[Speed Gibson,
Monday October 18, 2004 at 1:14pm]
Voter Fraud
I'm worried. Not a lot, but enough to wonder if all the voter fraud we're already starting to see will be significant enough to give Kerry the win. New voting machinery, new rules, ever looser registration also play to Kerry. Absentee ballots are everywhere and now we have "early voting" in Florida and Texas. Here in Minnesota, Secretary of State Kiffmeyer is being set up like Florida's Kathryn Harris just in case it's close. And our Supreme Court has fallen from grace more than once of late.
Remember Ohio in 2000, supposedly a double digit slam dunk for Bush that proved much closer? I look at these poll numbers and it looks far short of the Hewitt "If it ain't close" standard.
Once this election is over, maybe we have to make some noise about voter reform in Minnesota. Motor voter (auto frauder) should be repealed. Absentee ballots should be much harder to get, and a percentage audited to see if the reason given is actually true, with a stiff penalty if not. Let's insist on paper ballots to avoid the electronic fraud that will almost certainly happen. And we don't need lawyers and goons loitering near the polling places.
After all, we have 30+ Democrats in the Minnesota Senate who need to be turned out in 2006, and we don't need any "undocumented voters" skewing the results.
Remember Ohio in 2000, supposedly a double digit slam dunk for Bush that proved much closer? I look at these poll numbers and it looks far short of the Hewitt "If it ain't close" standard.
Once this election is over, maybe we have to make some noise about voter reform in Minnesota. Motor voter (auto frauder) should be repealed. Absentee ballots should be much harder to get, and a percentage audited to see if the reason given is actually true, with a stiff penalty if not. Let's insist on paper ballots to avoid the electronic fraud that will almost certainly happen. And we don't need lawyers and goons loitering near the polling places.
After all, we have 30+ Democrats in the Minnesota Senate who need to be turned out in 2006, and we don't need any "undocumented voters" skewing the results.