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	<title>Comments on: Bush, Gonzales Attorney Firings Suppressed the Black Vote</title>
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		<title>By: Paul Hue</title>
		<link>http://distortedsoul.com/2007/04/bush-gonzales-attorney-firings-suppressed-the-black-vote/comment-page-1#comment-231</link>
		<dc:creator>Paul Hue</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I agree that the AG attorneys should have investigated claims from both sides. If the Bushies attempted to file charges only for Demo election crimes while ignoring real Repo crimes, I agree that was unethical, provided that the fired attorneys weren&#039;t themselves attempting to cover for real democratic crimes.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Election photo IDs would certainly restrict the voting of people attempting to vote multiple times, vote in place of others, or vote without US citizenship. If there are indeed voters out there who lack any govt-issued photo identification, forcing them to either get such ID or blocking them from voting seems to me a very acceptable price to pay for increasing the integrity of the voter ranks.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Conversely, enabling legitimate voters who refuse to get govt ID cards at the cost of enabling illegitimate voters represents too high of a price in my assessment, thus I vigorously support photo IDs as one of several obviously (to me) necessary voter reformations.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree that the AG attorneys should have investigated claims from both sides. If the Bushies attempted to file charges only for Demo election crimes while ignoring real Repo crimes, I agree that was unethical, provided that the fired attorneys weren&#8217;t themselves attempting to cover for real democratic crimes.</p>
<p>Election photo IDs would certainly restrict the voting of people attempting to vote multiple times, vote in place of others, or vote without US citizenship. If there are indeed voters out there who lack any govt-issued photo identification, forcing them to either get such ID or blocking them from voting seems to me a very acceptable price to pay for increasing the integrity of the voter ranks.</p>
<p>Conversely, enabling legitimate voters who refuse to get govt ID cards at the cost of enabling illegitimate voters represents too high of a price in my assessment, thus I vigorously support photo IDs as one of several obviously (to me) necessary voter reformations.</p>
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		<title>By: Nadir</title>
		<link>http://distortedsoul.com/2007/04/bush-gonzales-attorney-firings-suppressed-the-black-vote/comment-page-1#comment-230</link>
		<dc:creator>Nadir</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The point is that they wanted the attorneys to investigate Democrats, but not to investifate Republicans.  Little action has been taken on claims in either Florida (2000) or Ohio (2004).  The process was completely politicized by not investigating all claims.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Additionally, the firing of those attorneys because they didn&#039;t file charges against Democrats, and the pressure placed on them to do so in the first place is unethical, and probably illegal.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Challenging voters with questions about ids doesn&#039;t increase voter participation.  It restricts it.  Especially when there are many elderly people who don&#039;t have ids especially.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The point is that they wanted the attorneys to investigate Democrats, but not to investifate Republicans.  Little action has been taken on claims in either Florida (2000) or Ohio (2004).  The process was completely politicized by not investigating all claims.</p>
<p>Additionally, the firing of those attorneys because they didn&#8217;t file charges against Democrats, and the pressure placed on them to do so in the first place is unethical, and probably illegal.</p>
<p>Challenging voters with questions about ids doesn&#8217;t increase voter participation.  It restricts it.  Especially when there are many elderly people who don&#8217;t have ids especially.</p>
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		<title>By: Paul Hue</title>
		<link>http://distortedsoul.com/2007/04/bush-gonzales-attorney-firings-suppressed-the-black-vote/comment-page-1#comment-229</link>
		<dc:creator>Paul Hue</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t see how any of these claims amount to attempts to &quot;disenfranchise black voters.&quot;. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Democrats and Republicans both accuse each other of dirty election tricks; shouldn&#039;t the claims of each side be investigated? I would certainly like investigations into the claims that repos circulate false info about voting sites in black areas. But how can we investigate that without also investigating republican claims that in democratic voting districts  people are voting for each other and for dead people? &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Speaking of which, I cannot imagine a maximally efficient voting system without people proving who they are via photo ID as one of several obvious steps.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t see how any of these claims amount to attempts to &#8220;disenfranchise black voters.&#8221;. </p>
<p>Democrats and Republicans both accuse each other of dirty election tricks; shouldn&#8217;t the claims of each side be investigated? I would certainly like investigations into the claims that repos circulate false info about voting sites in black areas. But how can we investigate that without also investigating republican claims that in democratic voting districts  people are voting for each other and for dead people? </p>
<p>Speaking of which, I cannot imagine a maximally efficient voting system without people proving who they are via photo ID as one of several obvious steps.</p>
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