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no, my point was that using legal techniques to advance your election prospects is used pretty frequently and routinely by both parties, and in urban areas it's something of an art form. Here in NY we have ballot access lawsuits all the time, where each side tries to get the other's nominating petitions tossed. Challenging voter rolls is done too, and is conceptually no different, so long as the techniques used are above board and legal. You might not like it but they are in concept the same: the idea is molding the electoral battlefield to your advantage. Obama did it in his early races, it was done in WA by Repubs during the last Gov race, it was done by Dems with military ballots in FL during the 2000 race, it was done by Republicans with ex-felons............ the list goes on and on and on, in both parties. People are getting agitated here over something that is neither new nor illegal. If there is illegality involved that is something else, but it appears from what was described is that this is just legal maneuvering that is very little different from most of the legal maneuvering that happens. It's not like theyr'e trolling cemeteries looking for voters or anything.
Yeah, Rekna, you didn't understand (and didn't like) my point so you say ignore him. Nice. Love the intellectual honesty. You don't like it when I unspike the Kool-Aid, but someone's gotta do it around here. Life just isn't that simple, and this silly cartoonish fantasy world about good guys and bad guys following party identification is just that: a silly fantasy. The sooner you understand that human beings are human and have human foibles no matter what political party they belong to, the sooner the discourse around here will begin to look like anything resembling logic. Until then it's just "hooray for my team, the other guy is a poopy-head."
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