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When nobody votes, the Democrats win
by Mark Andrew Dwyer -- 11/4/02
Last week, Washington Post reminded its readers that "[on] the weekend before the 2000 election, George W. Bush's chief strategist, Karl Rove, predicted that Bush would win 50 to 51 percent of the vote and a big electoral majority. Bush managed 48 percent and barely made it to the White House [...]." As puzzling as it might look, it doesn't take an Einstein to understand this discrepancy between voters' actual preferences and the outcomes of elections. The key element in understanding this phenomenon is FRAUD.
It's not that easy to falsify cast votes, although, undoubtedly, it has been done in the past: "reading" voters' intentions from "pregnant" chads, one of reinventing ideas of Al Gore, clearly belongs to that category. Stuffing ballot boxes with additional votes is by far easier thing to do and is equally effective as mutilations of votes. Here are examples.
In 1948, LBJ won by 87 votes Democratic primary against his opponent Coke Stevenson as a result of adding 200 fraudulent Johnson votes to the now-infamous Box 13 in Jim Wells County, Texas. In 1960, JFK won by less than one vote per precinct after Kennedy supporters used local union bosses in Chicago and Texas to pad vote totals. In House Minority Leader Richard A. Gephardt's Minnesota, some Indians are so dedicated to Democratic agenda that they keep voting for the Democrats long after they pass away. Recently, South Dakota found itself in the middle of controversy for allegations of making up registration cards during extensive registration drives, primarily on the state's Indian reservations. Just a week ago, Gephardt, who introduced a controversial Amnesty for Illegal Aliens bill to the U.S Congress, appealed to the community of (illegal) immigrants to vote Democrat in coming elections in order to increase the chances that the bill will pass (as if immigrants were allowed to vote). And we all remember Dornan's defeat by Loretta Sanchez with a help of a thousand of fraudulent votes of Latino immigrants.
That voter fraud is one of the root causes of Democratic victories in districts where majority of CITIZENS vote Republican, one can see in Florida where former Democratic Attorney General Janet Reno filed a lawsuit in an effort to bar observers from monitoring elections and questioning eligibility to vote by non-citizens and non-registered voters. Reno seems to imply that it's better to let thousands on non-eligible persons to vote then to turn one eligible voter away. And that's just another flavor of the same old idea of LBJ and JFK of stuffing the ballot boxes.
So, if no one votes, only the stuffed votes will count. And then the Democratic Party will celebrate the "land-slide victory". Remember this fact Tuesday morning while still deliberating a Shakespearean question to vote or not to vote.
