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Originally Posted by Cerek
My lengthy post was done in response to your own example of reading things into posts that aren't there. Specifically, you opened your post with.....
I don't recall anyone stating Republicans never participated in any form of vote tampering. What has been thoroughly discussed (and disputed) is whether Republicans effectively "stole" the last two Presidential elections. All discussions here relating to voter fraud and/or tampering have been in relation to these elections. So your post refuted a claim that had never been made and referenced an election that had never been discussed. In other words, it had very little to do with the topic at hand.
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While I wasn't responding to anyone in particular, it *was* relevant to the debate after all - it may not have dealt with the 2000 or 2004 election directly, but I did mention that a former GOP member (who actually did time for his efforts to sabotage the election process) implicated that there's a larger culture of Republican shenanigans during elections. One that didn't just magically appear and disappear with the 2002 elections, either.
Since that was the topic at hand - after all, you and others *were* trying to make a big deal out of the fact that the convicted vote recounters had nothing to do with the GOP directly, thereby arguing that there have been no official accounts of Republican voter fraud - I don't see why it was irrelevant of me to bring it up.