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Some Mo. counties have more voters than adults

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Posted by Fred 2008-10-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 no one appears to be in charge. Thanks GW. Way to lead.

Posted by Betty 2008-10-30 10:07|| 2008-10-30 10:07|| Front Page Top

#2 One you add in all the headstones, the voter registration list looks reasonable.

Posted by ed 2008-10-30 10:10|| 2008-10-30 10:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Within a confidence interval of 98% on the estimate of the parameter, there are more dead people in Missouri than alive people (and there is a whole of lot of corruption at the polls going on).

Posted by JohnQC 2008-10-30 10:21|| 2008-10-30 10:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Well, by that logic, wouldn't ALL counties have inflated rolls due to inactive voters?

Posted by Boss Cravilet8390 2008-10-30 11:18|| 2008-10-30 11:18|| Front Page Top

#5 You'll notice in the last paragraph of the article that following the 2004 election the U.S. Justice Department sued Missouri for failing to keep voter rolls up to date. They've done this in other states as well, which is why there's such a fuss this election about ineligible voters old and new. It's not President Bush who did nothing, but Democratic party hacks fighting tooth and nail to keep their Imaginary-Americans on the rolls.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-10-30 12:23|| 2008-10-30 12:23|| Front Page Top

#6 Sounds familiar (wiki):
Rumors had spread through the South that 30,000 Northerners were descending on Kansas, and in November 1854, thousands of armed Southerners known as "Border Ruffians," mostly from Missouri, poured over the line in an attempt to steal the election to Congress of a single territorial delegate. Less than half the ballots were cast by registered voters, and at one location, only 20 of over 600 voters were legal residents. The proslavery forces won the election. While Kansas had approximately 2,900 registered voters at the time, not all of whom actually voted, over 6,000 votes were cast. More significantly, the Border Ruffians repeated their actions on March 30, 1855 when the first territorial legislature was elected, swaying the vote again in favor of slavery. The proslavery territorial legislature convened in Pawnee on July 2, 1855, but after one week it adjourned to the Shawnee Mission on the Missouri border, where it began passing laws to institutionalize slavery in Kansas Territory. This was the trigger for the commencement of open violence.

Wanna play Guess that Party? Bonus points for knowledge of Preston Brooks vs. Charles Sumner.

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-10-30 12:26|| 2008-10-30 12:26|| Front Page Top

#7 I'll play - it's "Bleeding Kansas" and the pre-Civil War southern Democrats, packing the ballot boxes since Kansas had been given the choice of letting the residents vote to have Kansas admitted as a 'slave' state or a 'free state'.

And Preston Brooks (fire-eating Southern and pro-slave) beat Charles Sumner (abolitionist Northerner) to insensibility with a wooden cane on the floor of the Senate.

True story - and afterwards Brooks was presented with all sorts of ornamental canes by Southern anti-abolitionists to commemorate that brave deed.

Posted by Sgt. Mom">Sgt. Mom 2008-10-30 14:08|| http://www.celiahayes.com]">[http://www.celiahayes.com] 2008-10-30 14:08|| Front Page Top

#8 Well, by that logic, wouldn't ALL counties have inflated rolls due to inactive voters?

Not necessarily. If Acorn were working overtime in the metropolitan areas and not the rural areas, only certain counties would have inflated rolls of inactive voters.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-10-30 14:11|| 2008-10-30 14:11|| Front Page Top

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