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If this is the reason, there is a bigger problem in America then simple voter fraud...
by blindhippo 14y ago
If this is the reason, there is a bigger problem in America then simple voter fraud...
- mindrag 14y agoThere are all sorts of laws that protect us from various government abuses, such as requiring search warrants, trial by jury, freedom of speech, etc. Voter secrecy is a prudent safeguard along those same lines.
- briandear 14y agoEver dealt with a union election? That's exactly the problem with non secret ballots. You vote against unionization and thugs show up at your house. Union activists are among the most violent people around.
- thomasz 14y agoGosh. Ever dealt with a union election? That's exactly the problem with non secret ballots. You vote for unionization and libertarians show up at your house. Libertarians are among the most violent people around.
- bdunbar 14y agoPerhaps you know libertarians that I don't. The ones I know are well armed, but about as non-violent as you can be and not be a Quaker.
- thomasz 14y agoJust to make it clear: This was sarcasm. I never have dealt with armed libertarians beating somebody up because he supported unionization. The point is: Neither has he encountered union thugs beating somebody up because he was against unionization. It's a ridiculous myth.
- bdunbar 14y agoI missed the sarcasm at first - my bad! But I don't know about 'union thug' being a myth: lots of actual violence back in the dark days of the last century. Carnegie brought in an army to bust up the union and it wasn't because they were meek lambs.
- finnw 14y ago> This was sarcasm No, it was irony.
- thomasz 14y agomea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa
- trhtrsh 14y agoYou could make your point without rabid partisanism. There is violence on all sides of unionization. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-union_violence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-union_violence