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byronius

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33. Perhaps, but I don't agree.

Reply to B2G (Reply #32)

Fri Dec 30, 2016, 08:27 PM

Dec 2016

Certainly some would do as you are suggesting. Most people I know would prefer publicly-financed elections with equal air time for the top 100 civil-service presidential exams, just to avoid all this crap.

I want Republicans to feel secure that their vote is being counted. As much as I hate their @%#@ guts, it's either a democracy or it's not. If we were gerrymandering and tabulator-hacking, I would want those practices investigated. Not hard to spot this stuff with dual-party oversight testing. And if a Democrat was responsible, I would want them to go to jail.

I think most Democrats would agree.

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If they had clear proof that many states were gerrymandered beyond belief -- byronius Dec 2016 #11

Do you feel that gerrymandering had an impact hughee99 Dec 2016 #13

My point concerned only the lock they have on the House using criminally anti-democratic methods. byronius Dec 2016 #27

Crosscheck wasn't about gerrymandering, though, and gerrymandering had no significant impact hughee99 Dec 2016 #30

I've been contemplating the plethora of ways in which Republicans have denigrated the Constitution. byronius Dec 2016 #31

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They would be reacting as we are, and B2G Dec 2016 #26

Not I. byronius Dec 2016 #28

You'd be in a tiny minority B2G Dec 2016 #32

Perhaps, but I don't agree. byronius Dec 2016 #33

Plus, certain practices like Crosscheck and recount-halting are indefensible. byronius Dec 2016 #34

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