2012-05-19 04:45:34 Voter Fraud? Seriously Dude? by Old Fart Rants |
Instead of creating jobs like they campaigned on, Republicans have been waging war on women, the middle class, and working people, and trying to shred the social safety net so they can give even more tax breaks to their rich donors. So they don't have much of a track record to run on in November, and they know it. That's why all across the country, they're passing voter ID laws to try to rig the next election using voter suppression. Their excuse? Voter fraud! About 6 months ago, the Republican National Lawyers Association posted the results of their investigation on voter fraud on their website. And the grand total of proven voter fraud cases listed on their website is? 311! A whopping 311 cases of voter fraud out of somewhere in the neighborhood of 400 to 500 million votes cast in the past 4 elections! Somewhere in the neighborhood of .000006%. Since when is .000006% rampant voter fraud? It isn't. Only complete morons who watch Fox News and think communists are hiding under their beds could possibly believe such absolute bullshit. But they're getting away with passing laws all over the country to prevent people from exercising their Constitutional right to vote - based on absolutely no evidence whatsoever that voter fraud has ever been a problem, or that it will be in the future. So why do Republicans insist on a massive government enforcement effort, affecting millions of law-abiding citizens who have a legal right to vote, to solve a problem that, even if it's 10,000 times worse than their own data says it is, has never involved enough voter fraud to change the outcome of any election? Because they know they can't win the next election unless they rig it by making it impossible for people who are legally entitled to vote to vote against them. This is a war on democracy itself. Make sure to vote in November, and vote against every single Republican and Tea Tard candidate running for every office in every state and in Washington D.C. The Republican Party has become so corrupted by ideologues and fascists, it's become a threat to democracy itself. And that's why you and everybody you know has to vote against every single Republican and Tea Tard candidate running for every office in November. The last Republican dictatorship almost destroyed the country -- we cannot let them finish the job! |