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Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
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The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
The voter registration form arrived in the mail last month with some key information already filled in: Rosie Charlston’s name was complete, as was her Seattle address.
Problem is, Rosie was a black lab who died in 1998.
A group called the Voter Participation Center has touted the distribution of some 5 million registration forms in recent weeks, targeting Democratic-leaning voting blocs such as unmarried women, blacks, Latinos and young adults.
But residents and election administrators around the country also have reported a series of bizarre and questionable mailings addressed to animals, dead people, noncitizens and people already registered to vote.
Brenda Charlston wasn’t the only person to get documents for her pet: A Virginia man said similar documents arrived for his dead dog, Mozart, while a woman in the state got forms for her cat, Scampers.
“On a serious note, I think it’s tampering with our voting system,” Charlston said. “They’re fishing for votes: That’s how I view it.”
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The group at the root of the questionable mailings — the Voter Participation Center — acknowledges that the databases it uses to contact possible voters are imperfect because they are developed from commercially collected information. The group also says it expects people who receive misdirected mail to simply throw it away.Several election officials said they believed the voter registration systems were secure enough to catch people who might improperly submit the misdirected documents.
But administrators in New Mexico, a potential swing state in the 2012 presidential race, warned that ineligible voters who complete the documents could make it onto the rolls.
Summing it all up: The whole thing is on the honor system. If you’re not eligible to use these materials, then don’t…wink wink, nod nod.
And then when some effort is made by Republicans or anybody else to get more laws on the books to check the integrity of the election process at voting time, which is when it really counts…democrats and their supporters presume the worst. Without any evidence at all. Honor system, again, but working in the other direction. Honor system all the time. Or more simply: Argument based on emotion and not reason. I can envision the GOP engaging in a premeditated effort to disenfranchise minorities from the voter rolls based on pure racial animosity — that must mean, since I can envision it, that’s what they’re doing.
Well let’s think about this. There’s this theory…or narrative…or perhaps the most accurate term to apply would be “excuse”…the registration form reaches someone who is not eligible to vote. And with this “honor system” in place, the eligible person will say “Hey, this isn’t right! I’m not eligible!” and throw it all away. All of the time. Alright…now, if you think for some reason there might be some holes in that particular part of the process, you don’t need a bigoted racist Republican to push for a voter ID law, it’s actually a sensible conclusion to reach. Don’t our democrat friends say exactly the same thing about arsenic in the water? There’s a standard to be applied, the input falls short of the standard, so the standard has to be reinforced somewhere in the system before we get to the output. Right?
The same is true of any system with an inflow, and and outflow, and a standard. Somewhere the standard has to be applied, or else there isn’t one. This isn’t a left-wing right-wing thing, it’s something that simply is.
So the democrat position, from what I’ve seen around the innerwebz, is that you have to oppose voter ID laws with every fiber of your being or else you’re a racist. Because you don’t have proof of any shenanigans that meet the daunting standards of the democrat who is calling you a racist. How, without some voter ID process in place, would you meet that standard of proof? The mind boggles. I suppose, you’d make a point of catching every hundredth or every tenth or every third voter in a great big net…apologize to them for the inconvenience, take them back to a lab and check their credentials. Short of that, the voters are in & out within five to ten minutes, hopefully they are who they say they are. In my polling place, the only time I talk to anybody is when I say “Yup, that would be me,” and then at the end of it when I get my “I voted” sticker.
And yet, when these registration materials are mailed out to dogs and convicted felons and fictional people and dead people, it’s all on the honor system…so…where…
Eh, well. There I go again, applying a process of reason to an argument that is based on emotion.
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“Don’t our democrat friends say exactly the same thing about arsenic in the water?”
Yup, and a better example is gun control. Yes, you must jump through hoops to get a pistol permit (New York State examples) – give us the name of your “last significant relationship”, how much alcohol you drink, have you ever visited a psychologist, provide four character references, yada, yada…but for heavens sake we can’t ask people to provide an ID to vote. No way, Jose.
Why it’s only our most important civic duty, the very foundation of our republic, screw it.
Liberals, sucking ass, constantly.
- tim | 07/13/2012 @ 09:46Ya know, it’s funny: The Dems have never met a regulation they didn’t like… except in this one particular case. Mortgages? Oh, gotta have pages on pages of regs for that, to make sure that lefthanded transgendered transsexual hemophiliacs in wheelchairs aren’t unfairly discriminated against. Health care? 2000+ pages of regs on that (at last count), gotta pass ’em just to find out what they are. Financial transactions? Oh God, we can’t regulate those enough. Oversight oversight oversight everywhere, a law for every conceivable eventuality…..
…..except here. Wonder why that is?
But fear not, I have a solution. Let’s just pass a tax on not-unfraudulently registering to vote. John Roberts would surely agree that it’s Constitutional…..
- Severian | 07/13/2012 @ 14:34No voter ID –
Then eliminate absentee voting – This would kill a lot of the fraud right there
Shorten Voting hours or make fewer places to vote. – this would make it harder to move cheaters from place to place and make them stand in line longer
Provide a special military ballot that is counted separately and tallied separately. Threat the military vote as a state for voting purposes so that the votes cannot be challenged, misslaid or not counted.
Make exist polls illegal
Forbid states from making partial results available so that democrats cannot add votes in races that look close
The biggie —- Once the election ends the ballot boxes must be locked and sealed and time stamped. The sealed and certified ballot boxes will then be taken to a central counting facility. Once the election judges turn in their boxes they must certify that there are no more boxes. At that point no more boxes will be accepted. PERIOD.
- Fai.Mao | 07/13/2012 @ 17:36I almost forgot.
Maybe the solution is to simply only allow poultry to vote
- Fai.Mao | 07/13/2012 @ 17:53http://times247.com/articles/88feds-foist-chicken-id-on-frustrated-farmers6