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About Me :
I'm a grownup nerd living in the Boston burbs. I write computer programs for a living and plays for fun.
I'm married to a wonderful woman, and we share a nice little house with our daughter and our cats.
I'm a humanist, a technologist, an artist, and an idealist. I believe in reason, freedom, love, equality,
and democracy. (Did I mention that I'm
an idealist? I did, OK.)
I'm also a pragmatist and an empiricist. I reject ideology and dogma, especially when they conflict with
practical facts (i.e., pretty much always). I particularly hate willful ignorance, which tends to go hand-in-hand
with ideology and dogma.
Like the alignment of the planets, this blog gets updated as I have the time, inspiration, and inclination to do so.
Like the alignment of the planets, this blog gets updated as I have the time, inspiration, and inclination to do so.
Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Something To Be Proud Of
A private voter-registration firm hired by the Republican Party in Nevada has been destroying the Democratic registrations it has gathered, and is turning in only Republican registrations. Apparently a lot of people who thought they were registered to vote will have a surprise waiting for them on Election Day. This is against the law, but the Republicans figure that there's no real penalty for this sort of chicanery, since the damage will be done long before anyone has to answer to a judge.
I have to wonder, though, about a party that commits fraud, and about the kind of people who belong to a party that commits fraud. I ask my Republican friends: is this the sort of behavior that makes you proud to be a Republican? Does this bring honor to your party? What does it say about your party, that you have to resort to cheating people out of their votes in order to win?
Nevada's not the only state which is seeing this sort of criminal behavior. Republicans all across the country are doing everything in their power to rob people of their rights to vote. It's the clearest sign that they are intellectually and morally bankrupt, that they can't persuade people based on the merits of their arguments. They have to resort to outright deception and fraud. Republicans, I hope you're proud of yourselves for that.
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A private voter-registration firm hired by the Republican Party in Nevada has been destroying the Democratic registrations it has gathered, and is turning in only Republican registrations. Apparently a lot of people who thought they were registered to vote will have a surprise waiting for them on Election Day. This is against the law, but the Republicans figure that there's no real penalty for this sort of chicanery, since the damage will be done long before anyone has to answer to a judge.
I have to wonder, though, about a party that commits fraud, and about the kind of people who belong to a party that commits fraud. I ask my Republican friends: is this the sort of behavior that makes you proud to be a Republican? Does this bring honor to your party? What does it say about your party, that you have to resort to cheating people out of their votes in order to win?
Nevada's not the only state which is seeing this sort of criminal behavior. Republicans all across the country are doing everything in their power to rob people of their rights to vote. It's the clearest sign that they are intellectually and morally bankrupt, that they can't persuade people based on the merits of their arguments. They have to resort to outright deception and fraud. Republicans, I hope you're proud of yourselves for that.
