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A lot of people do this.

Never have seen it before.

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...which were passed by various states have been struck down by judges as unconstitutional.

Sorry to go a bit OT,
but I heard that in the runoff in 2002 for LA Senate, Landrieu was panicked over lower urban NOLA turnout than she wanted. Apparently, she had an impromptu teleconference with some NOLA bigwigs and Slick Willie himself. Slick Willie told the NOLA bigwigs in no uncertain terms that if they didn't get their act together, they would be taking the political equivalent of the dirt nap.

Well, no more than a few minutes after that call, the schoolbuses (probably the same ones that sat idle last year) were rolling into the projects in NOLA and driving the residents to the polls.

I only remember this from stories Limbaugh told about it, but if true, that is what may be happening in STL in a few weeks.

Sitting out is a vote for KOS.

...that a category 5 election was coming last year.

...this is a three-quarter Moby. It woulda been full, except there was only one "we." cre14, your first and last post here was very, very underwhelming. Bye.

Best to publish baseless gripe after baseless gripe rather than try to have a discussion. GOP losses this fall will be because 3 dead people registered in St. Louis, that's for sure.

There were nearly 1500 cards which look to be fraudulent.

Yes three, so far, are dead people but you are missing the point. Swallow a cammel and choke on a gnat.

voters as it is contacting and recontacting registered republicans and putting information in their hands.

While I haven't done any volunteer work this election cycle, my daughter and I spent a lot of time during the '04 campaign season knocking on doors in our community with various fliers (the first papering was for registered independants and republicans). The weekend before the election, we just knocked on the doors of registered republicans.

I am sure there were some voter registration drives, but mostly Rove's strategy focused on getting out the GOP voter.

And I don't think registration drives in areas that have voters that lean more towards your party in general is wrong, but I do think paying people to register voters or paying them per voter registered is wrong-I think that may lead to fraud-either purposefully or just because it is easier to pretend like you did work for your paycheck than to actual do the work, since you get paid for it either way.

But to clarify the GOP get out the vote strategy focuses more on getting the registered GOP voter out to vote than recruiting new voters.

to know where to begin.

I suppose we should start with ACORN. As a 501(c)3 organization, they are required by law to be non-partisan. So recruiting for Democrats is verboten. Doing so with federal grant money is doubly so. When you do go on a voter registration drive you are supposed to make a reasonable effort to ascertain that the registrations you submit are valid registrations for actual voters in the area. They haven't finished looking at the registrations, and they already have 1492 that are "possibly fraudulent" with "hundreds of the questionable voter-registration cards have suspicious signatures, with some showing similar handwriting." I don't take fraud at the ballot box lightly. This isn't the first time ACORN has been caught with their hands in the honey pot, and they haven't been seriously prosecuted for any of them.

Now, as to the allegations about Rove, well, yes, we expect Democrats to focus on urban registrations and Republicans to focus on the exurbs. We also expect them to be real live people who can actually walk (or at least roll for those in wheelchairs) into the voting booth. Dead people can't do that. Sixteen year olds aren't legally able to do that. Non-existent people are not able to do that. Now, I suppose you will also accuse us of being hard-hearted classists in thinking that perhaps the people filling out the registration forms should also be able to read and write, but frankly, in this age, I'm not sure how you create an informed opinion about issues if you can't do that, at least at the seventh grade level most of the forms require.

Although seems like in 2004 it was pretty well established that the ACORN group at least was actually partisan, I guess the IRS decided not to bother that go around.

I also recall quite a few fraudulent registrations showing up in that election as well.

But at least when you volunteer for the GOP or DNC your partisanship is known ahead of time.

I thought the last sentence of the post you're taking seriously would make the joke blatantly obvious, regardless of any subtlety preceding it. However since it went past at least a couple of people, here it is again but with extra hints:

<punchline>With the possible exception of convicted felons, no voting constituency is more solidly Democratic than dead people, so of course the Democrats should try to register more of them.</punchline>

My initial impulse was to get snarky about reading comprehension, but considering the lunacy that some leftist kooks actually do advocate, I suppose it's understandable you thought the post was real.

That dead people all vote democrat?
And thisis something you learn in exactly what cult?

are straight party Democratic voters.

That dead people all vote democrat? And thisis something you learn in exactly what cult?

Some other people missed the joke, so I'm not sure if you also did or maybe I'm missing your joke. Regardless, let's consider the factual question whether people of rigor mortis do in fact vote mainly for Democrats (with the help of kind hearted living progressives, who go to the polls on their behalf or mail in their absentee ballots).

The actual ballots don't tell us which are from dead voters, so we can't directly count which party dead people favor. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find any exit polls with subtotals for that demographic either.

That leaves us with inference based on the highly reliable Cui bono? test (actually the logically implied inverse, for anyone who wants to be picky about it).

Democrats and Republicans, in a near-zero sum game, each want to get voters to the polls who are likely to vote for them. In all the cases of registering dead people I've read about in recent elections, it's left/Democratic aligned groups who have done it.

It could be argued that's just anecdotal evidence, ignoring some big Cadavers for Bush Club that I overlooked. What is inarguable, based on the legislative record, is that Democrats in Congress and state governments have been vigorously opposing Republican efforts to disenfranchise the dearly departed community. Republicans have generally favored picture ID requirements for voting and frequent verification of the voter rolls, while Democrats have tried with much success to block those measures that would trample on dead people's right to vote.

It's a safe bet the Democrats wouldn't be going to all that effort to register the existentially challenged if they weren't confident they would vote mainly Democratic.

people to register voters should be illegal.

I think this typs of registration should be done by volunteers only, because offering a pay incentive I think may lead to more cheating-like registering fake voters. To be honest, I can easily see going to the local cemetary and registering 50 voters for $500 as being much easier than actually knocking on 50 doors, or sitting outside a grocery store to register 50 real voters.