Democratic candidate for U.S. Congress District FL-14, Larry Byrnes is challenging an unfair and undemocratic ruling that has kept him off the ballot for this August.  

The Republican-controlled Florida Division of Elections (which you may remember from its recent appearance in the movie Recount) has determined that Byrnes will be a write-in candidate in August, defying the will of the people and the intent of the law.  Laws like the one used to keep Byrnes off the ballot are meant to prevent voter fraud and to help ensure that the will of the people is reflected at election time.  

On April 15, 2008, Byrnes received a letter telling him that he had qualified as a candidate in the upcoming election.  They didn't tell him that he needed anything further.  He later noticed that his name was not appearing on the elections website.  He called the division and learned that he had not submitted a required notarized loyalty oath, which was required to be submitted the following day.  He sent it by overnight courier and it arrived by the deadline.  After the deadline, he was told that he had submitted the wrong loyalty oath.  He had inadvertently signed the loyalty oath for a write-in candidate, not a Democrat.

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I hear that Obama ran unopposed in his first race for Illinois State Senator.

From what I understand Obama used Daley's Chicago machine to challenge the petitions of all five of his democratic opponents. Not one, but all five. His opponents were from a poor part of South Chicago and could not afford to battle with Obama's and Daley's hired lawyers. Obama eliminated all five of his opponents from the ballot, and ran unopposed in the Democratic Primary.

If this is true, this really undercuts his community organizing for a voter outreach project. What is the point of increasing the voter turn out, if there are no choices: "Hey come vote for me, me and only me."

Please let us know if this correct? And what reason is given for this behavior?

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For the Diary, "Hillary is winning bloggers like crazy on dailykos!"

http://www.mydd.com/story/2007/8/6/21732 /40795

It's author areyouready made her  first post on August 2, 2007. All posts are pro-Hillary. 11 posts this thread. On Daily Kos it was also pointed out the she is a known Republican troll.

"that blogger is a Republican... (3+ / 0-)    
"she has been on mydd under various alias, carolinehanz, masaoda, kostner"

http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2007/8/ 7/01713/03589

So is areyouready maybe orchestrating this blog for Hillary or is she, even stranger, possibly working for one of Hillary's general election opponents?
               

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What the hell?

Last time anyone checked, Patty Madrid was up four points in the NM-1 race against Heather Wilson. Now, in the Democratic heart of the swing district, Republicans are trying to muddy the water:

After receiving sworn affidavits from voters who were deliberately and repeatedly given incorrect information on voting locations in Albuquerque by the Republican Party and related organizations, District Judge Vanzi is considering a temporary restraining order which would ban the Republican Party from contacting voters who are not registered Republicans.   The evidence suggests an active strategy aimed at confusing and disenfranchising minority, Green, and Democratic voters.  A hearing will be scheduled tomorrow in response to a Democratic complaint.

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I hope that I am wrong, but the experience of the last six years leads me to believe that we are only two weeks away from the end of American democracy.

I am as tempted as the next liberal to hope and believe that we still have a democratic way to effect the change that is so desperately needed in this country, and that the upcoming election will perform the necessary correction. I am tempted to look at the undeniable advantages that Democrats have over Republicans at this late point in the election cycle as the evidence that change will come this time.

But there are compelling reasons not to give in to these temptations. See below the fold why we should be afraid, very afraid.

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