Election musings

I think the big question on this election day is how many fraudulent votes will be cast. By all appearances, the Democratic Party is hinging a lot of its final strategy on getting out the vote again, and again, and again. We’ve all heard the stories about the counties in Ohio where the number of registered voters exceeds the adult population and precincts in Philadelphia where voter registration exceeds the total population, about voter information packets returned in the tens of thousands marked “no such address” and “deceased”. Democrats are using the courts to block poll watchers from seeing voter IDs, claiming “minority harassment” and urging activists to allege intimidation where there is none.

Our voting system has next to no protection against large-scale fraud, and we can be sure the media aren’t going to back off their militantly pro-Kerry stance at the last minute and report this story accurately, so it’s likely that this election will be stolen if the actual vote is close. Some Democrat activists are already bragging about the magnitude of the fraud, putting it at two percent or higher. The only hope for election integrity this time around is large enough Republican turnout to thwart these tactics, and legislation over the next four years to prevent its happening again.

While I don’t like John Kerry and the campaign he’s run based on misinformation, flip-floppery, and disgusting personal attacks on the President, the Vice-President, and their families, the damage that he’ll do to the country with his coy policies is much less than the damage his party is going to do by destroying the integrity of our voting process. I don’t expect Democrats to wise up to this, however, because so many are still burning about the last election.

2000 seems like last week, and this campaign like it’s gone on forever. I hope when it’s over we can get at least a brief break from the campaigning and politicking for a little real life.