Comment Rescue, The Voter Fraud Fraud Dept. 2
I’ve been distracted by computer problems for the past few days (you can read about them at Geekazine) and have put off responding to this comment, from which I’ve excerpted the opening sentence. I’m promoting it because, in my view, it deserves the plain light of day:
Mississippi has more registered voters than residents is that not a problem?
Startpage is your friend.
- The U. S. Census reports Mississippi’s 2009 population as slightly less than three million.
- As of 2004, the most recent year for which I could find voting registration figures, as opposed to voting turnout figures, the voter roles totaled slightly more than 1,500,000. I rather doubt that the voter rolls have more than doubled since then.
- Mississippi’s turnout in the recent election was slightly under 800,000.
I have not argued and will not argue that keeping accurate voter records is not a good thing.
Nevertheless, the right-wing hysteria over voter fraud is a redstate herring.
It is simply not true that large numbers individual persons are registering fraudulently in order to throw elections.
The voter fraud fraud is the spiritual and intellectual bastard child of the poll tax and the literacy test–Sunday go-to-meeting clothes on a strategy to keep the poor, the downtrodden, the dispossessed from having a public voice.
Elections are stolen in the counting room, not in the voting room.
November 9, 2010 at 3:53 pm
OK, I worded it incorrectly. The correct wording s/b “15 counties in Missiouri have more registered voters than residents.”
http://missouri.watchdog.org/5822/fifteen-missouri-counties-have-more-voters-than-census-population/
It is not hysteria to be outraged with possible vote fraud in any form. It is a precious gift that must be zealously guarded and protected from fraud.
That you equate a strong desire for clean elections to racism is baffling.
We’ve entered the zone of absurdity where anything not explicitly sanctioned by the appropriate leftists is now racist.
Think the government spends too much money? Racist.
Think elections should be closely scrutinized to ensure they’re not fraudlent? Racist.
Think Obamacare is bad idea? Racist.
And on and on and on.
Let’s make this easier: exactly which policies of Progressives or Liberals may I oppose without being called racist? I presume this is going to be a short list.
November 15, 2010 at 8:46 am
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