Wow. You are truly an old person. The last Travis McGee novel (I read them all) was written probably in 1991. I wish that he had left a posthumous completion - “Fade to black”, in which every character in the series would perish at the end in an explosion on that houseboat.
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Not the Party. The person! The individual forfeits the right to seek public office. Regardless of Party affiliation.
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I’m waiting for the president* to weigh in on this threat to our “sacred” elections.
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Do you know Carl La Fong?
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Accent grave over the “e.”
“They have nothing on us.” Isn’t that what Trump and Giuliani and their like keep saying?
Never stop having childhood dreams.
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For all of the huffing and puffing by the GOP regarding the need for special voter ID legislation and their quest to disqualify many registered voters based on flimsy data, the most documented examples of true election fraud across the land continue to be perpetrated by the Republican Party.
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…and this would never be used in a ratfucking operation to eliminate a legitimately winning candidate. Just like James Okeefe would never selectively edit a video to misrepresent a conversation.
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Over and over and over again.
Don't ever underestimate the long-term effects of a good night's sleep.
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Notice the conspicuous absence of a Democratic counterpart in the whataboutism wars?
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Yes, I agree there should be real penalties for cheating. But you have to have some balance. I could imagine some Republican ratfuckers paying some low level Democratic flunky half a million or a million dollars to toss out 10 votes and document it and the Republican automatically wins and the Democrat never gets to run again.
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Otherwise, the incentive to cheat is still pretty solid; just be a little more circumspect in bringing random folk into your hustle.
I mean, worst case, someone goes to jail, but the “right” candidate still gets his office.
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and save the taxpayers of the district the expense of a new election
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I know, right?
She can’t recall one of the three big races where she didn’t ever have to fill in a vote, and “doesn’t recall” filling in votes for the congressional race either. Sure, Jan.
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these are the kinds of people who banded together in a common cause they are The Republican Party. lock them all up including treasonous traitors
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How long until Trump accuses Dowless of being a Democrat?
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As soon as “Fox and Friends” puts a “D” after his name. Which means in about 5 minutes.
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This particular form of fraud is not a major risk for vote-by-mail, because it can only be done with checkboxes not filled in already. Those will usually be down-ballot choices if someone is bothering to mail in a ballot at all. Getting caught is a big risk for relatively low reward.
In my state (WA) we vote-by-mail and the postage is pre-paid, which encourages participation and minimizes risk. It guarantees a paper trail for audit if necessary. There have been no recent glitches that I’m aware of, with our WA vote-by-mail system.
Compared to the risk with electronic voting, and the way voter ID can be used as a tool to disenfranchise minorities, I think vote-by-mail is currently the best voting system, It should be expanded in other states. There are no perfect systems.
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I hope at least a few perpetual “undecideds” out there are listening. And that they care.
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Sadly Republicans will show this as evidence that elections can’t be trusted and that absentee votes should not be allowed, further limiting ballot access.
They get you steal along the way, then get caught then “fix” the problem by making it harder to vote.
Infuriating.
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