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Title: Voter registration fraud
Post by: Chairboy on August 06, 2006, 03:08:01 PM

Read something interesting today:

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/08/03/18294421.php

Sounds deceptive, but I don't see how it changes anything.  People aren't going to change who they vote for just because they're in a different party, right?  The only thing this would do is allow a bunch of democrats to vote in the republican primaries, afaict.  What am I missing?

Title: Voter registration fraud
Post by: bj229r on August 06, 2006, 03:30:38 PM

LOL...probbaly not gonna get a lot of Republican voters at a pot-legalizing event--even if the get em registered...cant get em to vote

Title: Voter registration fraud
Post by: Captain Virgil Hilts on August 06, 2006, 03:52:37 PM

When you allow crossover voting in the primaries, it makes for some nasty little tricks.

For example, let's say party A has a strong incumbent with no real challenger, and party B has a weak challenger that could not beat the incumbent and a strong challenger that could beat the incumbent. So, if party A voters are allowed to crossover, they can vote for the weak challenger, giving their strong incumbent a cake walk if they are successful, or at least causing a rift in party B.

Title: Voter registration fraud
Post by: lasersailor184 on August 06, 2006, 09:30:40 PM

Quote

Originally posted by bj229r
LOL...probbaly not gonna get a lot of Republican voters at a pot-legalizing event--even if the get em registered...cant get em to vote

Can't get them to remember when to show up, you mean.



Anyway, at least dead people still aren't voting democrat.  Oh wait...  :D

Title: Voter registration fraud
Post by: Dago on August 06, 2006, 10:03:05 PM

Get them stoned, they won't remember to go vote anyway.