Gang Activity: Joe and Doc are Dismayed by the Modern Electoral Process

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“Doc, I can’t tell which candidate should receive more votes in the election!”

“Did you try counting, Joe?”

“I counted up to 487,465.”

“Then through careful statistical analysis, you developed a reasonable prediction about the results?”

“No, it was time to purge or suppress thousands of legitimate voters, invalidate thousands of ballots with new draconian and/or confusing election regulations and employ unreliable, insecure and unverifiable electronic voting systems.”

I find that the lack of color, and the exceptionally emotive facial expressions in the last frame, suit the re-worked version quite well.

Whether ‘polite discourse’ permits us to say an election was “stolen” or not; and whether specific hypotheses of how it might have been stolen prove out or not; it seems compellingly obvious that our elections are being— if “stolen” is too strong a word for ‘polite discourse’ —unfairly manipulated.

The monkey business is happening again now for the several-th time in a row. (Just making a note of it.)

[Democracy Now!: Vote Suppression in 2006: Rule Changes Threaten to Disenfranchise Hundreds of Thousands of Eligible Voters (from the October 31, 2006 broadcast.)]
[Miami Herald: Glitches cited in early voting]
[EFF: E-voting]