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Democrats had better hope that the coming elections are not too close because the GOP is honing its vote stealing skills in its own primaries:
GOP state party snafus all have benefited Romney:
As we wrote yesterday, the Michigan Republican Party voted Wednesday night to award its two at-large delegates to the statewide winner instead of dividing up proportionally, as we (and even the Michigan GOP chairman at one time) had assumed. That move gave Romney a 16-14 delegate edge in the state instead of a 15-15 tie, and it has produced a firestorm of controversy. What’s more, it’s the latest GOP state party snafu this primary season that’s benefited Romney.
Consider: The Iowa Republican Party originally declared Romney the winner there (and even once the vote count had changed, it was hesitant to declare Santorum the new winner). In addition, the Maine GOP badly mishandled its caucuses (one county wasn’t counted due to snow, other results got lost in a spam folder), and Romney narrowly won that contest. And now you have the delegate drama in Michigan, which now allows Romney to claim a win there in both the popular vote and delegate count.
It's
important to remember that they have two main methods of stealing
elections. The first is vote suppression, in which they make it
difficult for their opponents to cast votes. This is nothing new
historically and it's not been confined to one party. But the modern
Republicans have put their very special stamp on the practice by using
reverse psychology and whining about non-existent voter fraud to claim
they have been the victims of the terrible ACORN conspiracy to cancel
out their decent Real American vote. (This was one of the bogus
arguments used inBush vs Gore, which serves as a sort of template for
their various legal arguments.)
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