Reply #32: The thing is... [View All]

[DirtyDawg]

...about discussing this with my Republican friends, is that if ask them if they think it's wrong to actually 'rig' the voting machines so that either a Democratic vote won't be recorded or will, in fact, be recorded as a Republican one, they'll agree that that's wrong and shouldn't be tolerated. On the other hand, if you ask them about 'voter suppression', overt and covert acts designed to keep traditionally Democratic voters from voting, they say it's just good strategy. The voter picture ID... purging the rolls of felons...jamming 'get out the vote' phone lines...throwing away certain absentee ballots because the paper weight is wrong...not enough voting machines in demo-heavy voting locations...in other words, they still think that 'dirty tricks' are harmless little acts that nobody really has a problem with - kinda like Don Corleone saying that prostitution and gambling are harmless vices (so what if we kill a few people in the process). That's why I say that until we put some teeth into the laws against tampering with the 'right to vote'...until those that actively and knowingly engage in not only overt acts of stealing elections, but the covert, 'suppression-type', crap...teeth that include 'hard' time - maybe even a little 'torture' of our own to get them to 'give up' every repig politician that has ever benefited from their deceit - until then they'll just keep on keeping on and laughing all the way into office.