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ENOUGH IS ENOUGH: GOP Tactics to Deter Voters - Is it Time to March?

By Paulette MacDougall RN BSN - Sep 13th, 2008 at 7:22 pm EDT

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Has everyone seem the e-mail regarding regarding GOP tactics in Wisconsin to deter voters? A lawsuit filed by their State Attorney General is apparently designed to "slow down" voting lines. Yesterday I heard talk about GOP absentee ballot fraud. Not to mention the incessant slandering. Or watching James Carville defending John McCain and his negative ads.

SO even if we get a gazillion people energized and registered to vote for Obama, the GOP has back-up plans & tactics to make it so difficult they actually hope to deter voter turn-out or that people will discouraged & tired enough to go home.

Is this what the process of voting has become in the United States of America? Or perhaps I should ask if we're simply returning to a previous era where corporiate giants simply beat down marching union workers with clubs or met workers who dared to vote for unions in a back alley somewhere with a club.

Yes we need to register voters. THAT is paramount. But I've heard other suggestions today for protecting the process of voting when it happens. One person suggested writing to the UN now to request "observers" for the election. Someone else suggested protests & picketing.

Perhaps it IS time to start marching (backpacks filled with voter registration forms)! Peacefully of course. Perhaps a little marching & singing is exactly what the Democrats need to boost our spirits back up soaring where they need to be.

I think the GOP underestimates the toughness of Democratic voters. We have a long, long history of walking picket lines, marching and being deterred. That's because we are made up of immigrants and workers and unions and minorities and liberals who long for a better and fairer system in America.

Obama supporters are most certainly strong enough to face down the GOP and quite definitely strong enough to stand in long lines to vote for a man like Barack Obama!!

As Obama says, it's TIME for a change and ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. Perhaps it's time to gather spirits and our energy together and get some cameras focused on the very shaky process of voting in the USA today. Especially this particular year.

But that's just my humble (& furious) opinion, as I am still angry about 2004. But I'm even angrier today to think the GOP banks on the fact we'll sit back & watch them do it again

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