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   Libtard to All   
   Re: scooter's "election day" fallacy   
   14 Apr 21 19:49:18   
   
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   From: libtard@sandennistas.orq   
      
   On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 18:41:47 -0700, Rudy Canoza    
   wrote:   
      
   >On 4/14/2021 5:16 PM, F. Mark Hansen , sleazy rent-skip   
   >chaser, possible polygamist and irrational gun nut, lied:   
   >   
   >> On 4/14/2021 4:36 PM, Rudy Canoza wrote:   
   >>> scooter wrote, "He doesn't seem to understand the term 'election day'".   
   >>> scooter also wrote, "There is a reason we call it 'election day' rather   
   than   
   >>> election week."   
   >>>   
   >>> scooter is committing a fallacy:  appeal to tradition, also called appeal   
   to   
   >>> antiquity (argumentum ad antiquitatem).  Because we always used to vote on   
   >>> only one day, scooter says we always *should* vote on only one day.  That's   
   >>> false. There is no valid reason why we, as a society, might not decide to   
   >>> allow early voting.  There's no valid reason why we might not do several   
   >>> things to make it easier to vote, thus increasing voter participation.   
   >>>   
   >>> scooter doesn't want to allow early and mail-in voting because he thinks it   
   >>> makes it too easy for Democrats to vote.  He pretends to be opposed to   
   >>> "fraudulent" votes, but the reality is, he just doesn't want Democrats to   
   be   
   >>> able to vote easily.   
   >>>   
   >>> All of the Republiscum election changes that reduce or eliminate early   
   voting   
   >>> days, reduce polling place hours, reduce polling places, restrict or   
   eliminate   
   >>> mail-in voting — these are all intended to make it harder for eligible   
   voters   
   >>> who vote Democratic to vote.   
   >>   
   >> Your entire argument boils down to "People who vote Democratic   
   >> are dumber than other voters,   
   >   
   >No, Hansen, it doesn't.  scooter already tried that lie.   
      
   no i didnt, i never even thpoght of it. why do you  lie rudy? You want   
   a win, not the will of the real American people.   
      
      
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