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What's "pants on head" stupid is that the only time "fraud" is ever a serious concern is when Democrats lose.

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The voters in the first article may be interested to learn the discrimination has an Anglo-Saxon cultural basis, but I doubt they would find solace in that in any case.

Some people want to find discrimination or outrage everywhere. I read the article you linked and I honestly find not a thing to be outraged about. Do you?

Once again, the subject is not ballot-box stuffing or similar attempts at mass fraud. Voter fraud is when someone impersonates another person at the poll or tricks authorities when registering to vote; That is salient to the subject of voter IDs and immigrants.

Here is a link [wikipedia.org] about written tests in US voting history. Also, more recently poll taxes. [wikipedia.org] As with Tamany Hall, this is grade school history.

Yes, history that happened well over 50 years ago. History that also, despite your protestations, did involve people voting as other people. You might as well be saying how you think we're about to start interning Japanese again. Times have changed, people have changed, situations have changed, the population has changed, and the country as a whole has changed. Jim Crow isn't coming back. Drawing a false analogy between verifying voter identity (that again, the vast majority of people already have, and are available without cost from almost all states) and, e.g., literacy tests, is ludicrous.

That judicialwatch link is an opinion piece from nine years ago that doesn't even give a rough idea of scale beyond weasel words like "many". It has one broken link to a newspaper, and several other links that are activist groups (just as judicialwatch is, itself, a conservative activist group). IOW, they don't feel confident enough to link directly to research and they conveniently left statistics out. You took accepted their opinion as true on their authority. The other articles you think you saw were probably about accusations that didn't pan out -- see the studies I referenced via washingtonpost. [washingtonpost.com]

Liberals write against voter ID, conservatives write for voter ID. No surprise there.

Add-on to turn broken links into Archive links is very handy. Here you go: https://web.archive.org/web/20070616203147/http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/DN-votefraud_10tex.ART.State.Edition1.4454f8d.html

Here's an NC article about the complexities of voter rolls, IDs, and immigrants:
http://www.journalnow.com/news/elections/state/dmv-search-of-records-turns-up-ineligible-n-c-voters/article_f4ecc2ae-5981-11e4-9f35-0017a43b2370.html

That's interesting about Mexico, though it would be ironic to hold them up as a good example when their people are fleeing. As for "pot-kettle", false equivalence canards got old in the 90s. They don't hold water in most places. Not only have I looked at your sources more closely than you have looked at mine, I have backed-up my concerns; you haven't.

Interesting that you hadn't heard about Mexico's voter ID laws (wait till you hear what they do with illegal immigrants)--it's been a pro-voter ID POV talking point for, I don't know, a decade? Here's an article that goes in more depth (http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2015/aug/26/sid-miller/sid-miller-says-voters-mexico-must-have-tamper-pro/ -- hat tip, it does mention some US statistics you'll enjoy). As with everything else in the Internet echo chamber. Liberals write against showing an ID to vote (but yes to showing an ID

Forest Group, Inc. v. Bon Tool Co. in 2009 paved the way (rocket docket Eastern Texas, of course) for big fat jerkfaces to go nuts. The AP told citizens it's okay to sue, hell even on Slashdot I submitted an article way back in Feb of Activision's problems with an incorrectly marked patent and because of precedent on incorrect markings we found out in March that this could cost some companies trillions. Expired or wrongly marked could cost you $500 per item sold.

Why do we let this crap out in the air waves?! worse, why do we let the people that run this stuff breed?!

Because historically speaking, eugenics programs haven't worked out all that well.

since you ask. kthxbye.

Why do people only ever talk about the sterilization approach to eugenics? What about the "get pretty people drunk and alone in the dark" approach? That's eugenics too, but it's sexy instead of being nasty.

Won't somebody please think of the sweaty aryans?

Why do we let this crap out in the air waves?! worse, why do we let the people that run this stuff breed?!

Because historically speaking, eugenics programs haven't worked out all that well.

since you ask. kthxbye.

However, I'd like to ask you where we draw the line between someone with "a problem between the ears" and "freedom of thought". On the one one extreme, you could be very relativist say that his mode of thought is just as meaningful and valid as anyone else's (and if you say otherwise you're a cultural imperialist trying to impose your will upon the rest of us). On the other hand, you could say that Europa has always been at war with Eastasia and if you don't love Big Brother than obviously you need treatment. (Optionally, s/Big Brother/Jesus/ as appropriate for your particular brand of paranoia).

Somewhere between these extremes, somebody needs to draw a line. And that Somebody is a politician. Or, worse, lots of them. Or a politician-appointed board of "experts". History has shown us some mixed results from similar endeavors. Take, for instance, the North Carolina Board of Eugenics. I dare say that their (nominal) targets were not too dissimilar, either: people with "a problem between the ears" who were marginalized by the more sophisticated segments of society.

But most ARE.

I'm going to know, at the end of the day, putting this in God's hands, that the right thing for America will be done at the end of the day on Nov. 4.

And with all the NIMBYs out there, nobody is willing to build new and needed Hydro Electric, Nuclear, Coal powered plants anytime soon.

Neither more nuclear nor coal plants are needed. In December 2007 SciAm had an article, "A Solar Grand Plan" saying that by 2050 solar power can provide 69% of the USA's electricity and 35 percent of its total energy. Then the Rocky Mountains alone has enough potential wind power to supply the lower 48 states with electricity. The Wind Energy Resource Atlas of the United States details the potential wind power of sites throughout the 48 states. TFA "The Unsung Solution" in "Orion Magazine" goes over waste heat that can be used to produce more electricity. But you're right about NIMBYs, they are working to stop offshore wind farms. Though the Mid Atlantic states have good sites for offshore wind farms NIMBYs are doing what they can to stop wind farms in places like Cape Hatteras. Geothermal energy also offers good energy potential.

Just sayin'.

Oh this is just absurd enough to make the "news". Haven't we all known this all along? Don't our local and on "up the ladder" governments know this?

Juggling data is fairly easy, that's how these "consulting firms" get paid.

In my town there's a developing need for a study...

Well, I'm an "expert" in < insert field name here >. Our firm will do a detailed assesment of the abatement issues involved with this site for $326,525. Man bulldoze the *hit! That'll be 2 cents please.

-me

The next effort to improve wireless security might involve a trip to Home Depot. Force Field Wireless sells buckets of aluminum and copped-laced paint designed to prevent the 802.11 packets from escaping the building,

Lowe's should consider carrying that product.