I guess Ralph Nadar Supporters Need to Be Arrested, Prosecuted and Jailed.

[BigSkyBob]

..and, Al Gore supporters as well.


Seems in 2000 a group was formed to "pair" Nadar voters in swing states such as Florida, with Gore voters in runaway states such as New York. The Nadar voter in Florida would pledge to vote for Gore in exchange for a Gore voter in New York pledging to vote for Nadar.

At the time, it just seemed like politics to me. Since then, people seem to have become highly moralistic about technical violations of voter registration laws. Some poor guy in Indiana faces prosecution for voting after failing to update his registration after moving because of divorce[??]. Well, if that is what politics has become, may I suggest that New York voters are entitled to vote in New York, and not in Florida, and visa versa. If we are going to prosecute people for voting in the precinct they used to live, then, we should prosecute people for, effectively, voting in another state.

I know that people are going to object that they didn't really vote in another state. I'm sure they will claim they cast lawful votes in their home states. Well, there are laws against offering others inducements to change their vote. Everyone whom swapped his vote committed voter fraud, and, the operators of the website committed conspiracy.

I seem to remember stories of chaos in St Louis in the 2000 election. Seems polling stations were being swamped with people whom went to their local precincts only to discover that they were not on the registered-voter lists. They weren't deemed unregistered simply because they moved without updating their registration. A judge even ordered the polls to remain open to sort these thing out until he was overruled.

I guess in today's climate they'd be prosecuted.

[Lief 🗽]

Who is Ralph Nadar?

[Joe Republic]

What does any of that have to do with Indiana, or its laws concerning eligibility for running for elected office?

[Хahar 🤔]

This reminds me of the first section of The Sound and the Fury.

[memphis]

This reminds me of the first section of The Sound and the Fury.

Don't hate on Faulkner. There was a reason he wrote the way he did.

[Хahar 🤔]

This reminds me of the first section of The Sound and the Fury.

Don't hate on Faulkner. There was a reason he wrote the way he did.

Oh, absolutely. I haven't had the chance to read all of The Sound and the Fury, but As I Lay Dying is one of my favorite books.

[bgwah]

I love it.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

This reminds me of the first section of The Sound and the Fury.

Don't hate on Faulkner. There was a reason he wrote the way he did.

Oh, absolutely. I haven't had the chance to read all of The Sound and the Fury, but As I Lay Dying is one of my favorite books.

Count me out of the Faulkner love-fest.  Stream of consciousness was a nice trendy literary technique of the early 20th-century and when used sparingly, it can be effective, but when used for large sections as in The Sound and the Fury  I find it utterly unenjoyable.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

It defeats the entire purpose of a protest vote if you only vote for that person when it won't change the outcome... anybody who participated in that shouldn't be arrested, but ashamed for not being able to stand up for their beliefs.