Monday, October 18, 2004

Accusations, and Lawsuits... the Elections of the Future?

Already the lawyers are getting ready for the election to be taken to the court. No matter who wins there's gonna be some sort of struggle to prove it wrong. Accusations of disenfranchising, and intimidating votes are in the works. In fact America Coming Together (a group that has raised tens of millions of dollars to back democratic candidates) has been passing out fliers in predominantly black communities with a picture of a fire fighter hosing down a black man, suggesting that Republicans are going to attack black voters to prevent them from voting. It even accuses "Them" of making black voters stand in line LONGER than anyone else to vote, and placing white cops in front of polling places to intimidate blacks from voting.
These accusations of Republicans doing these things to minorities REALLY amazes, and frustrates me. I'm doing 2 research papers at the moment on affirmative action, and have been learning alot about how all of this partisanship got involved with it. Republicans were the ones who introduced affirmative action policy as a temporary means to level the playing field for minorities. Almost 15 years after the policy had been in play, reverse discrimination became a huge issue, which is when the republicans started saying ok, let's pull back on this now; the field has been leveled. This is when the democratic party started trying to become champion of the minorities.
To accuse the Republican party of trying to cause harm, or prevent blacks from performing their right to vote is one of the most ridiculous accusations I have heard. The Democratic party is USING minorities to GAIN VOTES, and to raise accusations of voter intimidation, even when there really is none to report, as instructed in their election manuals.
In other news, there are already problems at some of the early voting precincts. Computers crashing, supposed incomplete absentee ballots... Lawyers, to your corners.

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home