 | Politics "wid" a taste of Philly, by Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Daily News |
| Politics "wid" a taste of Philly, by Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Daily News |
The other day, we had the honor of speaking to a journalism class at Temple University about the election and all the stuff the media did wrong (i.e., just about everything). Afterwards, we met a crusading student journalist named Chris Reber, who asked us about voter registration scams.
You remember these -- the kind where students thought they were signing a petition to legalize pot when actually they were changing their voter registration from Democratic to Republican. Reber is investigating a report that the same thing happened at Temple as happened elsewhere -- most notably the battleground states of Pennsylvania, Florida, and Oregon.
We hadn't thought much about this registration scam since 11/2. And we were puzzled at the time the story broke. Why change someone's registration from Democrat to Republican, when that would have no bearing on whether that person could vote or whom he could vote for in the general election?
This morning, we dusted off our tin-foil hat, and came up with a conspiracy theory (did we mention we love conspiracy theories?) that would connect this bizarre and seemingly isolated event to the broader theory -- that there was massive GOP voter fraud, especially on electronic voting machines with no paper trail, that gave the election to Bush.
How so? Well, to pull off such a scam, you would need phantom Republican votes, right? But the problem is you can't have phantom Republican votes unless you have phantom Republican voters. Think about the dynamic here. Take a heavily Democratic district including a college campus where you had 3000 registered Dems and 1000 registered GOPs.
Now, take a subject that would tend to appeal to liberals -- like legalizing marijuana -- and use that as the basis of a petition scam to switch 500 of those campus Democrats to the GOP. All of a sudden, that same precinct is 2,500 D and 1,500 R. And so a solid vote for Bush & Co. suddenly looks a lot less suspicious to anyone (like Bev Harris) with the gumption to investigate, post-11/2. Thus, Bush's new votes don't look so suspicious when compared to the registration numbers. They only look suspicious when compared...to the exit polls!
Do we believe our own theory? Not necessarily. That's because we also believe in Occam's Razor, that the simplest explanation is usually the best. The simplest explanation isn't voter fraud, but greed. In some if not all cases, the registration seekers employed by the private companies contracting with the GOP were paid for each new Republican sign-up.
College campuses are a place to get a lot of people at one time, but the problem is that a majority of students are Democrats. So, instead, devious and greedy workers made up a scam to pocket GOP cash. (Hey, we might actually support something like that...just kidding).
On the other hand, it's amazing how the scam could replicate over a distance of 3,000 miles without high-level coordination. Our broader point is this: Regardless of whether the motive was vote-rigging or greed, we hope that the DAs in the areas where registration fraud took place will continue to investigate, even now that the election has passed. We still need to find out who did this. Only then, we will find out the reason why.
When I registered to vote for my very first election, way back in 1984, I registered at a drive on a college campus. The people were open about being Jon Fox supporters, but as an innocent 18 year old it never occurred to me that they would change my form in any way, and it was a convenient way to register. Imagine my shock when I received my voter registration card in the mail with my party listed as Republican. Fortunately I was able to change it easily, and as Will said, it doesn't effect who you vote for in the general election. I guess my point is this kind of bullshit has been around for a long time, we just weren't fortunate enough to have bloggers bringing it to people's attention.
Posted by: Ruth at November 21, 2004 02:18 PMby voting at the MANY precincts that didn't require ID, from lists showing who hadn't voted, at the end of the day.
i read someone had watched this being done in Florida.
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