October 23, 2004

American voter registration fraud clearinghouse. This site contains an late-breaking, organized state-by-state directory of problems that may destabilize the results of the U.S. Presidential election. I have to thank it for giving me something to watch for at my Austin polling station. Any similar sites worth watching?
posted by rolypolyman 20 years ago
  • Holy crap. I knew it was bad, and I'm glad that someone is keeping track of this, but man... My roomate said the other day, when we were watching a PBS special on Florida, "I'm surprized we aren't rioting in the streets. Where is the rioting?" Sometimes I get depressed - I mean, they could conclusively prove that Bush himself shredded registration forms of 100,000 voters in every swing state, and I still don't think people would be that upset.
  • Too little, too late methinks.
  • Aren't there protests over this? Is there some sort of group we can try and get to organize one?
  • Speaking of corruption, who is running this website? Quite simply, it is not possible for every Republican to be corrupt and every Democrat to be honest. No I am not a Republican.
  • My roomate said the other day, when we were watching a PBS special on Florida, "I'm surprized we aren't rioting in the streets. Where is the rioting?" I think we're too busy to riot. There are election specials on PBS that need watching. And Survivor is on afterwards. Followed up with the World Series. But don't worry, the revolution will be televised.
  • This isn't a lot of fraud by historical standards. If you search the NY Times database (subscription-only, but your local university library might have access), you'll find reports of fraud that are almost awesome in their number and scope. Of course, the election ain't over yet. To address baksheesh, dKosopedia is run mainly by the folks from Daily Kos, a Democratic community and activism site. Though this slants their articles, I have no reason to believe either that there is any widespread election fraud being perpetrated by Democrats, or that stories of these are being unreported. Note that dKosopedia is a public Wiki. You should add stories of Democrats committing election fraud if you come across any. If these get deleted, you'll at least have positive proof of iniquitous bias (which you should share with us). If I may be allowed to summarize the characters of Dem and Rep activism this year, the former is of the get-out-the-vote kind, and the latter of the vote-suppression kind. We likely have differing views on this, but it is plain to me which of these characters is more likely to be fraudulent.