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Democrats Disenfranchise Voters

The Democrats, many of whom still refuse to admit that President Bush won the last election because they seem to have forgotten that presidents are elected by the electoral college, are busy trying to steal the next one. Remember -- it's the Democrats, not the Republicans, that in Florida felt that minorities and the elderly were too stupid to operate a punch-card ballot. And it was the Democrats who claimed that "a million" black voters were disenfranchised.

Yet (as I've written about before) the Democratic lawyers have been busy trying to keep independent candidate Ralph Nader off of the ballots in as many states as they can. From the (NH) Union Leader:

RALPH NADER appears well on his way to a spot on New Hampshire’s ballots on Nov. 2, and this has Democrats steaming. They are so upset that they have called the lawyers.

Ironically, at the same time the state Democratic Party is suing the state GOP for having used an illegal phone-jamming operation to violate citizens’ constitutional right of equal access to the ballot two years ago, the party also is suing to keep Ralph Nader off the ballot...

...Unofficially, they hope their lawsuit removes enough signatures from Nader’s petition to keep him off the ballot.

Nader voters might simply sit at home and do their recycling on election day if Nader is not on the ballot. But Democrats hope they will turn out to vote for John Kerry. So they are suing, not just in New Hampshire, but also in Pennsylvania. In Oregon, there is some evidence that Democrats deliberately sabotaged Nader’s effort to get on the ballot there.

Notice that in their press releases and public statements the Democrats have not attempted to persuade people not to sign Nader’s petition. They are not offering arguments in opposition to Nader’s candidacy. Instead of debating the merits or demerits of a Nader campaign, they are trying to prevent his candidacy from even happening.

Here's a slogan:

The Left: Sucking the democracy out of the Democratic Party.