What Groups will be Disenfranchised During this Election?

[a777pilot]

There are many but one of the most important will be the US Military serving overseas.

Some of the others will be the illegal mexicans and the dead, but then I really don't care about those groups not voting.

 

[dawheat]

Couple guys I know who served in Iraq and Afghanistan are proud of what they did, but are glad as fuck to never have to go there again.

My sense is they'll be quietly glad there will be a president who doesn't waste thousands of their lives on meaningless and wasteful new wars.

As far as disenfranchised - low income, low education white men and Wall Street bankers (who are surprisingly ethnically varied).

 

[Jhhnn]

There are many but one of the most important will be the US Military serving overseas.

Some of the others will be the illegal mexicans and the dead, but then I really don't care about those groups not voting.

It's getting desperate on the fringe, obviously.

Perhaps you'd care to explain how the military is being disenfranchised...

 

[monovillage]

http://www.stripes.com/states-struggling-to-meet-deadlines-for-delivering-absentee-ballots-1.193530

Didn't fit your meme I guess. There's more if you look around.

 

[trenchfoot]

The group called the United States of America will be disenfranchised, for if some folks are made to suffer by design, then we all suffer the consequences.

 

[monovillage]

Good to see about the drive to register murderers and the insane.
http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclusives/display_exclusive.html?id=9635

BUTNER — Recent stepped-up voter registration efforts at state mental hospitals and facilities for the developmentally disabled resulted in the registration of Wendell Justin Williamson, who in 1995 killed two people in Chapel Hill and was judged not guilty by reason of insanity.

Election records show Williamson, a patient at Central Regional Hospital in Butner, was registered on Sept. 13 as an unaffiliated voter. He cast an absentee ballot that was accepted Oct. 15 by the Granville County Board of Elections. ...............Employees of the Murdoch Developmental Center, a state-run facility in Butner for the mentally retarded and developmentally disabled, recently registered 36 of the more than 500 residents to vote in what appears to have been a voter registration drive at the facility. In addition, some residents were checked out of the facility and transported to early voting centers to cast votes.

As of Oct. 30, eight of the center’s residents had voted in person at one of the two early voting sites in Granville County, Carolina Journal has learned. One of the sites is at the Creedmoor City Hall, four miles from the Murdoch Center. The residents voted at the early voting locations on five different days.

Registration activities also appear to have taken place at two other centers serving those with extreme developmental disabilities — the Riddle Developmental Center in Morganton and the Caswell Developmental Center in Kinston.

By law, facility employees are prohibited from assisting the residents with voting, but each resident could have asked an election site official for help in completing a ballot. The developmentally disabled also may receive help from a close relative or legal guardian, but CJ has been unable to determine if these rules were followed in any of the instances in Granville County.

A source who wished to remain anonymous told CJ that Murdoch Center employees recently asked all residents if they wanted to vote, and that they then helped register those who indicated they did. All the patients living at Murdoch Center have been diagnosed with “profound, severe, or moderate intellectual/developmental disabilities or a related disability.”

CJ could find no evidence that legal guardians, close relatives, or trained multipartisan teams were involved in the recent voting activities at state facilities.

 

[monovillage]

Another, separate case.

Jimmy Green's stepdaughter had never voted before. The 57-year-old is mentally disabled, and Green said she doesn't understand the concept of casting a ballot.

But this week, she called her parents to say she had voted for President Obama. The care home in Fayetteville where she lives registered its residents to vote and drove them to the polls, Green said.

"My concern is that somebody told her who to vote for," he said. "She didn't even know there's two different parties."

To me the most chilling part of the story.

Jimmy Green has not lodged an official complaint about his stepdaughter being escorted to the polls. He said he fears reprisals against her from the care home.

Democrats, great people aren't they?

http://www.fayobserver.com/articles/2012/11/01/1214384?sac=fo.local

 

[Jhhnn]

Another, separate case.


To me the most chilling part of the story.



Democrats, great people aren't they?

http://www.fayobserver.com/articles/2012/11/01/1214384?sac=fo.local

Nice bit of false attribution. What Greer said-

"I'm not holding up for either party here in this case," he said, "but it's just not right."

But you are, of course.

 

[monovillage]

Nice bit of false attribution. What Greer said-



But you are, of course.

I am, because she was forced......ummm her vote was cast for Obama.

 

[umbrella39]

The group will be the ever dwindling, eroding rights, White, Male, Christian, Retired, Racist, Bigots.

Obviously.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

It's good to see people appreciate the speedy way the DOJ is moving on the military vote issue. It's too bad that they move so slowly on things like voter ID.

Note sarcasm

 

[nageov3t]

as usual, everyone who doesn't live in a swing state.

 

[Jhhnn]

as usual, everyone who doesn't live in a swing state.

It's quite rare that the electoral college doesn't follow the popular vote. The last time that happened was 2000, and Righties weren't whining then...

They were giving each other high fives & flipping off the rest of the country, iirc...

 

[DominionSeraph]

I am, because she was forced......ummm her vote was cast for Obama.

And this is why you conservatards are dismissed. You can't even read.

 

[Lemon law]

I think our OP is totally wrong about any US group getting disenfranchised. When its far more likely that various groups that received far more than their fair share of national wealth and privileges, will merely revert back to receiving their fair share and nothing more post 10/6/2012.

 

[a777pilot]

I think our OP is totally wrong about any US group getting disenfranchised. When its far more likely that various groups that received far more than their fair share of national wealth and privileges, will merely revert back to receiving their fair share and nothing more post 10/6/2012.

Oh, no, not the fair share shit again? Please define, "fair share".

 

[DominionSeraph]

Oh, no, not the fair share shit again? Please define, "fair share".

You're not bright enough to grasp the explanation.

 

[Binarycow]

it will be funny all over again to watch the huge collective disappointment on their faces on Foxnews on next tuesdays night like the last time McCain gave that speech conceding the election to Obama. I will never forget the faces of that crowd. the crowd that is singly responsible for the division, hatred, bigotry, and in general all that is not right with our country.

I voted for Obama last time as an independent and will do it again next tuesday.

 

[a777pilot]

You're not bright enough to grasp the explanation.

That can only mean one thing, there is no real definition of "fair share". Thought so.

 

[a777pilot]

I voted for Obama last time as an independent (?) and will do it again next tuesday.

Independant? LOL!

 

[DominionSeraph]

That can only mean one thing.

See what I mean about that "not bright enough" thing?

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

You're not bright enough to grasp the explanation.

Perhaps you would explain how those disenfranchised soldiers have more than their fair share of wealth and privilege? We independent non partisans are going to be a hard sell.

 

[a777pilot]

See what I mean about that "not bright enough" thing?

LOL!

Please, what is the definition of "fair share"? If youi don't know, that's OK. No one knows.

 

[DominionSeraph]

Please, what is the definition of "fair share"?

You're not bright enough to grasp the explanation.