And [the Democrats] are doing all they can to steal the Senate. They've already succeeded in stealing the Arizona seat for an admitted Communist over a patriotic combat pilot. And they are working their dirty tricks in at least three other cases "finding NEW ballots that weren't counted before" And everyone marked for the "D" Senate candidate.
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This garbage the right spews about pretending that ballots cast earliest but counted latest are somehow fraudulent, is why I always thought it was a really dumb idea of the Democratic Party to keep trying to convince more people to vote with absentee ballots. The Republicans have used this message before, and in the era of their media control of their followers, they can get all of them to believe it. Pretending your opponents stole the election is one of the most dangerous kinds of conspiracy theory to spread.
And with the way absentee ballots work where they get counted at the end after all the other votes (despite being submitted first beforehand), the campaign to convince more Democrats to use them even when they could have voted in person was playing right into the Republican's hands. I was deeply worried about this when I saw the Dems pushing this tactic (their rationale was that Dems commonly have bad turnout, so this was a way to stop Dems from apathetically not voting on the day of the election if they already mailed the ballots in.) But now the Republicans have the narrative they want - the vote totals look like they favor Republicans at first, on the evening of the election, when only the in-person votes have been counted yet, because many Democrats had voted absentee and those ballots weren't counted yet. So when the last ballots get counted at the end, it always looks like a bunch of 'brand new' ballots swung things back to the Democrats magically at the end of the day, when in fact those are ballots that were cast first, totally legitimately, but counted last. This helps them sell the bullshit message of an election being "stolen" just because the Dem-leaning voters were more likely to be the ones who's ballots get counted later.
Having more votes than the other party is not to steal an election, silly-nilly.
Refusing people to vote IS stealing the election, on the other hand.
There are probably patriotic combat pilots that are communists. They are not contradictions.
Yeah, it IS strange that there are so many non-counted D-ballots, dolt. The dirty trick is to "forget" to include these in the count.
@Doubting Thomas
I guess it's like what George Carlin said: "When you're driving, everyone going slower than you is a idiot, and everyone going faster than you is a maniac.". Except when there's no one faster (or more right-wing) than you, everyone else is an idiot (or communist).
It's ridiculously moronic how RW news pundits and Republican reps have said "ballots that weren't counted before" without this "NEW" qualifier. Someone musta clued Just Mat in on that Freudian slip.
Rick Scott actually went on air, more than once and said "once results show a Republican has more votes all other votes should stop being counted. And all Fox clowns agreed not even noticing the blatant insanity of it.
They noticed this "everyone marked for the "D" Senate candidate." anomaly too, same thing with Bush/Gore when they stopped the count.
Yeah, it is weird how voter COUNT fraud has favored Republicans but dismissing Democrat votes for over 20 years.
@KingOfRhye
I think you've been here long enough to see the connection between RW politics and Fundamentalism. Last couple years the conspiracy shits been all evangelistic fear mongering too.
The current administration is dedicated to several brands of bullshit to scare the morons.
As Jocasta pointed out it's the same shit, Republican candidates talk like Lady Checkmate, She could be Sarah Palins manager or Michelle Bachmanns press agent amongst dozens of republican reps and RW media figures.
PPfffftttt. I wish we stole the senate. And all the governorships, & the WH too. Perhaps then we could move forward rather than being mired in the superstitious, paranoid stupidity courtesy of the right wing zombies.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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