Mark Shields just said anybody tampering with elections should serve..

[Wetzelbill]

hard federal time.

He was talking on the Newshour about robo-calls and voter intimidation in minority districts.

I don't care who it is, what party or whatever, if somebody tampers with any Americans right to vote or any election whatsoever they should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

[MadMaddie]

1. I agree....and I would say that anyone holding a government

position who engages in rigging the vote or voter intimidation should suffer tougher penalties....

[AngryOldDem]

2. Works for me. n/t

[The Magistrate]

3. Mr. Shields Is Quite Right, Sir

The Republican perdsistence in such tactics is tantamount to open confession that they knwo they cannot win an honest election in this country, but have a chance only when a mere fraction of the people vote.

[Beartracks]

4. In the minds of so many Republicans

the ends justify the means... Oh, but that's not really news, is it? They've demonized Democrats for so long, they believe their own hype, and believe that anything, ANYTHING is better than letting Democrats hold elective office.

[rocktivity]

5. An attempt to overthrow a vote is an attempt to overthrow a government

Turn it into a federal crime--Charge 'em with sedition!

:mad:
rocknation

[Wetzelbill]

11. I think it is definitely traitorous

right on.

[sendero]

6. Here is one of the few areas..

... of the law where I believe in Zero Tolerance. There is NO
EXCUSE for being a traitor to Democracy. Election fraud, be it
messing with vote tallies, making bogus phone calls, WHATEVER, should
bring a mandatory 5-10 year sentence without parole, no exceptions.


That would put a stop to this pernicious bullshit, or at least mete
out justice.

[JoFerret]

7. It would be nice

if ALL politicians made the pledge to democracy and to counting all votes. (silly me)

[uppityperson]

8. indeed. Retroactive also?

[BreweryYardRat]

9. I'm for capital punishment/life imprisonment in cases of election fraud.

Disenfranchising people is one of the worst things out there.

[vixengrl]

10. I completely agree with that--

if we value our democracy and the process, then we simply have to take interfering with that proess with all due seriousness--it must be a)discouraged--but b)rooted out and duly punished where it occurs. It seems Republicans are only to happy to reference voter fraud in respects to, say, anomalies like "dead people" voting or "nonresidents" voting, under the assumption that it tilts Democratic if more people are showing up at the polls (curious assumption, that.) But I believe these practices--the robocalling, phonejamming, intimidation sorts of things, are disproportionately Republican tricks, and they tend towards disenfranchisement--denying people their rights should not be treated as a game. If the GOP was interested in fairness, then they would be happy to let the people decide.

After all, it's the American way, isn't it?

[brentspeak]

12. It should be considered something like treason

Election fraud undermines everything this nation was founded on.