Judgement Day

GET OUT AND VOTE!!!! By all indications voter turnout is off the charts. Reports have citizens across the country standing in line 2 and 3 hours to cast their ballot. VOTE!!

Im going to continually update today with stories from around the country, the first of which is courtesy of the American Prospect:

VOTER SUPRESSION WATCH: PHILLY EDITION. Fearing the record number of UPenn Students who registered to vote in this election [read: likely Democrats], nefarious agents of voter supression have circulated a flyer around UPenn’s Philadelphia campus warning students that voting might jeapordize their financial aid.

Hat Tip to reader KB who alerted us to this Daily Pennyslvanian report:
A flyer with a doctored Chicago Sun-Times news story is circulating on campus telling students that if they vote in Pennsylvania they will lose any grant money from their home state.

The document cites an altered Associated Press story about a student from Pennsylvania, which was changed to say that the student registered to vote in the state. The story asserts that students from out of state lose grant money if they vote in Pennsylvania.

In fact, students who register and vote in Pennsylvania will not lose state grant money, regardless of where they are originally from.

The first paragraph of the actual AP story reads as follows: "Some college students from Pennsylvania who plan to vote Nov. 2 will do so at their own financial peril. That is because students who go to school out of state and register to vote on campus lose their eligibility for Pennsylvania state grant money."

The doctored flyer changes the first paragraph to read: "College students in Pennsylvania who plan to vote on Nov. 2 will do so at their own financial peril. That is because students who go to school out of state and register to vote on campus lose their eligibility for home state grant money." (emphasis added)

Classy, eh?

The actual Sun Times article is here.

HOW DO THE PEOPLE WHO TRY AND PULL THIS CRAP OFF SLEEP AT NIGHT??

WE LIVE IN A DEMOCRACY...voter suppression goes against the very notions of liberty that this nation was founded upon.

If anyone should run into any problems at the polls, call this number for assistance: (866) OUR-VOTE

KERRY KERRY KERRY KERRY KERRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!