It Was All About Voter Suppression
A New York Times investigative report shows: In 5-Year Effort, Scant Evidence of Voter Fraud
Five years after the Bush administration began a crackdown on voter fraud, the Justice Department has turned up virtually no evidence of any organized effort to skew federal elections, according to court records and interviews.
Although Republican activists have repeatedly said fraud is so widespread that it has corrupted the political process and, possibly, cost the party election victories, about 120 people have been charged and 86 convicted as of last year.
Most of those charged have been Democrats, voting records show. Many of those charged by the Justice Department appear to have mistakenly filled out registration forms or misunderstood eligibility rules, a review of court records and interviews with prosecutors and defense lawyers show.
Voter fraud, tort reform, Social Security melt down – these are lies. They are lies to sell a political agenda and to screw “the little people.” They want to keep “the wrong people” from voting and institute internal passports, just like the Stalinists. They want to help their friends in the insurance industry and screw their enemies, the defense attorneys. They want to give access to the only large source of unplundered money the government holds to the financial markets, and to hell with the workers that money came from.
Every time there is an unbiased study on any of these issues the answer is always the same – there is no “there” there. The claims are bogus. The people making the claims cite anecdotes, not facts, and most don’t want to testify under oath.
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The GOP knows it is selling an agenda that no ordinary American outside the wealthy elite would ever consider buying. So the GOPers have two choices: a) lie like used car salespeople about the agenda they’re selling, or b) tamper with the central processes of representative democracy. They choose c) both of the above. These Republicans are not republicans; they don’t care about representative government at all, as long as they get all the power and all the goodies.
This is a raw grab for power. The are the modern version of the Mongol horde without the compassion.
Darlin’ heart, they make Attila The Hun look like a fucking polite Amway salesman.
Actually they are Attila the Amway salesman – multi-level marketing in terror.
That’s a much scarier concept.
Imagine if they were MORMON MISSIONARIES!!!
Truth be told, the Mormons aren’t bad, and I tend to give them lemonade and a chair under the tree in the front yard during the summer. They believe, and are fulfilling a commitment, which generally mean they won’t park on my flowers, like the Baptists.
The older ladies who represent the Jehovah’s Witnesses in this are fall in the same category of people who really believe what they are saying.
On the other hand, the SBC Baptist scum that attend the media studio across the street from my Mother believe they are entitled to special treatment and no one should complain about anything they do, or turn on the sprinklers when the performance ends to water them down as they return to their cars parked on my Mother’s lawn.