At lunch today, I heard someone ask the question, "What happened to the massive voting scandals that were supposed to happen in the November elections?" This got me to thinking and then researching this notion.
In the months leading up to the November 2006 election, news sources were inundated with headline after headline predicting massive voter fraud and disenfranchisement. These 'articles' were basing these predictions on elections since the 2000 Presidential election and the "horrific" examples of fraud and "cheating" (the Republicans "stole" the 2000 election afterall, right?). Even on the day of the elections there were at least 8 different AP/Reuters acticles regarding massive deployments of lawyers, observers, etc to voting places all over the country in anticipation of these 'crimes.' After 10pm, November 7, 2006, there were suddenly no more 'articles' regarding this subject at all. Since then, I have yet to see (or find) an 'article' formally accusing anyone/entity of voting fraud.
If, as has been implied ad nauseam, the Republicans had conducted any sort of voter fraud/disenfranchisement in order to 'steal' and/or sabotage the electoral process in the past, why then would they not do so during arguably the most important election for them since 1994? Is this because the Democrats finally got a favorable outcome, or something else?
I am not trying to initiate a political debate here...just merely making an informed observation and asking a pointed question. I am sure at least one you will spout off some derogatory drivel about the current Administration, Iraq, etc....but I am asking that you leave those comments for applicable topics. Why are we not deluged with stories of voter fraud? For month's after every single national election since 2000 we have endured hundreds of articles regarding this....why not now?
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