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    Who are the NERD fund donors Mr Snyder?

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    The Limits of Libertarianism (none / 0) (#3)
    by K Smooth on Fri May 01, 2009 at 09:02:15 AM EST
    I don't know anything about Dem staffers, but in the case of Amash and Opsommer this is a good example of taking Libertarianism too far.  My guess would be that their thinking was that this was their way to liberate voters from the horrible oppression of having to go around the block and stand in a line in order to vote.  They completely missed the importance of ballot security, or the extent to which the ACORN crowd is willing to cheat to win elections, or the way this makes it easier for them to stuff the ballot box.

    The temptation of doctrinaire libertarians is to think that the fair administration of government isn't really all that important.  A lot of dumb things have been done in the name of fairness, mainly by the left but sometimes by the right as well, so it's an understandable mistake, but a mistake nonetheless, especially in this case.

    I happen to like Amash (less familiar with Opsommer) so I'll give him the benefit of the doubt that he just wasn't briefed on this well.  But I'm counting on the Senate to sit on this one.

    K-smooth

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