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Dream Girl

(5,111 posts)
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 08:59 PM Sep 2012

OMG! What if voter ID laws are just a smokescreen for stealing it???

Just read Nate Silver's take on the potential impact of voter ID laws on turn out. His conclusion is that they will have a small (-2 pt.) impact on turnout and for very 1 pt. this translates to about a (- .6pt ) impact for Obama ...not enough to change the results of the election, but what if these laws are just a smoke screen for stealing it the old fashioned way? Think 2004 Diebold machines. Even if Obama is far ahead in the polls in say PA, Repugs can just say that dem leaning voters didn't turnout because they were discouraged by the voter ID requirements? Somebody talk me down!

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OMG! What if voter ID laws are just a smokescreen for stealing it??? (Original Post) Dream Girl Sep 2012 OP
Then it's all over and we're going to lose and everything's going to be terrible alcibiades_mystery Sep 2012 #1
Really? Nice. Dream Girl Sep 2012 #3
If you lived in a state with these laws, it might seem to have enough Sep 2012 #6
try a valium CatWoman Sep 2012 #2
Sorry, but you're just now figuring this out? NV Whino Sep 2012 #4
What do you mean, "What If?". Of course they are attempts to steal the vote. NYC_SKP Sep 2012 #5
I came in here to post exactly what you did. The REAL question is: TheDebbieDee Sep 2012 #9
And 2004...and yes 'we' will. SammyWinstonJack Sep 2012 #23
The Democrats have had 12 years to do something about stolen elections dflprincess Sep 2012 #31
Not that dumb I know they are suppressing the vote and turnout Dream Girl Sep 2012 #10
What IF? Chorophyll Sep 2012 #7
Wow of course I know what IDlaws are about...jeez I've been here since 2004 Dream Girl Sep 2012 #12
Sorry. I guess I misunderstood your OP. Chorophyll Sep 2012 #25
I must say, the dismissive replys to this thread are strange. enough Sep 2012 #8
Agree. Just because some have suspected this for a while........ socialist_n_TN Sep 2012 #27
Florida 2000 oldhippydude Sep 2012 #11
Nate is very good, I agree, elleng Sep 2012 #21
Don't understand the derision. You don't deserve it. 20score Sep 2012 #13
+1 (nt) enough Sep 2012 #18
u kind of missed the bus a bit 2pooped2pop Sep 2012 #14
Ok I get the derision... I wasn't clear my point is that it's a smoke screen for vote flipping Dream Girl Sep 2012 #17
Thought it was very clear. You said what you meant. 20score Sep 2012 #20
I wasn't even meaning to be snarky 2pooped2pop Sep 2012 #24
exactly. elleng Sep 2012 #15
Voter ID laws are just part of the effort to steal the election, to be sure Coyotl Sep 2012 #16
I know all that. And btw I'm part of the gotv effort... Dream Girl Sep 2012 #19
What group is calling NV? flamingdem Sep 2012 #28
Bay area San mateo Dream Girl Sep 2012 #35
Is this a question? yes they are doing it to try and win the election for Mittens NotThisTime Sep 2012 #22
Smokescreen, or trying everything available? elleng Sep 2012 #26
The answer I got here on DU one time is that it's too hard to coordinate flamingdem Sep 2012 #29
You don't have to do it all over the country. You only have to do it enough Sep 2012 #30
Yes, Ohio does have a reputation flamingdem Sep 2012 #33
Yep. Florida, virginia, pa....is all that's needed; Dream Girl Sep 2012 #34
OMFG! A conspiracy within a conspiracy!!! longship Sep 2012 #32
Exctly Dream Girl Sep 2012 #36
 

alcibiades_mystery

(36,437 posts)
1. Then it's all over and we're going to lose and everything's going to be terrible
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 09:01 PM
Sep 2012

Who gives a shit?

Let's spend less time inventing the various ways that we're powerless, shall we?

Geez. Buck the fuck up.

enough

(13,262 posts)
6. If you lived in a state with these laws, it might seem to have
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 09:05 PM
Sep 2012

a more intimate effect. It's not "that we're powerless," it's that reality is complex. "Buck up" is is an irrelevant remark, if you happen to live in one of these states, as I do. The question is, what do you DO about it.

 

NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)
5. What do you mean, "What If?". Of course they are attempts to steal the vote.
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 09:05 PM
Sep 2012

Been around too long to think anything different.

K/R

 

TheDebbieDee

(11,119 posts)
9. I came in here to post exactly what you did. The REAL question is:
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 09:10 PM
Sep 2012

Will we Dems sit around this time and watch the repukes mug Obama like we sat around and watched the repukes mug Gore in 2000?

Let's not ALLOW Obama to be "Gored" this fall without a fight!

dflprincess

(28,082 posts)
31. The Democrats have had 12 years to do something about stolen elections
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 10:32 PM
Sep 2012

and all they've done is sit back and let ALEC pass voter supression laws in several states.

So, to answer your question, yes they will let it happen again. And there is nothing the rank and file can do to stop it.

 

Dream Girl

(5,111 posts)
10. Not that dumb I know they are suppressing the vote and turnout
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 09:11 PM
Sep 2012

But it will not really impact the results (take a look at 538) ...however the whole voter suppression meme provides cover for more conventional vote stealing. I haven't heard any mention of this take on it

Chorophyll

(5,179 posts)
7. What IF?
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 09:08 PM
Sep 2012

What did you think the voter ID laws were about?

You might get a less-than-stellar response, because this is very old news here.

enough

(13,262 posts)
8. I must say, the dismissive replys to this thread are strange.
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 09:09 PM
Sep 2012

Yes, you and I, vastly wise DUers, may have figured this out before. The reaction to somebody expressing her reaction to the moment she figures it out should not be "fuck off." There are a lot of different kinds of denial. "I figured this out long before you did" is apparently one of them, and a singularly useless one, at that.

socialist_n_TN

(11,481 posts)
27. Agree. Just because some have suspected this for a while........
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 10:17 PM
Sep 2012

is no reason to be dismissive. I still don't think there's been anything decided about what we do about it.

oldhippydude

(2,514 posts)
11. Florida 2000
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 09:11 PM
Sep 2012

was a number of factors..... just like this year, but i cant help but think if we execute our game plan they can't screw us up in enough places to change the outcome..

over the last 4 years i have become to trust Nate... more importantly the Obama campaign is a juggernaut, well executed... and finally i trust the American public to make the proper decisions

elleng

(131,067 posts)
21. Nate is very good, I agree,
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 09:27 PM
Sep 2012

but theft via computer mechanism is not something We the People can protect against by GOTV.

20score

(4,769 posts)
13. Don't understand the derision. You don't deserve it.
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 09:14 PM
Sep 2012

As for the talking you down. Can't do it. These people are enemies of democracy and will do anything to steal an election. The Jim Crow-like laws, voter ID, are all the proof any objective observer would need to confirm that these people are at their core, fascist.

We should be in the streets.

 

2pooped2pop

(5,420 posts)
14. u kind of missed the bus a bit
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 09:14 PM
Sep 2012

check out Bradblog.com He has a lot of good info on that unless it's changed. The 2004 election was stolen. Who knows how many others. But try and get the news to do a story on it and all you get is them trying to drum up one single voter who voted twice. Thats voter fraud. What they've been doing is flipping the fucking votes when needed, then the wonderful machines that they forced on us doesn't have a paper trail. No proof. That's election fraud and that's a real problem. Not allowed to see the insides of the machines and how they work. We even had a guy who had been paid to make the vote flip unseen. Nope not allowed to be reported in our media. Can't report that. It has been proven again and again that the machines are hackable without even touching them.

See what we're up against?

Can't talk you down, you might have to jump.

 

Dream Girl

(5,111 posts)
17. Ok I get the derision... I wasn't clear my point is that it's a smoke screen for vote flipping
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 09:22 PM
Sep 2012

Of cOuse I get what the
Laws are intended to do on their face. I've never heard anyone mention that these laws are really just intended as a cover/justification for the more traditional electoral fraud a la Ohio 2004. Believe me I've been around a lot longer than most of you guys throwing out the snark. No need for it

 

2pooped2pop

(5,420 posts)
24. I wasn't even meaning to be snarky
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 09:39 PM
Sep 2012

It's just become a fact for so many of us on here as we watch the various efforts to stop us from voting, the various methods to make it look close for the steal, the red herring of voter fraud.

It just was kind of like you running in going "OMG, the republicans are liars" It just is something we already know about.

I tried to give you a little background coz u sounded new to the idea. Your post count indicated that you may be new. Just tried to fill you in. Not trying to give you grief.

Sorry bout that.

 

Coyotl

(15,262 posts)
16. Voter ID laws are just part of the effort to steal the election, to be sure
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 09:21 PM
Sep 2012

And your reaction is appropriate. If only more people realized the nature of the situation, there might be appropriate backlash.

There are voter purges going on also, targeted by race and other demographic factors predicting liberal voting patterns.

There is suppression of voter registration going on.

There is limiting of voting hours and early voting going on.

The attacks on organizations registering voters is going on, ACORN the best example.

The limitations on where and when you can obtain a valid voting ID is being manipulated to discriminate against voting blocs.

All this is happening in plain view, no doubt with a covert level of activity and conspiracy too.

No doubt things are going on we have yet to detect, of course.

Are the missing millions and millions in Iraq funneled into the now secret campaign financing?

Are foreign government involved in secret political financing?

All this, and at the end of the day if they see they are losing, of course there are the easy to control voting machines, engineered specifically to make stealing elections overseas easy.

But hey, why worry. Go register voters instead. The tide is with us. Old people die and young voters take their places

 

Dream Girl

(5,111 posts)
19. I know all that. And btw I'm part of the gotv effort...
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 09:24 PM
Sep 2012

Vibe in Cali and have been making calls to NV will be spending time there next month

NotThisTime

(3,657 posts)
22. Is this a question? yes they are doing it to try and win the election for Mittens
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 09:28 PM
Sep 2012

A Pennsylvania congress critter was video taped saying exactly that

flamingdem

(39,317 posts)
29. The answer I got here on DU one time is that it's too hard to coordinate
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 10:24 PM
Sep 2012

a massive computer theft all over the country.

I don't know if that is true.

No one seems to have much information, just like 2008.

Thus I guess that they have run the numbers and it's not a huge threat
or they know they can't control it and don't want to be seen as paranoid.

For all we know Obama won by a much, much greater amount last time.

enough

(13,262 posts)
30. You don't have to do it all over the country. You only have to do it
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 10:30 PM
Sep 2012

in one or two significant states. Try Ohio (already been done). Try Florida (already been stolen).

ETC.

flamingdem

(39,317 posts)
33. Yes, Ohio does have a reputation
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 10:39 PM
Sep 2012

and it always looked a wee bit fishy that the psychotic criminal Rick Scott won in Florida, just a tadddd.

 

Dream Girl

(5,111 posts)
34. Yep. Florida, virginia, pa....is all that's needed;
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 11:33 PM
Sep 2012

" despite obama's significant lead in the polls voter ID requirements depressed voter turnout"

longship

(40,416 posts)
32. OMFG! A conspiracy within a conspiracy!!!
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 10:36 PM
Sep 2012

Smokescreens hiding smokescreens. How utterly clever of these diabolical bastards. How will we ever pierce the veil when the rabbit hole goes so deep?

Please. Somebody help us all.

We're doomed! Arrrrgh!

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