Pax On Both Houses: Compendium Of Voter Fraud And Voter Suppression Posts
Georgia is the only state with both a truly competitive Senate race and a stringent law on voter identification. Political scientists and the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office have found generally found that voter ID laws reduce turnout by 2 percentage points or a little more, though there is obviously variation in the results. The law may have less of an effect in Georgia, which implemented the law in 2008, so election workers, organizers and voters may be better prepared for it by now. That said, Nunn doesn't need to erase Perdue's advantage entirely to get to a runoff. She just needs to keep the race close enough that Perdue doesn't take more than half of the vote. Recent polls show it will be close. If Perdue wins outright, Nunn's campaign will be able to make the case that voter ID prevented her from getting enough voters to the polls to dilute Perdue's share of the vote and force a runoff (although even in a runoff, she would face long odds).
Complicating matters further is the dispute over the names of some 40,000 people who registered to vote, according to the New Georgia Project, a group aiming to mobilize Georgia's growing population of minorities. The New Georgia Project says those names haven't appeared on the state's voter rolls or on the list of pending registrations. The state says they have. Given that voters cast about 2.6 million ballots in the 2010 midterm, those 40,000 names represent another 1.5 percentage points or so of turnout.
There a good chance not only that Georgia's Senate race isn't decided for two more months, but also that the results of Tuesday's election won't give us a clear view of what Georgia voters really want. All in all, it's the most aggravating race in these midterms. And that's saying something.
Alan: Although voter fraud is insignificant in comparison with the disenfranchisement of voters promoted by "conservatives" as a remedy for alleged voter fraud, I nevertheless favor mandatory voter I.D. "phased in" over ten years.
"Let's Make Photo I.D.s Mandatory For U.S. Voters"
http://paxonbothhouses.
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Frontline: Why Doesn't Everyone Have A Voter I.D.?
http://apps.frontline.org/votingrights/?elq=9b7a3118947c4dd2938a9ccbdf5aa858&elqCampaignId=1079
The Daily Show interviews Republican official, Don Yelton, who spills the beans on his party's deliberate suppression of voters while masquerading this practice as prevention of voter fraud.
Republican Party Is "Full Of Racists," Colin Powell's Chief Of Staff
Bill Maher: The Zombie Life Cycle Of Republican Lies. They Never - Ever - Die
Bill Maher: The Zombie Life Cycle Of Republican Lies. They Never - Ever - Die
"Are Republicans Insane?"
"The Republican Party Is A Satanic Cult"
"Are Republicans Insane?"
"The Republican Party Is A Satanic Cult"
"American Conservatives And Oppositional-Defiant Disorder"
"Conservatives Scare More Easily Than Liberals"
"American Conservatives And Oppositional-Defiant Disorder"
"Conservatives Scare More Easily Than Liberals"
Jindal Criticizes The Stupid Party: "Simply protects the rich so they get to keep their toys"
Why The New GOP Rationale For Voter Fraud Is False
"Let's Make Photo I.D.s Mandatory For U.S. Voters"
Jindal Criticizes The Stupid Party: "Simply protects the rich so they get to keep their toys"
Why The New GOP Rationale For Voter Fraud Is False
"Let's Make Photo I.D.s Mandatory For U.S. Voters"
Feel threatened?
"Let's Make Photo I.D.s Mandatory For U.S. Voters"
"Gun Cartoons and Gun Violence Bibliography"
"Gun Cartoons and Gun Violence Bibliography"
The actual number of cases will be very small and those that are successfully prosecute will be vanishingly small.
Bill Maher: The Zombie Life Cycle Of Republican Lies. They Never - Ever - Die
Conservatives "believe" that principled perfection is sufficient justification for voter restriction.
"Principled Perfection" is in fact The Problem.
"Is Perfectionism A Curse? Paul Ryan Tells The Truth"
"The terrible thing about our time is precisely the ease with which theories can be put into practice. The more perfect, the more idealistic the theories, the more dreadful is their realization. We are at last beginning to rediscover what perhaps men knew better in very ancient times, in primitive times before utopias were thought of: that liberty is bound up with imperfection, and that limitations, imperfections, errors are not only unavoidable but also salutary. The best is not the ideal. Where what is theoretically best is imposed on everyone as the norm, then there is no longer any room even to be good. The best, imposed as a norm, becomes evil.”
"Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander,” by Trappist monk, Father Thomas Merton
More Merton Quotes
"Is Perfectionism A Curse? Paul Ryan Tells The Truth"
"The terrible thing about our time is precisely the ease with which theories can be put into practice. The more perfect, the more idealistic the theories, the more dreadful is their realization. We are at last beginning to rediscover what perhaps men knew better in very ancient times, in primitive times before utopias were thought of: that liberty is bound up with imperfection, and that limitations, imperfections, errors are not only unavoidable but also salutary. The best is not the ideal. Where what is theoretically best is imposed on everyone as the norm, then there is no longer any room even to be good. The best, imposed as a norm, becomes evil.”
"Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander,” by Trappist monk, Father Thomas Merton
More Merton Quotes
"Martin Luther King Jr. On Hatred, Violence, Love and Jesus "The Way"
"Pax On Both Houses: A Compendium Of Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes"
http://paxonbothhouses.
Editorial cartoon criticizing the usage of literacy tests for African Americans as a qualification to vote. Cartoon shows man “Mr. Solid South” writing on wall, “Eddikashun qualifukashun. The Black man orter be eddikated afore he kin vote with us Wites, signed Mr. Solid South.” An African American looks on.
Illustration in: Harper’s Weekly, v. 23 (1879 Jan. 18), p. 52. 18 January 1879
"Voters In American History"
"Are Republicans Insane?"
"The Republican Party Is A Satanic Cult"
"Are Republicans Insane?"
"The Republican Party Is A Satanic Cult"
"American Conservatives And Oppositional-Defiant Disorder"
"Conservatives Scare More Easily Than Liberals"
"American Conservatives And Oppositional-Defiant Disorder"
"Conservatives Scare More Easily Than Liberals"
Jindal Criticizes The Stupid Party: "Simply protects the rich so they get to keep their toys"
Conservatives are nuts.
There will not be a single proven case of a dead person voting in today's election.
The nation's newspapers can perform a crucial public service by creating a central repository to report all cases of voter fraud in the 2014 (and all future) elections.
I have no doubt that the actual number of cases will be tiny.
The number of cases that are successfully prosecuted will be vanishingly minute.
Bill Maher: The Zombie Life Cycle Of Republican Lies.
They Never - Ever - Die
Conservatives "believe" that principled perfection is sufficient justification for voter restriction.
"Principled Perfection" is in fact The Problem.
Jindal Criticizes The Stupid Party: "Simply protects the rich so they get to keep their toys"
There will not be a single proven case of a dead person voting in today's election.
The nation's newspapers can perform a crucial public service by creating a central repository to report all cases of voter fraud in the 2014 (and all future) elections.
I have no doubt that the actual number of cases will be tiny.
The number of cases that are successfully prosecuted will be vanishingly minute.
Bill Maher: The Zombie Life Cycle Of Republican Lies.
They Never - Ever - Die
They Never - Ever - Die
Conservatives "believe" that principled perfection is sufficient justification for voter restriction.
"Principled Perfection" is in fact The Problem.
"Is Perfectionism A Curse? Paul Ryan Tells The Truth"
"The terrible thing about our time is precisely the ease with which theories can be put into practice. The more perfect, the more idealistic the theories, the more dreadful is their realization. We are at last beginning to rediscover what perhaps men knew better in very ancient times, in primitive times before utopias were thought of: that liberty is bound up with imperfection, and that limitations, imperfections, errors are not only unavoidable but also salutary. The best is not the ideal. Where what is theoretically best is imposed on everyone as the norm, then there is no longer any room even to be good. The best, imposed as a norm, becomes evil.”
"Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander,” by Trappist monk, Father Thomas Merton
"The terrible thing about our time is precisely the ease with which theories can be put into practice. The more perfect, the more idealistic the theories, the more dreadful is their realization. We are at last beginning to rediscover what perhaps men knew better in very ancient times, in primitive times before utopias were thought of: that liberty is bound up with imperfection, and that limitations, imperfections, errors are not only unavoidable but also salutary. The best is not the ideal. Where what is theoretically best is imposed on everyone as the norm, then there is no longer any room even to be good. The best, imposed as a norm, becomes evil.”
"Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander,” by Trappist monk, Father Thomas Merton
If the same penalty applied to those depriving citizens of their vote by creating obstacles that disproportionately impact Democratic constituencies, most Republicans would be in jail and the national debt would be paid.
How 'bout 3 and a half years for Willard?
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