Election Shenanigans Watch: Virginia and George Mason
As many of you know, there is a flyer going around Virginia telling voters that Republicans vote today, Democrats vote Wednesday.
We can argue whether voters who don’t know when election day is deserve to vote at all.
But these tricks are also being used to “confuse” students. At George Mason University, the Provost felt the need to send around this clarification:
To the Mason Community:I hear some troubling rumors, so here are a couple of facts: 1. The election is Nov. 4, for all political parties. The notion that one party votes Nov. 5 is UNTRUE. 2. It is also UNTRUE that any student jeopardizes financial aid by voting.
Peter N. Stearns
Provost
But there is some back and forth after the jump.
Late last night, George Mason Provost sent around yet another email clarification:
To the Mason Community:Please note that election day has been moved to November 5th. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you.
Peter N. Stearns
Provost
Nice.
This morning Provost Stearns basically told his students not to be idiots:
Dear Colleagues,It has come to my attention early this morning that a message was hacked into the system fraudulently stating that election day has been moved. I am sure everybody realizes this is a hoax, it is also a serious offense and we are looking into it. Please be reminded that election day is today, November 4th.
Peter N. Stearns
Provost
Dirty tricks are bad, but if you are a college educated student and you don’t know when election day is … maybe you are too addled to vote anyway.
Decisions are made by those who sober show up.
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FIRST-SUCK IT ATL!
SECOND
GULC students needed picture books to inform them when and how to vote.
next you're going to be saying we should have literacy tests before people can vote. or why not just limit voting to land-owning white men?
If you are too stupid to know what day is election day, then you deserve to be duped. It's not called election dayS. This is just another ploy by Democrats to whine and complain for the next four years, bringing the total to 12.
Michele Obama looks like a buck toothed horse.
I'm scared that a Democrat won't pay my mortgage or student loan bills.
-nervous T10 1L
It is a joke based on allegations from 2000 that were investigated by the looney civil rights commission and much heralded despite a complete lack of evidence.
i'm nervous about being beaten by roving hoards of african americans while i am out nervously walking to vote
-nervous T-10 1L
No Elie, we CAN'T argue whether someone who gets duped like that deserves to vote at all. Everyone deserves to vote just like you still deserve to run for Vice-President even if you can't figure out that the funny French-sounding man on the phone is not, in fact, Nic Sarkozy.
Former Thelen partner Tom Glascock (aka Glass Cock) here, wondering why the fat race baiting partisan donut munching turd burglar didn't include the Democratic election fraud story from Philly in his post.
Elie, there's plenty of reports out there about fraudulent dem actions you could report on (i.e. Sen. Clinton politicking 5ft from poll booths, Philly polling sites kicking out Repub (minority) vote watchers for partisan reasons, etc.)
10:46,
Do you lift all of your comments from Drudge's headlines?
From the Cthulu/Mystal '08 website:
Supreme Court judges: Great Cthulhu is well accustomed to the adoration of priests wearing black robes and he is willing to accept the due homage of the Nine and raise them to his priesthood. Since there will no doubt be many vacancies on the court as their minds break one after another in the mad ecstacy of his fearful presence, Great Cthulhu pledges to appoint only strict Constitutional constructionists to the bench under the assumption that the basic sanity of their approach should allow them to serve at least a term year or two before they are reduced to gloriously gibbering cannibals. Because Great Cthulhu spent many years himself neither living nor breathing, he sees no reason that the Constitution must either.
I heard a rumor that they're letting black people vote this year. That is a hoax, right?
Don't feed Michele Obama apples, her buck teeth might take your fingers off.
Dont have sex with 17's mom, her gential warts may cause your penis to fall off.
14--Notice the little numbers on the right side of your post???????????????? This is to prevent confusion when multiple people post during the same minute.
7- No one will EVER pay your student loan bill except for YOU.
Repubs enjoy throwing all of our money around to bail out homeowners...yippee!
17 - please spell check before you post. otherwise, good comment.
Patrick Ewing has denied reports that he will play Michelle Obama in the made for tv movie on the 2008 election.
18 - Cthulu/Mystal command you to be silent, lest they burgle your turds.
17--Do you mean gentile warts? You could just say jew warts and make the same effect. Corrected, your post would read:
"Don't have sex with 17's mom, her jew warts may cause your penis to fall off."
your commentary on your posts in annoying and stupid - MysTTTal hater
Former Thelen partner Tom Glascock (aka Glass Cock) here again, wondering whether Elie will celebrate the Obama victory with a three way, which would be eating a donut while holding a turkey drumstick.
GM law student's don't know when election is.
LOL. I'd say "what a TTT" but somehow that doesn't seem like enough
4. Yes. Great idea. Can't read, shouldn't vote. Idiots should not have a voice on who runs the country.
So just to get all of the facts straight, Michelle Obama is really Patrick Ewing with jew warts and black people are not allowed to vote?
Confused GULC3L
'A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury'
'From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship'
'The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years'
'During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:
1. From bondage to spiritual faith;
2. From spiritual faith to great courage;
3. From courage to liberty;
4. From liberty to abundance;
5. From abundance to complacency;
6. From complacency to apathy;
7. From apathy to dependence;
8. From dependence back into bondage'
The reason that the provost felt the need to send that email is that someone hacked into the GMU system and sent an email allegedly from the dean trying to trick students into not voting (according to NPR). Maybe you should try to get the whole story Elie.
29 -- 180. Where is this from?
i just voted!
*nervously hopes i filled in the bubbles right*
-nervous T-10 1L
email job leads to nervoust101l@yahoo.com
4, those are some great ideas!
Is a GMU similar to a SMU, or are they totally different species? Does Ash Wednesday have a different meaning to black people? Hopefully this election will answer some of these questions.
Wait, CLS 3L here, when is election day? I am so confused.
Please be advised the email was a GMU-wide email and not specific to the law school. However, I would still like to thank 26 for his truly insightful and invaluable comment adding nothing except for an outward expression of his insecurities. Additionally, 30 is correct about the facts of the situation.
30 - Next time try reading the whole article before you criticize. Elie not only mentioned the hacked email, he actually included it in the article. In conclusion, #30 < Mystal < Michelle Obama < Patrick Ewing < White people.
If you believe that voting is on Wednesday or that you lose financial aid by voting than you are too dumb to be voting in an election that impacts the world.
23- gentile is a non jew. dumbass
23- gentile is a non jew. dumbass
AYERS, FARRAKHAN SHOW UP TO VOTE AT OBAMA POLLING PLACE
From ABC News Politics Blog
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/11/among-the-other.html
“November 04, 2008 8:38 AM
CHICAGO, Ill. -- Among the other voters who have shown up to vote at Shoesmith Elementary School this morning, where Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., will vote: Louis Farrakhan and William Ayers.
Seriously.
Welcome to the South Side of Chicago.”
What, the Reverend Wright did not vote?
nervous t-10 1L is a bigot.
i just voted to over turn brown vs. board of ed because i was beat up by a mob of angry joyous minorities!
*nervously hopes i filled in the bubbles right*
-nervous T-10 1L
email job leads to nervoust101l@yahoo.com
Republicans leave goat head on steps of Democratic candidate's office. ATL doesn't report it. Clearly part of the vast right wing conspiracy.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Severed_goat_head_left_outside_Dem_1103.html
Mmm goat heads sound delicious.
-Elie Mystal
41 - So? Why is it news that these people showed up to vote?
I cannot believe blacks are being allowed to vote. In Michigan we would not allow it...
*drops mouth in amazement*
-nervous T-10 1L
29-titcr
bonus answer: the quote was said by some scottish professor in 1770, talking about the fall of the athenian republic. alexander something. true story.
Just a quick distinction - this was the UNDERGRADUATE campus, not the law school.
Just a quick distinction - this was the UNDERGRADUATE campus, not the law school.
I'm so glad I don't know any of the people who commented here. Yet it is upsetting that you exist at all.