Is it possible the Republicans are COUNTING ON being perceived as thieves?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

So people will stay home at elections? "What the hell, they have the machines hacked for them. No use voting."

I think you guys shouldn't fall for that, even if the fix IS indeed in. If nothing else, you have to make them look bad.

[WhoWantsToBeOccupied]

1. We need credible exit polls

Whether or not that is their intention, you're right that the perception of rigged elections will keep people away. But this could be countered by multiple credible exit polls. We should demand this. If they want to claim exit polls have been screwed up in recent years, our reply must be: "Bigger, better, battling exit polls." Not one secret poll that we can't even examine.

[Skittles]

2. I think this is a good idea

welcome to the DU. :hi:

[tridim]

4. The exit polls were correct

Don't listen to BushCo's BS interpretation. We need to use the exit polls for the purpose they were designed for, to verify/disprove the official results. If that's not the reason for exit polls, then what's the reason for them?

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. Absolutley not.

If you had any idea how much they get away with this at the local level, it would entirely debunk your theory.

Look, any culture that dominates can make laws to protect their illicit behavior, or have friends who can protect them if they get into trouble, or who have friends in organizations that can destabilize dissenters. At a local level, this is happening all over the world, regardless of ethnic background, but each country is going to have its own quirks. In the U.S.A., it's the white culture that dominates and how they've been avoiding criticism since the Reagan Administration is a chapter straight out of the pod people -- except for one problem. You can't equally educate a population AND expect them to stay dumb forever. Those are opposing goals. So, as we begin to see how the system works (crooked communities that break the law ALL the time, people know it and stay quiet -- that sort of thing), well, it's easy for people who grow up on the top to assume that the same thing is going to happen if they apply the same recklessness at a national level. And with the Dem party caving in the way they did, as they always do, it's safe to see that they almost did get away with it.

But one thing they didn't expect was that in the chaos, which they hoped would serve as a smoke screen, an organized effort to find the truth still took place. That's us & Bev Harris. Bev is investigating, and hundreds of thousands maybe millions of us are talking about it on the net. Good ole boys will buckle, when "word gets out in the street." And word IS getting out on the street.

So, I go back to what I said right after the election. These boys did not expect to get caught. When the real pressure begins, interesting things are going to happen.

[AP]

5. Yes. Because Republicans are more likely to vote, when you discourage

people from voting, you're peeling off a layer of voters who are disproportionately more Democrat than Republican.

The more unlikely a voter is to vote, the more likely that voter is a democrat, so anything that makes voters less likely to vote helps Republicans.