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John Manning
Nov 5, 2012, 3:51:12 PM11/5/12
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-- A strategist for Sen. John McCain's 2008
presidential campaign said on Monday morning that
voter fraud was virtually nonexistent in the U.S. and
yet has somehow become part of the Republican "mythology."
"I think that all of this stuff that has transpired
over the last two years is in search of a solution to a
problem, voting fraud, that *doesn't really exist* when you
look deeply at the question," strategist Steve Schmidt said on
MSNBC.
"It's part of the mythology now in the Republican Party
that there's widespread voter fraud across the country," Schmidt
said. "In fact, there's not. Both sides are lawyered up to the
nth degree and they'll all posture back and forth on it but it
probably won't come down to lawyers."
Republican-led legislatures across the county have passed
voter ID laws during the past several years, including laws
in Pennsylvania and Texas that have been blocked or delayed by
courts.
McCain, Schmidt's former boss, warned at the last
presidential debate in 2008 that the election could be
affected voter fraud and claimed the community organizing
group known as ACORN was "now on the verge of maybe perpetrating
one of the greatest frauds in voter history in this country,
maybe destroying the fabric of democracy."
~~ VIDEO at link:
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/11/steve_schmidt_voter_fraud_mythology.php?ref=fpnewsfeed
Joe Cooper
Nov 5, 2012, 5:44:14 PM11/5/12
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John Manning <jrob...@terra.com.br> wrote in
news:dM6dnYAIA9EhuwXN...@giganews.com:
Election fraud in America is no laughing matter. Florida election
officials have discovered that the state's voter polls have 53,000 dead
voters still registered to vote.1 That's a whole city of dead voters
still "eligible" to vote – more than the entire population of Pensacola,
Florida!
Unfortunately, in some U.S. cities voter fraud has been so common and so
pervasive for so long that it's more likely to be a punch line than a
felony.
In Chicago, for example, when a couple announces the birth of a new baby
boy, their friends are all-too-likely to joke: "Is he registered to vote?
…Twice?"
Then there's that infamous old adage: "Vote early and vote often" – a
funny but revealing quip widely attributed to the Chicago gangster Al
Capone, a man who epitomized political corruption, and boasted an illegal
empire built on graft and intimidation.
And by now, of course, it is practically axiomatic that Mayor Richard
Daley and Chicago's Democratic political machine stole the 1960
presidential election for JFK.
It's safe to say that when it comes to elections, Chicago has a
reputation, a history, or, if we're honest about it – a problem.
Voter scams and scandals are notorious in Chicago and across much of
Illinois, including outdated voter registrations being voted by precinct
captains; fake registrations with made-up names; "ghost" voting by the
dearly departed; elderly voters having their ballots cast by care-
workers; and ineligible felons and illegal aliens casting illegal
ballots. And Chicago's problem isn't just distant history.
The Illinois Attorney General's Office recently prosecuted and convicted
two Cook County election workers for election fraud for violating voter
privacy by "supervising" voters as they completed ballots. In 2002,
dozens of Chicago's senior citizens applied for absentee ballots, only to
discover that the man who was helping them to apply had already filled in
the ballots. As the Chicago Sun-Times reported, when the seniors asked
him what he was doing, he answered: "Don't worry, you're voting
Democratic."2
Then there's Chicago's interstate rival, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The
Milwaukee Police Department was directed to investigate voter fraud that
occurred during the 2004 presidential election. In 2008, the MPD task
force issued a troubling and extensive report.
According to the study, 16 workers from the John Kerry campaign committed
felonies that went unprosecuted by Wisconsin authorities. The task force
identified a single property where 128 different people were registered
to vote, and each one was signed up for the 2004 election. The report
cited cases of double-voting, "ghost" voting by dead people, and
uncounted absentee ballots that were discovered only after the election
was over and the winner declared. The task force questioned the voter
registration practices of a number of homeless shelters, and found
homeless individuals registered in multiple locations. With no photo ID
required to vote in Wisconsin at the time, anyone could have cast
multiple ballots simply by knowing the homeless man's name. As the MPD
investigation observed, "vote portability and the abject poverty that
defines homelessness, make these unfortunate individuals vulnerable to
become the tools of voter fraud by those who would exploit the
homeless."3
And let's not forget Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where, during the 2008
presidential election, the New Black Panthers were famously permitted to
stand guard in front of the city's precinct polling locations, armed with
nightsticks. That was the same election year that CNN reported that 1,500
of Philadelphia's ballots were sent to the U.S. Attorney's Office to be
investigated, with another 8,000 considered "suspect." Then, in 2010, Fox
News reported that Bucks County was investigating 500 allegedly
fraudulent ballots involving a door-to-door canvassing scheme and forged
absentee ballot signatures. And we can add to the list reports of voters
receiving letters from the Pennsylvania Voters Assistance Office – an
office that doesn't exist.
But this is nothing new for the City of Brotherly Love. Philadelphia,
like Chicago, is no newcomer to election fraud, as the Philadelphia
Inquirer reminds us: "In the 1960s, a Democratic ward leader took shoe
boxes full of quarters to the polls in poor neighborhoods – 'to pay off
voters,' a veteran election lawyer recalls. In 1993, a judge overturned a
pivotal State Senate race because of hundreds of bogus absentee
ballots."4
And because history so often seems ready to repeat itself, dozens of
polling places in Philadelphia's primary elections last year mysteriously
recorded more votes in some races than the number of voters who had
signed in to vote. Indeed, Philadelphia commissioners are currently
investigating 83 of the city's voting districts where more votes were
cast in the municipal primary than the number of people who actually
voted.5 As the press explained, "Until they understand what happened, the
commissioners say, they cannot rule out the possibility of deliberate,
illegal efforts to run up votes for favored candidates, with the
perpetrators losing count as they tried to cover their tracks."6
The unfortunate reality is that in places like Chicago, Milwaukee,
Philadelphia, and many other cities across the country, election fraud
has been woven into the political fabric of the community, tainting
elections, skewing results, disenfranchising legal voters, and
compounding voter cynicism for far too long. Voters deserve better.
In 1965, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 with overwhelming
majorities in both houses in order to honor America's commitment to count
every eligible vote and ensure the franchise to our citizens. As he
signed the landmark legislation, President Johnson explained: "Every
American citizen must have an equal right to vote. Yet the harsh fact is
that in many places in this country, men and women are kept from voting
simply because they are Negroes."
The Voting Rights Act was needed, as Johnson admonished, because of the
schemes and contrivances used to disqualify and suppress the votes and
voice of black Americans.
The Negro citizen may go to register only to be told that the day is
wrong, or the hour is late, or the official in charge is late, or the
official in charge is absent. And if he persists and he manages to
present himself to register, he may be disqualified because he did not
spell out his middle name or because he abbreviated a word on his
application. And if he manages to fill out an application he is given a
test. The register is the sole judge of whether he passes his test. He
may be asked to recite the entire constitution, or explain the most
complex provisions of state laws. And even a college degree cannot be
used to prove that he can read and write.
But vote suppression wears any number of disguises. Today, election
fraudsters share the same goal as those who denied black Americans their
political voice in the early 20th century – to substitute their own
preferred candidates and policy initiatives for those of the electorate.
The Voting Rights Act empowers the U.S. Department of Justice to combat
disenfranchisement and vote suppression, and that authority should be
used today to fight election fraud, particularly in places like Chicago
and Philadelphia, where the citizens have long suffered the fraudsters'
crooked schemes.
On the heels of the ACORN scandal, instead of digging in deeper to ferret
out more evidence of electioneering fraud, too many at the Justice
Department have turned a blind eye and by doing so they are failing to
carry out the mission that Congress gave the Department when it adopted
the VRA.
Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act authorizes the Justice Department to
sue in federal court in order to challenge election practices that it has
determined are racially discriminatory. The Justice Department also
routinely works with states and municipalities to help them better
understand the Voting Rights Act and avoid discrimination in voting, and
may even send federal observers to monitor elections to ensure their
fairness.
Rather than stymie the legitimate and constitutional efforts of states to
stop voter fraud, the Justice Department should use that same authority
today to take a lead role in combating the equally invidious practices of
modern election fraud. It should work proactively with cities and states
commonly known to be hotbeds of "election irregularities," and help them
to root out political corruption that local election and law enforcement
officials are likely to ignore.
Furthermore, Section 8 of the Voting Rights Act provides for the
appointment of federal observers within political subdivisions in order
to monitor elections in precincts where the Attorney General or the
federal courts believe observers to be necessary for a fair election. In
some instances, for example, there are concerns about racial
discrimination in the voting process. In other cases, federal monitoring
helps ensure compliance with bilingual election procedures; or the
Department may have information indicating potential violations of other
federal voting laws, and one or more DOJ attorneys may be assigned to
monitor the election and maintain contact with state and local officials.
Today a vigilant Justice Department would monitor news reports and other
sources to determine where and when to interject itself in order to limit
the modern versions of voter fraud. Make no mistake, denying an American
the right to vote by "harvesting ballots," hiring felons, using "ghosts"
or any other type of voter fraud is just as unacceptable today as it was
prior to passage of the Voting Rights Act.
Section 2 lawsuits and Section 8 monitoring programs under the Voting
Rights Act would go a long way toward fighting today's election fraud
schemes; schemes that often target the same black voters once deprived
under Jim Crow. They would signal a concerted federal and state effort to
ensure election fairness and count every vote. Moreover, they would make
it clear to would be election law scofflaws, this behavior will not be
tolerated and offenders will be accountable.
It is tragic that Attorney General Holder and the Obama Administration's
Justice Department apparently continue to place party politics ahead of
the integrity of the country's elections by turning a blind eye to voter
fraud in states such as Illinois, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, while
persistently obstructing state and local efforts to combat corruption in
places such as Georgia, South Carolina, and Texas.
Election fraud is another name for disenfranchisement – and it's a
felony, not a punch line. Regrettably, the Justice Department seems to be
in on the joke.
Horace Cooper is an adjunct fellow of the National Center for Public
Policy Research. He taught constitutional law at George Mason University
in Virginia, was senior counsel to U.S. House Majority Leader Dick Armey
and is a founding member of the black conservative leadership group
Project 21.
Footnotes:
1 J. Christian Adams, "53,000 Dead Voters Found in Florida," PJ Media,
May 16, 2012, available online at
http://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2012/05/16/53000-dead-voters-found-in-
florida/ as of June 11, 2012.
2 Jonathan Strong, "Cook County: Voting Fraud Could Pose Threat in
Illinois Senate Race," The Daily Caller, October 22, 2010, available
online at http://dailycaller.com/2010/10/22/cook-county-voting-fraud-
could-pose-threat-in-illinois-senate-race/#ixzz1xVoKt7B2 as of June 11,
2012.
3 Special Investigations Unit, Milwaukee Police Department, "Report of
the Investigation into the November 2, 2004 General Election in the City
of Milwaukee," undated, available online at
http://media2.620wtmj.com/breakingnews/ElectionResults_2004
_VoterFraudInvestigation_MPD-SIU-A2474926.pdf as of June 11, 2012.
4 Bob Warner, "Vote Fraud Targeted by New Pa. Law No Longer Common," The
Philadelphia Inquirer, October 22, 2010, available online at
http://articles.philly.com/2012-05-04/news/31556815_1_vote-fraud-
absentee-voting-voting-machines as of June 11, 2012.
5 Ibid.
6 Ibid.
--
"The SEALs removed one threat to America,
now it's time for the voters to remove the other."
(Retired Navy SEAL Brad Nagel)
news:dM6dnYAIA9EhuwXN...@giganews.com:
Election fraud in America is no laughing matter. Florida election
officials have discovered that the state's voter polls have 53,000 dead
voters still registered to vote.1 That's a whole city of dead voters
still "eligible" to vote – more than the entire population of Pensacola,
Florida!
Unfortunately, in some U.S. cities voter fraud has been so common and so
pervasive for so long that it's more likely to be a punch line than a
felony.
In Chicago, for example, when a couple announces the birth of a new baby
boy, their friends are all-too-likely to joke: "Is he registered to vote?
…Twice?"
Then there's that infamous old adage: "Vote early and vote often" – a
funny but revealing quip widely attributed to the Chicago gangster Al
Capone, a man who epitomized political corruption, and boasted an illegal
empire built on graft and intimidation.
And by now, of course, it is practically axiomatic that Mayor Richard
Daley and Chicago's Democratic political machine stole the 1960
presidential election for JFK.
It's safe to say that when it comes to elections, Chicago has a
reputation, a history, or, if we're honest about it – a problem.
Voter scams and scandals are notorious in Chicago and across much of
Illinois, including outdated voter registrations being voted by precinct
captains; fake registrations with made-up names; "ghost" voting by the
dearly departed; elderly voters having their ballots cast by care-
workers; and ineligible felons and illegal aliens casting illegal
ballots. And Chicago's problem isn't just distant history.
The Illinois Attorney General's Office recently prosecuted and convicted
two Cook County election workers for election fraud for violating voter
privacy by "supervising" voters as they completed ballots. In 2002,
dozens of Chicago's senior citizens applied for absentee ballots, only to
discover that the man who was helping them to apply had already filled in
the ballots. As the Chicago Sun-Times reported, when the seniors asked
him what he was doing, he answered: "Don't worry, you're voting
Democratic."2
Then there's Chicago's interstate rival, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The
Milwaukee Police Department was directed to investigate voter fraud that
occurred during the 2004 presidential election. In 2008, the MPD task
force issued a troubling and extensive report.
According to the study, 16 workers from the John Kerry campaign committed
felonies that went unprosecuted by Wisconsin authorities. The task force
identified a single property where 128 different people were registered
to vote, and each one was signed up for the 2004 election. The report
cited cases of double-voting, "ghost" voting by dead people, and
uncounted absentee ballots that were discovered only after the election
was over and the winner declared. The task force questioned the voter
registration practices of a number of homeless shelters, and found
homeless individuals registered in multiple locations. With no photo ID
required to vote in Wisconsin at the time, anyone could have cast
multiple ballots simply by knowing the homeless man's name. As the MPD
investigation observed, "vote portability and the abject poverty that
defines homelessness, make these unfortunate individuals vulnerable to
become the tools of voter fraud by those who would exploit the
homeless."3
And let's not forget Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where, during the 2008
presidential election, the New Black Panthers were famously permitted to
stand guard in front of the city's precinct polling locations, armed with
nightsticks. That was the same election year that CNN reported that 1,500
of Philadelphia's ballots were sent to the U.S. Attorney's Office to be
investigated, with another 8,000 considered "suspect." Then, in 2010, Fox
News reported that Bucks County was investigating 500 allegedly
fraudulent ballots involving a door-to-door canvassing scheme and forged
absentee ballot signatures. And we can add to the list reports of voters
receiving letters from the Pennsylvania Voters Assistance Office – an
office that doesn't exist.
But this is nothing new for the City of Brotherly Love. Philadelphia,
like Chicago, is no newcomer to election fraud, as the Philadelphia
Inquirer reminds us: "In the 1960s, a Democratic ward leader took shoe
boxes full of quarters to the polls in poor neighborhoods – 'to pay off
voters,' a veteran election lawyer recalls. In 1993, a judge overturned a
pivotal State Senate race because of hundreds of bogus absentee
ballots."4
And because history so often seems ready to repeat itself, dozens of
polling places in Philadelphia's primary elections last year mysteriously
recorded more votes in some races than the number of voters who had
signed in to vote. Indeed, Philadelphia commissioners are currently
investigating 83 of the city's voting districts where more votes were
cast in the municipal primary than the number of people who actually
voted.5 As the press explained, "Until they understand what happened, the
commissioners say, they cannot rule out the possibility of deliberate,
illegal efforts to run up votes for favored candidates, with the
perpetrators losing count as they tried to cover their tracks."6
The unfortunate reality is that in places like Chicago, Milwaukee,
Philadelphia, and many other cities across the country, election fraud
has been woven into the political fabric of the community, tainting
elections, skewing results, disenfranchising legal voters, and
compounding voter cynicism for far too long. Voters deserve better.
In 1965, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 with overwhelming
majorities in both houses in order to honor America's commitment to count
every eligible vote and ensure the franchise to our citizens. As he
signed the landmark legislation, President Johnson explained: "Every
American citizen must have an equal right to vote. Yet the harsh fact is
that in many places in this country, men and women are kept from voting
simply because they are Negroes."
The Voting Rights Act was needed, as Johnson admonished, because of the
schemes and contrivances used to disqualify and suppress the votes and
voice of black Americans.
The Negro citizen may go to register only to be told that the day is
wrong, or the hour is late, or the official in charge is late, or the
official in charge is absent. And if he persists and he manages to
present himself to register, he may be disqualified because he did not
spell out his middle name or because he abbreviated a word on his
application. And if he manages to fill out an application he is given a
test. The register is the sole judge of whether he passes his test. He
may be asked to recite the entire constitution, or explain the most
complex provisions of state laws. And even a college degree cannot be
used to prove that he can read and write.
But vote suppression wears any number of disguises. Today, election
fraudsters share the same goal as those who denied black Americans their
political voice in the early 20th century – to substitute their own
preferred candidates and policy initiatives for those of the electorate.
The Voting Rights Act empowers the U.S. Department of Justice to combat
disenfranchisement and vote suppression, and that authority should be
used today to fight election fraud, particularly in places like Chicago
and Philadelphia, where the citizens have long suffered the fraudsters'
crooked schemes.
On the heels of the ACORN scandal, instead of digging in deeper to ferret
out more evidence of electioneering fraud, too many at the Justice
Department have turned a blind eye and by doing so they are failing to
carry out the mission that Congress gave the Department when it adopted
the VRA.
Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act authorizes the Justice Department to
sue in federal court in order to challenge election practices that it has
determined are racially discriminatory. The Justice Department also
routinely works with states and municipalities to help them better
understand the Voting Rights Act and avoid discrimination in voting, and
may even send federal observers to monitor elections to ensure their
fairness.
Rather than stymie the legitimate and constitutional efforts of states to
stop voter fraud, the Justice Department should use that same authority
today to take a lead role in combating the equally invidious practices of
modern election fraud. It should work proactively with cities and states
commonly known to be hotbeds of "election irregularities," and help them
to root out political corruption that local election and law enforcement
officials are likely to ignore.
Furthermore, Section 8 of the Voting Rights Act provides for the
appointment of federal observers within political subdivisions in order
to monitor elections in precincts where the Attorney General or the
federal courts believe observers to be necessary for a fair election. In
some instances, for example, there are concerns about racial
discrimination in the voting process. In other cases, federal monitoring
helps ensure compliance with bilingual election procedures; or the
Department may have information indicating potential violations of other
federal voting laws, and one or more DOJ attorneys may be assigned to
monitor the election and maintain contact with state and local officials.
Today a vigilant Justice Department would monitor news reports and other
sources to determine where and when to interject itself in order to limit
the modern versions of voter fraud. Make no mistake, denying an American
the right to vote by "harvesting ballots," hiring felons, using "ghosts"
or any other type of voter fraud is just as unacceptable today as it was
prior to passage of the Voting Rights Act.
Section 2 lawsuits and Section 8 monitoring programs under the Voting
Rights Act would go a long way toward fighting today's election fraud
schemes; schemes that often target the same black voters once deprived
under Jim Crow. They would signal a concerted federal and state effort to
ensure election fairness and count every vote. Moreover, they would make
it clear to would be election law scofflaws, this behavior will not be
tolerated and offenders will be accountable.
It is tragic that Attorney General Holder and the Obama Administration's
Justice Department apparently continue to place party politics ahead of
the integrity of the country's elections by turning a blind eye to voter
fraud in states such as Illinois, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, while
persistently obstructing state and local efforts to combat corruption in
places such as Georgia, South Carolina, and Texas.
Election fraud is another name for disenfranchisement – and it's a
felony, not a punch line. Regrettably, the Justice Department seems to be
in on the joke.
Horace Cooper is an adjunct fellow of the National Center for Public
Policy Research. He taught constitutional law at George Mason University
in Virginia, was senior counsel to U.S. House Majority Leader Dick Armey
and is a founding member of the black conservative leadership group
Project 21.
Footnotes:
1 J. Christian Adams, "53,000 Dead Voters Found in Florida," PJ Media,
May 16, 2012, available online at
http://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2012/05/16/53000-dead-voters-found-in-
florida/ as of June 11, 2012.
2 Jonathan Strong, "Cook County: Voting Fraud Could Pose Threat in
Illinois Senate Race," The Daily Caller, October 22, 2010, available
online at http://dailycaller.com/2010/10/22/cook-county-voting-fraud-
could-pose-threat-in-illinois-senate-race/#ixzz1xVoKt7B2 as of June 11,
2012.
3 Special Investigations Unit, Milwaukee Police Department, "Report of
the Investigation into the November 2, 2004 General Election in the City
of Milwaukee," undated, available online at
http://media2.620wtmj.com/breakingnews/ElectionResults_2004
_VoterFraudInvestigation_MPD-SIU-A2474926.pdf as of June 11, 2012.
4 Bob Warner, "Vote Fraud Targeted by New Pa. Law No Longer Common," The
Philadelphia Inquirer, October 22, 2010, available online at
http://articles.philly.com/2012-05-04/news/31556815_1_vote-fraud-
absentee-voting-voting-machines as of June 11, 2012.
5 Ibid.
6 Ibid.
--
"The SEALs removed one threat to America,
now it's time for the voters to remove the other."
(Retired Navy SEAL Brad Nagel)
Joe Cooper
Nov 5, 2012, 5:46:09 PM11/5/12
to
John Manning <jrob...@terra.com.br> lied in
news:dM6dnYAIA9EhuwXN...@giganews.com:
O’Keefe bombshell: Corruptocrat Jim Moran’s son caught on tape in voter
fraud/forgery scam; Update: Moran’s son resigns
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gT77qP2Nai8
O’Keefe and Project Veritas expose Obama for America/DNC voter fraud
enablers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=q_iJfnbMzI0
news:dM6dnYAIA9EhuwXN...@giganews.com:
O’Keefe bombshell: Corruptocrat Jim Moran’s son caught on tape in voter
fraud/forgery scam; Update: Moran’s son resigns
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gT77qP2Nai8
O’Keefe and Project Veritas expose Obama for America/DNC voter fraud
enablers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=q_iJfnbMzI0
Joe Cooper
Nov 5, 2012, 5:47:19 PM11/5/12
to
John Manning <jrob...@terra.com.br> lied in
news:dM6dnYAIA9EhuwXN...@giganews.com.
The hits keep coming: Project Veritas exposes non-citizens, dead people
registered to vote in NC — and so much more
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ptSrcNvJzBQ
John Manning
Nov 6, 2012, 10:20:06 AM11/6/12
to
On 11/6/2012 12:29 PM, default wrote:
>
> NC developed the same glitch when they went from ages to birth days.
> No known BD (as in no driver's license) and the computer arbitrarily
> makes you >100 years old.
>
The GOP Fraud of New Voter ID Laws - STUDY: Just 10 Cases Since 2000
-- A News21 analysis of 2,068 alleged election-fraud
cases since 2000 shows that while fraud has occurred, the
rate is infinitesimal, and in-person voter impersonation on
Election Day, which prompted 37 state legislatures to enact or
consider tough voter ID laws, is *virtually non-existent*
In an exhaustive public records search, News21 reporters sent
thousands of requests to elections officers in all 50 states,
asking for every case of fraudulent activity including
registration fraud, absentee ballot fraud, vote buying, false
election counts, campaign fraud, casting an ineligible vote,
voting twice, voter impersonation fraud and intimidation.
Analysis of the resulting comprehensive News21 election
fraud database turned up 10 cases of voter impersonation.
With 146 million registered voters in the United States during
that time, those 10 cases represent one out of about every
15 million prospective voters.
"Voter fraud at the polls is an *insignificant aspect*
of American elections," said elections expert David Schultz,
professor of public policy at Hamline University School of Business
in St. Paul, Minn.
"There is absolutely no evidence that (voter impersonation fraud)
has affected the outcome of any election in the United States, at
least any recent election in the United States," Schultz said.
~~ More here: http://votingrights.news21.com/article/election-fraud/
*SEE ALSO* The GOP's Bogus Claims of Voter Fraud
The Republican National Lawyers Association (RNLA) released
a report in December 2011 to document all the cases of voter fraud that
have been prosecuted over the last decade.
And what did the group turn up?
A grand total of 311 cases.
Given the larger national context — over 131 million Americans voted
in 2008, for example — that's an infinitesimally small number.
But as Julia Krieger explained, that's really just the start of
the problems with the RNLA's findings.
What's more, the RNLA is dishonestly representing their data when
they describe it as "in the past decade: A quick gander at the
website's evidence shows citations going as far back as 1997.
Although they claim to have evidence of 46 states with voter fraud
prosecutions in the last decade, their website only lists 44
states. For two of those 44, there are only examples from the 1990s
up to 2000, bringing the state count down to 42. To be clear,
that's eight states where they identified no instances of voter
fraud in the last decade.
Further, the RNLA brags: "The RNLA webpage presents evidence that
there were at least seventeen cases involving prosecutions for
non-citizen voting in 2005 just in one state: Florida."
However, according to the Department of Justice, at least four of
the seventeen cases they list were dismissed.
Remember, we're talking about a Republican group taking its best
shot at this. RNLA officials could to do as much comprehensive
research as they wanted, they could define their terms to their
liking; they could massage the results to match their
pre-determined conclusion; and they still couldn't make much of a
case.
And if the RNLA thinks these 311 cases from the last decade — some
of which weren't from the last decade, some of which were cases
that got thrown out of court, some of which may have very well
have been innocent mistakes — justify a national campaign to
restrict Americans’ access to their own democracy, they're
wildly misguided.
Republicans support all kinds of new voting restrictions —
voter-ID laws, severe limits on voter-registration drives,
closing early-voting windows, strict new limits on absentee
ballots — because they find it easier to rig voter eligibility than
to win elections fair and square. It's why all of these
restrictions affect traditionally Democratic constituencies.
GOP officials can keep defending a foolish pretense about
imaginary fraud, but there's no reason for anyone else to take
it seriously.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_12/the_evidence_bolstering_voterf034087.php
> On Mon, 5 Nov 2012 22:44:14 +0000 (UTC), Joe Cooper
> <contr...@126.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Election fraud in America is no laughing matter. Florida election
>> officials have discovered that the state's voter polls have 53,000 dead
>> voters still registered to vote.1 That's a whole city of dead voters
>> still "eligible" to vote – more than the entire population of Pensacola,
>> Florida!
>
> Still eligible maybe, but are they still voting?
> <contr...@126.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Election fraud in America is no laughing matter. Florida election
>> officials have discovered that the state's voter polls have 53,000 dead
>> voters still registered to vote.1 That's a whole city of dead voters
>> still "eligible" to vote – more than the entire population of Pensacola,
>> Florida!
>
>
> NC developed the same glitch when they went from ages to birth days.
> No known BD (as in no driver's license) and the computer arbitrarily
> makes you >100 years old.
>
The GOP Fraud of New Voter ID Laws - STUDY: Just 10 Cases Since 2000
-- A News21 analysis of 2,068 alleged election-fraud
cases since 2000 shows that while fraud has occurred, the
rate is infinitesimal, and in-person voter impersonation on
Election Day, which prompted 37 state legislatures to enact or
consider tough voter ID laws, is *virtually non-existent*
In an exhaustive public records search, News21 reporters sent
thousands of requests to elections officers in all 50 states,
asking for every case of fraudulent activity including
registration fraud, absentee ballot fraud, vote buying, false
election counts, campaign fraud, casting an ineligible vote,
voting twice, voter impersonation fraud and intimidation.
Analysis of the resulting comprehensive News21 election
fraud database turned up 10 cases of voter impersonation.
With 146 million registered voters in the United States during
that time, those 10 cases represent one out of about every
15 million prospective voters.
"Voter fraud at the polls is an *insignificant aspect*
of American elections," said elections expert David Schultz,
professor of public policy at Hamline University School of Business
in St. Paul, Minn.
"There is absolutely no evidence that (voter impersonation fraud)
has affected the outcome of any election in the United States, at
least any recent election in the United States," Schultz said.
~~ More here: http://votingrights.news21.com/article/election-fraud/
*SEE ALSO* The GOP's Bogus Claims of Voter Fraud
The Republican National Lawyers Association (RNLA) released
a report in December 2011 to document all the cases of voter fraud that
have been prosecuted over the last decade.
And what did the group turn up?
A grand total of 311 cases.
Given the larger national context — over 131 million Americans voted
in 2008, for example — that's an infinitesimally small number.
But as Julia Krieger explained, that's really just the start of
the problems with the RNLA's findings.
What's more, the RNLA is dishonestly representing their data when
they describe it as "in the past decade: A quick gander at the
website's evidence shows citations going as far back as 1997.
Although they claim to have evidence of 46 states with voter fraud
prosecutions in the last decade, their website only lists 44
states. For two of those 44, there are only examples from the 1990s
up to 2000, bringing the state count down to 42. To be clear,
that's eight states where they identified no instances of voter
fraud in the last decade.
Further, the RNLA brags: "The RNLA webpage presents evidence that
there were at least seventeen cases involving prosecutions for
non-citizen voting in 2005 just in one state: Florida."
However, according to the Department of Justice, at least four of
the seventeen cases they list were dismissed.
Remember, we're talking about a Republican group taking its best
shot at this. RNLA officials could to do as much comprehensive
research as they wanted, they could define their terms to their
liking; they could massage the results to match their
pre-determined conclusion; and they still couldn't make much of a
case.
And if the RNLA thinks these 311 cases from the last decade — some
of which weren't from the last decade, some of which were cases
that got thrown out of court, some of which may have very well
have been innocent mistakes — justify a national campaign to
restrict Americans’ access to their own democracy, they're
wildly misguided.
Republicans support all kinds of new voting restrictions —
voter-ID laws, severe limits on voter-registration drives,
closing early-voting windows, strict new limits on absentee
ballots — because they find it easier to rig voter eligibility than
to win elections fair and square. It's why all of these
restrictions affect traditionally Democratic constituencies.
GOP officials can keep defending a foolish pretense about
imaginary fraud, but there's no reason for anyone else to take
it seriously.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_12/the_evidence_bolstering_voterf034087.php
Joe Cooper
Nov 6, 2012, 10:38:44 AM11/6/12
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reinstate-booted-philadelphia-election-officials/
Judge issuing order to reinstate booted Philadelphia election officials,
Republicans say
A Pennsylvania judge is issuing an order to reinstate Republican election
officials across Philadelphia who allegedly were ejected or refused entry
by on-site Democratic voting chief judges, GOP officials tell Fox News.
VOTE INTIMIDATION IN PHILLY? Black Panthers return to Philly polling
stations...with a new AG coming soon, they may actually be prosecuted for
breaking the law this time around.
reinstate-booted-philadelphia-election-officials/
Judge issuing order to reinstate booted Philadelphia election officials,
Republicans say
A Pennsylvania judge is issuing an order to reinstate Republican election
officials across Philadelphia who allegedly were ejected or refused entry
by on-site Democratic voting chief judges, GOP officials tell Fox News.
VOTE INTIMIDATION IN PHILLY? Black Panthers return to Philly polling
stations...with a new AG coming soon, they may actually be prosecuted for
breaking the law this time around.
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