I will be registering Republican to keep my right to vote.

[Lost-in-FL]

I was just talking to a friend of mine about voting irregularities here in Florida 2000 and Ohio 2004. He

came up with this idea. All blacks and minority voter should register as Republicans. That way, their

names won't mysteriously disappear from voting records through an act of "Voting suppression". Also, we

could vote in the primaries for the worst and dumbest candidate available (wow... that will be very

hard).

[Ian David]

1. I had been thinking along the same lines. n/t

[Gatchaman]

2. But since the voters for that district are "republicans"

a majority of votes in that precinct for republicans won't raise any red flags. While it's a good idea in theory, it just makes it easier for republicans to steal more elections.

[MADem]

3. Makes it easier to switch your votes

If, out of every hundred voters, you've got 70 Republicans and 30 Democrats voting, well, you'd expect the GOP to win, because they have a majority of registered voters.

The old "safe seat" maxims would apply...

[jrw14125]

4. but don't they use #s of registered party voters to show count's legit?

[FrannyD]

12. thinking the same thing

"Well according to the stats, 80% of the precinct is registered republican....." I notice in polls, they use the independents to their advantage the same way. Swing voter this and swing voter that. Schwiing!!!!

[Ezlivin]

5. An added benefit: You can skew the hell out of the primaries

Vote up the wackiest person, then shoot them down with your Demo vote.

[mdmc]

6. my folks are registered

in the gop.

It is about the same as the Dem party.

[bullimiami]

7. you wont lose your registration but your vote wont be counted for

the 'wrong' person anyway.

[Minnesota Libra]

8. I've been thinking about the same thing - although where I am it..........

.....hasn't come to that yet - thank goodness.

If it does though I will play their game and then vote my way inside the booth. If anyone wants to question me later all I have to say is, "Well, I'm officially registered as a republican so what does that tell you?"

Unbeknown to them, it won't tell them a darn thing.

[Old and In the Way]

9. Registered Republican votes are the easiest to steal.

They are the low hanging fruit. It would be much more difficult if those Republicans voting against the current Syndicate, reregistered as Democrats. That would be far harder to explain.

[glitch]

11. You beat me by 3 minutes. Damn my typing skills. :hi: nt

[glitch]

10. Easier to hide the theft of republican votes - assumption is they are for

republicans, so if they are not and aren't counted fairly they won't be so obviously missed as democratic votes would be.

You'd have to switch back between the primary and the general, which would be way too risky for the paperwork to be implemented properly.

Also easier to hide votes stolen from independents.

[htuttle]

13. Don’t be Stupid be a Smarty!

Come and join the Nazi Party!
-- Springtime for Hitler, The Producers