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2012-08-24 Fifth Column

GOP Assault on Democracy - Legitimate Voters

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Posted by Bobby 2012-08-24 06:13|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 According to the Donks, a legitimate voter has to be dead or phony to vote.

Posted by JohnQC 2012-08-24 08:02|| 2012-08-24 08:02|| Front Page Top

#2 If you own shares of Southern Company of Duke Energy, you get a proxy statement in the mail and have a right to vote on directors and officers. No skin in the game, you don't vote but do receive the benefits of the power generated by successsful companies.

Perhaps I look at voting a bit differently.

Posted by Besoeker 2012-08-24 08:39|| 2012-08-24 08:39|| Front Page Top

#3 In the great lexicon of Donk Newspeak,

1- flooding the voter rolls with unqualified voters which undermines the value of local qualified voters is not considered suppressing the vote.

2- delaying the distribution of absentee voting materials to military personnel or directly challenging the absentee ballot of military personnel is not considered suppressing the vote.

Posted by Procopius2k 2012-08-24 09:03|| 2012-08-24 09:03|| Front Page Top

we need to shrink the amount of anonymous, corporate money that goes to campaigns and candidates

How do you shrink a value that's already zero?

The only campaign or candidate accepting anonymous donations is Obama's -- unless you think there really is a US citizen named "Doodad Pro" living in Gaza.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2012-08-24 09:20|| 2012-08-24 09:20|| Front Page Top

That makes you an enemy of democracry in my book.

Meh. I'm an enemy of democracy, too. I prefer the republic we're supposed to have.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2012-08-24 09:21|| 2012-08-24 09:21|| Front Page Top

#6 > refused to halt a discriminatory new state law requiring voters to show photo identification.

All cross border travel requirements are now discriminatory.

They haven't thought this through.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2012-08-24 09:48|| 2012-08-24 09:48|| Front Page Top

#7 No, sweetheart, the plan is to reduce the number of ~~ILLELIGIBLE~~ illegible voters.

There...that's better,
or Illegitimate
or ineligible
or illegal
or immigrant
or...

Posted by Skidmark 2012-08-24 11:09|| 2012-08-24 11:09|| Front Page Top

#8 "I think that the country could survive four more years of Obama. But I don't believe the country can survive in a country full of people that would reelect him."

-Rush Limbaugh talking about the "moron vote" the other day on his show. Spot on.

Posted by Broadhead6 2012-08-24 11:44|| 2012-08-24 11:44|| Front Page Top

#9 I notice there is no effort to find the folks without photo ids and help them get them so they can vote.

Why would that be? How hard would it be to get a bus and bring a whole nursing home or housing unit to the DMV and get ID cards or whatever.

Better to complain and keep the numbers mysterious I guess so you can continue baseless claims and hope to continue the mailin ballot fraud.

Posted by rjschwarz 2012-08-24 14:53|| 2012-08-24 14:53|| Front Page Top

#10 How do you manage life without an ID?
I can't get a parcel at the post office without one.

Posted by European Conservative 2012-08-24 15:00|| 2012-08-24 15:00|| Front Page Top

#11 RJSchwartz has it.

My position used to be: make the official gummint ID free. Absolutely free. Any citizen can have one. Free.

Did I mention it's free?

Then find all the ones without an ID and give them one.

But now my position has 'evolved': come in and gitcher gummint ID and I'll give you a fresh fifty dollar bill.

[Note to middle class: yes, you're paying for this, at least up front]

Give away money (it's the Democratic way) with the ID, and you won't ever hear another complaint about people not having a photo ID to vote.

Posted by Steve White 2012-08-24 16:24|| 2012-08-24 16:24|| Front Page Top

#12 LBJ did the same thing as a young man in Texas, back when there was a poll tax, driving around with an automobile trunk full of dollar bills.

Posted by Pappy 2012-08-24 16:43|| 2012-08-24 16:43|| Front Page Top

#13 Katrina vanden Heuvel is so far to the left, WaPo offerred to buy out RedState.com just to balance things out.

Katrina vanden Heuvel is so far to the left, they have to beg Barky to say something nice about profits, just to counterbalance things.

Katrina vanden Heuvel is so far to the left even Shelly is saying: "STFU, Kate!"

Posted by badanov 2012-08-24 16:46|| http://www.freefirezone.org 2012-08-24 16:46|| Front Page Top

#14 3. And in Donk speak, lying about flooding the polls with unqualified voters and withholding the military vote in certain places is considered a legitimate campaign strategy. Moreover, you try to accuse your opponent of what you do.

Posted by JohnQC 2012-08-24 17:28|| 2012-08-24 17:28|| Front Page Top

#15 Such a target rich environment!

First off, she is begging the question by asserting that there is no reason for anti-fraud measures because there is no fraud.

As for you're significantly more likely to be struck by lightning than encounter an actual case of voter fraud,, it may be true that *individually* you are unlikely to be struck by lighting or personally encounter voter fraud, that does not mean they never happen. Never mind that it is a meaningless comparison.

According to Wikipedia (yeah, I know!), Lightning strikes 4050 times a second worldwide, for a total of nearly 1.4 billion flashes per year. OK, that is the whole world. Let's just focus on the US with this interactive map. The actual count is going to vary over time, but when I looked at it, there were 2~3 dozen strikes showing.

We don't have a map of illegal voting, but we do know that attempts to clean up the voter registration lists have met very strong resistance, and that just smells. If fraud is not a problem, why the fuss?

Posted by SteveS 2012-08-24 19:13|| 2012-08-24 19:13|| Front Page Top

#16 Since you're significantly more likely to be struck by lightning than encounter an actual case of voter fraud,

So, Does this mean that 8,000 people in North Minneapolis were struck by lightening the day of the 2010 election?

That's how many felons voted illegally. Did I mention that Al Franken was elected by a few hundred votes? So was Governor Dayton.

Very simply voter fraud decided every statewide election in Minnesota in 2010.

Posted by Frozen Al 2012-08-24 23:03|| 2012-08-24 23:03|| Front Page Top

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