[lbo-talk] Voter fraud?

[Dorene Cornwell]

FWIW, I too vacillate between two poles: on one hand, I suspect the Repugs
are really, really, really happy to dump the mess they have made of the
economy into the laps of the Dems, all the more so since they have looted
the national treasury and ensured that a Dem president will have very little
wiggle room for discretionary spending. On the other hand, I suspect that
the Repugs will be pulling levers left, right and sideways, using every
trick they can muster to deter voters from turning, challenge new
registrations, and who knows what else trying to steal the election.

On the up side, this just showed up on Yahoo.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20081026/pl_politico/14935

DC
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 4:11 AM, Bill O'Connor <billyoc at gmail.com> wrote:


> "Charles A. Grimes" <cgrimes at rawbw.com> writes:
>
> > What does the list think of the theory that if McCain loses, the
> > Republicans will try to steal the election like they did in 2000, by
> > challenging a couple of swing states votes as `voter fraud', and try
> > to drag the issue into the courts.
>
> I believe that the cooler heads in the Republican party(such as they
> are), will be grateful for the chance to blame McCain/Palin for the loss
> and walk away from the financial mess, leaving the Democrats to clean
> up.  Any rabid right-wing elements that would steal the election will
> have trouble manipulating the results of an election that isn't really
> going to be that close.
>
> > If that doesn't work, then they use these legal battles as a basis
> > for challenging the `legitimacy' of an Obama president and attempt to
> > weaken the executive branch.
>
> Large Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress will make this
> difficult for all but the craziest right wing radio hosts.
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