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Election Dirty Tricks About To Begin
An anonymous reader writes "ABC is warning that dirty election tricks are about to start. In the past, they've ranged from late-night robo-calls to voter intimidation. ABC has a pretty good list of what to watch out for as told by Allen Raymond, a former Republican operative, who was reformed after spending three months in prison in 2006 for pulling some of the stunts he now helps to prevent." To make this story timely, last week someone broke into a McCain campaign office in Missouri and stole a laptop computer containing "strategic information" about the local campaign.
The biggest trick is the one that Obama is pulling. The one that makes us all think that he is somehow a better choice because he appears smarter, cooler, and more articulate than McCain.
How about "it's fraud" if there is ABSOLUTELY NO DOCUMENTATION WHATSOEVER TO PROVE CITIZENSHIP?
I don't know about you, but I don't want, and our country doesn't need to allow for the possibility of non-citizens voting in our elections.
I don't care if they MAY be citizens... "MAY" ain't good enough. We as citizens have a right to demand proof positive of ourselves in order to protect the integrity of our elections.
That issue aside, let's say hypotetically the person can be established as a US Citizen, but homeless. Voting for president or VP is not an issue in that case.
But every other ballot question STILL IS. How can a homeless person be allowed to vote for e.g. governor of a state if it cannot be established that he/she is a resident of that state? How can he/she vote on ballot initiatives for a given district, or location, when it is not established as to whether he/she is a resident of that area?
I can hear it now: "well... it's not fair... the person oughta be allowed to vote for something". Maybe, but to have a fair election, there has to be some minimum basis as to how to facilitate those elections.
The problem with socialism is that they always run out of other people's money. - Margaret Thatcher
Yes, how dare Palin's husband complain about being called a child molester who fathered his daughter's special needs child.
It's not the weight, but the size of the struggle that matters.
i love this phrase "the tyranny of the majority"
what the hell does that mean?
the tyranny of the majority IS democracy. the will of the people is the will of the people is the will of the people. you can't call it somethng different and its somehow illegitimate
"The people in the cities should not solely decide the direction of this country."
the people in the cities should decide the direction of this country directly proportionate to their share of the population. beginning and end of the discussion right there. the direction of the country should be decided by the people, in aggregate. what does that mean? that means if 60% live in the city, people in cities deserve 60% of the say. that means if 20% live in the city, people in cities deserve 20% of the say
the people in the country deserve to retain some sort of power over the people in the cities? beyond their natural population? this is democratic to you? this is the wisdom of the founding fathers to you?
if the countryside makes up 45% of the electorate, then the countryside deserves 45% of the say. not 50%. not 40%. they deserve 45%. any warping of this one person one vote popular will is an abuse of power, is an error in the system
therefore, the EC needs to go. it warps one person one vote. it is therefore illegitimate and anti-democratic
"tyranny of the majority"
hah!
funny
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