Over the Hedge by T Lewis and Michael Fry for August 15, 2016

There are about five cases of voter fraud in a presidential election, nationwide. None of these has ever affected the outcome. Yet, this is the official basis for disenfranchising millions when we know the real reason is to keep old, rich, white, male, crooks in power, because they are the ones passing these laws..Jerrell CottonThe founders envisioned both a democracy (rule by people with both the majority and minority having rights which must be respected) and a republic (elected representatives to work out the details). Whenever I see someone claiming we are only a republic, I know what they want is something like the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, when 5% of the population selects a Potemkin legislature which rubber stamps the decisions of the Presidium of the Central Committee, whether the economic structure is the tyranny of state communism, or the tyranny of unrestrained capitalism.