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Edited on Fri Jan-07-05 10:11 AM by pabsungenis
Yesterday was the last gasp of hope for fair, honest, and legitimate elections in this nation. We lost, and the nation lost. But ALL is not lost. All we have to do is change tactics.
The media and the Republican "lawmakers" proved yesterday that no one cares about dirty tricks and election thievery, so all we have to do now is what we should have done as soon as the Republicans started pulling all this.
We need to sink to their level. In every single way.
I'm not talking about playing hardball in questioning their patriotism, commitment to the Constitution, accuse them of collaborating with the enemy, although we need to do that, too. I mean we have to do the same formerly-considered-illegal crap they've been doing.
Every state where the Democrats have won or solidified legislative majorities since 2002, we have to carve up the Congressional districts like a Christmas Turkey. We have to make Elbridge Gerry look like an honest politician. The courts ruled that Texas was right in redistricting only 2 years into a 10-year cycle, so we have a precedent. We need to make sure that all the blue states send 99% Democratic representatives to Washington.
Every state with a Democratic Secretary of State suddenly needs to find out that it has a shortage of voting machines, and act accordingly. Heavily Republican areas need to suddenly find that they're only allotted one voting machine, and people need to stand in line for up to 9 hours to cast their votes. Then, when the poll-closing time comes (oh, say, 4 PM), the doors are slammed shut and padlocked. It happened in Ohio to Democrats, and no one has ruled that it was illegal, and no Republican has argued that it was wrong. Thus, it's Okay!
Finally, we have a lot more young people in the Democratic Party, and I'm willing to bet a good chunk of them are expert computer hackers. Every black-box Diebold county where they refuse to keep a paper trail should have a young Democrat who can cover his tracks well standing by. Especially if it's a heavily Republican area where suddenly we'll find out that "the exit polls were wrong," and "people decided to vote Democratic for the first time in their lives." Suddenly, Nebraska lights up BLUE in a landslide and Chuck Hegel is forced out of office. And no one knows what happens.
No Republicans are concerned about THAT, either. They say only conspiracy theorists believe that could ever happen.
There you have it, a plan for Democratic resurgence in 2006 and 2008.
Any lurking Republicans out there? How would it feel with the shoe on the other foot? Maybe NOW you'll get behind election reform. Because let me tell you, if you DON'T guarantee us free, fair, and honest elections, we're not above sinking to your level. If you p--- in the well, don't complain when it's your turn to drink.
Support the Lautenberg and Holt bills TODAY! Three stolen elections is too many. And next time, it may not be YOU doing the stealing.
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