Savage Voting
Reader Mark Lambert passes along an entertaining column from yesterday's New York Times, in which Dan Savage discovers it's still easy to commit vote fraud in the Iowa caucuses:
Last week, I called the Polk County Election Office in Des Moines and was told that you still don't need to produce any identification to fill out a voter registration card; according to the Democratic Party of Iowa, you can register at the caucus sites without any proof of residency. That means Deaniacs, Liebermaniacs, Edwardians, Kerryactics and Gepharatchiks from outside Iowa need only follow a few simple steps if they want to participate in the Iowa caucuses: don't bring identification, don't put your real name on the voter registration form you'll be asked to fill out and don't write about your exploits on your blogs. Alas, this means you won't get caught, and that you won't be a footnote in a presidential election (a grand and glorious thing), but you won't be looking at six years in prison either—six years in prison in Iowa, let's not forget.
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Be sure to pronounce the state as “Eye-Oh-Way”. If you say “I-uh-wuh” you’ll be outed as a foreigner and buddy…
You’ll have Trouble
Right here in River City…
Muwahahah, for the price of a plane ticket from the steppes of Berkeley to Iowa, I can use undue influence to pick the Libertarian candidate I want… er, not that any such exist.
Really, though, this seems more of an opportunity for Karl Rove. “Iowans choose Kucinich in landslide!”
Be sure to VOTE,
again and again.
The thought of six years in Iowa outside of prision is scary enough to keep me from trying.
To put a positive spin on this story…
Every dollar that these crazed Democrats spend travelling to Iowa to cheat in the caucuses is another dollar which they cannot spend to accomplish another evil.
So, while this msy be bad for the Democratic Presidential nomination, it might be good for, say, second amendment rights.