"What You Looking At!"

By Semperpapa

Remember when you were a kid? The playground bully was always ready with the challenge “What you looking at!”
Most of the time he would be successful in cowering the target, but in rare and satisfying occasions, the bully would end up with a bloody nose.

Well, the playground bully for today is Larry Lomax, Clark County, Nevada, Registrar of Voters.
After the incidents of voting “irregularities” that showed up in Nevada this week during the advanced voting in that state, Lomax has come out with his personal kind of “what you looking at!”

Mr. Lomax has come out for a press conference where he stated that the allegations of voting problems have been grossly exaggerated and that he has “reconciled” the small number of discrepancies reported.

It is not exactly clear what Lomax means by “reconciled” as he obviously does not believe that the people of Nevada are entitled to any sort of explanation. He tells that he now knows what happened, but would not expand on it beyond a veil accusation of political grandstanding on the part of the parties.

Republican supporters of Sharron Angle have alleged that Reid’s campaign volunteers were giving voters free coffee cards in exchange for favorable votes. The Democrat campaign leaders have stated that they only gave the cards to people who volunteered for the get out the vote campaign.

Democrats have accused the Angle campaign to roam predominantly Hispanic neighborhoods passing out flyers suggesting Hispanics to skip the voting. No proof of any of this was provided by those hinting the accusations.

So the state of Nevada has received no formal complains and that may be why Mr. Lomax is unwilling to give more details about his reconciliations.

What has been brought up by an attorney for the Nevada Republican Party is that in some counties showed higher number of ballots cast compared to the number of people who actually signed up for early voting. Officials are continuing their investigation.

What it comes down to is that the American people have grown so untrusting of the political apparatus that the suspicion and skepticism are rampant. Personally, I loath Harry Reid to the point that I consider him capable of the dirtiest, most criminal behavior in order to win the elections. If the hinting of voting fraud comes out from Nevada, I am surely not one that would say “Oh no, not Reid!”

I am not sure of the political leanings of Mr. Lomax, and really could not care less, but in the highly charged environment of the current election cycle, any potential rumor of voter fraud and/or intimidation should receive the maximum level of attention and should have the highest level of transparency.

Hey Harry, to quote a lousy excuse for American, The War Is Lost! Pack your trophies and get out!

Just my thoughts!