September 27, 2012 01:45 AM UTC

Jefferson County GOP: Black Panthers Are Coming To Steal Your Vote

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• by: Colorado Pols

Originally posted at Colorado Pols.

FINAL UPDATE: Looks like the Jeffco Republicans finally got their webmaster on the phone. The image has been taken down from every single page on the site as of 11:00 PM. In its place on the home page is a much more, well, innocuous announcement: “Pollwatchers Needed. Contact Amy to sign up for training or receive more information.”

UPDATE 2: As of 6:30, the image has been removed from other content pages but has returned to its spot on the home page. Odd.

POLS UPDATE: As of 4:45, the Jeffco GOP has removed the photo in question from the home page of their website, although it’s still prominently visible on several other pages for now.

The whitewashing of the home page, mind you, only adds to the argument that this is something that should never have been on a county party website to begin with.

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At the website of the Jefferson County Republican Party, the first thing you’re asked to do:

The two men in the well-known photo above are members of the New Black Panther Party, charged with making an isolated disturbance outside a Philadelphia polling place on Election Day 2008. No other incidents of the kind were reported anywhere else, but the photo of these two men has been used countless times by Republicans to incite baseless race-baiting fears of Black Panther thugs headed for your suburban neighborhood polling place to make trouble.

Oh, wait a minute!