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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (11718)4/5/2006 10:56:15 AM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
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A sign of the Maryland Democrats concern for the results of the November elections there is that they have pushed through a proposal to allow early voting the week before the election. There is nothing wrong with that; lots of states have that, including my own. But they are putting the voting locations mostly in Democratic strongholds. Even the Washington Post is derisive.
    IN THE SANCTIFIED name of expanding the popular vote and 
    widening access to the polls, Maryland Democrats have 
    sacrificed fairness to partisan advantage. The Democrats, 
    who dominate the state legislature in Annapolis, pushed 
    through a bill allowing voting to take place for five 
    days before Election Day -- but mostly at polling stations
    in Democratic strongholds.
This isn't the first time a majority in a state legislature has sought electoral advantage by ramming a brazenly partisan measure down the throat of the minority party. The justification generally comes down to, "Well, they'd do the same to us if they were in power." But no matter which party is behind such partisan mischief, the effect is the same: to subvert the faith that Americans place in the electoral system's fairness.

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