Nevada voter registration fraud

[armb]

Nevada voter registration was apparently done (at least in part) by a private company, funded by the National Republican Committee, which has failed to register Democrats. The deadline for registration has now passed, so it's too late for people who thought they had registered.

http://respectfulofotters.blogspot.com/2004_10_01_respectfulofotters_archive.html#109763713205470594
http://news.google.co.uk/news?hl=en&ned=uk&ie=UTF-8&q=nevada+voter+registration+fraud&btnG=Search+News

Comments

[rdmaughan.livejournal.com]

One of the articles says the Governor could extend the deadline if he wanted to. As he is a Republican this seems unlikely.

Not that I regards Republicans as dishonest but the guy is a politician so unlikely to do the right thing when it is not in his interest to do so.

[armb.livejournal.com]

True, it's not beyond hope of fixing, the governor might decide that being seen to do the right thing is in his interest. And elsewhere Republicans are complaining about Democrats.
I'm just boggled that it's gone this far. I'd kind of hoped people would learn a lesson after the Florida felon list mess.

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

I tend to assume (when I let myself think about it) that most if not all elections are rigged, one way or the other. Which doesn't mean I don't think we should vote: it's a fundamental right and a way of demonstrating one's concern for one's society. It's good for the soul.

But there are a thousand and one ways of fudging the result so that the party that pays the most gets in, and even when the fraud is discovered, broadcast on the news, rubbed in people's faces daily for weeks thereafter, nothing happens. As soon as the 2000 result was called into question, I was expecting Bush to be asked, told and finally forced at gunpoint to step down while the whole election process was restarted. I thought it was important that the candidate the people wanted should assume the office he was elected to.

But, apparently not. I've been wondering ever since...if I just walked into the White House and acted as if I owned the place, would I become President?

[armb.livejournal.com]

Are you a multi-millionaire candidate for a party with control of other branches of government, who came fairly close to winning fairly? If not, I suspect that walking in and behaving as if you owned it would be more likely to get you shot by the Secret Service.
Much as I think you would do a good job if you got away with it, I'd rather you didn't try it unless you can rule out the "get shot" chance somehow first.