Posted on 10/27/2010 6:53:24 PM PDT by neverdem
In recent days, a debate has broken out over the issue of early voting. Partisans from both sides have trumpeted certain early results, while election watchers have scrambled to decipher just what, if anything, these early vote numbers tell us about what's going to take place six days from today.
Politico's Molly Ball helpfully compiled early voting returns in states that track returns by partisan identification. It's prudent to stipulate up front that while early voting tallies do give us some hard data we can use to gauge the composition of the electorate, we can't make definitive conclusions about the shape of the 2010 electorate based on these numbers...
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http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/10/27/what_to_make_of_early_voting_107747.html
A lot of voting irregularities/fraud stories are out there. They can't cheat when our lead is too great. Remember Al Franken! We have to get all of our voters to the polls. Take nothing for granted.
Vote and look for fraud.
In one word...FRUAD!
sorry.
I don’t like it. Election 2000 led to media trying to effect turnout. Now the media has a month to do it.
The idiot in Texas who was turned away at the polls for wearing an obama shirt is a good argument against early voting. She had time to run to the media and said she would try again in a few days. If it had been a single day she likely would have gone home and stayed there.
If at first the ACORN crowd doesn’t succede, there’s always tomorrow or the next day or the day after that.
If it were up to me I would extend a single day of voting for 24 hours with polls nationwide opening and closing at the same time with no results reported till all polls were closed.
That’s for sure. I would never throw my vote into some bureaucratic machine and let them roll it around weeks before the election only for the process to be ‘legitimized’ by some liberal Secretary of State. No Way.
Personally, I think a person should have to present himself with picture ID at the polls on election day. If it is not important enough to do this, you didn't really want to vote.
The ONLY exception to this in my world is for someone who is physically out of the area, and can not get back.
My home state (Washington) is vote by mail only. I sent in my ballot today.
Yeah I know... it is definitely not something to be optimistic about!
Dunno. I just can not imagine actually going out and voting for a Democrat at this point. You would have to be insane.
Sounds good to me.
Voting and judges are the last stands between civility and conflict. What we have here is a situation where the minority has seized power. MOST voters -- not Americans, but voters, people who will go out of their way to vote -- reject liberalism and Democrats. We can safely extrapolate this from the fact that Liberalism and Democrats have to cheat to win. They lack the votes; they're the minority.
If the judges and voting surrender to the minority via fraud, we get failure elected into office that the public resents. Protecting the power of the vote is crucial, the last and only stand before civility is breached.
Early voting is creating too many early opportunities for vote fraud and is spreading the threat over a longer period, thereby making it more difficult to control. Limiting voting to election day would reduce the opportunity for Demonrat vote fraud.
The ONLY exception to this in my world is for someone who is physically out of the area, and can not get back.
Yep. Spot on.
Only authenticated absentees should be given ballots and this mail-in voting (Illinois and ?) must cease.
Did you guys vote on that? How lazy can people be. I don’t trust anything other than on election day.
And make it a Saturday.
If the members of the branches of the military were able to vote like they should be able to do so (per their states) the fraud in early voting wouldn’t matter.
It’s a real mess (remember that we’re deep-blue here). It came about in the wake of the massive vote fraud in the 2004 gubernatorial race.
The state legislature took advantage of an overwhelming dhimmicrat majority to expand our absentee balloting system (I actually availed myself of the service once when temporarily working out of state).
38 of 39 counties have adopted vote by mail and, unless we kill a lot of leftists, there ain’t no going back.
I believe that we have surpassed Illinois as the vote-fraud capitol of the US.
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