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"Trust, but verify."
-- Ronald Reagan1
40th US President
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As each election cycle approaches, more and more articles about alleged voter fraud, voter caging, vote manipulation and voter intimidation begin to come out.
Sometimes, they are simply examples of fear-mongering used to attempt to move the public in one direction or another with regard to Voter Identification laws.
Sometimes, they appear to be conspiracy theories by nutcases.
And sometimes, they turn out to be grounded in reality.
In all cases, you never know what you'll find unless you first look at the facts -- and sometimes getting to those facts takes Herculean efforts.
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"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything."
-- Josef Stalin (1879-1953)
Georgian Soviet politician
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Why?
Over the fold, some quotes, some reflections, some news about ongoing developments over at the Velvet Revolution and a list of related stories.
This is an Open Thread.
