I had an uncle who used to be a politician; rich, republican, greedy, selfish, the usual. I usually voted straight Demo ticket, but my parents insisted that I vote for him, which irritated me because then I had to fill out the whole damn ballot piece by piece. On one occasion when we all went to vote together, my mother reminded me to vote for my uncle, and I replied, "If you ask me to vote for him one more time, I'm going to scream out, 'Help! This strange woman is trying to coerce my vote!'"

She wasn't amused by that.

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Republicans never really cared about voter fraud. They care about keeping Democrats from voting. But when people point out that keeping your political opponents from voting is fascism, Republicans get all pissed off, so they hide the whole thing by pretending they care about voter fraud.

It takes a lot of guts to stand up and be against voter fraud.

/the truly brave also have an anti-genocide platform.

Cythraul: I had an uncle who used to be a politician; rich, republican, greedy, selfish, the usual. I usually voted straight Demo ticket, but my parents insisted that I vote for him, which irritated me because then I had to fill out the whole damn ballot piece by piece. On one occasion when we all went to vote together, my mother reminded me to vote for my uncle, and I replied, "If you ask me to vote for him one more time, I'm going to scream out, 'Help! This strange woman is trying to coerce my vote!'"

She wasn't amused by that.

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The ballot is secret for a reason.

Also a sign that you care more about keeping Democrats from voting than actual, nearly non-existent voter fraud: you write things like this:

Would you like to know the more than 360 groups ACORN controls? Learn their entire history and how their corrupt tactics have allowed them to worm their way into every corner of our government, right up to and including the Community Organizer In Chief.

Hey, if you can't win elections, steal them!

GAT_00: Republicans never really cared about voter fraud. They care about keeping Democrats from voting. But when people point out that keeping your political opponents from voting is fascism, Republicans get all pissed off, so they hide the whole thing by pretending they care about voter fraud.

Strangely they don't get as worked up about the real source of voter fraud. The officials who count the votes.

EvilEgg: Cythraul: I had an uncle who used to be a politician; rich, republican, greedy, selfish, the usual. I usually voted straight Demo ticket, but my parents insisted that I vote for him, which irritated me because then I had to fill out the whole damn ballot piece by piece. On one occasion when we all went to vote together, my mother reminded me to vote for my uncle, and I replied, "If you ask me to vote for him one more time, I'm going to scream out, 'Help! This strange woman is trying to coerce my vote!'"

She wasn't amused by that.

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The ballot is secret for a reason.

Well, I couldn't tell her that I'd vote for him and then secretly refuse to do so. I have issues with lying in general, especially to my Mom.

A lunatic dickhead in the the Tea Party?

Whoulda think it??

If ACORN had been one-tenth as powerful as the Republican pundits claimed they were (and claim they still are) there wouldn't even BE a Republican party anymore. The Democrats would win with margins that would have embarrassed Stalin.

I don't have any stats to back this up but I have a feeling the poor don't vote anyway. The stats do say old people vote in droves though.

Mr. Coffee Nerves: If ACORN had been one-tenth as powerful as the Republican pundits claimed they were (and claim they still are) there wouldn't even BE a Republican party anymore.

And not a fark would be given on that day.

Mugato: I don't have any stats to back this up but I have a feeling the poor don't vote anyway. The stats do say old people vote in droves though.

I don't have any facts to back this up, but...

I don't have any stats to back this up, but I have three penises

Minus1Kelvin: Cythraul: Well, I couldn't tell her that I'd vote for him and then secretly refuse to do so. I have issues with lying in general, especially to my Mom.

Sounds like your Mom was counting on your honesty to manipulate you. What a loving mother.

Yes, that's obviously what she was doing.

Y'know, if I remember right, parts of Texas are still under consent decree from the old Jim Crow days. These folks might want to talk to a lawyer, and exercise some care before they try to implement their cunning plan. They are pretty vague on what they exactly plan to do.

atomic-age: Is one strawberry, one vanilla, and one chocolate? God, I hope so.

Satanic_Hamster: Cythraul: Minus1Kelvin: Cythraul: Well, I couldn't tell her that I'd vote for him and then secretly refuse to do so. I have issues with lying in general, especially to my Mom.

Sounds like your Mom was counting on your honesty to manipulate you. What a loving mother.

Yes, that's obviously what she was doing.

Well, it's either that or you're a complete pussy with no backbone who's willing to vote in a "rich, republican, greedy, selfish" person who you don't think should be in office all because you wanted to keep Mommy happy.

Do you normally tell your family members to 'Fark off' when they ask you to make a small compromise?

ginandbacon: Mugato: I don't have any stats to back this up but I have a feeling the poor don't vote anyway. The stats do say old people vote in droves though.

I don't have any facts to back this up, but...

That why I said that's the feeling I have. The numbers do say that young people don't vote and older people and retirees are a proportionately huge voting block and have a lot of clout. I'm guessing that skews to a higher income bracket. But I could be wrong.

Huggermugger: Having recently been involved in a local election, I learned that buses are sent to retirement homes and nursing homes to transport any registered voter to the polls

I heard that too. That's why I was so amazed when I heard some of the candidates speaking ill of Medicare and Social Security. It seems like campaign suicide to me.