Criminal Mischief from Rick Perry and Greg Abbott
Pacifica Radio’s Progressive Show this week hosted Steven Rosenfeld talking about his article in the the latest Texas Observer, “Vote by Mail, Go to Jail.” In it he chronicles the latest efforts of Texas officials to bag that Republican shibboleth, voter fraud.
Their instruments in this pogrom are little-publicized new rules concerning the signing and delivering of absentee ballots. This enforcement effort has been funded by a $1.5 million grant from Governor Perry; a federal “Byrne Grant” such as crooked cop Tom Coleman used to frame some 30 black residents of Tulia Texas on drug charges, sending them to prison until they were finally pardoned and paid millions in reparations by the state of Texas.
The Attorney General’s “Special Investigations Unit” has been prosecuting Democratic activists for not properly signing envelopes used to return absentee ballots, and for assisting people not disabled enough to vote absentee. Miraculously, these heinous crimes only seem to occur in Democratic precincts.
“In September 2006, Gerry Hebert, a former chief of the US Department of Justice’s Voting Section-which oversees the nation’s voting rights laws- and now executive director of the Washington-based Campaign Legal Center, filed a suit challenging the Texas attorney general, secretary of state, and a 2003 Texas law that criminalized practices often used to help the elderly vote by mail.”
The center’s lawsuit goes to court this spring.
Their instruments in this pogrom are little-publicized new rules concerning the signing and delivering of absentee ballots. This enforcement effort has been funded by a $1.5 million grant from Governor Perry; a federal “Byrne Grant” such as crooked cop Tom Coleman used to frame some 30 black residents of Tulia Texas on drug charges, sending them to prison until they were finally pardoned and paid millions in reparations by the state of Texas.
The Attorney General’s “Special Investigations Unit” has been prosecuting Democratic activists for not properly signing envelopes used to return absentee ballots, and for assisting people not disabled enough to vote absentee. Miraculously, these heinous crimes only seem to occur in Democratic precincts.
“In September 2006, Gerry Hebert, a former chief of the US Department of Justice’s Voting Section-which oversees the nation’s voting rights laws- and now executive director of the Washington-based Campaign Legal Center, filed a suit challenging the Texas attorney general, secretary of state, and a 2003 Texas law that criminalized practices often used to help the elderly vote by mail.”
The center’s lawsuit goes to court this spring.
posted by Julia B. @ 3:57 AM
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