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Juanita says there’s not many things in the world that she trusts, and you can add the motion picture industry to that list.

Especially when it’s run by Republicans in the Texas House.  “Honey, you give those boys a moving picture camera, a polling place, a badge of some sort, and they’ll make a bigger mess than kindergartners with finger paints inside of 30 minutes,” she says.

Ponder on this —

On Monday, the House Elections Committee heard testimony on House Bill 1926 by state Rep. Bill Zedler (R-Arlington). The bill would allow poll watchers — who represent parties, groups or candidates — to videotape in polling places if they believe something illegal is occurring (and without compromising individual ballot secrecy). The bill also makes it a Class B Misdemeanor for someone to reveal poll watchers’ identities without their permission, punishable by a max $2,000 fine and/or six months in jail or less.

Representatives of counties and county officials said the proposed rights to record video and remain anonymous would be the creation of unique privileges for poll watchers, and cautioned against unintended consequences, such as voter intimidation and inability for poll workers to maintain order in polling places.

“Think for a minute about the ornery little cusses the Republican Party already has out causing mayhem with video editing equipment.  Think about Andrew Breitbart and James O’Keefe at your polling location following your hiney all around and taking movies of your voter certificate, how long you stood at the booth to vote, and what not.”

“Naahhhhh … nothing could possibly go wrong there,” she adds.

“Next thing you know we’ll have videotaping people videotaping the video takers.  The only winner I see here is Sony,” she smiles.