LULZ: a stereotype.

[rick-day.livejournal.com]

We all talk about individualism and not stereotyping people based on their color, creed, orientation or looks, but sometimes....

well, let's start with this interesting story:

GOP registration worker charged with voter fraud

By Michael Isikoff, NBC News

A campaign worker linked to a controversial Republican consulting firm has been arrested in Virginia and charged with throwing voter registration forms into a dumpster.

The suspect, Colin Small, 31, was described by a local law enforcement official as a "supervisor" in a Republican Party financed operation to register voters in Rockingham County in rural Virginia, a key swing state in the Nov. 6 election. He was arrested after a local business owner in the same Harrisonburg, Va., shopping center where the local GOP campaign headquarters is located spotted Small tossing a bag into the trash, according to a statement Thursday by the Rockingham County Sheriff’s office. The bag was later found to contain eight voter registration forms, it said. The arrest was reported Thursday night by WWBT-TV in Richmond.

More blah blah at the link. So what does this Mister Supervisor look like?





OK so I erred. Safe for work? Ugh, you be the judge :D



Rural Virginians are so afraid of Obama that they will go to jail just give a Utah Mormon the country to destroy. Behold your base, GOP.

Behold.

ETA: I forgot the obligatory 'my opinion' part. Let me pontificate on the actions of Southern White males with very short hair. While actual damage was not apparant in this case, the implication that people who 'look like him' would risk prison to get out a President who does *not* look like him, or share his values shines like the sun on his oily forhead. If anything, this young man should be fighting the GOP. They are the party of MINE, RIGHT NOW.

Or not, he may be a nice guy who had  redneck paternal peers. Seven felonies is tough for anyone to ovecome. Perhaps there is a reasonable explanation, even though it seems an unreasonable action.

Comments

[kylinrouge.livejournal.com]

So, now voter fraud is a catch-all term that covers every known misconduct around an election and voter registration now?

After all the debacles where we affirmed that voter registration fraud is not the same as in-person voter fraud.

[nairiporter.livejournal.com]

Rural Virginians are so afraid of Obama that they will go to jail just give a Utah Mormon the country to destroy. Behold your base, GOP. Behold.

Could you please expand on your point a little more? I mean within the next 1 hour (http://talk-politics.livejournal.com/261191.html).

[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

So, the point of this post is that you want to let us all know that you are prejudicial and believe in stereotypes? Because that's all I'm getting out of it.

[devil-ad-vocate.livejournal.com]

He looks like someone who is either: (a) a Nazi death camp Sonderkommando, (b) arch-conservative skinhead Obama-hater, or (c) someone who was too lazy to turn in the voter registration cards and decided to toss them in the garbage to stay out of trouble. Since we don't know whether the forms were completed, or whether the people were Democrat or Republican leaning - I'll go with "c".

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

A purely isolated incident. White people can never be racist dicks, they've never been racist dicks, and racism is more offensive when used as a pejorative description than when it's actually existing. /irony

[chron-job.livejournal.com]

This is not Voter Registration Fraud.

Voter Registration Fraud is fraudulently registering a voter, or registering a fraudulent voter.

The outcome of such rarely effects elections, since the act is typically to pump statistics of Registered voters (especially if being paid on quota) rather than to have fake people show up to vote.

The outcome of this act is that some people who thought they registered, are not. So people that thought they could go vote, can not.

This has a different name. This is Disenfranchisement.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

If the people doing this were Democrats you'd be making this a post about how everyone that denied the issue was wrong and should feel horrible about themselves for advocating circumventing the Democratic process. This is why I have a hard time accepting most libertarians as anything but conservatives that want to watch porn and smoke weed.

[kylinrouge.livejournal.com]

But it's still not voter fraud, which is what Voter IDs allegedly mitigate. The gotcha! nature of the post is inaccurate.

I agree that voter suppression is happening around the country.

[dwer.livejournal.com]

why did he only throw out eight forms, I wonder

[telemann.livejournal.com]

The community really needs a "Daily Ironic Award."

[notmrgarrison.livejournal.com]

And republicans would never do anything against a democrat unless the democrat was black.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

Nonsense, they'd accuse the Democrats of running a Mafia running hits on people and having their daughters as the family dog.

[paedraggaidin.livejournal.com]

From the same state that sells Confederate-themed children's toys at the Mount Vernon gift shop (because Washington was totally a secessionist...). :P

[oslo.livejournal.com]

Given the standards and terminology you seem to use, we would be able to conclude from this example that the phenomenon of Republican consulting firms eliciting and discarding voter registrations is not a rare occurrence. Since throwing away someone's attempt to register really disfranchises them - in the same way that a fraudulent vote threatens to "cancel out" a legitimate voter's vote - we ought to do everything we can to crack down on this kind of abuse, right?

[cheezyfish.livejournal.com]

This is agreeable, but it isn't the standard liberal model of, and I'm paraphrasing, "mass voter fraud doesn't really exist ." From what I noticed, most on the conservative side says, and gain I'm paraphrasing, "yes, yes it does." I don't often here "only Democrats commit voter fraud."

[rick-day.livejournal.com]

done

[rick-day.livejournal.com]

Why do you hate Americans, again?

:D

I expounded. Perhaps it will help. But I challenge the assertion a southern white male can not call out another southern white male. It's a Men of the South™ thing, son!

[rick-day.livejournal.com]

Well..technically, Bill Clinton is KINDA SORTA black....

[rick-day.livejournal.com]

Those were the ones they actually found.

*clutches pearls* oh dear....

[foreverbeach.livejournal.com]

Sorry, this story is bullshit. I've been told for months now that there is no such thing as voter fraud. It simply does not exist. How can someone be charged with something which does not exist? See? Bullshit.

[rick-day.livejournal.com]

I bet he has a musket and a coon hound.

in this race, there is only first place

[rick-day.livejournal.com]

[caerfrli.livejournal.com]

sigh, ok. for months the GOP has been supressing votes and saying it's to prevent voter fraud, implying that it's the left that would perpetrate it. This story shows that it's Republicans who are interfering with proper voting, thus creating a frisson of irony in the zeitgeist. Get it now?

[rick-day.livejournal.com]

ahh...I think you may have missed the pathos in that post,,,

[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

Are your powers of comprehension truly that dim?