Friday, November 10, 2006

Morally Superior? My Heiney!

How many news reports were there of election frauds attempts this year? Here's an abbreviated list that I managed to compile in about thirty minutes of Googling:

  • NRCC-sponsored robo-dialed phone calls designed to tick off Democrat voters and mislead them to believing that the Democrat candidate was responsible for the call
  • Radio conservative Laura Ingraham tells listeners to jam a voter-fraud alert line in order to prevent legitimate claims from being reported. By the way, to do what she requested has a 2002 precedent of jail-time when Charles McGee was convicted in New Hampshire of a similar crime. I believe requesting over the radio for people to commit a crime carries a charge of Conspiracy; I hope you like prison, "Dr." Laura.
  • Electronic software tampering using every Republican's favorite corrupt electronic company: Diebold
  • Switching a voter's party affiliation without their knowledge or consent
  • Threatening to arrest immigrant voters if they come to the polls

The only Democrat-based accusation of fraud that I was able to come across was this humorous editorial in which the author complains that "[g]etting people to vote for moderates, to put extremists in power, may be the newest and biggest voter fraud." In other words, the only fraud perpetrated in his scenario was to campaign for yourself, so long as you're a liberal.

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