The problem is not so much the fraud or the cheating — though these are certainly problems with a system so readily gamed.
Instead, the real problem is, we know about these things — be it with the Franken race, or with found ballots in Washington state, and so on — and nothing of substance is ever done about it. We don’t raise enough of a sustained pushback to hold politicians accountable, and the politicians, it seems, would rather hold out the chance to use such fraud themselves — that is, they protect themselves as a class — than aggressively investigate and prosecute members of that class who may have gotten a bit overzealous in their tactics.
We are to blame.
Until we insist our servants serve us and not themselves, we can’t expect anything to change — nor can we expect them to stop serving themselves first.
We need to stop bitching about things, then ultimately resign ourselves to them as if they are some intractable force of nature, or some manifestation of fate. We need to stop accepting that We Just Don’t Understand How DC Works™ and allowing inside-the-Beltway “conservative” media to set our agenda, or control our outrage.
We know the Democrats are trying to use suits against states to prevent the shoring up of voter rolls, or to prevent military personnel from having their votes counted. We know the President has granted amnesty to a host of new and reliably Democrat voters in a cynical and obvious — and illegal and unconstitutional — quid pro quo arrangement.
So what are we going to do about it? Besides just gripe about it on our blogs?
I’m as guilty as anyone and everyone else for letting this go on. It’s time to stop accepting the status quo. It just is. It’s time.
outlaw.
Well, yeah, but as all the liberal pundits say, there aren’t that many fraudulent votes.
Just enough of them.
“Those that make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” — John F. Kennedy
“Find the bastards and pile on.” — motto of the 11th Armored Cavalry
Rope. Tree. Politician. Some Assembly Required
I remember the 100 votes, all for Franken, found in the trunk of a car. Nothing happened.
A lot of that is on Colman for playing the pussy bitch.
Sorry to go all ‘feets there, but it’s true.
If the revolution is to remain bloodless, then we must rely on the peaceful tools at hand. Primarily, this involves the traditional activities of educating and motivating our neighbors to vote with us on candidates and policies that will push reform. Tactically, it means pushing back on libels of the Tea Party, and making sure that our fellow reforms realize that we are legion, and not the fringe element that our media wants everybody to think we are. It means making it acceptable to stand up for our rights, and ideally, making it unacceptable for the usual suspects to demand our servitude to the State. We outnumber the cheaters by a wide margin; it’s just a matter of making sure our election is such a blowout that the opportunities to cheat simply aren’t there.
Where we can prove negligence and malice on the part of our election authorities, we definitely need to see that the guilty are punished, and are never again let anywhere near an election. Voter ID laws will provide us with some powerful new tools for holding our electoral machinery to account, which is the real reason why they’re fighting so hard to convince everybody that the very idea is racist and unacceptable.
Obviously so, Ernst. As I said in the post, politicians don’t seem interested in contesting these things really, because as a class they know they have a good thing going. Best not to shine a light.
The Public Enemy has become the Pol.
Let the Pol be the dame.
QED.
I think I’d factor in inability/unwillingness to understand what was happening (e.g., “the courts won’t let them steal this election from me”) and political cowardliness (fear to challenge provisional ballots because somebody might accuse you of trying to deny somebody else their right to vote) ahead of if you want your cushy sinecure, you’d best not rock the boat myself.
Plus there’s a certain understanding — if you’re a Republican — that the opposition party is effectively the Mob, in both senses of the word.
Don’t forget Loretta Sanchez “defeating” Bob Dornan in 1996.
Illegal votes = Victory.
In any self improvement program the first step is to admit you have a problem. Unfortunately, the number of people who think the Republic has a serious problem is still measured in single digits. I hate to think we have to hit rock bottom before we can start to improve, but most junkies do.
I dunno about that, charles. Wasn’t there a survey a while ago where the majority said the government was not acting with the consent of the governed?
Of course, some percentage of those saying it felt that government should be punishing anyone who earns more than minimum wage without joining a union, but…
Want to trust that True the Vote is the only organization that can cross-reference the obituaries with the voter lists? I’d love to know how many of those dead people have applied for absentee ballots.
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