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2004-06-09 Britain

Massive voter fraud expected in UK elections

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Posted by Karma 2004-06-09 08:57|| || Front Page|| [11127 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 We were told today, on the Beeb, not to worry as it's part of Muslim culture to vote for who their elders tell them to. It's simply a cultural difference.

I think therefore I am
sheesh..

Posted by Howard UK 2004-06-09 11:01:45 AM|| 2004-06-09 11:01:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Please tell me you're kidding, Howard. That's the up there on the list of the most insane things I've ever heard. I hate to say this, but if they're only going to vote for who they're told to . . . why give them the vote at all? They live in a democratic country, they like to talk about "freedom" (usually in the context of them not being allowed to impose their beliefs on others), but they obviously don't get it at all. Automatically voting for whoever the guy with a turban wrapped too tight tells you to is a mockery of democracy, and it degrades it for the rest of us. Maybe we should have an intelligence requirement, where if you don't exercise your own brain and free will, you don't get a vote because you've fallen below the intelligence line.

Posted by The Doctor 2004-06-09 11:39:19 AM|| 2004-06-09 11:39:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 what wrong with voting for who youre told to? Chicago was a damned fine city back when people listened to their precinct captain.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-06-09 11:45:11 AM|| 2004-06-09 11:45:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 #3 - Chicago? Yeah tell me about 1960.
All those Nixon votes ending up as fish food in Lake Michigan.

Posted by BigEd 2004-06-09 11:48:00 AM|| 2004-06-09 11:48:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 more like chicago for decades, from the 30's through the 70s. Machine run cities were often well run. Oh and there were GOP machines as well, notably in Pennsylvania and Indiana. But in any case, its NOT something particularly associated with muslim culture. Its a standard immigrant thing.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-06-09 11:52:44 AM|| 2004-06-09 11:52:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Ah, but BigEd, in Chicago elections are entertainment. You know as well as I that in the 1960 elections there WERE NO NIXON VOTES in Chicago. The voting machines were set so that no matter whom you selected, once you pulled the lever the machine tallied a straight Democratic party line vote. Enough people went to jail in Illinois and Texas for vote fraud that (unlike Gore in Florida) Nixon had he contested the election could have actually become president. To his everlasting credit, he said that he would not put the country through that.

Posted by RWV 2004-06-09 12:08:10 PM|| 2004-06-09 12:08:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Machine run cities were often well run.

If you consider having ungodly levels of incompetence and corruption "well run".

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-06-09 3:58:11 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2004-06-09 3:58:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Machine run cities were often well run.

If you consider having ungodly levels of incompetence and corruption "well run".

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-06-09 3:58:16 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2004-06-09 3:58:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 well compared to cities where the machines were destroyed, which have been charecterized by - guess what - incompetence and corruption.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-06-09 4:07:33 PM|| 2004-06-09 4:07:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 The Queen is watching these comments and not amused :)

Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-06-09 6:19:59 PM|| [http://www.garygordonproductions.com/images/apqueen_waves.jpg] 2004-06-09 6:19:59 PM|| Front Page Top

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