Republicans Plot to Steal White House

[NRaleighLiberal]

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/06/02-6

by Paul McGeough

"There's a fiendish cleverness in perpetrating a fraud in broad daylight, at the same time as you tell the people that it must be done to guard against - you guessed it - fraud.


The reality of voter fraud in the US is that it is virtually non-existent. It has been known to happen, but studies reveal its probability is less than that of being struck by lightning - just 0.0009 per cent in Washington State and a very remote 0.00004 per cent in Ohio.

So welcome to the state of Florida, where the state emblem is the hanging chad. Remember, it was here that just 537 votes in the recount drama of 2000 threw the presidency to George W. Bush.

Nothing can be left to chance. Like about 20 other Republican-controlled states, Florida has gone all out to stifle the likely Democratic vote before the presidential poll in November. Using the Bush rule of thumb, a tweak to the law that shaves the Democratic vote by just a few hundred at elections where about 10 million get to vote, is halfway to throwing the outcome."

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[SoutherDem]

1. What surprises me it the lack of standards.

Each state and even county basically decides how election are ran. No wonder we question the results.

[TheDebbieDee]

2. I think the real question is this: If the republicans try to "Gore" Obama,

what are we going to do about it? The last 12 years has shown the republicans that they can do what they want with impunity and the only pushback they will get is a smattering of liberal protestors that will be smeared as "hippies".

The way republicans get things done, they could conceivably outlaw the Democratic party if Mitt is shoe-horned into the Oval Office, a la W.

Republicans are an evil, greedy, racist group of people, but boy! Do they know how to get things done...................OR, stop things from getting done as the case may be.

I swear, sometimes I'm embarrassed by the spineless, wishy-washiness of Dems. They act as though if a piece of legislation is not easy to get passed, then they won't even try.

[davidpdx]

5. I tell you what I'd do

I live in South Korea and I'd fly all the way to Florida to protest on my own dime. My wife would probably murder me for doing so.

[msongs]

3. democrats have had years to do something about this, but zzzzzzzzzzzzz nt

[coalition_unwilling]

4. This cartoon pretty much sums it up:

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

6. Every time the GOP brings up voter fraud, why isn't Romney's alleged voter fraud mentioned

It should be an automatic. Romney listed his son's basement in Massachusetts as his formal residence to vote in 2010. He was living in California and I don't think he even set foot in the state in 2010. Reporters questioned his sons neighbors and they confirmed the fact he wasn't living at his son's house, in a basement. How can Republicans propose to make it illegal for college students to vote where they go to school and force them to go back to their home state while their nominee is engaging in these shenanigans.