I always figgered it got ignored because “both sides do it”, yadda, yadda, yadda. If one side made an allegation, there would be investigations, etc., and then it would be found at that the side making the allegations were being hypocrites and it would be damaging.

But then the GOP figgered out that hypocrisy and partisanship work so long as it’s done completely shamelessly. It’s like the SEP field from the Hitchhikers’ Guide series. You paint a mountain dayglow pink and, suddenly, if becomes invisible. You shamelessly start complaining about fraud and whatever dirt is dug up on you becomes dismissed as “well, the Dems, and their lackeys in the [so called] liberal media are just trying to dodge the allegations against the Dems”.

My guess would be that the worker marked the ballot to reflect the man’s choice. The man then went home and told his sister he voted. The sister got upset because she couldn’t control how the man voted and now she’s making a big deal about it as a way of getting back at the people working with her brother.

The end result of this will be that the worker will be punished, the sister will gain more control of her brother and nothing else will be heard about it.

dude, i know, i’m totally stoked, it’s gonna be AWESOME.

Death penalty for fake ID’s?

Well, it’ll cut down on underage drinking, I guess.

PM, a group hired by the GOP, allegedly deceived Californians who thought they were signing a petition. YPM denies any wrongdoing. Similar accusations have been leveled against the company elsewhere.
By Evan Halper and Michael Rothfeld, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
October 18, 2008

I demand booger/teh Toof’s immediate resignation.

Though seriously, if this really happened, it’s awful, and it should at least be investigated. Even retards who want to vote for McCain shouldn’t have their vote stolen.

That having been said, they can try their darndest to cook up this narrative about how the election was “stolen”, but it ain’t gonna fly. The spread is going to be too large, and the electoral vote is looking like it will be in landslide territory. Claims of stolen elections kind of lose any credibility when it’s not even close. Not that it will stop them from claiming it because again, they’re morans for McCain.

Perhaps a ladder made of iron and lead? With anvils attached?

And it matters to THAT individual and that individual alone, but for us to even be discussing it (beyond, you know, poking fun at the right wingers for having their knickers in a twist over this isolated incident) is lending credence to thhis bizarre conspiracy theory that they’ve drummed up to try to, I don’t know, get the sympathy vote for McCain?

And by the way, it was the man’s caretaker who was supposedly the influence, not some poll worker, so you’ve already warped a story into being bigger than it was (a poll worker being biased is a far more egregious claim than an overenthusiastic health care worker, you would agree I’m sure).

In other words, when you’re opponent is floundering in their own pool of desperation, DON’T HAND HIM A LADDER!

Precisely, which makes this completely, utterly irrelevant as a story. Move along.

Sorry, were you talking to me?

Far more egregious is this drumbeat from the right about ACORN, etc. designed to distract newsgatherers from wholesale systematic government sanctioned disenfranchisement and intimidation being carried out in the final weeks of an election campaign.

It’s cloudcuckooland, ladies and gentlemen.

Hell, they came up with a better voter registration system in Iraq. Purple ink would probably result in a fairer election in the US.

Tonight at dinner the good Xians in the next booth (I know cuz they prayed before their meal) commenced to talkin’ ’bout how Obama is a turrist. I loudly remarked to The Spouse that I’d heard Cindy McCain was a drug addict, but he frowned and told me to STFU.

Another day, another night in the Bible Belt. Sometimes I despise these ignorant fools so much I want to throw stuff at them. Other times, like tonight, when I saw their brows furrowed in consternation and overheard their frightened, appalled words, I relaxed and almost smiled. Yeah, I thought, be afraid. Be concerned. See how it feels to know your most cherished hopes are about to get ground into dust. That those you oppose, and everything they stand for, are about to win and start making the rules for a change. That the time for the marginalization of your world view has finally come round again at last. Interestingly, I didn’t feel like throwing my plate of pasta at them anymore. I actually empathized with what they were experiencing, even as I despised what they believed.

Then they’re gonna take his stuff!

ZOMG!!!