{"id":413,"date":"2004-09-09T13:31:13","date_gmt":"2004-09-09T20:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/register-vote-change-things\/"},"modified":"2004-09-09T13:31:13","modified_gmt":"2004-09-09T20:31:13","slug":"register-vote-change-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/register-vote-change-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Register. Vote. Change things."},"content":{"rendered":"

There may be voter <\/p>\n

fraud in New Mexico. There certainly is a lot of talk about it, all of it originating with Republicans. Recently, a Republican who claims <\/p>\n

‘someone’ registered his 13-year-old brought suit to require ALL newly registered voters to show ID (the true goal is to require ALL <\/p>\n

voters — period — to show ID).<\/p>\n

There doesn’t seem to be any curiousity, even in our faithful Media, about who<\/em> registered <\/p>\n

little Robbie Republican. Doesn’t that person have some culpability?<\/p>\n

Now our Republican US Attorney, David Iglesias, has stepped in <\/p>\n

by starting the first-ever fraud watch. Something is wrong, he intones, consistent with the party line.<\/p>\n

Why are Republicans so <\/p>\n

worried? Well, how many unregistered conservatives do you think there are in New Mexico in comparison to unregistered traitorous commies? <\/p>\n

Therefore, every new registration would seem to have better than even odds to belong to a liberal satanist. So, first, let’s scare some <\/p>\n

folks (I recommend white hoods). Next, let’s denegrate the process so thoroughly as to discourage some folks. Finally, let’s make sure <\/p>\n

we’re on record as denouncing the process so when we lose, we can claim it is only through fraud. These guys invented destroying the <\/p>\n

village to save it.<\/p>\n

But why do Democrats resist IDs? Well, Republicans imply it’s because they’re cheaters. But imagine a Democrat <\/p>\n

and a Republican head for the polls. One passively hands over his ever-present ID to the authorities. The other forgot\/lost his. Which <\/p>\n

one is a Democrat? One has driver’s license, work ID, NRA card, dozens of credit cards, IDs up the wazoo. The other has nothing. Which <\/p>\n

one is a Republican?<\/p>\n

Quick: how many of the 2 million Americans in prison today are Republicans? Maybe that explains Republican <\/p>\n

support for long sentences AND opposition to restoring voting rights to those who serve their time.<\/p>\n

Finally, the judge who said it’s <\/p>\n

too late to change the process is also a Republican — and clearly not an activist. Seems like an all-Republican show — everywhere.<\/p>\n

Register. Vote. Change things. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There may be voter fraud in New Mexico. There certainly is a lot of talk about it, all of it originating with Republicans. Recently, a Republican who claims ‘someone’ registered his 13-year-old brought suit to require ALL newly registered voters to show ID (the true goal is to require ALL voters — period — to … Continue reading Register. Vote. Change things.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}