The latest Supreme Court decision affirming Indiana's right to disenfranchise thousands of low-income, elderly, minority, and student residents already shows itself to be a massive success in today's election.
Update: Jeffery Toobin just broke into the endless campaign talking points on CNN to mention the fact that Lake County, the one county still outstanding preventing networks from calling the Indiana election (by holding back all their returns till they count their absentees) is "innappropriate." He noted the pattern of Indiana only allowing polls open till 6 pm (not enough time for a lot of working people to get to the polls after work, most states keep them open till 8 pm) and of course the Supreme Court voter-ID decision. Since Lake is in the Chicago media market, he said its reminiscent of the days of the Chicago Democratic machine when voting authorities would figure out how many votes they needed and they'd "find the votes" to rig elections. So rarely do cable commentators comment on the shameful history (and current manifestations) of election fraud in this country and I give him mad props for doing so.
Update: Jeffery Toobin just broke into the endless campaign talking points on CNN to mention the fact that Lake County, the one county still outstanding preventing networks from calling the Indiana election (by holding back all their returns till they count their absentees) is "innappropriate." He noted the pattern of Indiana only allowing polls open till 6 pm (not enough time for a lot of working people to get to the polls after work, most states keep them open till 8 pm) and of course the Supreme Court voter-ID decision. Since Lake is in the Chicago media market, he said its reminiscent of the days of the Chicago Democratic machine when voting authorities would figure out how many votes they needed and they'd "find the votes" to rig elections. So rarely do cable commentators comment on the shameful history (and current manifestations) of election fraud in this country and I give him mad props for doing so.
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And people call me crazy when I write about this stuff! When will people realize that I make sense and should listen to what I say and obey my every whim?
Ugh.
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