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Maintaining an Election
« on: October 26, 2010, 07:36:03 PM »

So things are heating up going into the 2010 midterm elections.  Of course we already have the story of the Rand Paul Campaign County Coordinator stomping on a woman's head, then refusing to apologize, and now there are - of course - watchdogs for the old canard of Voter Fraud™, which teabaggers view as the largest threat to democracy since Adolf Stalinoullini Jong Il Pot III.  In reality though, vote fraud scare tactics are in reality just voter suppression tactics:

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Tea Party members have started challenging voter registration applications and have announced plans to question individual voters at the polls whom they suspect of being ineligible.

In response, liberal groups and voting rights advocates are sounding an alarm, claiming that such strategies are scare tactics intended to suppress minority and poor voters.

In St. Paul, organizers from the Tea Party and related groups announced this week that they were offering a $500 reward for anyone who turned in someone who was successfully prosecuted for voter fraud.

The group is also organizing volunteer “surveillance squads” to photograph and videotape what it suspects are irregularities, and in some cases to follow buses that take voters to the polls.

In Milwaukee last week, several community groups protested the posting of large billboards throughout the city that show pictures of people behind jail bars under the words “We Voted Illegally.” The protesters said the posters — it was not clear who paid for them — were intended to intimidate people from voting.

But that's a minor detail.  In reality, nobody bothers with such at the polls fraud these days, as stuffing ballots is a hell of a lot of work.  Instead, the quicker way is just to buy whichever candidate wins.  Which is probably why the US Chamber of Commerce has been opening the floodgates to whatever foreign company wants a crack at American democracy.

It's like the old saying, "If you can't beat 'em, buy a majority share in their operation and force them to fulfill your wishes by any legality possible."

On the actual election front, the Democrat's "Make the Vote Stay Home" initiative they've been running the past two years is going about as well as planned, even if their opponents have been trying desperately to throw the game.  In reality though, the Tea Party success is varied, with some doing better than others.

So what's the news for the rest of you?  Have you stuffed a ballot with 5 or 6 votes done early voting yet?

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Re: Maintaining an Election
« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2010, 09:50:28 PM »

I did see a video just tonight of the Rand Paul guy stomping the lady on YouTube in the Trending section. What does that mean anyways? Does that mean it inspired other videos of people stomping other people or what? Anyways, the situation does put me in a difficult position as I think the guy is a jerk for hiring a guy who would stomp on the protester but at the same time I really like Wheel of Time so...

These are some pretty fun times to live in.
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Re: Maintaining an Election
« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2010, 05:55:45 AM »

They will get more fun. I can assure you.
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Re: Maintaining an Election
« Reply #3 on: October 27, 2010, 09:11:12 AM »

So things are heating up going into the 2010 midterm elections.  Of course we already have the story of the Rand Paul Campaign County Coordinator stomping on a woman's head, then refusing to apologize


And now he wants HER to apologize.

What a horrible woman, assaulting the bottom of that man's foot with her head.
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Re: Maintaining an Election
« Reply #4 on: October 27, 2010, 09:53:46 AM »

I like that he was prominently displaying a "Don't Tread On Me" badge the entire time.
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Re: Maintaining an Election
« Reply #5 on: October 27, 2010, 10:55:19 AM »

See, he's a hipster Republican, so he was ironically stomping on her head.
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Re: Maintaining an Election
« Reply #6 on: October 27, 2010, 11:30:18 AM »

Missing the point of their own symbolism seems to be largely what the party does.
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Re: Maintaining an Election
« Reply #7 on: October 27, 2010, 01:01:14 PM »

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Re: Maintaining an Election
« Reply #8 on: October 27, 2010, 01:27:05 PM »

It's hard to tell if this is elaborate parody, or if we actually went back to the earliest days of the internet and brought this guy back to save the future.
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Re: Maintaining an Election
« Reply #9 on: October 27, 2010, 01:29:07 PM »

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Re: Maintaining an Election
« Reply #10 on: October 27, 2010, 02:01:47 PM »

Looks like America's suffering from Electoral Dysfunction.
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Re: Maintaining an Election
« Reply #11 on: October 27, 2010, 03:04:01 PM »

In reality though, vote fraud scare tactics are in reality just voter suppression tactics:

Related: 9th Circuit strikes down a racially-biased "voter fraud prevention" law.

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"The decision is an outrage," Governor Jan Brewer and Secretary of State Ken Bennett announced in a joint statement, "and a slap in the face to all Arizonans who care about the integrity of their elections."

If Terry Goddard has any sense, by this time tomorrow he'll be running an ad about how Brewer just insulted -- I shit you not -- Sandra Day O'Connor, who sat on the panel and ruled with the majority.

So what's the news for the rest of you?  Have you stuffed a ballot with 5 or 6 votes done early voting yet?

Put mine in the mail this morning.
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Re: Maintaining an Election
« Reply #12 on: October 27, 2010, 08:42:08 PM »

Cast my votes yesterday.  Convenient when the polling place is at your college, eh?
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