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Psychoblues
10-08-2011, 10:49 PM
Voter manipulation is a long time understood practice of those that would rather not actually count the votes. This is just another example but an interesting one.

Judge Finds Manipulation in Recall Vote in Arizona
By MARC LACEY (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/marc_lacey/index.html?inline=nyt-per) Published: October 8, 2011
MESA, Ariz. — At first glance, it had the makings of a spirited election: the leader of Arizona’s crackdown on illegal immigration (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/i/immigration_and_refugees/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier) facing off at the polls with an immigrant from Mexico who believed that the state had gone too far.

But the immigrant, Olivia Cortes, a retiree who filed papers in July to challenge the State Senate president, Russell Pearce (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/russell_pearce/index.html?inline=nyt-per), disappeared from the political scene last week just as quickly as she had appeared. Ms. Cortes’s candidacy for a legislative district in this working-class community east of Phoenix, it now appears, had been a dirty trick............................................. .................................................. .........................


Much more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/09/us/politics/judge-finds-manipulation-in-recall-vote-in-arizona.html?_r=1

Psychoblues
DragonStryk72
10-09-2011, 02:11 AM
Well, that's the end of Pearce's political career, whether or not he did, he looks guilty as shit, and voters are not gonna vote for him when there's another viable republican candidate for the taking.
Psychoblues
10-09-2011, 02:15 AM
Well, that's the end of Pearce's political career, whether or not he did, he looks guilty as shit, and voters are not gonna vote for him when there's another viable republican candidate for the taking.

That's pretty much my take on it as well, DS72. But I would also anticipate the emergence of a very good and viable Democratic candidate.

Psychoblues
DragonStryk72
10-09-2011, 02:18 AM
That's pretty much my take on it as well, DS72. But I would also anticipate the emergence of a very good and viable Democratic candidate.

Psychoblues

It really could be that his family and supporters launched this little "campaign" without his knowledge (you know, plausible deniability), but the way it looks is like he's was trying to put the screws to the voters, and even if they think that he maybe didn't do it, they can't trust him. Meanwhile they have a candidate from the same party up there that isn't caught under a cloud of scandal. Seems pretty simple to me.
Psychoblues
10-09-2011, 02:26 AM
It really could be that his family and supporters launched this little "campaign" without his knowledge (you know, plausible deniability), but the way it looks is like he's was trying to put the screws to the voters, and even if they think that he maybe didn't do it, they can't trust him. Meanwhile they have a candidate from the same party up there that isn't caught under a cloud of scandal. Seems pretty simple to me.

i think you are correct, DS72. But voters have surprised the hell out of me before. I guess it's all in the "presentation".

Psychoblues