The Plot Against America

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Rajoo

So the answer is yes.
And what makes you think that I am so ignorant in matters of state?
It's the two party system that nominated Hillary as the nominee and not democracy, and you seem to have trouble accepting that. Yet you complain when the other side does it.

That is one big crock of false equivalency. If a person who wasn't a registered Democrat was denied access to a closed primary, they were in general really not registered Democrats, and rules in place for decades were applied properly, by a system NOT put in place to benefit a particular candidate.

The GOP Crosscheck system, by contrast, applies a newly invented rule (your name must not match another name in our database) which is not actually evidence of the supposed crime of multiple registration. Person are therefore wrongly, indeed illegally purged from the voter roles, in a system designed to deny the vote to Democratic party supporters who are incontestably legally and rightfully entitled to it. This is being done by a system invented by GOP operatives and instituted by Republican officials to the GOP's benefit.

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

That is one big crock of false equivalency. If a person who wasn't a registered Democrat was denied access to a closed primary, they were in general really not registered Democrats, and rules in place for decades were applied properly, by a system NOT put in place to benefit a particular candidate.

The GOP Crosscheck system, by contrast, applies a newly invented rule (your name must not match another name in our database) which is not actually evidence of the supposed crime of multiple registration. Person are therefore wrongly, indeed illegally purged from the voter roles, in a system designed to deny the vote to Democratic party supporters who are incontestably legally and rightfully entitled to it. This is being done by a system invented by GOP operatives and instituted by Republican officials to the GOP's benefit.

How is it false equivalence?
The two parties have put rules in place to control their nominating process in each state, mostly because they can and they do. How long that has been in effect is immaterial.
Fast forward to the general, the party in power in a particular state controls the voting process within the law, and the red states are doing what they usually do.
It's the technique that they are now using that does not meet your approval, not the process itself. I am simply equating the process, the same logic that was used for the selection of Hillary in the Democratic primaries.

[merrylander]

Primaries are really no different then the method used in Parliamentary Systems of government. In such systems voters according to party affiliation select members to attend the meeting where the party leader is selected by vote. Article 1 Section IV stipulates the nature of Federal elections, there is , quite reasonably, no mention of the Primary Elections.

[donquixote99]

I feel we've gotten away from the main point here, due to someone's desire to Hillary-bash whenever anyone criticizes the Republicans. We have here a Republican plot to throw millions of minorities off the election-roles in the general election. It's illegal, and it's outrageous.

[nailer]

Who would this someone be?

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

I feel we've gotten away from the main point here, due to someone's desire to Hillary-bash whenever anyone criticizes the Republicans. We have here a Republican plot to throw millions of minorities off the election-roles in the general election. It's illegal, and it's outrageous.

And it has been going on since at least 2000.

[nailer]

But it's illegal.

[donquixote99]

That's beside the point.

Another journalist's summary of "Interstate Crosscheck:" https://www.facingsouth.org/2016/09/...gh-racial-bias

[Pio1980]

I've already said that "vote frogs" are a statistically nonexistent species, so, what motive justifies the bother and expense of the so-called "countermeasures", other than vote rigging thru voter exclusion?

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[Rajoo]

Looks like Judicial Watch is in the mix.

http://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-cont...port-U0814.pdf