LIBERADIO(!)

I am so confused about what makes one a patriotic American. I always thought it was things like participating in the democratic process by voting and encouraging other voting-like activities.

So if that’s the case then the opposite of being a patriotic American would be not voting or discouraging other not-voting-like activities in others, right?

HB1770, a bill sponsored by Rep. Curry Todd that comes before the House Elections Subcommittee tomorrow afternoon proposes to make “various revisions to the election laws including allowing a person to email a transfer of voter registration with a scanned signature and increasing maximum size of precincts from 5,000 voters to 7,500 voters.”

Basically, Todd’s bill is Step 1 in a 2-step process that could – if we don’t monitor county election commission meetings very closely – artificially manufacture long lines on election day.

Step 1, let’s load precinct with 2,500 more voters than we allow now. Step 2, let’s allocate fewer voting machines in each of these precincts with the 2,500 more voters. Mix together and then, Viola!, long lines!

And longs lines = discouraged voters who don’t have time to wait. We saw these longs and discouraging lines during the 2004 and 2006 elections and the hope was that we would never see them again.