Real Voter Fraud

"Voter fraud," that is, where someone ineligible to vote registers & votes, or where someone registers twice or more & votes in several different localities, almost never happens in these United States. Here, however, we find a kind of voter fraud, the Republican kind, where people are tricked into changing their registration.

The 70,000 voters YPM has registered for the Republican Party this year will help combat the public perception that it is struggling amid Democratic gains nationally, give a boost to fundraising efforts and bolster member support for party leaders, political strategists from both parties say. Those who were formerly Democrats may stop receiving phone calls and literature from that party, perhaps affecting its get-out-the-vote efforts. They also will be given only a Republican ballot in the next primary election if they do not switch their registration back before then. Some also report having their registration status changed to absentee without their permission; if they show up at the polls without a ballot they may be unable to vote.

Not mentioned in the article is that a larger Republican registration enables voter suppression, & fooling around w/ actual votes. It can be claimed that w/ all the "Republicans" registered, it's not so unlikely that a precinct or whatever would have gone for the R candidate. In extra irony, we see that the voter fraud that hardly ever happens (but Republicans like to claim is perpetrated by Democrats) has happened. It was the very owner of the firm changing people's registrations. Imagine that.

"We contacted people at the addresses where he registered, and they have no idea who he is," said Dave Demerjian, head deputy of the public integrity unit at the L.A. County district attorney's office. Goldfine said his client does business in many states, traveling frequently, and his permanent address has been his parents' Los Angeles County home, where he received mail and registered to vote.

We anxiously await Senator McCain's hysterical fit concerning this "threat to the fabric of democracy." Oh? There won't be one? Why not? Oh, Oh, we get it. OK. Note also today's NYT, wherein some op-ed liberal whines about this stuff too. Opening paragraphs follow.

It never ends. The Republican Party never gets tired of spraying its poison across the American political landscape. So there was a Republican congresswoman from Minnesota, Michele Bachmann, telling Chris Matthews on MSNBC that the press should start investigating members of the House and Senate to determine which ones are “pro-America or anti-America.”

Seriously (no, really, we're calling for bloodshed here) if those bastards steal yet another election, we will have to have a civil war. Make no mistake, "real" Americans, we will squash you like the cockroaches you are. Let's see how Rep. Bachmann feels when we decide she's not much of an American. See how she likes Gitmo.