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.

Comments

"almost no questions asked"

[Bearpaw]

... except for:

1) citizenship
2) name
3) birthdate
4) state driver's license or SSN (required)

But hey, they're poor, so obviously they shouldn't be allowed to vote. Especially since they so often vote the wrong way, and thus prove how unAmerican they are.

Re:I'm already a victim of these tactics

[GaryPatterson]

That is a horrifyingly accurate post. The real victors in war are the people who sell the bullets. Everyone else only plays along to use their products.

Solutions [Re:No, the real trick]

[Geoffrey.landis]

The pointlessness of a two-party system based on false antagonisms and dichotomies. Sadly, there seems to be no hope in sight.

Either approval voting or range voting (aka score votingwould break the forced two-valued dichotomy of the current system.

(In fact, approval voting is just one version of range voting-- in games theory, they are identical).