[Vision2020] NAACP to take vote laws to U.N.

[viva stowell]

I was just thinking
about how a voter ID would not stop someone from voting multiple times

If you are registered in multiple sates, and there are places back east
that you could make a day of it and vote in many states
As long as you had previously lived and registered in each and showed your
Passport (the ultimate ID)
You could vote multiple times

So WHO would do this?
In order to actually effect the election, you would need many to do this
Even imagining someone doing this seems like a joke.

Most people don't vote once
How many people would have to vote twice to actually effect the election?

all this reminded me of a story I heard about...

http://blog.itv.com/news/billneely/2012/03/how-about-this-for-a-landslide/
HOW ABOUT THIS FOR A LANDSLIDE?Posted by Bill
Neely<http://blog.itv.com/news/author/billneely/>.
6 March, 2012

So,Vladimir Putin won a landslide. This is normally defined as an
overwhelming margin of victory over your nearest political rival- say,65 to
35.

But here are the results from Chechnya, a Russian Republic.

These are the real number of votes cast, not percentages.

Putin got 611,578. His nearest rival the former Communist leader Gennady
Zyuganov got 182. The three others got even less than that.

What that gave Putin is a thumping majority- a 99.82% share of the vote.
A fine win.

It’s remarkable, because Putin attacked Chechnya twice in appallingly
brutal wars with its separatists, wars marked by massacre and murder. All
that is clearly blood under the carpet.

The turnout was interesting too.

For example, look at Precinct 451 in the capital Grozny,where Putin got
1,482 votes and Zyuganov got one. Terrific vote. Except that only 1,389
people were registered to vote in the precinct. That means the turnout was
107%.

Chechnya is a place where fraud and corruption is rampant. Challenging
powerful local men (and they are all men) might be the last thing an
election official does. Independent and foreign election observers did not
go to Chechnya for security reasons.

Obviously it’s a blatant example of electoral fraud. But it’s not so
unusual. It’s clear many provincial officials and governors felt under huge
pressure to return Putin to power. Election officials clearly turned a
blind eye when a large group of men in leather jackets suddenly gathered
around a ballot box with a thick sheaf of marked papers.

And so Chechnya,and Dagestan and many other places recorded votes of over
90% for Putin.

And since Chechnya is so extraordinary here’s another district; the votes
for Naurskaya are…Zhirinovsky 4 votes, Zyuganov 6, Prokhorov 6, Mironov 7,
Putin 28,584.

So,what is that word for something beyond a landslide?

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All this makes our election woes seem meaningless
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