Regarding your suspicions, I believe that partisan skepticism is very healthy. If belief that the other side is trying to rig the process leads to election security then we all win (except those intent on committing election fraud). Honest skepticism is what brought democrats, republicans, and greens together yesterday.

Thank you for withstanding the attack on your motives.

All of these attributes really do favor the generalized conservative over the generalized liberal. And as Oregon has shown, after the initial excitement, turnout drops off precipitously. Also favoring Republicans.

Even with corrupt elections offices like that of Dean Logan, the pressure for intense scrutiny is great enough that it's going to make if far harder for even Logan to play games with unauthenticated absentees in the future. Especially if there are any more enhanced security methods applied to VBM over the next few years, which is likely just given technology advances alone.

This is going to be a case of careful-what-you-wish-for. The great thing about liberal / progressive / collectivist ideas is that ultimately they are doomed to fail on their own lack of merit. Communism failed. Socialism is failing. Unions are receding, etc.

All we have to do is give these fools an ample supply of rope. They'll hang themselves.

Stefan, you're being a meanie!

Some Dem Nuts will need more rope than others depending on the consituency. YMMV. NOLA is about as bad as it gets. There they don't even really have anything other than GOTV type Dem voters. So it's hard to offset the really irrational vote. But give Nagin some time, he's shown nothing but total incompetence, there's no reason to believe he won't continue to show incompetence. Give hime some more rope.

But the "more rope" strategy works great in places like Seattle. The media doesn't think moderates exist, but they do. I have at least 20 moderate Dem friends in Seattle. They are normal people, they work hard, they are fiscally pretty conservative, they are socially liberal, but they realize that the Progressive vision of too much government is a bad thing or at least something that does have a finite limit. These people eventually abandon ship when the progressives go too far.

For example, we all know a lot of Seattleites that were pissed about the Monorail debacle. And now here we go again with the Viaduct. It's clear that the leaders are not listening to the people. Real people live in the real world where there are budgets and deadlines. Only the most diehard moonbat can see financial debacle after debacle and not have at least a healthy mistrust of Seattle's leadership.

It's only a matter of time. Let's watch Logan try to handle another major election this fall. Possibly some very tight races. Just wait, he will screw it up big time.

You can just picture Larry Phillips unmasked at the end of the show saying: "I would have passed All Vote By Mail if it hadn't been for you meddling kids."

The bloviating self inflated egos of our local politicians really seem more like cartoon characters than anyone who should be taken seriously.