Congratulations, jayef. You have gotten to the Heart of the Matter.
What is happening now in New Jersey is the ultimate triumph of democracy (aka, Mob rule) over republican government. Our understanding of history has been so degraded that our people no longer know the difference.
This is one of the reasons I shudder whenever some dimwit politician waxes poetic about "exporting democratic values" to benighted parts of the globe.
Been a long time coming: How Tyranny Came To America"
I think it's worse than that. There is a criminal cabal, a mob racket that runs more than half the Govt. in the form of the Dem. party. They are tired of the nicities of elections and willing to subvert them.
It is analogous to the transition in Rome from Republic to Empire, when successive powerful Generals and leaders decided it no longer made sense to pay attention to the Senate.
Only in this case it's not the strong man but the entire Dem. party. Other attacks on voting have been the Carnihan debacle, Gore in Florida, the attempt to put Lanni Grannier into a position where she could move to weird outcome based voting schemes like the Naderites want, basic vote fraud in well documented places like Detroit, the inept bodering on lying coverage of the election by the TV Networks, the dumbing down of citizenry requirements, millions of illegals voting in California, etc.
As I pointed out at some point we are like the boy with his finger in the dike. Eventually if it keeps raining Democratic Vote Fraud they will get there 51% permanant majority and votes will be meaningless. In fact if they can get 51% living off of the top 5% based on Govt. payouts then it's a lock. Or actually, the R's have to go into bidding mode for the 51%. I think we are pretty close to being there.
I joined FR about 4 years ago to "Restore the Constitution" but Bush2 is a only a small speed bump on the race to convert us to a Socialist direct democracy or mock democracy of the Mexican sort.
Has all this Freeping and posting and kveching accomplished anything? OK, the Clinton Impeachment was huge, but ultimately it failed. I wonder if in 20 years we will look back at that as the high water mark in our attempt to save the Constitution, rule of law, an limited government in America.
The dike won't hold and the Socialist wave is going to drown the little boy GOP soon, sadly.