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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
No, throw them in jail for electoral fraud or misinforming the electorate (untrue claims about voting requirements, false voting dates, false voting locations, etc.)
Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.I would certainly like to see some repercussions for doing things like publishing papers that tell Republican and Democratic voters to vote on different days. I mean seriously, there are some very basic things that are being done, and it would be very basic to implement no nonsense regulations on these sorts of things if the parties didn't benefit so well from them. (Mostly the Republicans these days.)
Are you proposing that we infringe on freedom of speech?
I'm a skeptical squirrelSeems like the backlash against Nate Silver is starting to spread, for less-than-good reasons.
Boy, I so do not envy Presidents. It must be one hell of a job of administring the USA. Are there even people who get along out there? Or people that aren't petty/crazy?
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I'm a bad person, I laughed at the second top comment: "This girl's trying to guilt her mom into voting third-party. Nice try, Abby - or should I say JILL STEIN".
edited 31st Oct '12 10:32:03 AM by QuestionMarc
Romney relief effort was a publicity stunt, color me shocked.
I'm beginning to think Mencken was right about Americans admiring liars.
edited 31st Oct '12 1:39:02 PM by johnnyfog
I'm a skeptical squirrelThe trust essentially lets someone “rent” the charity’s tax-exemption while not actually giving the charity much money. If done for this purpose, the trust pays out more every year to the donor than it makes in returns on its holdings, depleting the principal over time, so that when the donor dies and the trust is transferred to the charity, there’s often little left. The actual contribution “is just a throwaway,” Jonathan Blattmachr, a lawyer who set up hundreds of CRU Ts in the 1990s, told Bloomberg. “I used to structure them so the value dedicated to charity was as close to zero as possible without being zero.”
Indeed, this appears to be the case for Romney’s trust as well. Bloomberg obtained the trust’s tax returns through a Freedom of Information Request and found that Romney’s CRUT started at $750,000 in 2001 but ended 2011 with only $421,203 — over a period when the stock market grew. Romney’s trust was projected to leave less than 8 percent of the original contribution to the church (or another charity that he can designate). This, along with the trust’s poor returns — it made just $48 in 2011 — suggest the trust is not designed to grow for the LDS church but just serve as a tax-free holding pool from which annual payments can be disbursed to the Romneys.

It would be nice to see electoral accountability and voting reform become a big thing in the States after the election. Mostly because they catch a cold in Parliament Hill whenever someone sneezes in Washington, and it would be nice to see serious electoral accountability ensured in Canada so we can kick Harper out.
Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.