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	<title>Comments on: &#8220;We don&#8217;t see things as they are, we see things as we are.&#8221; &#8212; Anais Nin</title>
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		<title>By: ER</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2013/04/05/we-dont-see-things-as-they-are-we-see-things-as-we-are-anais-nin/#comment-23117</link>
		<dc:creator>ER</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 22:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>All the media reports and lawsuits about voter suppression are lies served up by the same Socialist conspiracy that is pushing the Global Warming Hoax, trying to take away our guns, and hiding the truth about Obama&#039;s birth certificate.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>All the media reports and lawsuits about voter suppression are lies served up by the same Socialist conspiracy that is pushing the Global Warming Hoax, trying to take away our guns, and hiding the truth about Obama&#8217;s birth certificate.</p>
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		<title>By: TB</title>
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		<dc:creator>TB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 21:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Other options:&lt;/p&gt;

&quot;Only in heavily populated districts&quot; (tend to be Democratic)

&quot;Only in districts controlled by Democratic  election officials&quot; (draw your own conclusions).

&quot;Only in districts where the ballot looks like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.miamidade.gov/elections/s_ballots/11-6-12_sb.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this.&lt;/a&gt;&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Other options:</p>
<p>&#8220;Only in heavily populated districts&#8221; (tend to be Democratic)</p>
<p>&#8220;Only in districts controlled by Democratic  election officials&#8221; (draw your own conclusions).</p>
<p>&#8220;Only in districts where the ballot looks like <a href="http://www.miamidade.gov/elections/s_ballots/11-6-12_sb.pdf" rel="nofollow">this.</a>&#8220;</p>
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		<title>By: ER</title>
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		<dc:creator>ER</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 21:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Only in Democratic precincts. n/t</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Only in Democratic precincts. n/t</p>
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		<title>By: TB</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2013/04/05/we-dont-see-things-as-they-are-we-see-things-as-we-are-anais-nin/#comment-23108</link>
		<dc:creator>TB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 20:26:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Game&#039;s over in California.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Game&#8217;s over in California.</p>
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		<title>By: alcaray</title>
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		<dc:creator>alcaray</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 20:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>They haven&#039;t played this game in California, either.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>They haven&#8217;t played this game in California, either.</p>
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		<title>By: alcaray</title>
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		<dc:creator>alcaray</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 20:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And yet people have to stand in line all night to vote in some places.  Amazing isn&#039;t it?  n/t</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And yet people have to stand in line all night to vote in some places.  Amazing isn&#8217;t it?  n/t</p>
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		<title>By: TB</title>
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		<dc:creator>TB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 18:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Back to non-responsive loop mode.&lt;/p&gt;

One of several reasons I don&#039;t post much here any more.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Back to non-responsive loop mode.</p>
<p>One of several reasons I don&#8217;t post much here any more.</p>
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		<title>By: ER</title>
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		<dc:creator>ER</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 18:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>To paraphrase the great Yogi...&quot;if the people don&#039;t want to vote Republican, there&#039;s nothing you can do to stop them.&quot;  

So the alternative is to prevent people from voting for the other side, right? Face it TB, not only did it not work, your goons got caught red-handed trying to sneak it past the rest of us. Next time, as the GOP constituency continues to shrink, its going to be even harder to pull off, not to mention harder to make excuses for.

Election fraud is a problem in any democracy, and in every party.  Democrats do it as well as Republicans.  But in the past, it was always a local problem, a criminal act by crooked individuals or a racist plot by bigots. The modern GOP has institutionalized it, turned it into nationwide policy in every state where they have been able to assemble a gerrymandered pseudo-majority. The contempt they have for our country and its principles is no longer a secret.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To paraphrase the great Yogi&#8230;&#8221;if the people don&#8217;t want to vote Republican, there&#8217;s nothing you can do to stop them.&#8221;  </p>
<p>So the alternative is to prevent people from voting for the other side, right? Face it TB, not only did it not work, your goons got caught red-handed trying to sneak it past the rest of us. Next time, as the GOP constituency continues to shrink, its going to be even harder to pull off, not to mention harder to make excuses for.</p>
<p>Election fraud is a problem in any democracy, and in every party.  Democrats do it as well as Republicans.  But in the past, it was always a local problem, a criminal act by crooked individuals or a racist plot by bigots. The modern GOP has institutionalized it, turned it into nationwide policy in every state where they have been able to assemble a gerrymandered pseudo-majority. The contempt they have for our country and its principles is no longer a secret.</p>
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		<title>By: Jody</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 17:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The only experience I have for an elderly person..and she is blind..was when Mom voted in the last election. She used her voter registration. I was allowed to go with her to explain. It took five minutes.
For me...I used voter registration.
My husband..voter registration.
My son...voter registration.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The only experience I have for an elderly person..and she is blind..was when Mom voted in the last election. She used her voter registration. I was allowed to go with her to explain. It took five minutes.<br />
For me&#8230;I used voter registration.<br />
My husband..voter registration.<br />
My son&#8230;voter registration.</p>
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		<title>By: TB</title>
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		<dc:creator>TB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:43:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Remember when Election Day was Tuesday? Period?&lt;/p&gt;

Now we have early voting, online registration, and countless other ways to make it easy to vote.  The average early voting start time in the 32 states that have it is 22 days before the election, with an average duration of 19 days. &lt;em&gt;Three weeks&lt;/em&gt; to vote.

&lt;img src=&quot;http://habitablezone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Early_Voting_States.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;600&quot; /&gt;

This is nuts. If the bar for registering and voting in this country was any lower, a department story dummy could manage it.

The question that comes to my mind: what&#039;s happening to a political process that desperately needs large numbers of uninformed, unaware, and apathetic voters?

It&#039;s like having labeling laws for medicine, and the manufacturers start frantically looking for illiterate customers.  What conclusions do you draw about the product?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Remember when Election Day was Tuesday? Period?</p>
<p>Now we have early voting, online registration, and countless other ways to make it easy to vote.  The average early voting start time in the 32 states that have it is 22 days before the election, with an average duration of 19 days. <em>Three weeks</em> to vote.</p>
<p><img src="http://habitablezone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Early_Voting_States.jpg" alt="" width="600" /></p>
<p>This is nuts. If the bar for registering and voting in this country was any lower, a department story dummy could manage it.</p>
<p>The question that comes to my mind: what&#8217;s happening to a political process that desperately needs large numbers of uninformed, unaware, and apathetic voters?</p>
<p>It&#8217;s like having labeling laws for medicine, and the manufacturers start frantically looking for illiterate customers.  What conclusions do you draw about the product?</p>
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