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To: u-89
Vote fraud should be the most heinous of crimes in a democracy - but it isn't.

I agree with your assessment of the seriousness of voter fraud...but I also promised myself many years ago that every time I saw or heard someone refer to our form of government as a democracy, I would correct that misnomer:

We don't live in a democracy---this is a REPUBLIC!

63 posted on 12/03/2002 8:01:13 PM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: EternalVigilance
The point of Republic as you point out occured to me but I used democracy as it flowed with the sentence's thrust easier. Democratic republic at the end of my sentence just didn't sound as effective as simple democracy in this instance.

Yeah, eternal vigilance sounds good but what do we do when political parties, law enforcement and the media not only let fraud occure but laugh at it? How many punidts on TV laugh at LBJ's rise or Kennedy's election or dead voting in Chicago? they all joke about it. In NYC the Dems bus mentally ill patients to the polls and physically walk them into the booth to help them vote. Once some Pubs put fliers out in a hispanic neighborhood that the INS would be at the polls to check for illegals. Was the Justice Dept upset at illegals voting Democrat? no they went after the Pubs for surpressing the vote! And you wonder why I am cynical?

66 posted on 12/03/2002 8:14:02 PM PST by u-89
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