There's still one week until the election, but the Republicans are getting an early start on stealing it. In Springfield MO, a Republican group has been caught trying to disenfranchise Democratic voters. The Republicans falsely used the names of a few different legitimate voter registration groups, and got hundreds of people to fill out registration cards. Then they picked out the cards from Democrats and shredded them. This is a felony, and these folks will do jail time. But of course the real question is how many other Republican scumbags have been doing the same thing across the country.
If you get to your polling place next week and they tell you that you're not registered, don't panic. Just tell them you want a provisional ballot. That lets you cast your vote, and your county officials can figure out later what the problem was.
Or, you could actually visit your county courthouse this week and vote early.
That might be a good idea for another reason.
Word is now filtering out that the Republicans are hiring
a hundred thousand thugs at $100 each to pretend to be "observers"
at strongly Democratic polling places.
The job of these beefy zitbrains will be to "challenge" every voter.
They'll say they personally know you and that you're not qualified
to vote.
I expect there will be a lot of fistfights over this.
But you can avoid the problem by voting this week, if you're in one of
the majority of states which allow early voting.
Look up your county registrar of voters on the web or in the phone book,
find out where they are doing early voting, and head down there today!
As a bonus, this also lets you avoid using insecure electronic voting machines,
since in most counties the way early voting works is they give you an absentee
ballot and you fill it out on the spot.
I did it this afternoon, it was easy.