Republican conspiracies go nuts

What amazes me about the conservative blogging side of the street is the echo chamber they create and how easily they convince themselves of conspiracy and fraud in the world around them. The latest comes from Wisconsin, where one blogger says the fact that up to 10,000 votes cannot be verified in the Milwaukee area is a clear sign of Democratic deception.

Blogs for Bush picks up the story and runs with it as well. And I can see that others have trackbacked from BfB as well. It's spreading like wildfire.

Of course, it's not proof. And it's always tougher on the right when you actually read the articles they link:

A Republican lawmaker who advocates a voter ID requirement is criticizing the Milwaukee Election Commission's handling of voters who registered at the polls Nov. 2, saying some 10,000 could not be sent cards to verify their address.

State Rep. Jeff Stone (R-Greendale) said Friday the number reflects cases where registration cards filled out by voters were illegible or, in some cases, duplicates.

City officials, though, said late Friday there may be other explanations, such as voters who registered at the polls even though they had registered in advance, or filled out cards to update flawed ones they had submitted earlier.

Sloppy handwriting is part of the Democrats plan to take over Wisconsin! Brilliant!

If I were a conservative blogger, I would now find a study that shows Democrats tend to have sloppier handwriting that Republicans and suggest it as proof of a mad conspiracy against Bush and his massive mandate of anyone but Kerry.

Leave it to the right wing to take an article calling for a fix to our voting system and use it to claim that the entire country is corrupt with the exception of themselves (you can see that here, when Kerry speaks out about the election, he's a sore loser. Republicans apparently are crusaders for the truth).

Here's my favorite part from the initial post:

Republicans are often charged with trying to suppress the vote. Well, we won in November and it's impossible to charge us with that after the election's over.

Uh, what? Because you won, it's "impossible to charge you with cheating?" Please show your work on this one.

Was the Ohio vote stolen? I'm not convinced, no. Wisconsin? Again, no. But imagine if the right and the left, instead of accusing each other of massive voter deception decided to work together to make the system more accountable. Imagine developing rules and laws that would make this sort of speculation unnecessary. Wouldn't that be better than partisan sniping and these mad witch hunts?

Why wouldn't you want, for example, an even ratio of voting machines to voters in all districts, if not only to prevent it as a claim of voter suppression? Why not take out as many of the kinks as possible to stop claims of suppression?

And did anyone check the Republican districts in Wisconsin, those that use the same day registration policy and see how many votes they had that could not be verified? No? Why not?

Because that doesn't fit the story line. Instead it's Democrats = sore losers, Republicans = crusaders for truth.