All over the country Republicans are enacting draconian legislation designed to separate the people most likely to vote for Democrats from their right to vote. They scream of rampant voter fraud, even though a DOJ study documented voter fraud at under 3/10,000 of 1%, Republicans scream that the accuracy vote must be protected in every case. The problem is, there are cases in which they don’t seem to think so.
Is Mitt Romney’s eight-vote victory in the Iowa caucuses in doubt?
Edward True, a voter in Appanoose County, told KCCI-TV in Des Moines that he believes there is a typo in the results for his county that could possibly swing the GOP results in favor of Rick Santorum. True, who helped count votes, said he believes there is a 20-vote discrepancy.
Iowa Republican Party Chairman Matt Strawn issued a statement late Thursday night saying GOP officials "do not have any reason to believe the final, certified results of Appanoose County will change the outcome of Tuesday’s vote."
Santorum told Fox News [Faux Noise delinked] last night that Strawn told him there are two instances in which there were errors reported in Tuesday night’s count, with one being in his favor and the other in Romney’s favor. The former Pennsylvania senator said the two errors essentially cancel each other out, with Romney ending up with a one-vote advantage… [emphasis added]
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Santorum certainly is a bush-leaguer to have fallen for that hokum from Strawn!
What about the accuracy of every single vote? I guess it does not count for Republicans, who seem to be saying that a few votes here and there don’t matter. Could it be that they are lying?
Rachel Maddow exposes even more.
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The bottom line here could not be more simple. Republicans don’t give rat’s ass about the integrity of the vote. They care only about stacking the deck in their favor.
Every Republican in office is one Republican too many!
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Hypocrites I tells ya! I don’t have much to add to Rachel’s observation, but I can say that judging from republican results in Iowa Santorum is likely to have a career on TV!
Lee. he already has one. He’s a paid talking head at Faux Noise.
shows ya how much I know – nothing when it comes to that channel!
It’s called opposition research.
A one-vote win sounds like a tie to me. It would be fun if Santorum demanded yet another recount.
The outcome does not matter here. It’s the process that is at issue.
Busted!
Bingo!
The bottom line here could not be more simple. Republicans don’t give rat’s ass about the integrity of the vote. They care only about stacking the deck in their favor.
Every Republican in office is one Republican too many! “TomCat”
How right you are! nothing to add to this-! The party is corrupt !
Thanks Phyllis. 🙂
Well, I’d argue that every rabid right-wing Republican in office is one too many. I could tolerate more moderate Republicans on the politican scene, but they seem to be a dying breed.
Ahab, I have voted for moderate Republicans in the past. I think they are extinct.
I love Rachel’s closing “Busted!”
For all their rhetoric about voter fraud which the DOJ report says is negligible, it is clearly the Republican/Teabaggers who have a problem. Here is a link to an earlier story from Florida which I just love:
http://markcrispinmiller.com/2011/08/clint-curtis-blew-the-whistle-on-republican-election-in-florida-and-no-one-listened%e2%80%94or-is-listening-now-must-see/
I agree that the issue is not 8 votes one way or 20 the other — the issue is that a Republican/Teabagger internal vote can’t be done properly without great doubts.
For all the attempts to supress the vote by using voter ID laws etc, Republican/Teabaggers can’t even be trusted to do an internal vote properly without scandal! so how can they be trusted to participate in the national election count?
This is a party that has shown it is capable and willing to do anything to get their own way in the sandbox. Corrupt, spoiled little brats!
Have to say I love the graphic but I take it that this is not a TC original.
Lynn, I think I have posted those videos here before.
Perfect evaluation.
You are correct. If it was, it would have our URL.
Dang! An old pic of me from when I used to drive. 😉
TomCat, your bottom line says it all. Republicans don’t care in the least about elections, so long as their preferred candidate wins.
Exactly, Jack.
The republicans are very good at creating problems where none exist in order to convince people to vote for them and creating problems where none exist in order to prevent people from voting against them. The real issues facing us they ignore, because they have no solutions that will satisfy their base and keep the money flowing.
That is an excellent observation, Jerry.