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I have plenty of hope. It just doesn't have to do with any particular
politician. As for trust, I trust all of them to do their level best to
line their own pockets while doing their best to pass laws that will get
them reelected so they can continue to line their own pockets.
And yes, I'm cynical. If you aren't, more power to you. Politics is a
dirty game, made up of compromise, backstabbing, and lies. I've watched it
for 50 years now, and I'm not impressed.
The only difference I can see between the Republicans and the Democrats is
the direction of their extremism.
*LOL* And you tell me I should have hope! I haven't expected much for the
last 20 years!
My experience with government is that they're always sticking their nose
where it doesn't belong (abortion, marriage of any kind, forcing people to
buy things they can't afford, etc), and every time the government gets
involved and starts legislating *anything* beyond the basics (murder,
assault, etc), the situation inevitably gets worse.
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>>>>>>> But it isn't the politicians themselves that have
>>>>>>> been accused, or caught, it is over-zealous workers.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>They're not, by any definition, over-zealous workers. They're
>>>>>>crooked.
>>>>>>Over-zealous workers, following the rules, would have stopped
>>>>>>themselves.
>>>>>>These people are trying to cheat the system. It doesn't make a lick
>>>>>>of
>>>>>>difference what political group they belong to - they're still
>>>>>>criminals.
>>>>>
>>>>> The liberal claim is that voter fraud doesn't exist.
>>>>
>>>>Oh, hell. Are you under the impression I'm a liberal? Because I'm not.
>>>
>>> Part of the liberal trait is grouping individuals,
>>> and allowing gossip to shape opinions and decisions.
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>>Give me a break. That's not a liberal trait. It's a human trait. One I
>>try not to practice in general, but it's pretty hard to ignore the dirty
>>game called politics during an election year.
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> The liberals depend on it.
They're going to be vastly disappointed in me. I'm not a liberal, I'm just
disenfranchised. I think they're *all* looney tunes.
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>>>>I
>>>>know perfectly well voter fraud exists. It happens somewhere every time
>>>>there is an election. Also, I seriously doubt most liberals think voter
>>>>fraud doesn't exist. They just claim it's all the conservatives doing
>>>>it.
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>>> You haven't read the posts here?
>>
>>Yeah, I've seen the bullshit posted here in RAST. I have no idea where
>>you're posting from, but so far, I haven't seen jack shit posted here that
>>proves what the posters are claiming it proves.
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> You don't know Jack.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhETObVI10w
Bwahahahahahahahaha! Thanks for the laugh.
You and enough other people to actually change election results. :(
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>>> Maybe some silly way to keep track of the
>>> number of ballots, but even that doesn't make
>>> sense, the printer has a machine that will
>>> bundle them in bales of 100, making them
>>> easy to count.
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>>Provided the machine is working correctly. :P
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> They are infallible.
No machine is infallible. They all break down, and none of them do anything
they aren't programmed to do.
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>>>>I agree, however, that it
>>>>makes it much too easy to figure out who voted which way.
>>>
>>> Right, a ballot can easily by marked by using
>>> a brown pen to put a fly speck under the letter in
>>> the first line as the first number of the ballot, and
>>> under the letter in the second line as the second
>>> number of the ballot, etc.
>>> And there many other ways, just check how
>>> cards are marked as sold by gamboling device
>>> houses.
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>>I'm not sure that method would work on ballots, unless you lived in a very
>>small town. There are only 52 cards in a deck, 54 if you count the
>>jokers.
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> For every line on the ballot, the number
> possibly is increased ten times.
What does that have to do with marking the ballots?
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>>>>>>> Some towns are run by cliques, often with
>>>>>>> many members of the same family controlling
>>>>>>> city hall and the council.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Yeah, but they usually have other ways of controlling the population
>>>>>>than
>>>>>>voter fraud.
>>>>>
>>>>> Like laws?
>>>>
>>>>Like fear. These kinds of situations lend themselves to financial
>>>>control,
>>>>social pariahs, and various other threats that people don't want to
>>>>face,
>>>>or
>>>>are too cowardly to face.
>>>
>>> Actually a lot of it just reduces the economy
>>> in the town, where I live there is two gas stations
>>> and a bank branch, that's about it, the store fronts
>>> are being turned into apartments.
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>>Sounds like the town is dying.
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> Because the clique wants it to be a residential
> town, and the clique is boss.
So they're trying to turn it into a bedroom town? Don't the stupid fools
realize that people don't continue to live in a town that doesn't have
things like stores and shopping centers? Not everybody wants to drive into
the city just to buy groceries....