Voter Suppression Groups Plot a Million-Person Army to Swarm Polls

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Colorlines, News Report, Posted: May 10, 2012


One of the first sights to greet attendees of the True the Vote national summit was the face of Martin Luther King, printed above the quote “PEACE if possible. TRUTH at all costs,” on t-shirts for sale in the hotel lobby. Of course, King didn’t actually say those words; the quote is from Martin Luther, the German theologian who predates King by about three centuries. But that was besides the point for True the Voters, who gathered in Houston on a late April weekend to rally against a darker “truth” only they seemed privy to: a major epidemic of voter fraud that has taken over the American electoral system.

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Anonymous

Posted May 11 2012

Advancement Project "Senior Attorney" Lieberman is just plain wrong.

First, there's no such thing as a "vigilante poll watcher". Poll watchers are citizen-volunteers sanctioned by state election laws and appointed by parties or candidates to observe the actions of election workers inside the polls to ensure laws and procedures are followed. Poll watchers do NOT stand outside the polls or interact with voters, unlike, say, New Black Panthers standing at a poll entrance with nightsticks and yelling racial epithets.

Second, True the Vote does NOT send mailings to voters. State/County Registrars DO send mailings to voters who move or whose registration certificates are returned as undeliverable - as required by federal law (NVRA). If voters don't respond and don't vote in 2 consecutive general elections, only then are they removed frm the voter rolls, again in compliance with NVRA.

And despite the hyperbolic headline, the reality is that our voting system is designed to rely primarily on civic-minded volunteers from all parties working together to ensure free and fair elections. Fraud is only possible when dishonest people run elections or only one party is represented. I would hope that a righteous "army" of citizen-volunteers will "swarm the polls" on Election Day - not just to vote, but to True the Vote.

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