Obama Campaign Grapples With New Voter ID Laws
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR
WASHINGTON — Field workers for President Obama’s campaign fanned out across the country over the weekend in an effort to confront a barrage of new voter identification laws that strategists say threaten the campaign’s hopes for registering new voters ahead of the November election.
In Wisconsin, where a new state law requires those registering voters to be deputized in whichever of the state’s 1,800 municipalities they are assigned to, the campaign sent a team of trainers armed with instructions for complying with the new regulations.
In Florida, the campaign’s voter registration aides traveled across the state to train volunteers on a new requirement that voter registration signatures be handed in to state officials within 48 hours after they are collected.
And in Ohio, Mr. Obama’s staff members have begun reaching out to let voters know about new laws that discourage precinct workers from telling voters where to go if they show up at the wrong precinct.
Many of the laws in question — including the ones in Florida and Wisconsin — are the subject of legal challenges by Democratic groups who say they are part of a partisan, Republican effort to dampen the turnout of voters, particularly members of minority groups, for Mr. Obama and his party.
But senior aides to Mr. Obama said the campaign was preparing for the laws to be upheld and in force this fall — just in case.
“We have to assume that these laws will be in effect in November,” Jeremy Bird, the field director for the campaign, said in an interview. “We are not allowing laws that are challenging and put in our way to stop us from doing what we need to do.”
Advocates of the new laws, which have been passed in about 30 states since the last presidential election, say they are necessary to prevent voter fraud. They include tougher voter identification requirements and more rules about where and how groups can register new voters.
Mark Cole, a Virginia lawmaker who sponsored a bill requiring voters to show identification, told Virginia Statehouse News that it was “a good ballot integrity measure” that would “increase confidence in the electoral process.”
Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, is an advocate of the push by Republican-controlled legislatures to toughen the laws.
“For centuries our electoral process is based on one person, one vote, and for anyone to politicize the issue reeks of desperation and represents the worst in modern politics,” Mr. Priebus said.
Senior advisers to Mr. Obama’s campaign say many of the new laws put a heavy burden on the registration process, making it more difficult to recruit first-time voters. Other laws shorten the early-voting period in states that had tried to expand the voting window.
“They are clearly put forward for partisan political gains,” Mr. Bird said. “They are trying to change the rules in the middle of the game.”
The new Florida law requires that voter registration drives be conducted by third-party groups that are certified by the state and requires the groups to account for all forms that are checked out from the election division. Those rules were the centerpiece of a training effort over the weekend by the Obama for America staff in the state.
All volunteers and staff members in Florida are required to attend a mandatory session on the new laws, campaign officials said. Those who go through the training must pass a quiz administered by the campaign before they can attempt to register voters on the president’s behalf.
Those who pass are registered with Florida’s election officials and are provided with additional instruction on how to meet the state’s 48-hour rule.
“This is the reality,” Mr. Bird said. “We are going to make sure that we have a very tight, very sophisticated program to follow that law.”
The same is true in Pennsylvania, officials for Mr. Obama’s campaign said. In that state, voters must now present photo identification to vote on Election Day or to pick up an absentee ballot. In the 2008 campaign, the rule applied only to first-time voters.
Now, Mr. Obama’s campaign in Pennsylvania includes information about the new requirement in all materials they pass out to voters. Volunteers who canvass neighborhoods are instructed to ask potential supporters whether they have photo identification to take to their precinct.
Campaign officials declined to put a price tag on the new efforts to comply with voter identification laws, saying the extra time and expense were being built into the budgets for each state’s campaign.
Four years ago, Mr. Obama’s campaign used novel approaches to expand the pool of voters, including registration drives at barbershops and beauty salons in African-American neighborhoods. The campaign plans to expand those efforts, setting up voter registration outposts in those settings.
But the real impact of the new laws may not be the financial cost. Mr. Bird said the campaign had identified the number of voters it believes must turn out in each state for Mr. Obama to win in November.
If the new state laws prevent the campaign from reaching those goals, it could cost Mr. Obama a second term.
YOU WANTED TO TELL YOURSELF THAT ILLEGALS WERE NOT
VOTING???? STOP AND SMELL THE TACO TRUCK! THIS IS A NATION UNDER VOLUNTARY
OCCUPATION BY MEXICO!
JOBS GO TO ILLEGALS FIRST, ALONG WITH WELFARE AND LA RAZA
MEXICAN SUPREMACY!
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MEXICANOCCUPATION.blogpsot.com
REALITIES ON
THE MEXICAN INVASION, OCCUPATION and EVER EXPANDING MEX WELFARE STATE…. It’s
all about HISPANDERING for the ILLEGALS’ VOTES!
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“On Thursday, the House Republican leader, Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio, flatly predicted that Congress would not send an
immigration measure to the president this year. Mr. Boehner accused Democrats
of engaging in a “cynical ploy to try to engage voters, some segment of voters,
to show up in this November’s elections.”
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FROM NEW YORK TIMES,
MOUTHPIECE FOR LA RAZA AND 10% OWNED BY
MEX BILLIONAIRE CARLOS SLIM:
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November 22, 2010
The Power of the Hispanic Voter
Democrats
were hurt in the midterm election by low turnouts or faltering support from
voters who were young, black or female. But overwhelming
support from Hispanic voters appears to have helped elect Democratic
senators in Nevada, California, Colorado and possibly Washington State.
Hispanic voters may have kept the Senate in Democratic hands.
Several
Hispanic Republicans were also elected, including two governors, Brian Sandoval
of Nevada and Susana Martinez of New Mexico, and a senator, Marco Rubio of
Florida. But, over all, Hispanics voted at a rate of 2 to 1 for Democrats,
according to several polls, and many were stirred to action by viciously
anti-immigrant ads or comments made by Republican candidates.
Eligible
Hispanic voters represent about 9 percent of the national electorate, a slight
increase over previous years, but the percentages are much higher in the West,
climbing to 22 percent in California. They are less predictably partisan than
other ethnic groups and the two major parties have long contested for their
votes. Early polls had suggested that many were disappointed in both parties
for failing to act on immigration reform, and it appeared that they might sit
out the midterms.
Then came
a series of ads by Republican candidates like Sharron Angle, who was running
for the United States Senate in Nevada. One of hers depicted Hispanics sneaking
over the border, carrying weapons and appearing in police mug shots. Tom
Tancredo, whose anti-immigrant sentiment was already known, ran for governor of
Colorado by telling workers that their jobs were threatened by illegal
immigration. Meg Whitman, the Republican candidate for governor of California,
pandered to the same sentiment by saying her former housekeeper, an illegal
immigrant, should have been deported.
Now
Hispanic political activists had galvanizing issues. Groups like Mi Familia Vota, La Raza and Lulac spent the last weeks of
the campaign organizing voters against these diatribes. A tracking poll
conducted by Latino Decisions, a polling organization, found that the number of
very enthusiastic Hispanic voters shot up to 58 percent on Oct. 25 from 40
percent a month earlier.
As the
Hispanic electorate continues to grow faster than the overall population in the
years ahead, the 2010 election should be a useful lesson. Anti-immigrant
demagoguery occasionally works, as it did in a number of Republican victories
in Arizona this year. But more often it will produce an angry reaction among a
growing group of committed voters.
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MEXICANOCCUPATION.blogspot.com
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“PUNISH OUR ENEMIES”… does that mean assault the
legals of Arizona that must fend off the Mexican invasion, occupation, growing
criminal and welfare state, as well as Mex Drug cartels???
OBAMA TELLS ILLEGALS “PUNISH OUR ENEMIES”
Friends of ALIPAC,
Each day new reports come in from across the nation that our movement is surging and more incumbents, mostly Democrats, are about to fall on Election Day. Obama's approval ratings are falling to new lows as he makes highly inappropriate statements to Spanish language audiences asking illegal alien supporters to help him "punish our enemies."
Each day new reports come in from across the nation that our movement is surging and more incumbents, mostly Democrats, are about to fall on Election Day. Obama's approval ratings are falling to new lows as he makes highly inappropriate statements to Spanish language audiences asking illegal alien supporters to help him "punish our enemies."
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The fastest growing political party in America is
NOT the tea baggers! It is the Mexican Fascist Party of LA RAZA… “The Race”. ..
The House now as 90 members, nearly one-quarter, that are CONGRESSIONAL
HISPANIC CAUCUS pushing for AMNESTY, no e-verify, expanded sanctuary cities,
open borders, and illegals voting!
LaRaza Calls
For Boycott Against Free Speech
No surprise
here. Pulling the race/hate card again and using political correctness La Raza
goes after cable shows reporting on illegal immigration.
"Murguía said she recognized that ultimately the power to change the debate lies with the Hispanic community itself. “Latinos buy products from the advertisers supporting these programs,” she said. “Latinos vote in primaries and in the general election. We have a significant role to play picking winners and losers in both arenas. We need to make it clear to those who embrace hate that they do so at their own economic and political peril.”
http://www.nclr.org/content/news/detail/50375/
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"Murguía said she recognized that ultimately the power to change the debate lies with the Hispanic community itself. “Latinos buy products from the advertisers supporting these programs,” she said. “Latinos vote in primaries and in the general election. We have a significant role to play picking winners and losers in both arenas. We need to make it clear to those who embrace hate that they do so at their own economic and political peril.”
http://www.nclr.org/content/news/detail/50375/
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HARRY REID PUTS MONEY IN
LA RAZA’S DIRTY HANDS!
25% OF THE POPULATION OF
REID’S STATE ARE ILLEGALS.
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New Stealth Federal
Funding Bill for La Raza
Which brings us to an
extraordinary matter of some urgency. Several weeks before the White House and
its Senate allies announced their big "breakthrough" legislation
(S.1348), radicals in the House quietly introduced legislation to pump $5
million directly into La Raza next year — and $10 million per year for "each
fiscal year thereafter."
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"This country
belongs to Mexico" is said by the Mexican Militant. This is a common
teaching that the U.S. is really AZTLAN, belonging to Mexicans, which is
taught to Mexican kids in Arizona and California through a LA Raza educational
program funded by American Tax Payers via President Obama, when he gave LA RAZA
$800,000.00 in March of 2009!
H. R. 1999, entitled the Hope Fund
Act of 2007, should truthfully be labeled the "Perpetual Funding of La
Raza Radicals Act."
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“Through love of having children,
we are going to take over.” AUGUSTIN
CEBADA, BROWN BERETS, THE LA RAZA FASCIST PARTY
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The National Council of La Raza
(NCLR) is not only one of the wealthiest and most politically powerful militant
organizations in the country, it is also notoriously racist and subversive.
The group's name, "La Raza," means "The Race," by which
they are referring to ethnic Mexicans, or more broadly to "hispanics"
or "latinos." And it is quite clear from their decades of vitriolic
rhetoric — both spoken and written — that the La Raza activists are trying to
engender not only race consciousness amongst hispanic U.S. citizens and Mexican
migrants, but also racial militancy and animosity toward "Gringo
America."
The NCLR grew out of the La
Raza Unida (The Race United) Party and the Southwest Council of La Raza in the
late 1960s and early 1970s. The key leaders were Marxist-Leninist followers of
Fidel Castro and Che Guevarra.
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MAYOR ANTONIO “TACO RUNT”
VILLARAIGOSA OF LOS ANGELES IS A LONG STANDING MEMBER OF THE MEX FASCIST PARTY
OF M.E.Ch.A.
IN LOS ANGELES, 47% OF THOSE WITH A
JOB ARE ILLEGALS USING STOLEN SSI. THE COUNTY PAYS OUT $600 MILLION IN WELFARE
TO ILLEGALS!!! THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR CHARACTERIZES LOS ANGELES AS THE
MEX GANG CAPITAL OF AMERICA!
The radical student group
MEChA (Moviemento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan), with which NCLR has been
closely allied for several decades, is even more explicitly and militantly,
having adopted the slogan, "Por La Raza Todo, Fuera de La Raza Nada,"
which translated means: "For the Race, Everything; Outside the Race,
Nothing."
MEChA's founding documents and
literature are replete with appeals to "La Raza de Bronce" (The
Bronze Race) and condemnation of the "brutal gringo." MEChA, as its
name suggests, is also a leading promoter of the radical
"reconquista" (reconquest) movement, a plan of to take over the states
of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Texas — a region they refer
to as "Aztlan" — which they claim was stolen from the
"Aztecan" peoples. NCLR provides major financial support to MEChA and
many of NCLR's leaders were MEChA leaders in their college days.
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FIFTEEN THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT LA RAZA “THE RACE”
by Michelle Malkin
(get Malkin’s book on
OBAMA NOTED below!)
Only in America could critics of a group called "The
Race" be labeled racists. Such is the triumph of left-wing identity
chauvinists, whose aggressive activists and supine abettors have succeeded in
redefining all opposition as "hate."
Both Barack Obama and John McCain will speak this week in
San Diego at the annual conference of the National Council of La Raza, the
Latino organization whose name is Spanish for, yes, "The Race." Can
you imagine Obama and McCain paying homage to a group of white people who
called themselves that? No matter. The presidential candidates and the media
have legitimized "The Race" as a mainstream ethnic lobbying group and
marginalized its critics as intolerant bigots. The unvarnished truth is that
the group is a radical ethnic nationalist outfit that abuses your tax dollars
and milks PC politics to undermine our sovereignty.
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Here are 15 things you should know about "The
Race":
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15. "The Race" supports driver's licenses for
illegal aliens.
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14."The Race" demands in-state tuition discounts
for illegal alien students that are not available to law-abiding U.S. citizens
and law-abiding legal immigrants.
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13. "The Race" vehemently opposes cooperative
immigration enforcement efforts between local, state and federal authorities.
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12. "The Race" opposes a secure fence on the
southern border.
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11. "The Race" joined the American-Arab
Anti-Discrimination Committee in a failed lawsuit attempt to prevent the feds
from entering immigration information into a key national crime database -- and
to prevent local police officers from accessing the data.
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10. "The Race" opposed the state of Oklahoma's
tough immigration-enforcement-first laws, which cut off welfare to illegal
aliens, put teeth in employer sanctions and strengthened local-federal
cooperation and information sharing.
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9. "The Race" joined other open-borders,
anti-assimilationists and sued to prevent Proposition 227, California's
bilingual education reform ballot initiative, from becoming law.
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8. "The Race" bitterly protested common-sense
voter ID provisions as an "absolute disgrace."
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7. "The Race" has consistently opposed post-9/11
national security measures at every turn.
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6. Former "Race" president Raul Yzaguirre, Hillary
Clinton's Hispanic outreach adviser, said this: "U.S. English is to
Hispanics as the Ku Klux Klan is to blacks." He was referring to U.S.
English, the nation's oldest, largest citizens' action group dedicated to
preserving the unifying role of the English language in the United States.
"The Race" also pioneered Orwellian open-borders Newspeak and advised
the Mexican government on how to lobby for illegal alien amnesty while avoiding
the terms "illegal" and "amnesty."
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5. "The Race" gives mainstream cover to a
poisonous subset of ideological satellites, led by Movimiento Estudiantil
Chicano de Aztlan, or Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan (MEChA). The late GOP
Rep. Charlie Norwood rightly characterized the organization as "a radical
racist group … one of the most anti-American groups in the country, which has
permeated U.S. campuses since the 1960s, and continues its push to carve a
racist nation out of the American West."
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4. "The Race" is currently leading a smear
campaign against staunch immigration enforcement leaders and has called for TV
and cable news networks to keep immigration enforcement proponents off the
airwaves -- in addition to pushing for Fairness Doctrine policies to shut up
their foes. The New York Times reported that current "Race" president
Janet Murguia believes "hate speech" should "not be tolerated,
even if such censorship were a violation of First Amendment rights."
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3. "The Race" sponsors militant ethnic nationalist
charter schools subsidized by your public tax dollars (at least $8 million in
federal education grants). The schools include Aztlan Academy in Tucson, Ariz.,
the Mexicayotl Academy in Nogales, Ariz., Academia Cesar Chavez Charter School
in St. Paul, Minn., and La Academia Semillas del Pueblo in Los Angeles, whose
principal inveighed: "We don't want to drink from a White water fountain,
we have our own wells and our natural reservoirs and our way of collecting rain
in our aqueducts. We don't need a White water fountain … ultimately the White
way, the American way, the neo liberal, capitalist way of life will eventually
lead to our own destruction."
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2. "The Race" has perfected the art of the PC
shakedown at taxpayer expense, pushing relentlessly to lower home loan
standards for Hispanic borrowers, reaping millions in federal "mortgage
counseling" grants, seeking special multimillion-dollar earmarks and
partnering with banks that do business with illegal aliens.
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1. "The Race" thrives on ethnic supremacy -- and
the elite sheeple's unwillingness to call it what it is. As historian Victor
Davis Hanson observes: "[The] organization's very nomenclature 'The
National Council of La Raza' is hate speech to the core. Despite all the
contortions of the group, Raza (as its Latin cognate suggests) reflects the
meaning of 'race' in Spanish, not 'the people' -- and that's precisely why we
don't hear of something like 'The National Council of the People,' which would
not confer the buzz notion of ethnic, racial and tribal chauvinism."
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The fringe is the center. The center is the fringe. Viva La
Raza.
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LA
RAZA – “THE (MEXICAN) RACE”….
THE
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF LA RAZA
1126
16th Street, N.W.
Washington,
D.C.
202-785
1670
Get
on La Raza’s email list to find out what this fascist party is doing to expand
the Mexican occupation. NCLR.org
FOR
THE EXPANSION OF THE MEXICAN WELFARE STATE, AND MEXICAN SUPREMACY
LA
RAZA is the virulently racist political party for ILLEGALS (only Mexicans) and
the corporations that benefit from illegals, and the employers of illegals. IT
IS ILLEGAL TO HIRE AN ILLEGAL.
LA
RAZA IS THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of AMERICA and has contempt for AMERICANS,
AMERICAN LAWS, AMERICAN LANGUAGE, AMERICAN BORDERS, and the AMERICAN FLAG.
However
LA RAZA does like the AMERICAN WELFARE SYSTEM. The welfare system in the
country is so good that Mexico has dumped 38 million of their poor, illiterate
, criminal and frequently pregnant over our border.
MEXICANOCCUPATION.blogspot.com
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Go to http://www.MEXICANOCCUPATION.blogspot.com
and read articles and comments from other Americans on what they’ve witnessed
in their communities around the country. While most of the population of
California is now ILLEGAL, the problems, costs, assault to our culture by
Mexico is EVERYWHERE. copy and pass it to your friends.
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Report Illegals & Employers Toll Free... (866) 347-2423
INS National Customer Service Center Phone: 1-800-375-5283.
http://www.ice.gov/ ICE, ice, ICE
http://www.reportillegals.com/
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http://www.FAIRUS.org
http://www.JUDICIALWATCH.org
http://www.ALIPAC.us
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INS National Customer Service Center Phone: 1-800-375-5283.
http://www.ice.gov/ ICE, ice, ICE
http://www.reportillegals.com/
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http://www.FAIRUS.org
http://www.JUDICIALWATCH.org
http://www.ALIPAC.us
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CONTACT THE HISPANDERING LA RAZA PARTY PRESIDENT HERE:
You can contact President Obama and let him know of your opposition to amnesty for illegal aliens:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/CONTACT/
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