Reply #83: Conflating vote suppression with ballot tabulation, as she is doing here, is bullshit [View All]

Vote suppression is disguised as concernt for election integrity, and is a strictly Republican operation these days, though Democrats used to do it back when we were the Wite Men's Party in the South. And let's get real here--individual voters may vote fraudulently occasionally, but this is background noise. Surviving spouses are going to keep sending in their dead mates' ballots (and is a marriage of more than 30 years where they can't fake each other's signatures really a marriage? :) ) They only get to do it once, though, before the registry catches up with the situation. Thinking that it's possible to eliminate 100% of this is to be living on a fantasy planet where Land's End sends out their catalogs return receipt requested and never gets any of them back.

The integrity of ballot tabulation is different, and Repubs and Dems are equal opportunity offenders here, with the sad irony that the Dem offenses mostly hurt other Democrats. There are some Repubs who actually get this issue and are not into the meme "It isn't cheating when we do it," though.