Reply #39: Great, Just Great... [View All]

[neoblues]

Such an important and urgent matter as this (voting rights/preventing voter fraud), being given to someone with such a history of failure and incompetence (groan). A really eloquent spokesperson for the issue as well (ouch). Seems like there really must be an all-powerful invisible conspiracy against the truth out there (my paranoid fantasy is showing).

Donna Brazile and other DLC "Dim·ocrats" standing up on cue (very late in the game) for the sake of appearance and, instead of accomplishing anthing, they complain. Still, to the extent that elected Democrats, especially those in the DNC (who should be well informed), don't understand the implications and very real consequences of failing to address voter fraud, disenfranchisement and other electoral hijinks, the Party has a real problem. You can't fix something unless you first decide that it's both broken and important enough to merit attention.

We'll get what we get. Many Democrats have made outstanding efforts to ensure their local board of elections is going to ensure valid, verifiable results. Alas, there are thousands more individual board of elections that will still be operating behind closed doors (meaning not open to some kind of public scrutiny) and running elections without any useful means by which to verify the votes. Surely this is a problem we can solve; but like the chicken and the egg, it seems we have to overwhelm any fraud/vote suppression to retake at least one house of Congress before we can fully address the issue. If we let Republicans 'address' the issue in Congress (as was done after the 2000 debacle), we'll just get laws and regulations that actually help to ensure fraud and prevent efforts to ensure honest elections--amazing.