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Originally posted by The Larry Davis Experience
Those protesting asked the good question of why would voter registration be a target for homeland security law enforcement activities. Some (including Atrios, I would suppose) think it's setting the stage for such a voter fraud charge, as in "the huge number of illegals we found by staking out the voter registration table indicate that there was more widespread fraud."
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Homeland Security took over all duties of the INS, which includes preventing fraud by immigrants (legal and otherwise). It's a legit activity for the dept., though I agree their efforts would be better targeted at other aspects of their duties in the run up to the election. Like keeping shit from blowing up.
If the loser raises the cry of "recount! recount!" after this election I will probably be made sufficiently sick by the self serving cesspool of US politics that I will puke on my shoes. That's why I kept maintaining last time that challenging the FL results and demanding repeated recounts was pernicious and foolish. "Oh," everyone kept telling me, "how can it be a bad thing to be sure every vote is counted accurately, when so much is riding on it?" "Because there will be a next time," I said, and here it comes.
BR(I say we adopt the rule in the british system - no recounts, ever, and if there's a fuck up you just suck it up; otherwise the whole system descends into anarchy every time some idiot marks two names by accident)C
