Are Republicans everywhere pushing absentee voting?

[Bossy Monkey]

Our prize, Congressman Joe Wilson (well-known for yelling "You lie!" at Obama, itself a lie), is running these bizarro radio ads about how the liberal Pelosi forces are targeting him because he's never been afraid of standing up to Washington liberals (really, I'm not making this up) and that if you don't want to stand in line to vote instructing you how to vote absentee. I just can't figure it. Lexington County, where he's based, has always been known for bringing in their results last, almost as if they had to find out what the results from the rest of the state were like before they produced their numbers. (Lexington was a Republican county when this was still the Solid South. Your tax money at work: Lexington is entirely a bedroom community for Columbia, which has no industry but government. Bad at math, them.) Regardless, is this just one crazy Congressman, or is anyone else hearing this?

[cbdo2007]

1. I"m sure they'll even deliver your absentee ballot to you and call to remind

you to send it in if you'd like.

They know it's hard to get people out to the polls, even my wife I have a horrible time trying to convince her to vote just cause she's not as interested as I am, so whatever makes it easier for people is good.

Really, I bet the number of actual voters would go up 30% if they could find a good, safe, accurate way to do Internet voting. People could do it in 2 minutes at work without waiting in line, or driving to the place with screaming kids in the car, etc.

[denverbill]

2. That must mean they have reduced the number of voting machines in Lexington.

Remember Ohio in 2004? Republicans were urging the fellow Republicans to vote absentee, and the lines at the polling places were hours and hours long because they moved voting machines away from Democratic districts.

[Bossy Monkey]

3. Well, not Lexington, but his district also includes white areas of Columbia

so yeah, that might well be the plan, only substitute Columbia for Lexington. City of Columbia generally votes Democratic, so such a plan would make sense from their point of view.