Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Beware of VOTER FRAUD!!

VOTER FRAUD AGAIN??? Perry County is a nice little county in Alabama, where I was surprised that voter fraud would pop up. Do you know of voter fraud somewhere? If so, please post it here. I am pretty lenient when it comes to posters, and have even allowed anonymous posters. UH OH, now comes the real criticism LOL...I'm just waiting to see it happen. I know that voter fraud exists, sadly so. Why can we not just have an honest society, given that voting rights were fought for, and people died for them? I respect your decision on voting. What happened to those little booths you used to go into, and could vote in privacy with the little curtain drawn? Now, it's like you go to vote, and you sit at a desk, with little cubicles, and you can feel other eyes peeking over your shoulder. Am I just being nostalgic? I think not! I want the old voting system back. We have so many problems with ABSENTEE VOTING. Why not just do away with that also? While we are at it, why not just do away with the two party system, and allow ANYONE who feels they are qualified (and DO qualify), to run for an office, without party affiliation. OMG...I can hear it now. (all the whispers, is she crazy or what?). I know, we have to keep it to where votes can be fixed. We have to keep it 2 party. and WHY???? Your thoughts would be appreciated. Have a blessed day.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

The logistics of voting (mechanical booths, paper ballots, computer screens, etc.) have little or nothing to do with absentee voting.

What's suspicious is when in a small rural, poverty-stricken county a disproportionate number of absentee votes are cast. Are that many people really out of town on voting day?

Deb Murphree/Alabama Politics said...

I wonder the same thing!! Not sure there are really that many out on voting day. Aren't the absentee ballots also based on elderly that cannot get out to vote? (such as nursing homes, etc). But don't forget that there used to be dead folk voting also. (check cemetary records lol).

Don said...

I guess there’s no way to eliminate political parties for many reasons, the chief one being the mother’s milk of politics……money. But we could have non-partisan elections and a non partisan legislature because Nebraska has had both for over 70 years. Of course, the only way that happened was that Nebraska’s voters made it that way by using the procedures of Initiative and Referendum which 49 states have, but Alabama doesn’t (see www.doctoriq.com for I&R information).

We can’t do away with absentee ballots either (although that is how most voter fraud in Alabama seems to occur) because that would actually disenfranchise those registered voters who actually have valid reasons for not being able to go to the polls on election day.

For information about what a grassroots group in Alabama is doing to try to eliminate as much voter fraud as possible visit the Democracy Defense League website @ http://www.thedemocracydefenseleague.com/ and join them in their effort at no cost.