Leonardo DiCaprio, will i. am, Tobey Maguire, and Forest Whitaker have created public service announcements to encourage American youth to register to vote. The non-partisan PSAs, produced by DiCaprios Appian Way, were created to engage and inspire young people to register and vote and participate in the upcoming election. Celebrities appearing in the PSAs include: Amy Adams, will.i.am, Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Bacon, Halle Berry, Kate Bosworth, Kevin Connolly, Courteney Cox, Ellen DeGeneres, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx, Jonah Hill, Dustin Hoffman, Anthony Kiedis, Ashton Kutcher, Adam Levine, Laura Linney, Eva Longoria, Tobey Maguire, Demi Moore, Natalie Portman, Giovanni Ribisi, Ethan Suplee, Kyra Sedgwick, Michelle Trachtenberg, Usher, and Forest Whitaker.
This was shot today, October 31, the last day of early voting in Colorado Springs, at the downtown Centennial Hall polling place and the Citadel Mall Central polling place.
After a lawsuit against the AG Coffman over the thousands he purged from the voter rolls, and 2 controversies with clerk and recorder, Balink in El Paso County, and especially at Colorado College, voters were faced with long lines at the 3 polling place for a county of 590,000, where there were 6 early voting places for the midterm election of 2006.
Read about the voter suppression attempt at Colorado College here:
watch the rally and march with Senator Salazar, when the college went to vote en masses:
Senator Ken Salazar, Representative Michael Merrifield, party chair John Morris, candidate Hal Bidlack, and other luminaries came to Colorado College after 2 more attempts by the El Paso County clerk and recorder, Bob balink, to suppress the vote at the college with LIES, deceptions, and threats to keep the students from voting for Obama.
After a great rally and some great BlueGrass music, hundreds marched down to the central polling place at Centennial Hall to vote en masse. balink had closed half of the 6 early voting precincts this year in a further suppression tactic, for which he is infamous.
balink, a republicon, sent false threats, warning of possible consequences if a student registered to vote in Colorado and is claimed as a dependent on a tax return in another state or fails to register his or her vehicle in Colorado. He claimed that students who register in Colorado must abandon any prior residency in other states and makes their departure from their parents homes permanent. BULLSHIT.
He hired a known GDop hatchetman lawyer, Erik Groves of Denver-based Zakhem-Atherton LLC (303-228-1200), to threaten students with IRS problems for their parents (costing the parents the $3,500 tax deduction) and vehicle registration fines and impoundment for voting, after telling the bald faced LIE that they couldn’t vote in Colorado if they were claimed as a dependent on their parent’s taxes in another state.
This is bullshit, and its not supported by law, said state Senator John Morse. As state Party Chairwoman Pat Waak pointed out, he did NOT send this information to the conservative Air Force Academy college, UCCS, PPCC, or any other college, but CC.
He later withdrew that directive and apologized for “misinterpreting” state law (BULLLSHIT) an then tried the IRS and vehicle threat to suppress the student vote.
Early voting in Florida has seen a record turn-out since it began on October 20. The latest polls suggest the race between Barack Obama and John McCain is too close to call in the state. (October 27)
Supporters of Republican nominee Sen. John McCain heckle people lined up to vote early in Fayetteville, North Carolina, not far from where Sen. Barack Obama held a rally hours earlier. Nearly all voters in line at polling place were Obama supporters. Oct. 19, 2008
My blog post with more context: http://www.washingtontimes.com/weblogs/bellantoni/2008/Oct/20/mccain-supporters-call-early-voters-ch/
ACORN, which stands for: Association of Community Organizations, has been accused of voter registration fraud all across this country. This group can be said to be engaged in corrupt shake-downs. However they get a pass on this from the news media and the government. Had an Italian engaged in these same practices, they would be charged under the RICO Act, (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act), and called the Mafia or Cosa Nostra.
Where this organization has engaged in voter registrations same people registered multiple times. The line up of the Texas football team, the Dallas Cowboys were registered to vote in Las Vegas, Nevada. One town had more people registered to vote than had voting age people in the population.
It has been reported that Senator Barack Obama while a community organizer worked for this organization. Basically if Senator Obama wins this election by a razor thin majority it could be said the election was won by Democratic Party voter fraud perpetrated by ACORN on their behalf. The only way to have a clean election to erase any appearance of voter fraud, the next president needs to win by a large majority.