Thursday, November 07, 2002
Suspicious South Dakota Voting Patterns
says Byron York this morning. Did vote fraud, possibly aided by bilingual ballots, cost the GOP a Senate seat? It seems so.
York suggests the GOP is not eager to challenge the South Dakota election. To fail to do so would be a GOP mistake for both moral and political reasons. The moral argument: if neither major political party cares about honest elections, why should the American people bother to hold them? You know, all that stuff about "we the people" and "consent of the governed."
The political argument is twofold. First, while South Dakota is not the first place vote fraud decided an election, South Dakota is a place in which the vote fraud has been exhaustively and legally documented on behalf of Democrats. GOP focus on Democratic Party efforts to illegally pad its candidates' vote totals would be beneficial, given the likelihood of future close elections. Second, the GOP should not disdain the notion of picking up an additional Senate seat in a body which still contains both Arlen "guilty but not proven" Specter (R-PA) and Lincoln "if the GOP only has 50 Senators, I may switch parties" Chafee (R for now-RI) .
And if the GOP is hesitant to offend Native American voters, well, Native American voters are already offended -- at the Democrats.
|posted by Jim on 9:38 AM|
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