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In 2002, George W. Bush “Instead of being a vessel for facilitating signed the Help America Vote Act. the vote, [HAVA] became a vessel for When a Bush tells you restricting the vote.” -Bobby Kennedy he’s going to “help” you vote –look out! ballot to get “lost” in the and Ladders,” with traps machine. Bush fired the and tricks between you and The result: in the 2004 experts. your vote. presidential election, over 4 three million votes— Three million voters went Example: the Republican 3,006,080—were cast and missing in ‘04—but that Secretary of State of Colo- not counted. Like, what ain’t nuthin’! rado “helped” her state vote the !@#!? Law professor and voting by eliminating 19.4% of the voters from the voter rolls. That’s from the official data from an agency created by George Bush called the “Elec- tions Assistance Com- mission.” When a Bush tells you he’s going to “assist” our elections... (well, you get it). law expert Robert That’s one in five !@#$#@ Three MILLION Kennedy, Jr. warns that voters! ballots disappeared—pfft! it’s about to get a whole lot Over three million miss- And not just anyone’s worse. Nasty new spores ing ballots–and now the ballots. U.S. government of the “Help” America Vote voters themselves are dis- experts reported, for Act” went into effect since appearing by the millions. example, that a black the last election that have Where the hell did they go? voter’s ballot is 900% more turned the process into a likely than a white voter’s vicious game of “Chutes Read on ...

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“Voter fraud is non-existent...Everybody who has ever studied this—non-partisan, bi-partisan groups—have said that it is simply not a problem in this country.”—Bobby Kennedy

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“Everybody should be allowed to vote. And everybody should be allowed to register. And that’s not happening in this country anymore.”—Bobby Kennedy

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the Chicano soldiers in Iraq able, blank, or just somehow or on duty. The machines lost in the machines. say that Hispanic soldiers Here’s an unfun fact: not don’t care who becomes their everyone’s vote spoils the commander-in-chief. same. Or maybe, the machines The U.S. Civil Rights failed to register their votes. Commission found that Few Americans realize the chances of an African- that in 2004, 1,389,231 American voter losing their ballots were never counted vote is 900% higher than a because they were “spoiled.” white voter. Hispanic votes How do ballots spoil? They vanished at a rate 500% get left out of the ‘fridge? No, higher than Anglo votes. they’re supposedly unread- Something’s rotten.

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Uh-oh. “The R.N.C. sends a letter to the voter at Three million voters the Naval Air Station, and if this voter showed up at the polls on has been assigned to Iraq or Afghani- Election Day 2004 and, stan or Europe, then the letter will instead of getting real come back to the sender, which is the ballots, were handed something called a “provisional” Republican National Committee.” ballot, a new creature —Bobby Kennedy created by the Help America Vote Act. And the dumpster would have addressed his confidential guess what? About a changed the name of the emails to GeorgeWBush.org third—one million votes— guy in the White House. instead of GeorgeWBush. 12 were then thrown away, re- It’s about to happen com. The .org site is owned jected. In Ohio, the pile in again. Big time. In the by John Wooden, a friend of caucus primary of 2008 in ours, who sent it right to us New Mexico, one in nine at BBC-TV. Oops! Democrats were handed In one New Mexico these bogus bouncing pueblo, hundreds of Native ballots. How come so Americans were forced to many? There’s a big old vote provisionally—but challenge machine opera- local politicians didn’t give tion lying in wait to get you. them official envelopes. It started with a man Then these same named Tim Griffin, Karl politicians threw the votes Rove’s protégé, who away because they didn’t directed a scheme called have official envelopes. “caging.” But we caught The politicians, by the him. Tim’s not the sharpest way, were all, uh, knife in the drawer, so he Democrats.

“When this fellow shows up to vote, they’ll say: “You don’t live at this address anymore, we’re challenging your vote. We can’t give you a real ballot, we’ll instead give you a provisional ballot. But of course, provisional ballots have turned out to be just a placebo, thrown away in half the cases.” —Bobby Kennedy

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Was Karl warning us or that new voter Block-the- challenging a circle boasting? Vote trick. Missouri— versus ‘X’ and other You’re a new voter in did you notarize your picky-picky gotcha stuff, Idaho and mail in your ballot? In Kentucky, mailing in your ballot absentee ballot. Save did you sign it twice? today is a kind of elector- the stamp and throw it In Colorado, did you use al Russian Roulette. away—because elections the official envelope? About one in ten officials will: you have to With partisan officials absentee ballots get personally appear with ready to rip up your ballot chucked in the dumpster. 14 your ID. over signatures, post- You’re still mailing in your Idaho isn’t alone with age sums, envelope sizes, ballot??? Like, hello! “We live in a democracy. We’re supposed to be an exemplary nation. We’re spending three trillion dollars to make sure that they have democracy in Iraq...But we don’t even have democracy in Ohio.”—Bobby Kennedy

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So, these ten nuns walk ID with not a single known cards keeps them from into a polling station and... case of voter identity theft. getting ID.” A young Mexi- Oh, you’ve heard that one? It’s true the law nabbed cana he escorted to the polls What you didn’t hear is Shirley Preiss, a 98-year- was turned away from her that, besides the Sisters old Democrat whose driver’s first-ever attempt to vote for of the Holy Cross who lost license expired. Drop that failure to produce an ID to their vote because their ballot, Shirl, drivers licenses expired, and no one 144,896 other legal voters gets hurt. were told to scram in this Santiago year’s primary —all caught Juarez sees attempting to vote without some truth 16 a license. The rejected were, in Rove’s re- disproportionately, African- marks. We American,according to met with data from the University of Santiago in Washington. Espanola, Apparently, the idea for New Mexi- this racially rancid rule co, where he came to Karl Rove while he was running a registration was buying his Pampers: “If drive among low-riders, the the white pollworker’s I try to cash a check at a young Mexican-Americans satisfaction, despite grocery store, I have to who cruise the street in Santiago’s protest. show an ID. Why not for hopping, bopping, neon- “She said, well, something voting?” outlined Chevys. He says, you can’t print, and refused The answer, Karl, is that “The same poverty and to try again. She said, for a century, Indiana folks racism that keeps these ‘They don’t want me to vote, have voted without photo kids from getting credit anyway.’”

“One out of every ten Americans don’t have a government- issued ID because they don’t travel abroad, so they don’t have passports, and they don’t drive a car so they don’t have drivers licenses. The number rises to one in five when you’re dealing with the African-American community. And indeed, for those people to get a government-issued ID—IT’S AN OBSTACLE.”—BOBBY KENNEDY

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In 2008, they’ll be handing out provi- acceptable ID if possible. And be a champ: sional ballots like candy, especially to defend the rights of others. 4 Hispanic voters. If your right to vote is If you’ve taken Step 1 above and voted challenged, don’t accept a provisional bal- early, you have Election Day free to be lot that will likely not get counted no a poll watcher. Run into trouble—you’ve matter what the sweet little lady at the been caged or purged or challenged—call table tells you. She won’t decide; partisan Election Protection at 1-(866) OUR- sharks will. Demand adjudication from VOTE. Then challenge the challengers, the poll judges on the spot; demand a call to weird guys with Blackberrys containing lists the supervisor of elections; or return with of “suspect” voters. Be firm, but no biting. Occupy Ohio, Invade Nevada

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In 2006, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., professor of law at Pace Universi- ty, sued the pants off the Diebold Corporation over its vote-snatching ballot boxes. Co-host of Air America Radio’s Ring of Fire with Mike Papantonio, Kennedy is Chief Prosecuting Attorney for environmen- tal warrior posse Riverkeeper; Co-Director of the Pace Environmen- tal Litigation Clinic, writes for Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair and is author of a book series for young adults, American Heroes. Is that cool, or what? Listen up at www.ringoffireradio.com.

22 Ted Rall is a three time Pulitzer finalist whose work appears in more than 140 publications across the country. Rall is one of The New York Times most reprinted cartoonists, previously he has worked for Time and Fortune Magazines, and is the author of Silk Road to Ruin. (www.TedRall.com)

Lloyd Dangle’s cartoons and illustrations have appeared in over 100 magazines and newspapers of every type from the crusty corpo- rate mainstream to the bleeding, subcommercial edge. Lloyd’s work has been featured in publications including Cosmo, Entertainment Weekly, Mother Jones, The Nation, The New York Times, Time Mag- azine. (www.TroubleTown.com)

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