For the 2012 numbers, that last Sunday was significantly higher than the per-day average for the rest of the voting period, and almost as high as the “last day”. So that Sunday was special, which jives with reports like the “souls to the polls” drives by churches, especially black churches.
If, for some reason, it is unavoidable that an “early voting” day should be trimmed back, and compelling evidence if offered that it is so, then clearly the day which has recorded the least voter turnout would be preferred. Duh.
Do they explain why they want to change the schedule?
Also, reference and cites for OLEO, Google keeps talking about butter substitutes.
How is holding iiandyiiii responsible for my posts any defense of your honesty?
It’s only one more instance of your severe dishonesty.
Maybe Bricker just assumes we all know each other, like black people.
Do you know if LaFwanita is getting out of prison this week? I was talking to your dad, and he said that if she gets out by Friday, we can sign her up and still get welfare for October.
Best of all, she can register to vote five or six times by the election. Praise Obama!
'S matter, Bricker? Cat got your tongue? Here, I’ll make it easy for you. Just check a box:
[ul][li] (…) The GOP legislators all put election integrity ahead of partisanship. But look at those Demos stooping to get votes out of the gutters.[/li][li] (…) Coincidence. Sure it’s less that 1 in a trillion trillion that a vote will be split exactly on party lines. But the same odds were against the 13th tree in Hobglock Village being struck by lightning at 3:13 yesterday, but struck it was.[/li][li] (…) Gee. I see the light at last! My ilk is all about mischievious ways to gain unfair partisan advantage. Mods, please close the thread![/li][/ul]
While you’re here, comment on this recent incident. I know Karl Rove is your idol; so do you also approve of this shenanigan?
The Michigan Republican Party has mailed out a hit piece on John Fisher the Democratic candidate for Michigan’s 61st House district. The mailer asks the recipient to call a phone number to complain about Fisher’s support of the Affordable Care Act. The number they give rings at the bedside of Fisher’s mother, 91-year-old Isabel Marie Kramb, who is in hospice care with congestive heart failure.
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I’m holding him responsible for what he posts.
Yes, I agree, but that’s true no matter which day you eliminate.
And where are those reports?
The same place as OLEO’s reports, I guess.
Fallacy of the Excluded Middle.
No. But I doubt there was any intent to call a woman in hospice care. The phone was registered in his name, and he acknowledges he’s welcomed “call me” flyers before. Thsi appears to have been an error.
Wow. I thought of leaving
[ul][li] (…) Other[/ul][/li]just for you, but I thought you were a big boy who could figure how to change his own underwear and everything.
Well, gee, what to do, what to do? Wait! How about we close the day with the least traffic and importance! Yeah!
Its brilliant and novel ideas like this which is why I’m so widely admired, nobody else would think of anything so smart!
It is clear that he does not, and appealing to reason with him as if the principle was obvious and accepted is futile. Arguments based on the principle that Democracy Is Good are just noise to someone whose moral ideal is the Good German.
Remember that Bricker’s understanding of morality is prostrate submission to institutional authority, as his ARENA-thug and Catholic upbringing taught him. Democracy, in which people think for themselves and act as a community and take responsibility for those actions, is a constant threat to institutions claiming authority by their very existence. It has to be contained, tamed, limited to those who can be counted on not to threaten institutions whose adherents consider their existence and power to be paramount considerations. By his own training, and nature too, he actually thinks he’s doing the right and proper thing by protecting the government, the Republican Party, the letter of the law (he does not recognize such a thing as the *spirit *of the law as a distinct concept), and the RCC from potential threats to their primacy and power. That’s how he sees the responsibilities of a citizen. That’s his morality. And no argument using reason or moral suasion can convince him otherwise, if it’s consistent with his fundamental belief that democracy is dangerous.
I’m not even sure if you’re disagreeing with me any more. There’s another “link within a link” about the “Souls to the polls” stuff somewhere in that report, if you’re curious.
But I think I’ve established that it is reasonable to believe that a significant motivator by the GOP in OH for eliminating the last-Sunday/last-Monday for early voting is to reduce Democratic turnout.
Still having a bit of trouble confirming this optimistic assessment, as Google keeps bringing me butter substitutes. Clarification would be helpful, right about now. Counselor?
Reasonable, yes, but hardly certain, as we cannot peer into the souls of each individual Republican who votes for this. Why, there may well be all sorts of motivations, we simply cannot judge! There may be a dead cat, but we cannot know for sure without opening the ballot box. Of course, after a certain period of time, odoriferous clues may manifest, but that stench pervades this exercise over a wide range of states and circumstances, we cannot be sure it is specific!
As the Counselor has stipulated, there are likely to be “some” Republicans with nefarious motives, but that doesn’t mean we can presume that they all do, or even a majority do! Especially when you consider the many, many honest Republicans who have spoken out quite openly and firmly against such a sordid practice. Perhaps not “many”, perhaps only “some”. A few. One?
Simply because the quarterback seizes the football and dashes in a particular direction, that is no reason to assume he is intent on reaching the goal line!