reply to post by xuenchen
This is EXCELLENT news!!!
Republicans steal elections, Democrats do not. Why? Democrats are not above it they just don't have to do it because they get the lion share of the
votes without criminal conduct.
The core constituency of the Repubicans are the Rich. The trouble is that there are so few Rich. To win elections Republicans either have to trick
people to vote for them (e.g. Obamacare is bad (its not) or Obama raised taxes (he didn't)) or steal the election. Sure, they pander to the
GodGunsGays (G^3) rednecks because they will vote Republican against their own best interest and there are enough of them to actually win elections in
the South and West. Even so the G^3 Rednecks are unreliable as voters since most are low information folk who don't give a flip about politics most
of the time. Independents in the past have often fallen for Republican lies such as the examples above but this looks to be tapering off.
The Republicans have had an organized and very well funded effort to capture State Secretary of State and Election Supervisor offices for well over a
decade. That effort produced the infamous Katherine Harris who as Election Commissioner in Florida who helped steal the 2000 for Shrub Bush. It also
produced Ken Blackwell in Ohio who did an excellent job of rigging the election there in 2004. That was the one where Democratic precincts ended up
with minimal voting equipment creating long lines while Republican precincts had plenty of voting stations.
So again this is VERY good news. It means the election system is back on the road to being honestly administered again.

