Actually, I'm wondering if that cartoon refers to the most recent U.S. Presidential election. (Not that _I_ think any but the 2000 one was questionable enough to justify Street Demonstrations, but....)
2000 didn't deserve street demonstrations because of the election irregularities, but because of what the Republicans did to secure the victory.
The shennanigans in 2004, those were different. If I'd been in Ohio, I'd have been in the streets. If I'd voted against Thune, I'd have been the streets.
The structural voting frauds of the Republicans are worse than those they allege against the Democratic Party. The frauds they've perpetrated have been designed to keep those who were eligible to vote from being able to.
The understanding in US political operative circles is that Democrats cheat by including ineligible voters, the Republicans by excluding eligible ones.
The undersanding is, so far as I've been able to see, false.
There aren't any signs (even when the Bush White House was pusing for it) that this is the case. The ACORN flap is a classic example. The laws in many states require a person collecting registrations to take every one offered to them.
Republicans have been convicted for organized campaigns of throwing away applications they didn't like.
ACORN obeyed the laws, and they are cited as the classic example of "organized vote fraud". A Bush operative was convicted of phonejamming, to prevent voters from being able to get to the polls.
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Date: 2009-06-16 09:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-16 09:54 pm (UTC)The shennanigans in 2004, those were different. If I'd been in Ohio, I'd have been in the streets. If I'd voted against Thune, I'd have been the streets.
The structural voting frauds of the Republicans are worse than those they allege against the Democratic Party. The frauds they've perpetrated have been designed to keep those who were eligible to vote from being able to.
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Date: 2009-06-17 03:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-17 03:16 am (UTC)There aren't any signs (even when the Bush White House was pusing for it) that this is the case. The ACORN flap is a classic example. The laws in many states require a person collecting registrations to take every one offered to them.
Republicans have been convicted for organized campaigns of throwing away applications they didn't like.
ACORN obeyed the laws, and they are cited as the classic example of "organized vote fraud". A Bush operative was convicted of phonejamming, to prevent voters from being able to get to the polls.
There's a big difference.