I think the Pubbies have had mixed results with that tactic. One time a bunch of those homeless guys decided to vote for a professional wrestler as a joke.
Hate to admit it, but it sounds like the unions are mounting intimidation tactics of their own on early voters in Florida:
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-pglitch23oct23,0,3825651,print.story?coll=sfla-news-palm
Dems have often joked about turning the tables on the Republicans and playing as dirty as them when it comes to depressing turnout, but we’ve never actually imagined someone actually doing it. The unions, however, apparently have no such compunctions. It’s apparently legal to do due to an oversight in the law (I’ve found in my short time in politics that Board of Elections officials, both Democrat and Republican are some of the dumbest, laziest, most screw-up prone people in the country.), but it’s absolutely 100% wrong to have partisan promotion that close to the polling location, let alone inside it. People going to vote shouldn’t be treated like people going to get abortions… er, well maybe there’s plenty of problems to go around. Anyway, at least when the Republicans do it, it’s subtler than simply screaming at people. Just like their “office flood” protests, that’s just plain stupid. It’s not really going to drive anyone off from voting the way police officers and challengers will, it’s just going to fire up their base. Dumb dumb dumb.
No, it’s not the same thing, not unless Moore is planning to challenge anyone’s voting credentials, which I doubt.
Like this.
Interesting viewpoint. The linked article says:
So you don’t care if the person casting the vote has legitimate residency or not. Yep, that ensures a fair election process.
I’m still pissed that Jethro Tull never paid me for posing for that cover.
As for the unions, they suck too. They should back the fuck down and let people vote in peace.
You do need an address to vote. Dio is simply wrong on that account. Homeless people can put a shelter as their address, I believe.
That’s hardly the point of challenging people in the polls. Legitimate addresses can be checked BEFORE the polls anyway. The point of the challenges is to slow down the polling process. While you have to STATE a reason for a challenge, you don’t have to actually back it up at all. You can just say “I don’t think you’re a citizen” or “I don’t think you live in the precinct.” The election officials then have to spend time tracking down this claim, there is paperwork that has to be filled out on each side, etc. The whole process can take up to 10 or 15 minutes per challenge: and that’s 15 minutes the poll worker doesn’t have to serve other voters.
Even without challangers, traditionally hundreds if not thousands of votes are lost in some cities and high population areas due to the polls being too crowded and slow, and people just giving up and not voting, or not getting in to the polls in time. Most people have less than an hour to vote: if they have to stand in line for three hours, it’s not going to happen.
That’s why when the Republicans say that their challengers won’t slow things down, they are saying it with a wink. The polls are ALREADY too slow. And they always try some variation on these tricks in order to make them run even slower in order to supress turnout. It’s usually something that’s obviously pretty evil, but at least for that election, a legal loophole. In Toledo, for instance, back when they had booths and no time limits, they’d have voters simply sit in the booths for a hour “deciding” who they wanted to vote for. The challengers are basically going to be no different, and everybody knows it. They just don’t say so to the press, who duitifuly reports that there are two sides to every story, even if one side is quietly laughing their head off.
This election and campaign has, put bluntly, sucked. It seems that every single time I read anything about it, I want to go and take a shower. Wash all the dirt and grime and scuzziness away. Everyone kinda sucks in it.
Apparently not, if they’re going to vote for Kerry.
I wish I could say I am hoping for November 3, but I don’t think this will be over by then.
I agree with that! The recent articles I’ve seen on the campaign finances mention that each campaign has about $7 million set aside for recount and legal efforts.
I do care who wins, but I’d like a nice clear victory whichever way it goes.
I am hoping for a landslide victory, but I don’t think that’s going to happen.
This year though, let the fight be in Ohio or Pennsylvania. Florida suffered enough this year, what with four hurricanes and a tropical storm. I don’t think we can handle an invasion of lawyers. :eek:
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That’s hardly the point of challenging people in the polls. Legitimate addresses can be checked BEFORE the polls anyway.
That looks as though a good faith attempt was made to verify authenticity beforehand, as well as offering reasonable grounds for suspicion.
In Ohio, someone without a valid address.
Does it not bother you that a suspected terrorist is registered to vote? From my link in post 5:
Me, too. Although it wouldn’t discern the will of the people, I’d almost favor a good old-fashioned brawl between the candidates. You’d have to wonder if Dubya and Kerry would gang up on Nader first before slugging it out, or how it might go. 
At this point, I would be much in favor of that. Winner takes all, no holds barred. Hell, they can even bite off each other’s ears, if it would get the goddamned ads OFF THE AIR!!!
Apparently, you are too dense to post. These challanges are already filed and over with BEFORE the election is held. People who have already been shown to have invalid addresses are stripped from the rolls, and thus can’t vote anyway.
The challenger mess inside the polls takes place AFTER all of that.
And these GOP thugs can tell just by looking at someone if they have a valid address?
How are they going to know who to stop and harrass?
Does it not bother you that a suspected terrorist is registered to vote?
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Nope. Don’t give a shit. Suspected terrorists have a right to vote too. You have no right to stop them unless they’ve actually been convicted of a felony.
Even then, we don’t need self-appointed partisan Nazis trying to selectively enforce this bullshit.
You obviously didn’t read the entire thing. He’s here illegally. He has no right to vote. Yet he’s registered to vote.
Something is rotten in the state of Ohio.
I’m OK with challenging people who supplied undeliverable mail addresses.
The Democrats seem to feel that if you have a pulse, you should get to vote.