Election day could get ugly - please be prepared.
It's starting to get violent and there's still four weeks left to go. Ugly could be an understatement if the polls start to show a probable Bush victory.
I lurk on DU sometimes and you just don't know the depth of their hatred for all Republicans. They are planning a major revolution if Bush wins. Its scary.
RE #114:
"Election day could get ugly - please be prepared."
I would not expect much of a problem in urban areas that are in the Dems pockets, or small polling places.
If your District has a history of high Republican turnout and a significant population, though, it could be a target area.
And I would look for trouble early on, so that the reports will have plenty of time to get around and discourage other voters Nationwide from showing up at the polling places.
Again, (you might be getting tired of my rant on this subject) - but if the US Military trusts the US Post Office to deliver the Troop's absentee ballots, then I would expect at least 50% of them to be "lost", delayed until the election deadline in whatever State it is addressed to has passed, or otherwise disqualified as many were in the Florida debacle.
According to some of the callers on the talk radio shows who have Loved Ones over in Iraq, many of the Troops there and in Afghanistan are wondering if they should even bother to attempt to vote via absentee ballot, as they are resigned to the assumption that it is very unlikely to be counted, even in the unanticipated event that it does reach it's destination on time, in one piece, and unfutzed with.
I suspect that the PO was just as politically active on behalf of the DNC in other states too, but we never found out about it as the vote was not nearly as close and IIRC there was only one other State that had a re-count.
Before the 2K Elections, I was ranting here (look it up if you like) that the Military should hold it's own elections on a Brigade or Division level, and bring the results via Military Courier to a central US clearing house - possibly at the Unit's Home Base - under ARMED military escort, never TOUCHING a USPS facility or employee's hands anywhere along the way.
But I really don't expect our POTUS to have the nads to even attempt that, sad to say.
If any of the Commanders in the Field try to pull it on their own initiative, no doubt there would be hell to pay, and their careers would be over. The very powerful Postal Union and DNC would see to that!
How DARE they try to prevent them from stealing this election??!!
Unless, of course, the Military has had enough of this systematic election stealing, which blatently threatens the security of America as well as the surviving Free World, and takes matters into their own hands.
That could get really interesting.
We are pretty sure (although we can probably never prove it, and the Feds would probably never prosecute it even if we could) that the Portland ME Post Office stole the ME State Senate a couple of years ago for the Dems (BRENNAN Vs. VamVAKIAS - Special Election), and Dems still maintain the majority in both Houses, as well as the Governorship.
Let's see... WHO controls the Postal Employees Union again???
As far as I'm concerned, if you are not registered as a Dem and put your return name and address (which can easily be matched to available Voter Registration Lists)on your absentee ballot, then you might just as well drop it directly into the dumpster as into the mail box.
Are any Federal Election Officials ever going to peek under the Postal Svc.s skirt in this or any Election cycle?
Not holding my breath here, Mates.
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