It's almost election time in one of the world's most problematic first-world countries for elections, and it's already getting weird.
Exhibit A:
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"Voter ID Law, which will allow Governor Romney to win - DONE."
This one particularly annoys me, because I almost got disenfranchised myself! I don't own a car, so I've never gotten a Georgia drivers license - I still had my Tennessee license, which is valid and good as ID for everything else. Plus, I have a birth certificate (long form), a passport (valid), social security card, and other forms of ID. You'd think I'd be able to vote, right?
Wrong!
I checked, because Sarah Silverman suggested it in her amusing video about voter ID (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypRW5qoraTw), and actually, those ID do NOT allow me to vote. I can use the passport, if I have a public utilities bill with my new address on it. Which I don't, because I just moved into my new husband's house and the bills are still in his name. Oh, and get this - if I'd changed my name when I got married, and wanted to use my passport w/ bills, that wouldn't have worked, either. So, I have to get a hold of a legal car (my husband's has a light malfunctioning and my sister's has a problem with the hood), and get a new driver's license this week. Yay! Of course, that's to vote in Georgia, where my POTUS vote doesn't count anyway because of the bullshit electoral college. But I digress.
It's a conspiracy.
Exhibit B:
Speaking of the bullshit electoral college, this year that apparently means that Ohio will once again decide the election. And, who owns the voting machines? Tagg Fucking Romney and a subsidiary of Bain Capital. Seriously, folks. This is the kind of crap that doesn't even happen in Venezuela, but here in the USA it's just capitalism at work.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2 ... s-concern/Tony Tamer, H.I.G.’s founder, turns out to be a major bundler for the Mitt Romney campaign, along with three other directors of H.I.G. who are also big-time money raisers for Romney. Indeed, as fate would have it, two of those directors—Douglas Berman and Brian Schwartz— were actually in attendance at the now infamous “47 percent” fundraiser in Boca Raton, Florida... H.I.G. is the 11th largest of all the contributors to the Romney effort....Solamere Capital—the investment firm run by Mitt Romney’s son, Tagg, and the home of money put into the closely held firm by Tagg’s uncle Scott, mother Anne and, of course, the dad who might just be the next President of the United States—depending upon how the vote count turns out, in our little tale, in the State of Ohio—have shared business interests with H.I.G. either directly or via Solamere Advisors which is owned, in part, by Solamere Capital, including a reported investment in H.I.G. by either Solamere Capital or Solamere Advisors.
Tagg, by the way, is the son that said, after the second POTUS debate, that he'd like to punch Obama. Not Josh Romney, the one made famous in this .gif:
Exhibit C: OK, one for the Romney Camp
Obviously, since I get more left-wing press than right, I'm missing out on some important conspiracy theories from the other side. In the interest of balance, here's one that Pelón posted on Facebook today. I'm sure there are better ones, feel free to include them on this thread.
http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/21/cbs-n ... z29zidtm00Basically, a graphic came up on an Arizona news program saying that Obama had won the election with 43% of the vote. (Apparently a lot of people went with third-party candidates in that alternate reality.) Or something. Whatever.
Anyway, this is the USA, so you know there are going to be all sorts of voter irregularities. Any predictions? Perhaps interestingly, the astrologers are also predicting a contested election, perhaps going all the way to the Supreme Court, with most saying Obama will come out on top. Or maybe that's not interesting. Anyway, I just figured there would be a lot of conspiracies floating around for the next few weeks.....
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