Political Nightmare

Remember when Bush said he would govern as a uniter, not a divider?

Well, hard as it is to admit, it seems he finally has. Encouraging voters of all stripes to band together to bring him and his crony-fueled coup down.

Turnout across the country is the highest it's been in years. In CT, they estimate it may go as high as 70% of registered voters.

For a midterm election. That's far above the last Preznitial farce, when turnout was driven higher by the GOP's vaunted GOTV operation, demonizing gays to drive up the nutbar fundies.

But, you know, that's Georgie all over. Even when he does something good, it's only because he didn't mean to.

And you can be sure they didn't mean to. As a matter of fact, the RNCC has gone to great lengths to depress voter turnout. Clearing Voter rolls (Ohio) Threatening with jail (Pennsylvania), Annoying persistent robo-calls (everywhere), Handing out deceitful and misleading flyers (Maryland), Suppression calls (Virginia), Voter ID issues (SC)

TV pundit-asswipe Laura INgraham even responded to the reports of voting problems being reported by asking her viewers to jam the phone lines with crank calls. Which then, of course, happened. Whassamatter, chunkhead, so scared of losing that you can't see a way to win without cheating? She needs to lose her job for that.

Although the Reps annually scream about Voter Fraud (all the better to disenfranchise you, my dears) they habitually offer little in the way of evidence, and such is the case this year. The voting irregularities being reported are being documented on a widespread scale, and some, like the VA phone intimidation, are already being investigated by the FBI.

It is highly interesting that one of the political parties is always willing to put more and more obstacles to voting in place. They see their futures in having less Americans vote every year; and in fact, when fewer people vote, this party tends to win.

Somehow, that doesn't strike me as ... umm, what's the word I'm looking for?... oh yeah, DEMOCRATIC. It's been six years or so, forgot what it was like.

One good that seems to be coming out is that the electronic voting machine problems seem to be bi-partisan, striking everywhere and seemingly randomly. Even Mean Jean Schmidt had problems with hers (although admittedly her concentrated brand of Evil could have overwhelmed the Dieboldian circuitry). It is possible that this could signal the end this round of electronic voting machines, and usher in a new, more reliable wave. with more oversight and more vendors, hopefully. And in the interest of more secure computing, let's not base them on Windows, hey?

Tomorrow may bring good news.