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Those 950 dead people voting in South Carolina? The first six names checked out included zero incidents of fraud.
Archive for the ‘Vote Casting and Counting’ Category
November 16th, 2011
Category: Constitutional politics, Crime Control, Feeling Safer Yet?, Firearms, Law Notes, Vote Casting and Counting
Well, this makes sense-if we make it nearly impossible for felons to regain their right to vote, they’ll surely want to regain their right to fire weapons instead.
July 31st, 2011
Category: Politics and Leadership, Vote Casting and Counting
I’m with Al Hunt: The Americans Elect third party plan is a quixotic way to make the two major political parties hew more closely to the sensible middle. More importantly, it’s completely unecessary. Creating a national third party is a Brobdingnagian task. If one had the millions of motivated moderate voters and millions of dollars [...]
November 1st, 2010
Category: Vote Casting and Counting
I am not a sentimental person. But this poem about voting gets me a little choked up every time.
March 11th, 2009
Category: Vote fraud
Due to registration errors and lost absentee ballots. Another 2-4 million were discouraged by long lines or voter ID requirements.
February 23rd, 2009
Category: Vote fraud
I know Minnesotans don’t do “angry,” but they’re being cheated out of one of their state’s two votes in the Senate. Someone should say something about it.
January 28th, 2009
Category: Vote fraud
Republican accusations of vote fraud in 600 cases in Ohio. Republican special prosecutor checks them out, finds one actual instance of fraud. Yawn.
December 19th, 2008
Category: Vote fraud
I’m all for ragging on Norm Coleman, and I’m grateful that TPM has been doing such a good job of it. And it certainly looks to me from the Strib website that Coleman really did file a bunch of competely meritless ballot challenges (and the Franken folks filed more than a few). But I can’t [...]
October 24th, 2008
Category: Vote fraud
The New Mexico Republican Party is doing it, as part of the “voter fraud” hoax.
