>>An acquaintance just moved to Florida and had some fun registering to
vote. He and his wife filled out the forms, and declared themselves
as Dems. No ID cards came in the mail. So they called the clerk's
office to see what was up. At first, the clerk said there was no
record of the registration. When pressed, the clerk said the
registration was on hold for a wrong address. "Impossible," the new
registrant replied. Ok, said the clerk, then it's no signatures. They
went over to the registrar's office to see the forms - the signatures
had been cut off. Registrants argued, and the clerk agreed to
re-register them and hand over the ID cards on the spot.>>
They should have registered as Republicans.
Two observations:
1. For Florida and other key 'swing' states, the fix may already be in. Look for Republicans registering huge numbers to vote by 'absentee' mail-in ballot (the media misled people in the last presidential election by making it sound like 'absentee' ballots meant service people overseas, which doesn't take in huge numbers of absentee voters who simply have more than one mailing address, hundreds of thousands of voters in Florida alone).
Even small samples of rolls indicates that huge numbers of Americans with multiple residences are voting more than once, and there simply is no federal/national-level check to keep them from doing it.
Also, the Republican machines in the northern counties of Flordia will also use the 'absentee' balloting procedures to stuff the ballot boxes just as in the last presidential election. Gore's legal team was stupid for not going after the voting fraud in N. Florida first.
I get the feeling that the Republicans are also working such methods in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, etc. I suspect that the Republicans are working the suburban counties of Philadelphia area very closely in order to maximize Republican votes, including mail-in methods. Simply correlate states/counties/areas that depopulate in winter with ones that re-populate in winter and vice versa, states/counties/areas that depopulate in summer with ones that re-populate in summer. The seasonal migrations of retirees and fairly well-to-do people.
2. There is no federal election system. It's a patchwork held together more by polls and media to give the illusion of a national system. The fact is that the two parties in their local forms run the elections. How does this actually get done nationwide? I'm basing my analysis on my own birthplace, which I will not name here, but suffice to say it's a rural and exurban county in an important state (certainly top ten in numbers of electoral votes). That county works like this: the Republicans own the county, and control the county commissioners (it's two Republicans to one Democrat). They run the elections.The single best way to get a chance to vote once is to register as a Republican. If you want to vote twice or more times, simply register Republican in as many Republican-controlled counties as you can find (e.g., one in a northern state, one in Florida), preferably where you have a 'residence' or 'domicile' or 'tax home'.
The Republicans have realized that the key to winning federal elections is to win enough counties to take chunks of states to take enough chunks to take states (which gets you all the electoral votes you need). The Republicans have quite strategically targetted winning the electoral college. Party machines take counties, Republican party machines controlling counties help to get the Republican vote up. And rural and suburban counties all over the country are the key. Call it the 'mail-in- absentee-vote-as-many-times-as-you-can-rotten-borough strategy'.
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