I blame Global Warming — it’s too hot to manufacture anything.
Yes, let’s bring in the observers. But when they conclude, like all previous investigators, that voter impersonation fraud is a vanishingly rare phenomenon, can we drop all these cynical efforts at vote suppression?
Hey, even guys like you, who live in neighborhoods where property crime is vanishingly rare, lock your doors a night. Maybe you should drop all those cynical efforts at B&E suppression…
Can we also drop the requirement to show a photo ID when boarding an airliner or an Amtrak train? The number of terrorists trying to get on board U.S. transportation in order to do harm is dwarfed by the number of people committing voter fraud. But for some reason, we devote a huge amount of effort to thwarting the former.
The team of foreign observers should include Lech Walesa and Mark Steyn.
Jim, would you call it voter impersonation fraud when a dead person votes or a “helpful” Leftwing election worker offers to “fill in the paperwork and deliver your postal vote” for you? The latter, BTW, is one of the major ways Labour cheats in the UK.
I think that absentee votes should be available only when it is literally impossible for you to turn up to vote. If you can’t be bothered to exert a small amount of effort to actually vote, how can you possibly have exerted any effort in deciding how to vote in the first place? And thus you shouldn’t have your views considered.
Further to this, IMHO voter qualification ought to be extended. Being able to actually understand the issues is vital if a democratic election is going to result in sensible government. Which is THE biggest problem with a universal franchise. And IIRC is why the Electoral College (long since subverted and having its teeth pulled) was created.
GOP, make it a landslide.
That is all.
They may:
http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/07/has-the-u-s-economy-fallen-back-into-recession/
“Unexpected!”
I blame Global Warming — it’s too hot to manufacture anything.
Yes, let’s bring in the observers. But when they conclude, like all previous investigators, that voter impersonation fraud is a vanishingly rare phenomenon, can we drop all these cynical efforts at vote suppression?
Hey, even guys like you, who live in neighborhoods where property crime is vanishingly rare, lock your doors a night. Maybe you should drop all those cynical efforts at B&E suppression…
Can we also drop the requirement to show a photo ID when boarding an airliner or an Amtrak train? The number of terrorists trying to get on board U.S. transportation in order to do harm is dwarfed by the number of people committing voter fraud. But for some reason, we devote a huge amount of effort to thwarting the former.
The team of foreign observers should include Lech Walesa and Mark Steyn.
Jim, would you call it voter impersonation fraud when a dead person votes or a “helpful” Leftwing election worker offers to “fill in the paperwork and deliver your postal vote” for you? The latter, BTW, is one of the major ways Labour cheats in the UK.
I think that absentee votes should be available only when it is literally impossible for you to turn up to vote. If you can’t be bothered to exert a small amount of effort to actually vote, how can you possibly have exerted any effort in deciding how to vote in the first place? And thus you shouldn’t have your views considered.
Further to this, IMHO voter qualification ought to be extended. Being able to actually understand the issues is vital if a democratic election is going to result in sensible government. Which is THE biggest problem with a universal franchise. And IIRC is why the Electoral College (long since subverted and having its teeth pulled) was created.