Comments on: That’s Not How This Works

By: mnpollio

mnpollio — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 17:08:00 +0000

Vote! Why would Herr Trump need to vote? He lets the little people do that and then just tries to buy off whoever gets the nod to do his bidding. Then if they don’t fall into line, he smears them and throws public hissy fits. No voting needed for Der Trump.

By: Groundloop

Groundloop — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 00:25:00 +0000

In reply to Dread_Pirate_Mathius. To borrow a trope from Wonkette, it would be irresponsible to not wildly speculate.

By: Dread_Pirate_Mathius

Dread_Pirate_Mathius — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 21:25:00 +0000

Devil’s advocate: If we have no means of catching such fraud, how do we know it doesn’t exist?

Also, how do we know that shape-shifting lizard people aren’t illegally voting en masse for the Republicans? I think we need DNA tests at every polling place just to be sure.

By: Badgerite

Badgerite — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 21:21:00 +0000

In reply to Username1016.

Exactly. You register before you vote so that when you show up to vote, there is your name and address which they must verify and then you can vote. If you are not registered to vote, you don’t get to vote. Except maybe provisionally. This is someone who is running for POTUS who doesn’t know about voter registration. If you try to register more than once, it would show up in the system.
Which is why in Chicago they used to get a lot of dead people registering to vote. Way back when.
Now, I doubt that that could happen.

By: Username1016

Username1016 — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 20:52:00 +0000

Seems to me that when I go in there to vote, they look up my name on a list of registered voters, and I have to sign on the line, and they make sure my signature looks just like it did last time, and they check me off the list. I would be puzzled to keep voting and voting and voting — I think those public-spirited ladies who run the place (and hand out free Tootsie Rolls, bless their hearts) would refuse to let me. But what do I know, I’m not Donald Trump.

By: muselet

muselet — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 20:31:00 +0000

90+ days out from the election and Donald Trump is already test-driving excuses for losing. That wouldn’t be so bad—in fact, it would be hilarious—if his supporters weren’t predisposed to believe anything that falls out of his piehole.

As Bob and Chez said on yesterday’s podcast, it’s not enough for Trump merely to lose the election, he has to be crushed, to lose by a large enough margin that even the folks in the tinfoil hats can’t seriously believe there was fraud involved.

–alopecia