If You Can't Vote, There's No Voter Fraud
Or at least that's what they're hoping, I guess.

It's the same old-same-old in Arizona these days: too many non-whites may show up to vote:

"The Maricopa County Elections Department mistakenly listed the wrong date of the upcoming general election on an official government document.

The error appears on a document containing a voter ID card.

In addition to the ID card, the piece of paper it comes in lists other information such as important election dates.In the corner of the document, it says November 6th in English but in Spanish it reads 8 de Noviembre, the 8th of November."http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/10/18/weve-determined-that-trying-to-cover-it-up-requires-too-much-effort/

And in Pennsylvania, they leave it to the largest utility company to mess things up...that way it doesn't look too partisan, I guess:"Pennsylvania’s biggest utility company, PECO, has admitted to sending incorrect voter ID information to 1.3 million customers in 7 Pennsylvania counties. 

PECO isn’t the only source disseminating confusing information to Pennsylvanian voters. For a week after the court order suspended the ID requirement, at least 5 counties stated on their websites that voters must show an eligible ID to vote. A billboard targeting Spanish speakers as well as television ads continued to promote the ID requirement for at least a week after the law was invalidated."

http://tinyurl.com/96m7ma9

In Ohio, you've got to give them an A for effort...these guys NEVER give up:

The Board of Elections sent out voter packets to people without knowing if the current registrant's information was correct."The company was not told to do that and should not have, said Harsman. He said the national list is not necessarily accurate and the board must get verification from a voter before their address can be changed. Also, a change in address would likely have also required new information on the postcard regarding voting precinct and districts so voters who got the cards at their new address were likely told to go to the wrong precinct.

All 16,000 voters have now been sent letters informing them that they need to be sure they are registered at their current address. Since the deadline for updating registrations passed on Oct. 9, any who have not updated their records will have to cast provisional ballots on Election Day." http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/news/local-govt-politics/montgomery-county-voters-may-have-received-wrong-p/nSgFy/

This was the same Montgomery County where Jon Husted, Republican Sec. of State, fired the two Democrats on the board...because he could, and was ruled against by the Ohio Supreme Court: 

"The two Democrats on the Montgomery County Board of Elections were suspended by Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted on Friday after they refused to back down in a standoff over extending in-person early voting hours for the upcoming election.....

But those four counties traditionally vote heavily Democratic, and there is a national backlash from Democrats who said Republican-dominated counties would have more opportunity to vote than Democratic-leaning counties."

http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/news/local-govt-politics/husted-suspends-democrats-on-montgomery-county-boa/nRDx5/



UPDATE
Or you can just destroy voter registration cards...
http://notlarrysabato.typepad.com/doh/2012/10/arrest-made-in-harrisonburg-voter-registration-scandal.html

If you "disillusioned Dems" can't seem to work up any enthusiasm for our President....you didn't get EVERYTHING you thought you were promised....at least be concerned that YOUR right to cast a vote for ANYONE is being undermined. And...the Repubs do not care about the average Joe.

SECOND UPDATE
This post and must-see video explain Minnesota's take on this sort of thing:
http://democurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2012/10/voter-suppression-billboards.html

Sharia Law, Republican Style

Arizona legislators have advanced an unprecedented bill that would require women who wish to have their contraception covered by their health insurance plans to prove to their employers that they are taking it to treat medical conditions. The bill also makes it easier for Arizona employers to fire a woman for using birth control to prevent pregnancy despite the employer's moral objection.

The sponsor of the bill told the committee that it is intended to protect the First Amendment right to religious liberty.

"I believe we live in America," said Majority Whip Debbie Lesko (R-Glendale), who sponsored the bill. "We don’t live in the Soviet Union. So, government should not be telling the organizations or mom-and-pop employers to do something against their moral beliefs."                             (from a HuffPost article today)

What the heck is WRONG with this country? Why are we going backwards?

Hitler believed that the emancipation of women was invented by Jewish intellectuals and that for the German woman her “world is her husband, her family, her children, and her home” (ref).  Not only were women removed from professional and civil servant careers, they were believed to be unfit for jury duty because they were unable to “think logically or reason objectively, since they are ruled only by emotion”. ...... Female reproductive rights were dictated following the maxim that “Your body does not belong to you”.    ( taken from Dr. Arthur Kamm's Feb. 22, 2011 column Art on Issues)

I know that we are proceeding in the direction that the Right Wing has in mind: no rights for women (barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen); no voting right for blacks, students, Hispanics, union members; no help for our endangered environment (it's all god's will anyway); doing away with all forms of worship (except theirs); no improvements to our educational system (an ignorant people is easier to manipulate); and no NLRB (who cares about minimum wage--they've got a JOB; they shouldn't complain about hours or working conditions either; benefits should only be given to the JOB CREATORS, not to the masses actually doing the work).

State after state is coming up with sneaky, hateful, ignorant laws meant only to suppress the rest of us while they go blithely on their way to creating Fundamentalist Heaven Here On Earth, under the guise of "religious freedom" or the First Amendment. The problem is.......those freedoms don't take into consideration that getting THEIR way at the expense of OTHERS is NOT exactly what the Founding Fathers (bless their hearts) had in mind.

Maybe the old-school Republican, the moderate thinking GOP, the average go-to-church-on-Sunday-before-my-golf-game person on the right does not REALLY believe this. But if all we have to go on is the current crop of candidates and the talking heads on FOX news...this country's in a boatload of trouble.

Anybody that stays away from the voting booth this fall, does so at his/her own peril