Thursday's case stemming from thousands of anonymous robocalls placed on election night last year that suggested voters could stay home even though the polls were still open.Of course, while the Maryland scheme appears to have been criminal, this year, the more pressing problem is the fact that GOP state lawmakers arenĂ ‚¬ „ t resorting to robocall schemes; theyĂ ‚¬ „ re just rigging the game before Election Day even comes.Under the auspices of rooting out Ă ‚¬Ĺ"voter fraudĂ ‚¬ ť Ă ‚¬" a problem that appears to exist largely in the over-active imaginations of GOP activists Ă ‚¬" Republicans are passing voter-ID measures, approving new laws restricting voter-registration drives, and closing early-voting windows. If all goes according to plan, going forward, they wonĂ ‚¬ „ t even need ridiculous schemes like the one in Maryland. |
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)