BTTT Thanks for psoting this. He was on KVI this afternoon.
Bravo, Timothy! Fantastic layout of the issues. Very informative!
Fraudoire--Sheesh!
In all fairness and the spirit of justice, I must point out that many Freepers may suffer from that regrettable Republican tendency to insist on live, registered voters, voting once, and once only, and within the precinct in which they reside. This sort of limited view shows up the GOP as mean-spirited dorks, and entirely lacking in imagination.
This strange, antediluvian mindset causes the process many problems. It makes no provision for the dead. Even worse, it does not take into account the entirely fictitious voter.(Known in the trade as a "loretta" after Loretta Sanchez, who was elected to congress with the votes of entirely imaginary Mexicans) Are not these voters absent? Of course they are! That means they get an absentee ballot. It is designed for absent people. It doesn't have to say WHY they are absent, dummie!
Furthermore, you Republicans never take into account the special and tragic plight of the minority and female voter. These downtrodden citizens must be allowed to make up the votes they missed during the long and bitter period in which they were denied suffrage. The mantra, "One man, one vote," perfectly expresses the racist, misogynist, and homophobic slant of the Republican mind. With only one vote, it would take these poor people who have been sorely oppressed by white racist males, a thousand years to get even! The Washington way is faster, as you can plainly see. Faster means fairer.
Also, I think it is tragic that the Republicans keep using Abraham Lincoln's cheap trick of offering the vote to our military. It's even worse if they are overseas. Don't you realize that these people are armed voters from war zones? They might easily tip the balance against Democrats, and are thus racist, homophobic, and quite possibly misogynistic themselves!
A true voter, alive or dead, real or virtual, must therefore have three options for reaching the polls and making their vote count:
(A) They must be registered so their vote van be counted in a precinct, or many precincts depending upon the need.
(B) They must have provisional ballots that can be carried by volunteers for use in precincts other than their home, graveyard, or computer file.
(C) They must have absentee ballots.
OTOH, The live voter presents certain difficulties. They must be bussed all over the place. They whine. They moan. They are affected by the weather. They are unreliable. The street money they can soak up is up there in Soros-Land. Nope, for vote efficiency, give me the dead, or imaginary voter every time.
I hope this has been enlightening for you.
Donna Brazile.