Stealing an Election

The election grows near and the noise from both sides is ramping up. But I think the thing that bothers me the most is that, once again the same strategy rears its ugly head, Voter suppression and the accusations of voter fraud. Voter fraud for this argument is one person trying to either voter more than once or trying to get many to vote more than once under false information ie. Hi my name is “Joe the Plumber” and I would like to vote please. Now imagine trying to throw an election like this. You’d have to be successful at a number of different points in the registration process with thousands of different identities and then have them actually go to the polling places and vote to have even the slightest impact.

Then there is election fraud. Election fraud is the wholesale manipulation of a voting segment. Literally 1000’s of votes and/or voter registrations being either altered or rejected in a single instance. Like say a recount being stopped, or stuffing the ballot box electronically on a voting machine without paper confirmation or throwing out tallies that don’t fit your particular desired outcome, or soldiers overseas being “caged” or for that matter people from a single demographic being targeted by either caging or under servicing of polling places, which would demand that certain people stand in line for hours in order to cast their vote. Not a very democratic thing to do if that population is an hourly work force. Laugh if you like; there is evidence of all these things happening over the last 8 years.

What does it say about your party when one of its primary strategies is to actually suppress voter turn out?? How is this supporting democracy??


In case you haven’t heard Lance is back. And back with Bruyneel at Astana. Contador was unsurprising less than thrilled, but Lance is Claim cancer awareness as his motivation. He’s already confirmed for the Tour Down Under, and the Giro. Could be interesting. My biggest concern/objection to this is simple, its time for someone else to get the attention. The US has more than one cyclist and more than one cycling team. I’m tired of Lance. And clean going forward doesn’t say anything about the past. Was he clean?? Who knows. All I know is that virtually everyone he competed against over that time has been busted for one thing or another, including a good number of ex postal/discovery riders.



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