heh... a bit intellectually inconsistent for a blog to be so gung-ho about the sanctity of the vote and paranoid about our election process to be so dead-set against requiring voter ID.

What is it going to take to educate people like, Lennie Pike @1?

Republican laws which seek to limit the right to vote to a select number of state approved photo IDs have absolutely nothing to do with preventing voter fraud!

For those who haven’t done so, I would strongly urge reviewing the Truthout article that was authored by Brad Friedman and I pertaining to the dissenting opinion written by U.S. 7th Circuit Judge Richard Posner, a Reagan appointee, in the Wisconsin photo ID case.

The only form of voter fraud that can be prevented by strict photo ID laws is in-person voter impersonation. Republicans who passed those laws in Wisconsin, Indiana and Pennsylvania were unable to point to a single case of such fraud having occurred within their states, ever! Nationwide, this low reward (one single vote), high risk (a felony conviction) form of fraud is so extraordinarily rare that its occurrence is "more than a dozen times less likely than being struck by lighting."

While such laws do not and cannot prevent voter fraud, they have proved quite successful in suppressing the vote. But for a Supreme Court ruling permitting a permanent injunction to remain in place, some 300,000 perfectly legal, registered Wisconsin voters would have been disenfranchised in this election. Because the
Supreme Court stayed a permanent injunction against a deliberately discriminatory Republican photo ID law, 600,000 perfectly lawful Texas voters have been disenfranchised for this election.

As Judge Posner pointed out, "voter fraud" is a "mere fig leaf for efforts to disenfranchise voters likely to vote for the political party that does not control the state government." Thus, Posner concluded:

There is no "intellectual inconsistency," Mr. Pike. In asserting otherwise, you have simply demonstrated that you, and other people who have been duped by the GOP big lie --- "voter fraud" --- are misinformed.

The big lie is that these electronic machines are not a game changer.

With both D's and R's exploiting them.

The problem is the PEOPLE want someone to vote for who isn't corrupt, and has the people's interest not big corp's. That doesn't seem to be on the ballots this year. Same old same old is on the ballot.

That's where the anger comes from.
Lies, deception, promises. These candidates are reaching a point where they ought to be legally bound by their own promises.

Not sure how much longer people are going to put up with all this full spectrum insane lights out agenda (health, monitary, war, food, water, land, rights, guns, spying.) Probably when the bohica monetary crash appears, but that's my opinion.

http://www.democraticund...rum=1002&pid=5756082

voting lists missing in conn....can you find out if they are electronic lists?

and in ga the state web site for finding your precinct location is down

Wow, Brad, I thought you'd stepped up in your efforts to get necessary funding for your important work. Maybe you should share a list of people who do important work in the election integrity cause and maybe who need support. Right now US democracy is in a formidable choke hold. You guys have got to come up with some MMA (Mixed Media Arts) moves to free US democracy from that.

For those of you who observe the local canvassing of votes I recommend that you video tape the activities. even Blair Witch level footage is better than no footage.

Thankfully the Wisconsin AG issued an opinion on October 15, 2014 that elections are open meetings. Who wooda thunk it? Or that the clerks and the Wisconsin GAB would fight that election canvassing is *not* an open meeting?

If you video tap, be sure to get the number displayed on the front of the machine. this is the number of ballots the machine sensor claim went through the front slot. It is not always the same as the number printed on the poll tape which is what the *election programming* says went in the front slot. At minute 3:40 t0 4:30 you can see the Red LED number does not match the poll tape number for total ballots cast (586 v 576). without this video that red LED number would be lost to ether when the power was shut off.

September 26, 2006 Canvass Milwaukee, WI