romney rules in iowa

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Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin

I was listening to some urban talk radio show the other day and the host was saying that she was worried that the republicans are going to steal the election. She is just fanning the flames. I thought it was really irresponsible. I hope there aren't too many DJs on these stations saying things like this. If you convince people that the election was stolen, they are going to be much more likely to riot.

Yes, that is fanning the flames.

There is plenty of documented voter intimidation (True the Vote, billboards) but that is all being investigated and pretty apparent.

There is concern about Romney family owning part of the company that supplies the voter machines in Texas and Ohio, but that's probably just hysteria.

There was a reporter who tried to early vote in Texas this week, using his utility bill (legal voter ID) and the poll worker wouldn't let him vote, until he made a fuss and got a supervisor. They didn't know he could vote without a drivers license, which is just wrong. What if that was a spanish-speaking person, or someone who didn't know the poll workers were wrong on the voting law? They would have left without voting.

There are currently cases of people in early voting states who have voted by mail having their votes being discarded without their knowledge or further comment because signatures "don't match" the signature on the voting rolls.

There have been thousands of voters taken off voting rolls in various states illegally in purges, and that has been pursued at the state level and via lawsuit by DOJ and ACLU.

It just came to light that the Romney pollworkers in Wisconsin were being taught things as pollworkers (regarding ID) that was not legally true. They were just given wrong information. And they were told to arrive at the polls and register as "independent" observers, rather than "republican" workers. That doesn't breed trust, especially in an imported state like Wisconsin.

There is the long history of the first mayor Daley of Chicago, which has tarred and feathered every other Democrat since in the minds of the shallow regarding "union thugs" and "dead voters", etc.

The problem is the 2000 election has made everyone distrustful: Gore won Florida. Gore won the popular vote. But the Supreme Court stopped the count and gave the election to Bush via electoral college. In retrospect, yes, I think that election was "stolen" (and I voted for Bush!)

Have the FBI voter intimidate number with you, go to the polls, and vote. And don't let backwater jerks as polling workers stop you. Know your state voting laws.