said Eric Russell, former Voters Outreach employee.

Employees "allege that hundreds, perhaps thousands" of registrations got trashed.

As Talking Points Memo has discovered, Voters Outreach of America is "Paid for by the Republican National Committee."

Why does it not surprise me that, when faced with a clear choice between Good and Evil, half of America chooses evil? Don't get me wrong, I think only about 5% of that group realizes what it's doing. But I'm pretty sure Darth Vader could get half the popular vote. And that's even if he was running for reelection after having just exploded a peaceful planet.

***UPDATE!***
That GOP-funded group that was shredding Dem. registrations in Nevada? Yeah, they did it in Oregon too. Oh, and stay tuned -- other states couldn't be far behind.