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Democrat says Democratic Party bosses use voter fraud
Daily Caller ^ | 11-21-11 | Neil Munro
Posted on Tuesday, November 22, 2011 4:45:14 PM by bigbob
Top Democrats are aggressively pushing the claim that Republicans’ worries about voter fraud are an insincere excuse to suppress voting by African-Americans and Hispanics.
But former Alabama Democratic Rep. Artur Davis told The Daily Caller that anti-fraud measures are needed to protect African-Americans from corrupt political bosses — many of them African-Americans themselves — who run Democratic Party machines in the South.
On Nov. 14, progressive Democratic Reps. John Conyers, Steny Hoyer, Jerrold Nadler, Keith Ellison, Steve Cohen, Marcia Fudge and Emanuel Clearer, the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus — along with representatives from several advocacy groups — held a meeting to complain about what they say is the danger posed by laws that require voters to identify themselves.
Artur Davis is unimpressed.
“What I have seen in my state, in my region, is the the most aggressive practitioners of voter-fraud are local machines who are tied lock, stock and barrel to the special interests in their communities — the landfills, the casino operators — and they’re cooking the [ballot] boxes on election day, they’re manufacturing absentee ballots, they’re voting [in the names of] people named Donald Duck, because they want to control politics and thwart progress,” he told TheDC.
“People who are progressives have no business defending those individuals.”
Davis is free to talk publicly because he quit electoral politics in 2010, giving up his African-American-dominated district to run for the Democratic nomination in the 2010 gubernatorial race. He lost in the primary, and the the winning Democrat subsequently lost to the Republican by 16 points, 42 percent to 58 percent.
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this is how obama can squeak out a win in 2012. make is close enough to cheat.
don't worry though, the repubs won't march in protest more than 1 afternoon per month. THey understand that any real protests justify being hosed with tear gas. since they were okay with teh OWS wimps getting maced, surely they'll be okay with it whne they're protesting a stolen election.
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Air of desperation in Democrats' attempts to roll back voter laws
Oklahoman
Published: December 13, 2011
THE idea of requiring voters to prove they are who they say they are before casting a ballot, as several states have done in recent years, has Democrats riled up. They promise a strong push in 2012 to right these so-called wrongs.
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Democratic Party officials are, as The Associated Press reported, “organizing on a number of fronts to overturn some of the measures, educate voters on the types of documents necessary to vote and pursue lawsuits if necessary.”
Our guess is they won't be visiting Oklahoma, whose voter ID law was given 74 percent approval by voters last year. Here are two reasons: Our law provides voters a wide berth when it comes to providing documentation, and a current effort to challenge it is having a tough time.
A woman filed suit last year in Tulsa County naming then-Gov. Brad Henry as a defendant. A judge said that wasn't the proper venue and ordered the lawsuit moved to Oklahoma County. The woman's attorney dismissed that suit and filed a subsequent lawsuit this year, naming the state Election Board. The state Supreme Court recently said Oklahoma County is the proper venue for the case because that's where the Election Board is housed.
The lawsuit contends Oklahoma's new law impinges on those who don't have an appropriate ID “or who are unwilling to accept any level of this statewide infringement on the right to vote.”
We've never understood the infringement argument, which is a staple of Democrats on this issue. Requiring an ID to cash a check or board an airplane or buy a pack of smokes isn't seen as onerous. But somehow doing the same to cast a vote is?
That's a weak argument, particularly in Oklahoma. State law requires voters to show a driver's license or other government-issued photo ID. Failing that, they can use other identification such as the voter card that's issued free by county election boards. Finally, if they have no ID when they arrive to vote, they can cast a provisional ballot.
Other states have stricter rules. For example, some allow for provisional ballots but require voters to return to the polling place with an ID within a certain time frame in order for their vote to count. Those states are sure to get a visit from Democratic Party forces.
The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of voter ID laws. Studies conducted after the 2008 election showed they didn't hurt turnout among blacks and other groups that Democrats say are most likely to be adversely affected. These efforts to overturn or weaken the laws have an air of desperation to them.
Read more: http://newsok.com/air-of-desperation-in-democrats-attempts-to-roll-back-voter-laws/article/3631452#ixzz1gR3hxfiD
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Eric Holder Announces Opposition to Election Integrity Laws
PJ Media ^ | December 13, 2011 | J. Christian Adams
On Tuesday night, I spoke in Austin, Texas at a rally organized by True the Vote. It took place on the grounds of the LBJ library on the campus of the University of Texas. The rally was in response to Eric Holder’s announcement at the same place two hours later of a concerted Justice Department effort to oppose virtually every electoral integrity measure promoted by Constitutional conservatives and Republicans.
Holder’s announcement will have profound partisan results in the 2012 election because of his professed unwillingness to enforce laws to prevent voter fraud. Indeed, tonight he made clear his opposition to these laws, such as voter ID and even the requirement to register to vote in advance of an election.
Holder announced broad opposition to voter identification requirements and a ramped up effort to enforce voting registration laws in welfare agencies. He didn’t make any announcements about enforcing Section 8 of Motor Voter to ensure dead people don’t populate the roles. He also said that voter fraud “isn’t a huge problem,” perhaps marking the first time the nation’s chief law enforcement downplayed criminal behavior. Of course that is in vogue in this administration, starting with the New Black Panther dismissal and now with Fast and Furious.
In opposition to Holder, I spoke, as did a group of inspiring patriots starting with Catherine Englebrecht of True the Vote. Anita Moncrief, Reverend C. L. Bryan, George Rodriguez (head of the San Antonio Tea Party) and Adryana Boybe, National Director of VOCES Action followed. Boybe’s speech defending Texas Voter ID may be the first time I heard the policy defended in Spanish. Moncrief, though, had the line of the night – that “Al Sharpton has a platinum race card.”
Holder laid down markers which will excite his base and disturb law abiding citizens. He supported restrictions on political speech which will criminalize campaign falsehoods. He vowed hyper-scrutiny of voter integrity laws such as voter ID and vowed to run states like Texas through a nasty gauntlet on redistricting. If this doesn’t send a signal to Texas and South Carolina to pull their Voter ID laws out of Justice and go to court, nothing else will. Also in attendance was Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez, a staring character in my book Injustice.
Holder brought along his puppy, Charlie Savage of the New York Times, from whom we can expect glowing sycophantic coverage of Holder’s announcement at any minute at the New York Times website. Savage is the same reporter who covered purported politicization at the Bush Justice Department. For this he won a Pulitzer Prize.
PJ Media’s Every Single One series reported on the same story Savage did, except this time on the 113 attorney hires by the Obama Civil Rights Division. Savage only covered a handful of Bush hires – he had to, otherwise his story wouldn’t work because the Bush DOJ hired scores of liberal activist lawyers. But the Obama Justice Department gives no quarter to the enemy in hiring, and hired 113 leftists out of 113 openings. I described in my book Injustice how PJ Media had to sue Eric Holder to extract this information:
During the Bush era, DOJ leaders quickly fulfilled FOIA requests. For instance, in 2006 Charlie Savage, then at the Boston Globe, requested all the resumes of the recently hired attorneys in the Bush Civil Rights Division. The DOJ leadership produced the materials within days, well ahead of the legal deadline—they acted so fast, in fact, that some colleagues and I complained they were rushing. Suspecting we were being set up for a leftwing smear campaign, we urged DOJ officials to protect our privacy while fully complying with the requests. But our concerns were ignored and the information was rushed out anyway, resulting in a slew of slanderous media stories, some attacking us in extremely personal ways, followed by curious questions from our family members about why we were in the news. There was a particularly merciless leftist blogosphere attack on a pair of attorneys who happened to be two of the hardest working and most dedicated lawyers in the entire Voting Section.
After PJ Media obtained the Obama hiring information, Savage, ever the cuddly puppy, wrote a puff piece about the Obama hiring practices. Gone was his outrage over politicized hiring that he exhibited at the Boston Globe for the Bush DOJ. That’s what PJ Media is for – reporting on stories the dying dead trees media won’t. Given the scope of the Every Single One series, perhaps PJ Media deserves a Pulitzer too. If Charlie got one, PJ Media certainly should. Stay tuned.
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disgusting.
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New Documents Show Department of Justice Coordination with ACORN-Connected Project Vote
Judicial Watch ^ | December 14, 2011
Group Tied to Voter Registration Fraud Lobbies DOJ to Use National Voting Rights Act to Boost Welfare Voter Registration; Project Vote Official Promotes Hires for Department of Justice’s Voting Section
Washington, DC -- December 14, 2011
Judicial Watch, the organization that investigates and fights government corruption, announced today that it obtained records detailing communications between the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Estelle Rogers, a former ACORN attorney currently serving as Director of Advocacy for the ACORN-connected organization Project Vote. ( Judicial Watch v. Department of Justice (No. 11-1497)). Judicial Watch is investigating the DOJ’s partnering with Project Vote on a national campaign to use the National Voting Rights Act (NVRA) to register more individuals on public assistance, widely considered a key voting demographic for the Obama 2012 campaign. President Obama previously worked for Project Vote.
According to the records, obtained pursuant to a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed on August 19, 2011, “civil rights groups” met with Associate Attorney General Thomas J. Perrelli on March 17, 2011 , to specifically discuss Section 7 of National Voting Rights Act, which requires states to offer voter registration services at all public assistance agencies. The groups included Project Vote, the American Association of People with Disabilities, Demos, the League of Women Voters, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Brennan Center for Justice, the Fair Elections Legal Network, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Legal Defense Fund, and Paralyzed Veterans of America.
On March 29, 2011, Rogers and the “undersigned voting rights groups” that met with Perrelli on March 17, 2011, sent detailed recommendations to the associate attorney general for strengthening “compliance with the NVRA. Forwarded to Perrelli by Rogers, the recommendations stated “we are grateful that you have invited us to continue this dialogue on the Department’s [DOJ’s] role in providing guidance to states, and we would be happy to supply any additional information you need.”
The records also detail an effort by Rogers to secure jobs for three individual applicants for positions with Civil Rights Division’s Voting Section, the department within the DOJ responsible for enforcing the National Voting Rights Act:
•In a February 23, 2010, email to T. Christian Herren , Chief of the DOJ’s Voting Section, Rogers wrote, “I want to heartily recommend two candidates to you. [NAMES REDACTED]” In an April 20, 2010, email, Rogers wrote, “I look forward to continuing to work with you, Chris. And please let me know if you need any more feedback regarding hires.”
•In a December 7, 2010, email, Rogers wrote, “I’d still love to talk for real, but in the meantime, the main reason I called is that you have an applicant for the [REDACTED] position [REDACTED] qualifies her beautifully for your position, and I hope you will give her every consideration. [REDACTED] So she would be a great fit, and I recommend her without reservation. Please let me know if I can tell you more. And give me a call if you possibly can.”
In a July 13, 2010, email to Herren and DOJ political appointee Julie Fernandes , Rogers references NVRA litigation and she informs Herren that she will be bringing Niyati Shah to a meeting at the DOJ. Shah “will be working on a lot of the litigation we’ll be telling you about,” Rogers writes. Rogers also indicated Nicole Kovite Zeitler, director of Project Vote’s public agency registration project, would also attend the meeting. As reported by The American Spectator’s Matthew Vadum, Zeitler “manages Project Vote’s efforts to advocate for enforcement of Section 7 of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 through technical assistance and litigation across the country,” according to her bio on Project Vote’s website.
As Director of Advocacy for Project Vote, Estelle Rogers – a former attorney for ACORN, which was besieged with charges of corruption and fraud before declaring bankruptcy in November 2010 – is a primary contact person on policy matters at Project Vote on both state and federal levels and has been actively involved in voter registration issues. By threatening lawsuits under Section 7 of the NVRA, Project Vote has aggressively sought to force election officials in various states to increase the registration of people receiving public assistance.
On June 20, 2011, Rogers and the ACLU co-wrote a letter to the DOJ, asking the department to block Florida’s new election integrity law (H.B. 1355). Florida has since withdrawn its application to the DOJ for “preclearance” of the law, and has taken its case to court instead.
On August 4, 2011, Judicial Watch released documents obtained from the Colorado Department of State showing that ACORN and Project Vote successfully pressured Colorado officials into implementing new policies for increasing the registration of public assistance recipients during the 2008 and 2010 election seasons. Following the policy changes, the percentage of invalid voter registration forms from Colorado public assistance agencies was four times the national average. Project Vote also sought a “legislative fix” to allow people without a driver’s license or state identification to register to vote online.
In addition to pursuing public agency registration cases in Missouri, Ohio, Indiana, Georgia, and New Mexico, Project Vote and the NAACP filed a lawsuit on April 19, 2011, against the State of Louisiana alleging violations of the NVRA. Less than three months later, on July 12, the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division/Voting Section sued Louisiana on the same grounds, claiming that “Louisiana officials have not routinely offered voter registration forms, assistance and services to the state’s eligible citizens who apply, recertify or provide a change address for public assistance or disability services.”
The DOJ also sued the State of Rhode Island on March 11, 2011, alleging violations of the NVRA. The lawsuit led to policy changes intended to increase the number of voter registration applications processed by “public assistance and disability service officers.” These two lawsuits, filed within five months of each other, are the first such lawsuits filed by the DOJ since 2007.
Project Vote and the “community organization” ACORN have both been linked to massive voter registration fraud. A total of 70 ACORN employees in 12 states have been convicted of voter registration fraud. And as documented in a July 2009 report by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, of the 1.3 million registrations Project Vote/ACORN submitted in the 2008 election cycle, more than one-third were invalid.
Moreover, Project Vote’s “Field Director,” Amy Busefink, who handled the online registration campaign for Colorado, entered an Alford plea to two gross misdemeanor counts of conspiracy to commit the crime of compensation for registration of voters in Nevada while working for ACORN. (An Alford plea is a guilty plea, where the defendant does not admit the act or assert innocence, but admits that sufficient evidence exists with which the prosecution could likely convince a judge or jury to find the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.)
“It is an affront to the rule of law and a threat to the integrity of our elections that the ACORN-front Project Vote is coordinating with the Holder Department of Justice on voting law,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “Now we know why the Holder DOJ never bothered to fully investigate voter registration fraud by Project Vote/ACORN – because Project Vote and the Department of Justice seem to have implemented a joint litigation strategy in the run up to the 2012 elections.”
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I'm okay if people don't have the valid ID.... IF IF IF they're old as hell, when 'there wasn't a birth certificate when I was born" would apply.
If you're 22 and don't have an ID... kick rocks. Get your ID.
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And, not to be forgotten how the usurper got in in the first place...
REGISTRATIONS EXCEED POPULATION/DEAD VOTERS
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-10-17-ala-voters_N.htm
6 Ala. counties' voter rolls exceed population
The Birmingham News compared the state's voter registration numbers with the Census Bureau's population estimates and found more registered voters than voting-age adults in Conecuh, Greene, Lowndes, Perry, Washington and Wilcox counties.
http://www.nbcactionnews.com/news/state/story.aspx?content_id=4b765ed2-fc35-45c3-9ef6-d183ee4f8cb2&rss=766
Mo. Counties' Registered Voters Exceed Population
Fourteen of the state's 114 counties had more registered voters than voting-age adults. Several others had registration rolls almost equal to their adult populations.
http://www.whatdoino-steve.blogspot.com/2008/04/anchorage-registered-voters-exceed.html
Anchorage Registered Voters Exceed the Number of Residents 18 or Over
187,163 = The number of Anchorage registered voters as of March 3, 2008.
184,412 Anchorage residents 18 years and over
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/specialreports/2000census/motorvoter.html
"It's a very big issue for us. Conservatively, we believe anywhere from 5 to 25 percent of the registration in any county is what you call deadwood or outright fraudulent registration."
http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/more_voter_registration_shenanigans_indianapolis_has_105_of_its_population/
More Voter Registration Shenanigans: Indianapolis Has 105% Of Its Population Registered To Vote
So we have 644,197 people eligible to be registered in Marion County/Indianapolis, and 677,401 people registered. Congratulations go to Indianapolis for having 105% of its residents registered!
http://www.wftv.com/news/17848541/detail.html#-
Dead People Voting Throughout Florida
Thousands of dead Floridians are registered to vote and some in Central Florida had ballots cast in their names long after their deaths.
http://www.wsbtv.com/politics/17876720/detail.html
Some Georgians Suspected Of Voting Twice
A team of investigative journalists from WSB-TV in Atlanta, WFTV in Orlando and WFTS in Tampa and WCPO in Cincinnati compared Georgia's voter rolls with those in Florida and Ohio and found more than 100,000 people who appear to be registered to vote in more than one state, with no government oversight to catch it.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2008/10/021794.php
Public records released in New Mexico today confirm that fraudulent voter registrations are in fact turning into fraudulent votes.
http://www.newsnet5.com/news/17859950/detail.html?rss=nn5&psp=news
Dead Voters Submit Ballots From Beyond
NewsChannel5 investigation has once again uncovered thousands of dead voters still on the rolls, and ballots still being cast from beyond.
http://www.click2houston.com/investigates/17671375/detail.html
Local 2 Investigates Dead Voters
Texas Watchdog compared Harris County's voter registration roll with the Social Security death index and found more than 4,000 matches -- registered voters that, it appears, are already dead.
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http://www.americasright.com/2009/09/holder-black-panthers-and-new-obama.html
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2009
Holder, the Black Panthers, and the New Obama Cabal
By Rick Saunders
America's Right
Recall that on November 4, 2008, a pair of thugs in paramilitary garb and holding nightsticks stationed themselves outside a polling place in Philadelphia. Recall as well that they were members of the New Black Panther Party, ostensibly there to act as ad hoc "security" for the polling place and voters. How very thoughtful and civic-minded.
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The posters at the NYT are screaming about voter ID laws.
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AG Holder: Government Has ‘Responsibility’ to Automatically Register Citizens to Vote
CNSNEWS ^ | 12/14/11 | swampsniper
Posted on Wednesday, December 14, 2011 2:46:24 PM by SWAMPSNIPER
"All eligible citizens can and should be automatically registered to vote," and it's the government's "responsibility" to see that it happens, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said on Tuesday.
In a call to modernize voter registration, Holder noted that many elections officials still are manually processing new applications, many of them handwritten -- a situation that produces errors and confusion at the polls, he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
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You have to have ID to drive a car, purchase cigerettes and beer, get on a plane, hell... just to get a damn library card. Why the hell some people wouldn't want the audience who is electing someone to the highest office in the free world to have an ID is beyond me.
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AG Holder: Government Has ‘Responsibility’ to Automatically Register Citizens to Vote
CNSNEWS ^ | 12/14/11 | swampsniper
Posted on Wednesday, December 14, 2011 2:46:24 PM by SWAMPSNIPER
"All eligible citizens can and should be automatically registered to vote," and it's the government's "responsibility" to see that it happens, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said on Tuesday.
In a call to modernize voter registration, Holder noted that many elections officials still are manually processing new applications, many of them handwritten -- a situation that produces errors and confusion at the polls, he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
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What the heck? He can't be serious.
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What the heck? He can't be serious.
LOL - this is the same guy running assualt weapons to cartels and laundering their $$$$ remember?
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VIDEO: Obama Election Fraud Investigation Underway in Indiana
MRCTV (Media Research Center TV) ^ | 12/14/2011 | Joe S.
Barack Obama's 2008 campaign is under investigation for alleged voter fraud during the Democratic primaries. Many Indiana voters are claiming their signatures were forged.
The Democratic Party within the state was quick to react calling it an 'isolated incident', while the Republican Party says it's cheating if found guilty.
In each congressional district in Indiana, you need 500 signatures - Obama qualified with 534. It is being said 150 of them were forged.
(Excerpt) Read more at mrctv.org ...
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Voter fraud is real: And voter ID laws are really needed; they are not racist
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | 12-18-11 | Jack Kelly
Posted on December 18, 2011 11:23:22 AM EST by afraidfortherepublic
The state chairman of Indiana's Democratic Party resigned Monday as a probe of election fraud in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary widened.
State law requires a presidential candidate to gather 500 valid signatures in each county to qualify for the ballot. Barack Obama may not have met it. Investigators think 150 of the 534 signatures the Obama campaign turned in for St. Joseph County may have been forged.
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Former Democratic Rep. Artur Davis, who is black, said vote fraud is rampant in African-American districts like his in Alabama.
"The most aggressive contemporary voter suppression in the African-American community is the wholesale manufacture of ballots at the polls and absentee, in parts of the Black Belt," Mr. Davis said. "Voting the names of the dead, and the nonexistent, and the too mentally impaired to function cancels out the votes of citizens who are exercising their rights."
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"Concerns about voter identification laws affecting turnout are much ado about nothing," concluded researchers at the universities of Delaware and Nebraska after examining election data from 2000 through 2006.
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This year there have been investigations, indictments or convictions for vote fraud in California, Texas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina and Maryland. In all but one case, the alleged fraudsters were Democrats.
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Fraud of the magnitude which swings elections typically combines absentee ballot fraud and voter registration fraud. At least 55 employees or associates of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now have been convicted of registration fraud in 11 states, says Matthew Vadum of the Capital Research Center, who's written a book about ACORN.
Of 1.3 million new registrations ACORN turned in in 2008, election officials rejected 400,000.
(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...
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Mississippi NAACP leader sent to prison for 10 counts of voter fraud
By Matthew Vadum Published: 1:14 AM 07/29/2011 | Updated: 4:12 PM 07/29/2011
While NAACP President Benjamin Jealous lashed out at new state laws requiring photo ID for voting, an NAACP executive sits in prison, sentenced for carrying out a massive voter fraud scheme.
In a story ignored by the national media, in April a Tunica County, Miss., jury convicted NAACP official Lessadolla Sowers on 10 counts of fraudulently casting absentee ballots. Sowers is identified on an NAACP website as a member of the Tunica County NAACP Executive Committee.
Sowers received a five-year prison term for each of the 10 counts, but Circuit Court Judge Charles Webster permitted Sowers to serve those terms concurrently, according to the Tunica Times, the only media outlet to cover the sentencing.
“This crime cuts against the fabric of our free society,” Judge Webster said.
Sowers was found guilty of voting in the names of Carrie Collins, Walter Howard, Sheena Shelton, Alberta Pickett, Draper Cotton and Eddie Davis. She was also convicted of voting in the names of four dead persons: James L. Young, Dora Price, Dorothy Harris, and David Ross.
In the trial, forensic scientist Bo Scales testified that Sowers’s DNA was found on the inner seals of five envelopes containing absentee ballots.
This wasn’t Sowers’s first run-in with the law. Sowers previously had her probation revoked for disturbing the peace at a junior high school library, the Commercial Appeal of Memphis reported in 1990. During a hearing at that time, Sowers played the race card. She claimed to be the victim of “an attempt by powerful whites to silence” her, the newspaper reported. It didn’t work. She was ordered back to prison to complete the remaining two years of a three-year sentence she received for check forgery.
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www.americanselect.orgTh e NAACP has had other problems with voter fraud. The NAACP National Voter Fund registered a dead man to vote in Lake County, Ohio, in 2004. That same year, out of 325 voter registration cards filed by the NAACP in Cleveland, 48 were flagged as fraudulent.
But the NAACP’s voter fraud record doesn’t approach that of ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. At least 54 individuals employed by or associated with ACORN have been convicted of voter fraud.
Voter fraud, sometimes called electoral fraud, is a blanket term used by lawyers that encompasses a host of election-related improprieties including fraudulent voting, voter registration fraud, perjury, forgery, counterfeiting, impersonation, intimidation, and identity fraud.
And ACORN, which filed for bankruptcy last November, was itself convicted of voter fraud in Nevada in April. Sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 10 in Las Vegas. ACORN was also banished from Ohio in 2010 when it settled a state racketeering filed against it by the 1851 Center for Constitutional Law, a project of the Buckeye Institute. Under the settlement ACORN, which is now reorganizing its state chapters under different names, agreed never to return to the state.
Election experts say voter fraud is fairly common, but progressive activists typically insist that the crime is virtually nonexistent. Republicans, they say, routinely exaggerate claims of voter fraud in order to whip their political base into a frenzy and push for voter ID laws. Liberals say such laws are unfair, and claim that they discourage minorities and the poor from voting.
The NAACP’s Jealous said Monday at the group’s 102nd annual convention in Los Angeles that photo ID laws are part of an attempt to disenfranchise minorities through some “of the last existing legal pillars of Jim Crow.” Such laws stem from “the worst and most racist elements” in conservative Tea Party groups, he said.
Stephen Colbert, the liberal comedian who portrays an overbearing conservative Republican on his cable TV show “The Colbert Report,” broadcast a segment this week ridiculing Republicans for treating voter fraud as a serious problem.
Some Democrats, however, aren’t laughing. The office of District Attorney Brenda F. Mitchell, a registered Democrat who serves Mississippi’s 11th Circuit Court District, successfully prosecuted Sowers. Mitchell was appointed to the post by Republican Gov. Haley Barbour in January 2010 after the previous DA resigned. She’s now seeking the Democratic nomination for the office in a primary election scheduled for Aug. 2.
Mitchell doesn’t appear to be a conservative. She served as a legal consultant to the far-left, New York-based public interest law firm the Center for Constitutional Rights. That firm represented ACORN in an ultimately unsuccessful lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a federal law defunding the activist group. Mitchell didn’t return calls seeking comment for this article.
U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota Democrat, is also no conservative. But she won a conviction against Joshua Reed for voter registration fraud in 2004 when she was the Hennepin County, Minn. Prosecutor.
“It was very important for the public integrity of our electoral system that somebody, if they do something like this, gets charged, gets convicted and gets consequences,” Klobuchar said at the time.
Democrats, including Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto, Pittsburgh District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr., and Miami, Fla., State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle, have all vigorously prosecuted voter fraud cases.
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Matthew Vadum is a senior editor at Capital Research Center, a Washington, D.C. think tank. Vadum’s book, Subversion Inc., was published in 2011.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/07/29/mississippi-naacp-leader-sent-to-prison-for-10-counts-of-voter-fraud/#ixzz1i2kVJAaf
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lol... in TX yoiu can vote with a gun permit but not a student id ;)
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lol... in TX yoiu can vote with a gun permit but not a student id ;)
Considering that illegals can go to school here in Texas, why should a "student id" qualify someone the right vote?
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I used to think that once an administration is out...let em go but with Holder...he needs to go to jail...federal pound me in the ass jail.
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I used to think that once an administration is out...let em go but with Holder...he needs to go to jail...federal pound me in the ass jail.
Holder needs to be put in solitary for life.
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If I said what I want to do with him, Barry and everybody associated with this admin..I'd get locked up. I want them to all move to Guam and watch it tip over...or maybe Haiti...along with everybody from the Black Caucus....
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If I said what I want to do with him, Barry and everybody associated with this admin..I'd get locked up. I want them to all move to Guam and watch it tip over...or maybe Haiti...along with everybody from the Black Caucus....
Shit - I was hoping great white sharks descended on Hawaii while he was bodysurfing in the ocean,
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12 former officials indicted for voter fraud
Posted: Nov 22, 2011 4:51 PM EST
Updated: Nov 28, 2011 10:56 AM EST
By Stephen Abel - bio | email
GA Supreme Court to hear school board case
QUITMAN, GA (WALB) - 12 former Brooks County officials were indicted for voter fraud. The suspects are accused of illegally helping people vote by absentee ballot.
State officials launched an investigation after an unusually high number of absentee ballots were cast in the July 2010 primary election. "As a result of their grand jury findings 12 individuals were indicted in that particular matter and we will be trying that case in a court of judicial law instead of a court of public opinion so that will be pending this next year," said District Attorney Joe Mulholland.
The defendants include some workers in the voter registrar's office and some school board members. They are Angela Bryant, April Proctor, Brenda Monds, Debra Denard, Lula Smart, Kechia Harrison, Robert Denard, Sandra Cody, Elizabeth Thomas, Linda Troutman, Latashia Head, and Nancy Denard.
Copyright 2011 WALB. All rights reserved.
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You guys are surprised there's voter fraud? Happens all the time.
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If I said what I want to do with him, Barry and everybody associated with this admin..I'd get locked up. I want them to all move to Guam and watch it tip over...or maybe Haiti...along with everybody from the Black Caucus....
Enjoy your indefinate detention.
;D ;D ;D
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Non-citizen Voting in Connecticut
The American Thinker ^ | 1-10-12 | Jon N. Hall
The Mayor of New Haven, Connecticut, John DeStefano, a Democrat, wants to let non-citizens vote in city elections. One might ask the good mayor if he also thinks it OK for non-citizens to run for city offices, too -- like for mayor. According to a news story in New Haven Register, Pat O'Neill, spokesman for the state GOP House Republicans, asked when told of DeStefano's proposal: "When are they going to extend voting rights to the dead?"
One inconvenient little snag for Mr. DeStefano's expansion of the franchise is the Constitution of the State of Connecticut, which stipulates in Article 6, Section 1 that voters must be U.S. citizens. One might think that in requiring citizenship to vote, Connecticut's Constitution is merely reaffirming the U.S. Constitution. But there is no such requirement in the original Constitution, nor is there even an instance of the word "citizen" in the Bill of Rights. Indeed, in all of the U.S. Constitution (including the other amendments), it is not explicitly stated that to vote in America, one must be a citizen.
The U.S. Constitution leaves eligibility requirements for voting to the states.
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wOW!!!!!
FU STRAW for saying there is no voter fraud.
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VIDEO: NH poll workers shown handing out ballots in dead peoples’ names
Published: 1:15 PM 01/11/2012 | Updated: 1:18 PM 01/11/2012
By Alex Pappas - The Daily Caller
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Video footage provided exclusively to The Daily Caller shows election workers in New Hampshire giving out ballots in the names of dead voters at multiple voting precincts during the state’s primary election on Tuesday.
The bombshell video is the work of conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe and his organization, Project Veritas.
Voters in the Granite State are not required to present identification to vote. O’Keefe’s investigators were able to obtain ballots under the names of dead voters at polling locations Tuesday by simply asking for them, he said.
“Live free or die,” an election worker told one of the investigators in the video. “This is New Hampshire. No ID needed.”
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In an interview with TheDC on Wednesday, O’Keefe said the exposé shows how voter fraud can be easier to perpetrate when identification isn’t required.
“There is fraud going on and our goal is to visualize it for people,” he said. (RELATED: Complete election coverage on The Daily Caller)
Ads by GoogleO’Keefe said he eventually plans to post full, unedited videos of the encounters. “It shows the integrity of the elections process is severely comprised,” the filmmaker said.
He said no laws were broken during the investigation and that his team members never claimed to be the dead people whose ballots they were trying to obtain. Instead, they carefully worded the way they asked for ballots, phrasing it like: “Do you have Earnest Chavanelle?” and “Do you have Paul Soucy?”
“We decided to go in there without using any false pretenses,” he said. “There’s no misrepresentation in these videos if you watch them — we didn’t lie about who we were.”
The investigators never actually voted when they were given ballots. Sting artists who received ballots would leave the voting precincts after saying they left their identification in the car.
“We were very careful about that,” he said.
The investigation worked this way: O’Keefe and his team obtained names of recently deceased New Hampshirites through published obituaries, and used publicly available voter roll information to find dead people still on the voting rolls.
With that information, O’Keefe’s investigators went to the polls on Tuesday and requested ballots in the names of the deceased.
“Some of them died a few months ago, some of them died a few weeks ago,” he said.
In many cases, ballots were handed over by the poll workers without any skepticism. In only one case did a poll worker realize that the investigator wasn’t the person the ballot was meant for — because the woman giving out the ballots knew the dead person in question.
That incident made it into the Boston Herald.
In one instance, the sting artist told a poll worker that he voluntarily wants to show his ID. But the female poll worker responds that “the state says we’re not allowed to ask for identification.”
O’Keefe said the investigation stemmed from discovering that “there are people who have voted who are dead.”
“We found many, many people who are both dead and registered to vote. … How is it that dead people are voting? Someone’s committing fraud.”
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DMV: 900 Dead People May Have Voted
3:51 PM, Jan 11, 2012 | 1 comments
http://www.wltx.com/news/article/167748/2/DMV-900-Dead-People-May-Have-Voted
Columbia, SC (AP, WLTX) -- The director of South Carolina's Department of Motor Vehicles has told the State Law Enforcement Division that more than 900 people who were recorded as having voted were actually dead.
DMV Director Kevin Shwedo told legislators about the issue Wednesday as the U.S. Justice Department questions a new state law requiring people to show photographic identification when they vote in person.
In response, South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson asked SLED to review the evidence.
"Director Shwedo's research has revealed evidence that over nine hundred deceased people appear to have 'voted' in recent elections in South Carolina," said Wilson in a statement. "This is an alarming number, and clearly necessitates an investigation into potential criminal activity. I have asked SLED Chief Keel to review Director Shwedo's research."
Shwedo analyzed more than 230,000 records on people without state driver's licenses or identification cards. He found state Election Commission data included 30,000 dead people. He said the records involving 900 dead people were turned over to SLED to investigate.
Shwedo said the records also included more than 91,000 people who now appear to live in other states.
South Carolina's voter ID law was signed into law last year, and was to have taken effect January 1st. However, last month, the U.S. Justice Department said the law was unconstitutional as currently written.
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South Carolina AG to fight feds over voter ID law
Miami Herald ^ | 1-11-12 | Noelle Phillips
Three of South Carolina’s top political leaders announced Tuesday their plans to file a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice’s decision to block the state’s controversial voter ID law.
Attorney General Alan Wilson said he will file a lawsuit within the next two weeks against the Justice Department in Washington D.C. district court.
It’s necessary, Wilson said, to protect the integrity of South Carolina elections.
“Our intent of the office is to look at this legislation through the litigation process and to ensure that no voter is suppressed in the right to vote and that the integrity of the electoral process is protected,” he said “That is of paramount importance that we protect the electoral process and ensure that voter irregularities and potential voter fraud is curtailed, curbed or prevented.”
Gov. Nikki Haley and House Speaker Bobby Harrell joined Wilson.
The law would require voters to show a photo identification card issued by the S.C. Department of Motor Vehicles or a U.S. military ID or a U.S. passport.
But last month, the Justice Department said the law would prevent black people from voting. It was first voter ID law to be refused by the department in 20 years.
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Breaking – Huge Error Rate In Same Day Election Registrations Found
Big Government ^ | 1/11/12 | Brett Healy
This report by a Wisconsin Tea Party group is absolutely shocking.
MacIver News Service | January 11, 2012 | [Milwaukee, Wisc] A shocking new report by a Wisconsin Tea Party group raises serious questions about the diligence of poll workers in Milwaukee County.
The group, Wisconsin Grandsons of Liberty, found errors on more than one third of all Election Day Registration forms completed for the April 5, 2011 election in Milwaukee County.
“We discovered 3,739 forms with errors,” said Larry Gamble, the groups’ spokesperson. “That 33.7% error rate is high enough to question the entire election process and raises doubts about having the accuracy and accountability required to properly manage elections.”
The study was performed by members of the self-described pro-Constitution group between May and December, 2011.
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Eric Holder, Voter ID, and the Chicago Way
PJ Media ^ | January 16, 2012 | Abraham H. Miller
If I hear one more hysterical outburst from some liberal, whose brain is hotwired to Attorney General Eric Holder’s mouth, about Jim Crow returning to South Carolina, I’m going to disconnect my television cable. It seems this type of mindless volcanic eruption is a consequence of South Carolina requiring one of five forms of identification in order for someone to exercise the franchise. One of these means of identification South Carolina makes available free, in addition to providing free rides to the polls for anyone who asks.
As Eric Holder — the brains behind both the Fast and Furious gun-running scam and the decision to vacate a conviction of Black Panthers who stood at a Philadelphia polling place harassing white voters — would tell you, South Carolina is not interested in safeguarding the integrity of the franchise. Those southerners are just trying to prevent minorities from voting. The hard-won battle over the Voting Rights Act is being overturned. Liberals need to prepare to resist or face a return to the ugly days of Jim Crow!
So, what’s really going on here? Liberals love to wax unbearably about culture, but they never want to ask the difficult questions about how one’s socialization into a political culture influences one’s view of the political world, or how that socialization shapes the way the struggle for political power is fought.
Obama’s Chicago is notorious for its corrupt voting practices. In fact, one of the latest political jokes in Chicago is that there is now empirical and incontrovertible evidence that Muammar Gaddafi and Osama bin Laden are both dead. Their names recently appeared on the city’s voting rolls.
In Obama’s world, elections are not contested; they are manipulated. In the 2008 Iowa caucuses, red and white chartered buses with Illinois license plates carried African Americans from Chicago to vote in Iowa. Obama’s ability to show that he could win in a rural, white, and somewhat conservative state like Iowa wasn’t a miracle; it was election engineering, the Chicago Way.
In anticipation of a hard-fought contest in 2012, President Obama wants to make sure that there is significant margin for voter fraud, especially getting illegal immigrants to vote. No one needs to tell you how illegal immigrants will vote. And pro-Obama organizations, like ACORN, have traditionally engaged in massive election fraud. Anything that enhances the integrity of the voting process works against Obama.
And here in his hometown is the latest foray into election engineering, courtesy of former presidential chief of staff and current Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, with assistance from Chicago’s African-American aldermen:
Because of strong demographic changes, Chicago is undergoing its decennial redistricting with a vengeance. The biggest demographic change is the drop in the percent of African Americans, an incredible 19%. Other ethnic groups have been stable with the exception of a rise in the city’s Hispanic population. So, one would expect that under the standard redistricting principle of wards being carved up into equal population units, African Americans would be a lower percentage in some wards than they have been and Hispanics would be higher. The total population of any ward, however, would remain roughly equivalent.
In an effort to keep African-American aldermen in power, Emanuel and his cronies have cut up the wards into different sizes, with white wards on the north and lakefront each having 56,000 inhabitants and black wards having closer to 51,000. Making the white wards larger and thinning out the black wards preserves the wards of African-American alderman, while disenfranchising whites. This is racial discrimination.
Like the Black Panthers in Philadelphia intimidating whites at the polls, this is not going to be high on Holder’s lists of concerns. Nor are liberals in Chicago, or elsewhere, going to have an apoplectic fit over it. Don’t count on the ACLU hauling Emanuel into federal court or even standing in front of the television camera’s lens to denounce it, as the ACLU has done with South Carolina’s attempt to bring integrity to the voting process.
When it comes to South Carolina — or any other state — trying to preserve the honesty of the electoral process by requiring some form of voter identification, watch out. Voter integrity is the last thing Obama, his Justice Department, and his base want for 2012.
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Law enforcement officials have charged 12 people with using absentee ballots to skew an election in Georgia.
“As a result of their grand jury findings, 12 individuals were indicted in that particular matter and we will be trying that case in a court of judicial law instead of a court of public opinion,” District Attorney Joe Mulholland told the local TV station, WALB.
The charges followed a bitter November 2010 school board election in Brooks County in which the final tally was changed by an unusually large wave of absentee ballots.
During the election, 1,060 absentee votes were cast out of the 1,403 ballots mailed out to people who requested them, according to a July 2010 report by WCTV.
That’s far higher than nearby Thomas County, which had 119 absentee votes cast out of 202 requests, and Lowndes County, which had 169 absentee votes cast out of 439 requests, said WCTV’s report.
The 12 people charged are aligned with the Democratic Party.
News of the arrests followed The Daily Caller’s interview with former Alabama Democratic Rep. Artur Davis, in which he said voter identification laws are needed to counter ballot fraud in local elections.
“What I have seen in my state, in my region, is the the most aggressive practitioners of voter fraud are local machines who are tied lock, stock and barrel to the special interests in their communities — the landfills, the casino operators —and they’re cooking the [ballot] boxes on election day, they’re manufacturing absentee ballots, they’re voting [in the names of] people named Donald Duck because they want to control politics and thwart progress,” he told TheDC.
Davis’s statement — and the new indictments — counter a high volume campaign by Democratic leaders and allied advocacy groups to defeat a Republican-backed wave of state level reform bills and laws that require voters to identify themselves.
Democrats argue that the voter identification laws are intended to suppress votes by blacks and Hispanics.
Since President Barack Obama’s election, officials at the Department of Justice have downplayed complaints about ballot fraud.
Under former President George W. Bush, the department had aggressively pursued numerous cases. In 2007, for example, Ike Brown, the chairman of the Democratic Party in Noxubee County, Miss., was investigated for interfering with white voters’ access to the ballot box.
State investigations and convictions continue despite the DOJ’s current lack of interest.
In April, Lessadolla Sowers was convicted by a court in Tunica County, Miss., on 10 counts of fraudulently casting absentee ballots. Sowers was a member of the local National Associated for the Advancement of Colored People’s executive committee.
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New York Democrat: 'Vote Fraud is a Normal Political Tactic'
Big Government dot com ^ | 1-20-12 | Rusty Weiss
Posted on January 20, 2012 6:14:48 PM EST by bigbob
As the city of Troy, NY, awaits jury selection in the first trial involving two Democrats and their alleged roles in a “massive” voter fraud scheme, new details have emerged from the investigation. Details involving two other veteran political operatives that have already pleaded guilty.
According to a recent Fox News report, Anthony Renna, a Democrat guilty of second-degree forgery, and Anthony DeFiglio, a Democrat guilty of first-degree falsifying business records, are trying to drag all local politicians, regardless of party affiliation, down with the ship. Thus far, eight people have been charged in connection with the ballot fraud investigation, four of which have pleaded guilty.
Reports emerging from the investigation indicate that the Democrats are trying to implicate Republicans of the same conduct they have been charged with. According to the state police, Renna and DeFiglio both claimed that, ”voter fraud is an accepted way of winning elections, and faking absentee ballots was commonplace.”
Renna explained that the process of handing in forged ballots and fake votes ensures that “ballots are voted correctly.” He adds, “‘Voted correctly’ is a term used for a forged application or ballot.”
DeFiglio added that such fraud is actually “an ongoing scheme and it occurs on both sides of the aisle. What appears as a huge conspiracy to nonpolitical persons is really a normal political tactic.”
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New York Democrat: 'Vote Fraud is a Normal Political Tactic'
Big Government dot com ^ | 1-20-12 | Rusty Weiss
Posted on January 20, 2012 6:14:48 PM EST by bigbob
As the city of Troy, NY, awaits jury selection in the first trial involving two Democrats and their alleged roles in a “massive” voter fraud scheme, new details have emerged from the investigation. Details involving two other veteran political operatives that have already pleaded guilty.
According to a recent Fox News report, Anthony Renna, a Democrat guilty of second-degree forgery, and Anthony DeFiglio, a Democrat guilty of first-degree falsifying business records, are trying to drag all local politicians, regardless of party affiliation, down with the ship. Thus far, eight people have been charged in connection with the ballot fraud investigation, four of which have pleaded guilty.
Reports emerging from the investigation indicate that the Democrats are trying to implicate Republicans of the same conduct they have been charged with. According to the state police, Renna and DeFiglio both claimed that, ”voter fraud is an accepted way of winning elections, and faking absentee ballots was commonplace.”
Renna explained that the process of handing in forged ballots and fake votes ensures that “ballots are voted correctly.” He adds, “‘Voted correctly’ is a term used for a forged application or ballot.”
DeFiglio added that such fraud is actually “an ongoing scheme and it occurs on both sides of the aisle. What appears as a huge conspiracy to nonpolitical persons is really a normal political tactic.”
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Lol at the pieces of shit trying to justify fucking the citizens and stealing elections by saying "Its actually a commonly accepted practice", "It only looks like a scheme but really its ok cause both sides do it" ::)
How the fuck can these assholes say that shit with a straight face?
Its ok that were rigging the elections and taking the vote out of your the hands of the citizens (!!! REPRESENTATIVE REPUBLIC DICKS!!!!! THE CITIZENS DECIDE WHO HOLDS OFFICE, NOT WHICH POLITICITANS CAN FAKE MORE BALLOTS!!!!) cause the other side tries to do it too! ::) ::) ::)
Fucking people make me sick.
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JFK cheated his ass off in 1960.
where are your threads on that, 33?
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South Carolina's Attorney General detects voter fraud
AP ^ | 1/23/2012 | AP
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina's attorney general has notified the U.S. Justice Department of potential voter fraud.
Attorney General Alan Wilson sent details of an analysis by the Department of Motor Vehicles to U.S. Attorney Bill Nettles.
In a letter dated Thursday, Wilson says the analysis found 953 ballots cast by voters listed as dead. In 71 percent of those cases, ballots were cast between two months and 76 months after the people died. That means they "voted" up to 6 1/3 years after their death.
The letter doesn't say in which elections the ballots were cast.
The analysis came out of research for the state's new voter identification law. The U.S. Justice Department denied clearance of that law.
Wilson told Nettles he asked the State Law Enforcement Division to investigate.
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White House/DOJ Working with ACORN, Massive Voter Registration Fraud
Big Government ^ | 1/25/12 | Tom Fitton
Posted on January 25, 2012 9:44:21 PM EST by Nachum
With the 2012 elections just months away, the ACORN-connected group Project Vote (and Obama campaign ally) is redoubling its efforts to undermine the integrity of the 2012 elections--and they are evidently doing it with the participation of the Obama White House and the Department of Justice (DOJ). In January, Judicial Watch obtained additional documents about meetings held between Estelle Rogers, Director of Advocacy for the ACORN organization Project Vote, and officials from the Obama White House and the DOJ. Judicial Watch is investigating the extent to which Project Vote, which once employed Barack Obama, has been working with the Obama
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RECALL FRAUD UPDATE: 15% of Wanggaard Recall Circulator’s Signatures Are Duplicates
Media Trackers ^ | 2/3/2012 | Collin Roth
On Thursday, Media Trackers reported the plight of Jeff Demet, a Racine native who found his name forged four times on petitions to recall Republican State Senator Van Wanggaard. The story was followed up by TMJ4 who interviewed two more individuals who’s names were on recall petitions when they never signed, including Jeff’s mother Mary who’s name appears twice.
Ken Brown of CRG Racine first noticed that Jeff Demet’s brother Mark Demet was a circulator for one of the pages that features both Jeff and Mary Demet’s names.
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NBC2 Investigates: Voter fraud
Waterman Broadcasting Corp., Ft. Myers, Fla. ^ | 2/2/2012 | Andy Pierrotti
Posted on February 3, 2012 2:54:50 PM EST by RonF
Two elections supervisors are taking action after an NBC2 investigation uncovers flawed record keeping and human error allowing people who are not citizens of the United States to vote.
No one knows how widespread this problem is, because county election supervisors have no way to track non-citizens who live here.
So NBC2 did something election officials never thought to do, and found them on our own.
"I vote every year," Hinako Dennett told NBC2.
The Cape Coral resident is not a US citizen, yet she's registered to vote.
NBC2 found Dennett after reviewing her jury excusal form. She told the Clerk of Court she couldn't serve as a juror because she wasn't a U.S. citizen.
We found her name, and nearly a hundred others like her, in the database of Florida registered voters.
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wow.
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Analysis: Invalid signatures likely not enough to halt Walker recall
JS Online ^ | 2-8-12 | Ben Poston, Bill Glauber and Don Walker
About 15% of the signatures in a random sample of the petitions seeking the recall of Republican Gov. Scott Walker could not be verified, according to an analysis by the Journal Sentinel.
The review suggests that even if the number of unverifiable signatures turned out to be three times higher, Walker supporters - barring a new legal challenge - will have a difficult time striking enough of the 1 million signatures submitted to stop a recall election.
To force a recall election against Walker and Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, 540,208 valid signatures are needed for each - a figure equivalent to 25% of all the votes cast in the November 2010 election that put Walker in office.
Lynn Freeman, vice chair of the board of directors for United Wisconsin, said her group is confident the recall election will be certified.
"I don't want us to have a 15% problem, but even if we do, we are still far and above the signatures needed," Freeman said.
When asked to comment on the paper's findings, Walker's campaign referred a reporter to the state Republican Party, which did not respond to a request for comment.
The newspaper's review of 500 signatures is more rigorous than the verification process being conducted by the state Government Accountability Board.
Staffers at the state election agency will count a signature as valid if there is a signature and the address, municipality and date are legible and the signer lists a Wisconsin address. As part of its review, the accountability board will also look for fictitious names and eventually duplicate signatures.
The board will not consult public records unless the validity of the signature is challenged by an outside group, said Reid Magney, spokesman for the accountability board.
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February 14, 2012
Voter Rolls Are Rife With Inaccuracies, Report Finds
By ADAM LIPTAK
Via NYT:
WASHINGTON — The nation’s voter registration rolls are in disarray, according to a report released Tuesday by the Pew Center on the States. The problems have the potential to affect the outcomes of local, state and federal elections.
One in eight active registrations is invalid or inaccurate. At the same time, one in four people who are eligible to vote — at least 51 million potential voters — are not registered.
The report found that there are about 1.8 million dead people listed as active voters. Some 2.8 million people have active registrations in more than one state. And 12 million registrations have errors serious enough to make it unlikely that mailings based on them will reach voters.
“These problems waste taxpayer dollars, undermine voter confidence and fuel partisan disputes over the integrity of our elections,” said David Becker, director of election initiatives at the center.
Mr. Becker warned that poor record keeping at the registration stage is not evidence of fraud at polling places. “These bad records are not leading to fraud but could lead to the perception of fraud,” he said.
What seems clear is that many people who are eligible to vote and want to do so fail because of flaws in the registration rolls. In 2008, roughly “2.2 million votes were lost because of registration problems,” according to a report from the Voting Technology Project of the California Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Heather Gerken, a law professor at Yale, said the new report from Pew quantified and illuminated just how poorly the election system manages its most fundamental task.
“Until Bush v. Gore, election administration was the dirty little secret of elections,” she said, referring to the Supreme Court decision that delivered the 2000 election to George W. Bush after poorly run elections in Florida. “And registration has always been the dirty little secret of election administration.”
The flaws in the voter registration rolls have a disproportionately negative impact on mobile populations, including students and other young people, the poor and members of the military, the Pew report found.
“It’s not clear that it has a uniform partisan effect,” Nathaniel Persily, a law professor and political scientist at Columbia, said of those findings. But he added that “it is now pretty clear that Democrats want to enact measures that make voter registration easier, and Republicans fear that would be an invitation to fraud.”
The Pew report compared state voter registration lists with a database maintained by Catalist, a company that collects and sells information about voting-age Americans based on data from public and commercial sources.
The United States differs from most other modern democracies in relying on a decentralized election administration system that places the burden of registration on voters rather than treating registration as a government responsibility.
“Part of the problem is that it is difficult for us to be proactive,” said Linda H. Lamone, Maryland’s administrator of elections. “We have to rely on the voters.”
In Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Germany, Peru and Sweden, by contrast, the national government maintains its own registries of citizens eligible to vote, according to a 2009 report from the Brennan Center for Justice.
Professor Gerken said difference between American and international practice helps explain many of Pew’s findings. “Everyone else in a modern democracy does it better,” she said, adding that the American system “is a silly way to run a railroad.”
It is also expensive. In 2008, for instance, Oregon spent $4.11 per active voter to process registrations. A 2001 study from the voting project found that local election offices spent a third of their budgets on registering voters.
Canada, by contrast, spent less than 35 cents per voter to process registrations — and 93 percent of eligible voters there are registered.
The registration process in the United States often involves handwritten forms, some collected by third parties. Those forms are then manually entered into an electronic system, a process bound to introduce flaws.
People who move, moreover, often take no steps to inform administrators at their old addresses, and a new registration does not typically result in a notification to cancel the previous one. Yet a quarter of all voters assume that their registrations automatically move with them, the report found.
As a consequence, active registrations in two states are common. Some 70,000 people are registered to vote in three or more states.
This is also a consequence of a distinctively American approach. “The United States is unique both in its requirement that voters re-register each time they move and in the high mobility of the population,” Professor Persily and Stephen Ansolabehere, a professor of government at Harvard, wrote in a 2010 article, “Measuring Election System Performance,” in The New York University Journal of Legislation and Public Policy.
One possible response, employed in Arizona and Washington State, is to allow online registration, which is cheaper, more accurate and more convenient but may raise security concerns. Ms. Lamone, the Maryland election official, said her state for now “is completely paper based” but would allow online registration starting in July for people with a valid state driver’s license or military identification.
The Pew report urged administrators to make greater use of data-matching technologies commonly used by private businesses and to look to government resources like motor vehicle records, Social Security death records and the Postal Service’s change-of-address database.
In an interview, Professor Persily proposed what he called an easy fix to many of the problems identified in the new report. The Postal Service’s change-of-address form, he said, could include a box that, when checked, would generate a cancellation notice directed to the old voting place and a registration request to the new one.
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Exclusive: O'Keefe Video Exposes Voter Fraud-Friendly Policies in Vermont
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James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas has released a new video exposing just how easy it is to commit voter fraud in Vermont.
The video, a sequel to O'Keefe's "Primary of the Living Dead" in New Hampshire, shows a Veritas agent entering various voting places around the state of Vermont, giving a different name each time. Each time, he is given a ballot without showing an ID, to his disbelief.
In the video, the agent repeatedly requests (but does not take) a Republican primary ballot. As he explained to Breitbart.com: "We wanted to remind viewers this is not a partisan issue. This is a situation wherein anyone -- Republican or Democrat -- can exploit the system."
The new video follows in the wake of a highly-politicized media attack on Mr. O’Keefe after his exposure of voter fraud in New Hampshire. Those videos resulted in calls from the left for O’Keefe’s arrest. However, the videos soon resulted in the New Hampshire State Senate passing a new bill requiring voter ID.
O'Keefe's new video from Vermont could not be more timely, coming the day after the U.S. Department of Justice's civil rights division blocked a Texas photo ID requirement for voters--to the applause of the American Civil Liberties Union, which claimed that the law was “discriminatory” against “Latinos, African-Americans, elderly citizens, and others.”
As the Project Veritas video shows, the current system in Vermont discriminates against actual legal voters, who must face the prospect of disenfranchisement by those who would vote in their stead illegally, or have their votes cancelled out by those voting illegally in place of deceased voters who have yet to be removed from the rolls. If it is not discriminatory for Vermont citizens to be required to show ID to get married or buy alcohol, it is certainly not discriminatory to make them show ID to vote.
“It is a national disgrace that ballots can be given out in the names of dead people,” O’Keefe told Breitbart.com. “Threats of government intimidation will not stop us from protecting the integrity of the ballot box. If any state has a system which encourages ballots to be given out to the wrong person, dead or alive, we will come to your state, we will film your poll workers, and Project Veritas will put the videos on YouTube. States like Vermont and New Hampshire have to take dead people off voter registration forms and clean up their act, once and for all.”
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It's voter fraud only if you lose. ;D
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How I rigged the Democrats' vote
By Cindy Blake
12:00AM GMT 19 Nov 2000
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/4256932/How-I-rigged-the-Democrats-vote.html
THE world has watched the American Presidential election with mounting disbelief as tales of incompetence and skullduggery have emerged. None of these electoral misdeeds have surprised me - but I am puzzled that they have taken this long to be uncovered. I know they occur: I fixed an election myself.
In 1976, I was a campaign worker for Jimmy Carter and during the Democratic primaries, I was sent to Pennsylvania for a day to help out in any way I could. The night before the election, I was told I would be a poll-watcher in a district in South Philadelphia. I had no idea what this entailed but it was explained that I would be at a polling station to ensure that the process went legally and smoothly.
South Philly, a heavily Italian district, was a stronghold of Carter's opponent in the primary, Henry "Scoop" Jackson, an old-guard Democrat with strong links to the labor unions and with Philadephia's Italian-American Mayor Rizzo in his camp. The Carter consensus was that Jackson would win easily in South Philly, but I was there to make sure he did so lawfully. "Check the back of the machine as soon as you get there," I was advised. "Make sure there are no votes registered on it before the place has opened."
This shocked me. Every time a vote is cast, the back of the voting machine records it on what looks like a car mileage gauge, so at the end of the day the poll supervisors know how many people have voted. If the gauge registered a number of votes before the poll had opened, someone would have to have rigged the machine. Not only was this profoundly un-American, I couldn't believe it could happen in 1976.
On a moral high horse, I geared myself to do battle with any lowdown vote tamperers perverting the cause of American democracy. There was, however, one hitch. A big one. To be a poll-watcher, you had to live in the district and I'd never even been to South Philly. The Carter camp in Pennsylvania were willing to bend the rules: I was handed a slip of paper with an address on it - this was where I lived, I was told. I was also given the phone number of the lawyers. Anything fishy, and I was to call them pronto.
Within seconds of arriving at the polling station the next morning, I realised I'd been thrown in the deep end. The station was a bar and pool hall. The man who let me in said Buongiorno and then went on in Italian. I had no idea what he was saying or what he was doing there. Another poll-watcher? Or had I come to the wrong place? When I saw the voting booth, I knew I was where I was supposed to be, but I was a little worried about who I was supposed to be. Someone from the district who not only couldn't speak Italian but had a Boston accent? The man switched to English and introduced himself as Albert. He was clearly in charge of this polling station, but I didn't dare ask how he came to be in charge. Instead I gathered my courage and went to look at the back of the voting machine to see if any votes had been registered. Fifty had. It was seven-thirty in the morning. The polls didn't open until eight.
"Um," I said to Albert. "I think we have a problem here." I waved in the general direction of the machine. "Yeah?" he smiled. "You think so? So tell me - where do you live?" I instantly forgot my false address. Pulling the piece of paper out of my pocket, I slid a quick look at it and stammered out the street name and number. Albert gave me his full attention. And smiled some more before saying: "Funny, you don't seem so sure of yourself on that one. So - you gonna call the lawyers?"
He knew perfectly well I didn't live in South Philly. I knew perfectly well he'd put those 50 votes - for Jackson, I assumed - on the machine. If I met Albert today, I'd say that I was in the presence of Tony Soprano before he decided to see a shrink. Maybe I was intimidated by him, or maybe I wanted too badly to say my next line: "Lawyers? Who needs 'em?"
Whatever the case, this fearless guardian of democracy caved in, because that's exactly what I did say. Albert nodded with a "wise choice" look in his eyes. I exhaled. And then we sat down at the table together and he told me about his family as people straggled in and out to vote. They all seemed to know Albert. Everyone spoke Italian. He made me some coffee, I began to relax. The district was going to go to Jackson anyway, I told myself. So he gets a few more votes - what would have been the point of calling in the lawyers when I was there illegally to begin with?
The thing about Albert was, he was funny. I began to laugh at his jokes. By 11 o'clock, we were getting along like old buddies, when a group of 30 nuns approached. "Hey, Cind," he turned to me. "Tell me a good dirty joke and I'll give you the nuns." I was on his wavelength by now - I knew this meant he'd give the nuns' votes to Carter. I didn't hesitate. I told the funniest, dirtiest joke in my repertoire.
The nuns and Albert obviously had an understanding. They trusted him to make their choice for them, and so he went into the voting booth with each one and whispered "Jimmy Carter" into their ears. This was, I guessed, his way of making up for the 50 spurious Jackson votes. With that one joke, I was up to my neck in un-American activities. By the end of the day, I was drowning in them as Albert and I, during slow times, played pool for votes. "Pot that eight ball in the side pocket and I'll give Carter another 10," he'd say. I'm a decent pool player and Carter was racking up the votes. All I can say in my own defence is that the whole scene was surreal. On the one hand I couldn't believe what I was doing; on the other, I thought: a tiny district in one state - what difference could that make in the scheme of things?
Which brings me from South Philly to Palm Beach. Or any number of tiny districts in one state in this presidential election which could have made a world of difference. Although I doubt that Albert is still presiding over the polling station in South Philly, or that this sort of mind-bogglingly blatant perversion of the system still exists 24 years later, I can't help but wonder how many other irregularities take place.
Jimmy Carter won the district and when I brought the results back to the Carter headquarters, people were euphoric. "You see," they said, "Jimmy Carter's decency and honesty shine through even in districts like South Philly." "Absolutely," I replied.
I was supposed to go to the victory party with the Carterites that night. Instead I returned to South Philly and had dinner with Albert and his family.
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4 Indiana Dems charged with election fraud in 2008
Fox News ^ | Apr 2 2012 | Eric Shawn
Posted on April 2, 2012 9:27:46 PM EDT by chuck_the_tv_out
Felony charges related to election fraud have touched the 2008 race for the highest office in the land.
Prosecutors in South Bend, Ind., filed charges Monday against four St. Joseph County Democratic officials and deputies as part of a multiple-felony case involving the alleged forging of Democratic presidential primary petitions in the 2008 election, which put then-candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the Indiana ballot.
The officials are accused of taking part in a scheme to fake signatures and names on the primary petitions needed to run for president. Court papers say the plan was hatched by local Democratic Party officials inside the local party headquarters.
Among those charged is the former long-time chairman of the St. Joseph County Democratic Party, Butch Morgan, who allegedly ordered the forgeries. He was forced to resign when the allegations were first made public last October, even though his lawyer, Shaw Friedman, told Fox News at the time that Morgan did not do anything wrong.
The St. Joseph County Board of Voter Registration's Democratic board member, Pam Brunette, Board of Voter Registration worker Beverly Shelton and Democratic volunteer and former board worker Dustin Blythe also face charges.
According to affidavits, St. Joseph County Voter Registration Office worker Lucas Burkett told investigators that he was part of the plan that started in January 2008 "to forge signatures on presidential candidate petitions instead of collecting actual signatures from citizens."
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4 Indiana Dems charged with election fraud in 2008 presidential race
By Eric Shawn
Published April 03, 2012
| FoxNews.com
Felony charges related to election fraud have touched the 2008 race for the highest office in the land.
Prosecutors in South Bend, Ind., filed charges Monday against four St. Joseph County Democratic officials and deputies as part of a multiple-felony case involving the alleged forging of Democratic presidential primary petitions in the 2008 election, which put then-candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the Indiana ballot.
The officials are accused of taking part in a scheme to fake signatures and names on the primary petitions needed to run for president. Court papers say the plan was hatched by local Democratic Party officials inside the local party headquarters.
Among those charged is the former long-time chairman of the St. Joseph County Democratic Party, Butch Morgan, who allegedly ordered the forgeries. He was forced to resign when the allegations were first made public last October, even though his lawyer, Shaw Friedman, told Fox News at the time that Morgan did not do anything wrong.
The St. Joseph County Board of Voter Registration's Democratic board member, Pam Brunette, Board of Voter Registration worker Beverly Shelton and Democratic volunteer and former board worker Dustin Blythe also face charges.
According to affidavits, St. Joseph County Voter Registration Office worker Lucas Burkett told investigators that he was part of the plan that started in January 2008 "to forge signatures on presidential candidate petitions instead of collecting actual signatures from citizens."
The documents state that Burkett told investigators that “he was heavily involved in St. Joseph County political activities with the local Democratic party," and that "he had, in fact, personally forged several such signatures," and had attended meetings at the local Democratic party headquarters, where it was agreed to forge the petitions. Morgan, the County Democratic Chairman, allegedly "instructed Mr. Burkett, Pamela Brunette, Beverly Shelton, and Dustin Blythe to forge ballot petitions for presidential candidates," and that "all of them agreed to follow these instructions" by copying names and signatures from old election petitions.
According to affidavits, Burkett told investigators it was his job to "forge petitions for candidate Barack Obama," Shelton "was assigned to forge petitions for candidate Hillary Clinton" and Blythe "was assigned to forge petitions for candidate John Edwards." When Edwards dropped out of the race at the end of January 2008 and Burkett refused to continue the forgeries, Morgan allegedly ordered Blythe to then forge petitions for Barack Obama.
Indiana State Police investigators identified a total of 22 petitions that appeared to be faked, yet sailed through the Voter Registration Board as legitimate documents. The signature of the board's Republican supervisor, Linda Silcott, which is required for legal certification, appeared to be rubber stamped on the documents. She told investigators that she did not remember signing or authorizing her rubber stamp to be used.
Silcott also told investigators that she recognized the handwriting on the alleged forged Obama petitions as that of Blythe's.
The South Bend Tribune and independent political newsletter Howey Politics Indiana have reported that a handwriting analyst concluded last fall that Blythe's handwriting matched some of the alleged Obama fakes. When Fox News caught up to Blythe as he left the Voter Registration Board last November and asked him if he forged any signatures or faked any petitions, he repeatedly replied, "I don't have anything to say."
The case raises the possibility that the president's campaign and that of Clinton’s, could have been legally challenged in Indiana if the alleged forgeries were discovered during the race.
Under state law, presidential candidates need to qualify with 500 signatures from each of Indiana's nine congressional districts. Indiana elections officials say that in St. Joseph County, which is the 2nd Congressional District, the Obama campaign qualified with 534 signatures; Clinton's camp had 704.
But the signatures, which were certified by the elections board, were never challenged. If the number of legitimate signatures for Obama or Clinton fell below the legal requirement of 500, they could have been bounced from the state ballot. Reports have previously put the number of phony signatures for both candidates at about 150, but state investigators plucked names from the petitions at random and cited only 20 individual alleged forgeries as part of their case. They say their investigation of the petitions continues.
Multiple voters, including Indiana's former Democratic Gov. Joe Kernan, told Fox News that their names and signatures were phonies.
"That's not my signature," Charity Rorie told Fox News as she sat in her kitchen in Mishawaka, Ind.. The mother of four was stunned that her name and signature, and those of her husband, appeared on one of the Obama petitions. She said they "absolutely" were fakes and was troubled that personal details such as their address and birthdays were also included.
"It was shocking," she said. "Why did they do that, and where did they get it from?"
"I did not sign for Barack Obama," Democratic voter Robert Hunter told Fox News as he stared at the Obama petition that included his name and purported signature supporting the candidate. While he observed that the scrawl looked "very close" to his real one, it was not.
"I always put 'Junior' after my name, every time... there's no 'Junior' there," Hunter told us. "I don't like anybody using my name for anything other than myself."
"It's scary," Charity said. "A lot of people have already lost faith in politics and the realm of politics and that solidifies our worries and concerns."
As for Burkett, a 26-year-old lifelong Democrat, "he is the whistle-blower in this," his lawyer, Andrew B. Jones, told Fox News.
"Lucas really is the hero in this situation. He is someone who stood up for good government, and has cooperated with the state police and will continue to do so."
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/04/02/4-indiana-dems-charged-with-election-fraud-in-2008/#ixzz1qzdVg4Op
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According to Straw - voter fraud is rare if ever.!
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It is not rare and Democrats have the monopoly on voter fraud.
The recall in Wisconsin needs to be scrutinized.
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Ex-Democrat official charged in Indiana petition forgery
Associated Press ^ | April 3, 2012
Posted on April 3, 2012 9:31:31 PM EDT by Free ThinkerNY
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — A former Democratic Party county chairman in northern Indiana has been charged with leading a scheme to forge signatures on petitions to place Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the state's 2008 presidential primary ballot.
The St. Joseph County prosecutor's office filed felony conspiracy to commit forgery and other charges against 63-year-old Butch Morgan on Monday. Three former workers in the county voter registration office also face forgery and other charges.
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Associated Press ^ | April 3, 2012
Posted on April 3, 2012 9:31:31 PM EDT by Free ThinkerNY
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — A former Democratic Party county chairman in northern Indiana has been charged with leading a scheme to forge signatures on petitions to place Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the state's 2008 presidential primary ballot.
The St. Joseph County prosecutor's office filed felony conspiracy to commit forgery and other charges against 63-year-old Butch Morgan on Monday. Three former workers in the county voter registration office also face forgery and other charges.
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Copy and past more Free Republic articles. It really gets everyone on board.
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Copy and past more Free Republic articles. It really gets everyone on board.
Dispute the article Or STFU troll. Face it you moron, the democrat crime bosses foisted this ghetto street Marxist and dirtbag Obama on us via fraud and idiots like yourself gave us this scumbag.
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4 Indiana Dems Charged with Election Fraud in 2008 Presidential Race
Fox News ^ | April 3, 2012 | Eric Shawn
Posted on April 4, 2012 7:26:32 AM EDT by lbryce
Felony charges related to election fraud have touched the 2008 race for the highest office in the land.
Prosecutors in South Bend, Ind., filed charges Monday against four St. Joseph County Democratic officials and deputies as part of a multiple-felony case involving the alleged forging of Democratic presidential primary petitions in the 2008 election, which put then-candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the Indiana ballot.
The officials are accused of taking part in a scheme to fake signatures and names on the primary petitions needed to run for president. Court papers say the plan was hatched by local Democratic Party officials inside the local party headquarters.
Presidential Primary Fraud Case Heats Up
Allegations of election fraud with 2008 ballots
Among those charged is the former long-time chairman of the St. Joseph County Democratic Party, Butch Morgan, who allegedly ordered the forgeries. He was forced to resign when the allegations were first made public last October, even though his lawyer, Shaw Friedman, told Fox News at the time that Morgan did not do anything wrong.
The St. Joseph County Board of Voter Registration's Democratic board member, Pam Brunette, Board of Voter Registration worker Beverly Shelton and Democratic volunteer and former board worker Dustin Blythe also face charges.
According to affidavits, St. Joseph County Voter Registration Office worker Lucas Burkett told investigators that he was part of the plan that started in January 2008 "to forge signatures on presidential candidate petitions instead of collecting actual signatures from citizens."
The documents state that Burkett told investigators that “he was heavily involved in St. Joseph County political activities with the local Democratic party," and that "he had, in fact, personally forged several such signatures," and had attended meetings at the local Democratic party headquarters, where it was agreed to forge the petitions.
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.REPORT: Mass Illegal Alien Voter Fraud Uncovered in Florida
By John Hill on April 4, 2012 in ACTION CENTER, Blog, News
http://standwitharizona.com/blog/2012/04/04/mass-illegal-alien-voter-fraud-uncovered-in-florida
Democrats facing a tough election year are on the warpath – doing everything in their power to stop Voter ID laws in their tracks. The Obama Department of Justice has declared war on Texas and South Carolina – inventing non-existent “racial discrimination” to block popular voter ID laws in those states.
And always, we hear the bleating of activists that “there’s no significant voter fraud in America” . Meanwhile, Democrats officials (and their activist allies) are routinely caught committing it. And Roger Hedgecock detailed the extensive effort by the Democrats in 2010 to commit massive fraud in California in his must-read piece, Stealing the Election of 2012.
And now, an exceptional reporter in Florida has uncovered shocking fraud in that state – registration and voting by non-citizens – which officials had no idea was occurring, since they are prohibited from asking immigration status under the fraud-machine called the Motor Voter Act of 1993.
NBC-2 Tampa reporter Andy Pierrotti deserves serious kudos for conducting a two-month investigation that found non-citizens voting in Florida Elections. His report came just two days after the Tampa Bay Times claimed voter fraud in Florida was nonexistent.
One Naples voter admitted she was not a U.S. Citizen, nor a legal immigrant – but election records show she voted six times in the past eleven years.
The NBC2 investigators found the voter after examining “jury excusal” forms where a person said they couldn’t serve because they were not U.S. Citizens. They took those names and found dozens of those people in the database of Florida registered voters.
Since investigators only checked a very small sample of jury forms, one can only imagine how many thousands, or tens of thousands of illegals statewide who may have voted since the Motor Voter law was passed in 1993. Non-citizen voting is a Federal felony:
“This is under oath, that document, they are attesting that it is true and by falsifying, it’s a third degree felony,” said Tim Durham, Collier County’s deputy chief election supervisor.
The NBC2 investigation revealed county supervisors of elections have no way to verify citizenship and are not required to ask for proof.
See the full shocking report below…
It should not take a small market affiliate to uncover massive voter fraud in a critical swing state like Florida. The FL Secretary of State told NBC2 they were on the case:
“…we will be exploring how many of the state’s clerks of court and supervisors of elections could work together to verify that persons excused from jury duty, because they are non-citizens, are not illegally registered to vote.”
But how did it get to this point to begin with? How many Florida counties fail to require proof of citizenship for voting, and how many illegal aliens and visa holders will unlawfully vote in states across the nation this year?
As Hedgecock detailed, the Democrats have their machinery of fraud in full gear and ready for November – from the Department of Injustice down to the activists registering illegal aliens door to door in every city. Are Republicans just going to sit back and let them steal the election of 2012?
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Contact YOUR Representatives. Send them this article and DEMAND they act NOW on voter fraud.
Find your elected officials HERE
And then send NBC2 reporter Andy Pierrotti a note (EMAIL, FACEBOOK, TWITTER) to thank him for this rarest of media reports – and encourage him to continue to investigate the impact of voter fraud and illegal immigration on Florida.
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Dispute the article Or STFU troll. Face it you moron, the democrat crime bosses foisted this ghetto street Marxist and dirtbag Obama on us via fraud and idiots like yourself gave us this scumbag.
Morons resort to diversion tactics when confronted with reality. It must be hard on them to realize that Pelosi couldn't "drain the swamp".
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UNFUCKING REAL!
YEAH - NO FRAUD THERE!
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Why We Need Voter-ID Laws Now
By John Fund
April 9, 2012
12:00 A.M. Attorney General Eric Holder is a staunch opponent of laws requiring voters to show photo ID at the polls to improve ballot security. He calls them “unnecessary” and has blocked their implementation in Texas and South Carolina, citing the fear they would discriminate against minorities.
I wonder what Holder will think when he learns just how easy it was for someone to be offered his ballot just by mentioning his name in a Washington, D.C., polling place in Tuesday’s primaries.
Holder’s opposition to ID laws comes in spite of the Supreme Court’s 6–3 decision in 2008, authored by liberal Justice John Paul Stevens, that upheld the constitutionality of Indiana’s tough ID requirement. When groups sue to block photo-ID laws in court, they can’t seem to produce real-world examples of people who have actually been denied the right to vote. According to opinion polls, over 75 percent of Americans — including majorities of Hispanics and African-Americans — routinely support such laws.
One reason is that people know you can’t function in the modern world without showing ID — you can’t cash a check, travel by plane or even train, or rent a video without being asked for one. In fact, PJ Media recently proved that you can’t even enter the Justice Department in Washington without showing a photo ID. Average voters understand that it’s only common sense to require ID because of how easy it is for people to pretend they are someone else
Filmmaker James O’Keefe demonstrated just how easy it is on Tuesday when he dispatched an assistant to the Nebraska Avenue polling place in Washington where Attorney General Holder has been registered for the last 29 years. O’Keefe specializes in the same use of hidden cameras that was pioneered by the recently deceased Mike Wallace, who used the technique to devastating effect in exposing fraud in Medicare claims and consumer products on 60 Minutes. O’Keefe’s efforts helped expose the fraud-prone voter-registration group ACORN with his video stings, and has had great success demonstrating this year in New Hampshire, Vermont, and Minnesota just how easy it is to obtain a ballot by giving the name of a dead person who is still on the rolls. Indeed, a new study by the Pew Research Center found at least 1.8 million dead people are still registered to vote. They aren’t likely to complain if someone votes in their place.
In Washington, it was child’s play for O’Keefe to beat the system. O’Keefe’s assistant used a hidden camera to document his encounter with the election worker at Holder’s polling place:
Man: “Do you have an Eric Holder, 50th Street?
Poll worker: “Let me see here.”
Man: Xxxx 50th Street.
Poll Worker: Let’s see, Holder, Hol-t-e-r, or Hold-d-e-r?
Man: H-o-l-d-e-r.
Poll Worker: D-e-r. Okay.
Man: That’s the name.
Poll Worker: I do. Xxxx 50th Street NW. Okay. [Puts check next to name, indicating someone has shown up to vote.] Will you sign there . . .
Man: I actually forgot my ID.
Poll Worker: You don’t need it; it’s all right.
Man: I left it in the car.
Poll Worker: As long as you’re in here, and you’re on our list and that’s who you say you are, we’re okay.
Man: I would feel more comfortable if I go get my ID, is it all right if I go get it?
Poll Worker: Sure, go ahead.
Man: I’ll be back faster than you can say furious!
Poll Worker: We’re not going anywhere.
Note that O’Keefe’s assistant never identified himself as Eric Holder, so he was not illegally impersonating him.
Nor did he attempt to vote using the ballot that was offered him, or even to accept it. O’Keefe has been accused by liberals of committing voter fraud in his effort to expose just how slipshod the election systems of various no-ID-required states are, but lawyers say his methods avoid that issue. Moreover, he has only taped his encounters with election officials in jurisdictions that allow videotaping someone in public with only one party’s knowledge.
As for the D.C. Board of Elections, its loose practices are a matter of record. Last year, a community activist uncovered the fact that Andrea Pringle, the new deputy chief of staff to Washington, D.C., mayor Vincent Gray, had voted illegally in the district even though she admitted to living in Maryland. She resigned in the face of the criticism.
Nor is she the only example. State Senator Harold Metts of Rhode Island got a photo-ID law put on the books in his state last year after he was told by several constituents of a pattern of voter fraud in his home town of Providence. Indeed, his own state representative and her daughter had their votes stolen by someone voting in their names in one election. “The old system was not set up to readily weed out fraud, and it would be very hard to prove,” he told the Woonsocket Patch newspaper. Metts, the state senate’s only African-American member, says that he took a lot of heat from national Democrats for getting the ID law approved by an overwhelmingly Democratic legislature. But he says party loyalty only takes him so far. “It’s time to stop crying wolf and make the voter-ID law work for those on both sides of this issue who want to ensure the integrity of the system, while guarding against disenfranchisement.”
Several of the state laws that require photo ID also make new provisions to enhance security for absentee ballots, the tool of choice for many fraudsters. Last year, Lessadolla Sowers, a member of the NAACP’s Executive Committee in Tunica County, Miss., was sentenced to five years in prison for fraudulently casting absentee ballots for ten other people. “This crime cuts against the fabric of our free society,” Judge Charles Webster said at the sentencing hearing.
Scandals such as that one helped convince 62 percent of Mississippi’s voters to approve a photo-ID law last November. The measure passed in a clear majority of counties that are majority-black. As with other ID laws, a free state-issued photo ID is available to anyone who says they can’t afford one.
But the groups opposing voter ID won’t let the facts get in their way. James Clyburn of South Carolina, the third-ranking member in the House Democratic leadership, compares voter-ID laws to “Jim Crow” provisions that blocked people from voting in the last century, and said he is “very, very anxious” that the Supreme Court “as it is presently constituted” will support the new laws. But as previously noted, the Supreme Court already has supported voter ID, with its opinion authored by its most liberal member at the time.
Some criticism of voter-ID laws has morphed into intimidation. This week, Color of Change, co-founded by former Obama special adviser Van Jones, threatened a boycott against Coca-Cola and Walmart because they financially supported the American Legislative Exchange Council, which has helped state legislators draft some of the voter-ID laws. Within hours, Coca-Cola resigned its membership in ALEC. So far Walmart is holding out by arguing that ALEC is involved with dozens of issues, many of them of direct concern to Walmart shareholders.
There is something surreal about the voter-ID issue. As James O’Keefe demonstrates, it is comically easy to commit voter fraud in person, and, unless someone confesses, it’s very difficult to ever detect. With absentee balloting, there is a paper trail that makes it easier to uncover fraud, making it a problem that even some critics of photo ID will admit.
Other than hypotheticals, there are very few cases of legitimate voters who were unable to have their vote counted because they lacked ID. People who show up without photo ID at the polls are allowed to cast a provisional ballot that is counted after proof of identity is offered.
“From voter fraud to election chicanery of all kinds, America teeters on the edge of scandal every November,” says Larry Sabato, the director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia and author of a comprehensive survey of voter fraud called “Dirty Little Secrets.” The fact that so many people want to thwart legitimate and prudent efforts to improve ballot integrity has become a scandal in its own right. Attorney General Holder is unlikely to agree with that, but after what happened at his polling place last Tuesday, he should at least understand that voter fraud itself is a scandal worth investigating.
— John Fund, a writer based in New York, is the author of Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy.
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April 9, 2012
The Democrats' Election Forgery Racket
By Michelle Malkin
A few weeks ago, Obama senior adviser and seasoned Chicago operative David Axelrod joked on MSNBC about election corruption. Asked whether "vote early and often" scams had come to an end in his shady hometown, Axelrod snarked: "Well, certainly on the air." Yuk, yuk, yuk.
Behind the scenes, Democrats have been busy faking petition signatures, forging ballots and enlisting medical professionals to authorize fraudulent doctors' notes for liberal teachers-union operatives protesting Republican opponents. It's no laughing matter.
This week, four Democratic officials in Indiana were hit with felony charges related to petition fraud in the state's 2008 primary. The prosecutions are a result of the local South Bend Tribune newspaper's investigation last fall into "hundreds of county residents' signatures" forged on petitions used to put Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the Democratic primary ballot. At least two whistle-blowing government officials came forward to expose the forgery racket, which court documents say was formulated by Democratic Party officials inside local party headquarters.
A veteran county Democratic Party chair, Butch Morgan, resigned in October over the scandal; three employees in the St. Joseph County voter registration office reportedly helped Morgan execute the scheme. Among the hundreds of unsuspecting residents whose names were illegally signed to the petitions: the prosecuting attorney in the case and a former Democratic governor of the state!
That's the audacity of ACORN-style hoaxes.
Without the phony signatures, there's a significant chance that Obama would not have qualified for the primary ballot -- throwing the validity of the entire election into question.
Dr. Deb Fleming, the county's Republican chairwoman, told the South Bend Tribune that the Democratic machine has dominated her backyard for decades. "They have 'a culture of corruption' here and throughout Indiana. 'I'm sure there are other things. They've just never gotten caught,' she speculated. 'Because they've been in control of St. Joseph County for so long, they felt they could get away with it.'"
It's a widespread culture of election corruption that has festered in Obama's Chicago, crossed into Indiana and bubbled up across the country.
On Tuesday, a New York judge set new trial dates for Democratic officials and political operatives accused of another ballot fraud conspiracy. A first round of prosecutions against Democratic Elections Commissioner Edward McDonough and his co-defendant, former Councilman Michael LoPorto, ended in mistrials last month. The two men also face separate voter fraud charges involving a plot by Democrats to win the radical Working Families Party primary back in 2009. The WFP is a front group for President Obama's dear old friends at fraud-plagued ACORN.
According to law enforcement authorities, the ring of Democrats tried to rig the primary election for city council and county legislature by forging absentee ballots and ballot applications to ensure that their candidates also won the Working Families Party primary line.
Fox News Channel investigative reporter Eric Shawn noted that a whistle-blower in the case, WFP employee Sarah Couch, told investigators that her bosses "asked her to issue a Working Families Party press release that would 'point blame at the Republican Party,' and she refused to do so." Another whistle-blower, Democratic operative Anthony DeFiglio, told police that "faking absentee ballots was a commonplace and accepted practice in political circles, all intended to swing an election."
Meanwhile, in Wisconsin, the state's Medical Examining Board decided last month to investigate 11 additional doctors for writing fake sick notes for public union teachers who ditched their classrooms to protest GOP Gov. Scott Walker. Nine other medical professionals have already received slaps on the wrist.
Primary petitions. Absentee ballots. Doctors' orders. Fraudulent signatures are becoming the signature of desperate Democrats who play the electoral game by one set of rules: By Any Means Necessary.
Yet, progressives in the media and White House continue to strike a see-no-election-fraud, hear-no-election-fraud, speak-no-election-fraud pose. And Team Obama's Axelrod supplies the laugh track. Yuck, yuck, yuck.
Copyright 2012, Creators Syndicate Inc.
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Dispute the article Or STFU troll. Face it you moron, the democrat crime bosses foisted this ghetto street Marxist and dirtbag Obama on us via fraud and idiots like yourself gave us this scumbag.
Come at me, bro.
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Come at me, bro.
Everyone knows where to find me.
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Everyone knows where to find me.
No one wants to see you.
HTH.
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No one wants to see you.
HTH.
::). Face it, you were scammed. It happens. I was scammed in 2004 , it happens.
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::). Face it, you were scammed. It happens. I was scammed in 2004 , it happens.
Face it, you're going to die sad and alone in front of the computer that you're looking at right now.
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.REPORT: Mass Illegal Alien Voter Fraud Uncovered in Florida
By John Hill on April 4, 2012 in ACTION CENTER, Blog, News
http://standwitharizona.com/blog/2012/04/04/mass-illegal-alien-voter-fraud-uncovered-in-florida
Democrats facing a tough election year are on the warpath – doing everything in their power to stop Voter ID laws in their tracks. The Obama Department of Justice has declared war on Texas and South Carolina – inventing non-existent “racial discrimination” to block popular voter ID laws in those states.
And always, we hear the bleating of activists that “there’s no significant voter fraud in America” . Meanwhile, Democrats officials (and their activist allies) are routinely caught committing it. And Roger Hedgecock detailed the extensive effort by the Democrats in 2010 to commit massive fraud in California in his must-read piece, Stealing the Election of 2012.
And now, an exceptional reporter in Florida has uncovered shocking fraud in that state – registration and voting by non-citizens – which officials had no idea was occurring, since they are prohibited from asking immigration status under the fraud-machine called the Motor Voter Act of 1993.
NBC-2 Tampa reporter Andy Pierrotti deserves serious kudos for conducting a two-month investigation that found non-citizens voting in Florida Elections. His report came just two days after the Tampa Bay Times claimed voter fraud in Florida was nonexistent.
One Naples voter admitted she was not a U.S. Citizen, nor a legal immigrant – but election records show she voted six times in the past eleven years.
The NBC2 investigators found the voter after examining “jury excusal” forms where a person said they couldn’t serve because they were not U.S. Citizens. They took those names and found dozens of those people in the database of Florida registered voters.
Since investigators only checked a very small sample of jury forms, one can only imagine how many thousands, or tens of thousands of illegals statewide who may have voted since the Motor Voter law was passed in 1993. Non-citizen voting is a Federal felony:
“This is under oath, that document, they are attesting that it is true and by falsifying, it’s a third degree felony,” said Tim Durham, Collier County’s deputy chief election supervisor.
The NBC2 investigation revealed county supervisors of elections have no way to verify citizenship and are not required to ask for proof.
See the full shocking report below…
It should not take a small market affiliate to uncover massive voter fraud in a critical swing state like Florida. The FL Secretary of State told NBC2 they were on the case:
“…we will be exploring how many of the state’s clerks of court and supervisors of elections could work together to verify that persons excused from jury duty, because they are non-citizens, are not illegally registered to vote.”
But how did it get to this point to begin with? How many Florida counties fail to require proof of citizenship for voting, and how many illegal aliens and visa holders will unlawfully vote in states across the nation this year?
As Hedgecock detailed, the Democrats have their machinery of fraud in full gear and ready for November – from the Department of Injustice down to the activists registering illegal aliens door to door in every city. Are Republicans just going to sit back and let them steal the election of 2012?
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Contact YOUR Representatives. Send them this article and DEMAND they act NOW on voter fraud.
Find your elected officials HERE
And then send NBC2 reporter Andy Pierrotti a note (EMAIL, FACEBOOK, TWITTER) to thank him for this rarest of media reports – and encourage him to continue to investigate the impact of voter fraud and illegal immigration on Florida.
In other words, Bush justifiably won in 2000. The Dems had hundreds of thousands of illegals voting for Gore.
See how everything balances out in the end?
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Defiant: O’Keefe Team Offered Media Matters, NAACP Ballots
Breitbart ^ | 4/16/12 | Breitbart News
Posted on Monday, April 16, 2012 2:05:19 PM by Nachum
James O’Keefe and Project Veritas are back for more.
In the aftermath of James O’Keefe’s shock video showing a young white man strolling into a polling place in Washington DC and promptly being offered Attorney General Eric Holder’s ballot, the District of Columbia Board of Elections acted … by condemning O’Keefe. Board chairwoman Deborah Nichols railed:
“I have directed our attorneys to conduct a thorough investigation and refer all evidence to law enforcement authorities for appropriate action. Our polling places are open to the media and observers who want to legally document our procedures for checking in voters. There is never any justification for disrupting the voting process with fraudulent activity. We will take any and all appropriate actions to ensure the integrity of our voting process and we will vigorously seek to hold anyone and everyone accountable for interference with that process to the fullest extent permitted by law.”
Reporting and observing on the implementation of the voting process is, of course, precisely what O’Keefe and Project Veritas were doing. But that was of no consequence to the DC Board of Elections, which was more interested in “shooting the messenger,” as O’Keefe put it.
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LEAKED STRATFOR EMAILS: Democrats Manipulated The 2008 Election Results
Michael Kelley | 59 minutes ago | 2,249 | 11
A successful challenge of Obama's wins in Pennsylvania and Ohio would not have overturned his victory but would have tarnished the subsequent celebratory atmosphere.
John McCain's 2008 campaign staff allegedly had evidence that Democrats stuffed ballot boxes in Pennsylvania and Ohio on election night, but McCain chose not to pursue voter fraud, according to internal Stratfor emails published by WikiLeaks.
In an email sent on November 7, 2008, and titled " Insight - The Dems & Dirty Tricks ** Internal Use Only - Pls Do Not Forward **," Stratfor vice president of intelligence Fred Burton wrote:
1) The black Dems were caught stuffing the ballot boxes in Philly and Ohio as reported the night of the election and Sen. McCain chose not to fight. The matter is not dead inside the party. It now becomes a matter of sequence now as to how and when to "out".
In an email sent two days earlier and titled "Insight - McCain #5 ** internal use only - Pls do not forward **," Burton wrote:
After discussions with his inner circle, which explains the delay in his speech, McCain decided not to pursue the voter fraud in PA and Ohio, despite his staff's desire to make it an issue. He said no. Staff felt they could get a federal injunction to stop the process. McCain felt the crowds assembled in support of Obama and such would be detrimental to our country and it would do our nation no good for this to drag out like last go around, coupled with the possibility of domestic violence.
The Nov. 7 email also contains allegations that Democrats made a "six-figure donation" to Rev. Jesse Jackson to silence him on the topic of Israel after an October 2008 interview in which he said Obama’s presidency would remove the clout of “Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades.”
Burton, who appears to be friendly with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, wrote:
2) It appears the Dems "made a donation" to Rev. Jesse (no, they would never do that!) to keep his yap shut after his diatribe about the Jews and Israel. A little bird told me it was a "nice six-figure donation". This also becomes a matter of how and when to out.
The email also refers to an accusation that Obama's campaign took money from Russia, recalling memories of Bill Clinton's 1996 presidential campaign when the Justice Department uncovered evidence that China sought to make direct contributions to the Democratic National Committee.
Burton wrote:
3) The hunt is on for the sleezy Russian money into O-mans coffers. A smoking gun has already been found. Will get more on this when the time is right. My source was too giddy to continue. Can you say Clinton and ChiCom funny money? This also becomes a matter of how and when to out.
If true the allegations prompt questions of how the fallout has affected the politics of Obama's current administration and how it will effect this year's presidential election.
Interestingly, Mitt Romney is also facing allegations of voter fraud in Massachusetts as he cast a ballot for Republican Scott Brown in January 2010 in the special election to replace the late Sen. Ted Kennedy but didn’t own property in the state at the time.
Romney registered to vote listing his son’s unfinished basement as his residence, but the Romneys' former realtor told long-shot GOP candidate Fred Karger that they moved to California. Anyone found guilty of committing voter fraud faces up to five years in prison and a fine of $10,000.
Burton is a former Deputy Chief of the Department of State's counterterrorism division for the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS). The DSS assists the Department of Defense in following leads and doing forensic analysis of hard drives seized by the U.S. government in ongoing criminal investigations.
Stratfor provides confidential intelligence services to large corporations and government agencies, including the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Marines and the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency.
WikiLeaks has published 973 out of what it says is a cache of 5 million internal Stratfor emails (dated between July 2004 and December 2011) obtained by the hacker collective Anonymous around Christmas.
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New curbs on voter registration could hurt Obama
Yahoo ^ | 4/21/12 | Deborah Charles - Reuters
Posted on April 21, 2012 10:34:24 PM EDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New state laws designed to fight voter fraud could reduce the number of Americans signing up to vote in this year's presidential election by hundreds of thousands, a potential problem for President Barack Obama's re-election bid.
Voting laws passed by Republican-led legislatures in a dozen states during the past year have sharply restricted voter-registration drives that typically target young, low-income, African-American and Hispanic voters - groups that have backed the Democratic president by wide margins.
A further 16 states are considering bills that would end voter registration on election days, impose a range of limits on groups that register voters and make it more difficult for people to sign up, according to the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School.
The new laws - many of which include measures requiring voters to show a photo ID at the polls - could carve into Obama's potential support in Florida, Ohio and a few other politically divided states likely to be crucial in the November 6 election, analysts say.
The analysts note that massive registration drives in 2008 helped put millions of people aged 18 to 29 on voting rolls, and that age group - which makes up roughly one-quarter of the U.S. electorate - helped propel Obama to victory, voting 2-to-1 for him.
Rock the Vote, a nationwide organization that mobilizes young voters, said the new laws would make it more difficult for the group to educate people on how to sign up to vote.
"The types of laws have varied, but state by state they've added up to the fact that it's going to be harder for young people to get registered and vote in this election cycle," said Heather Smith, president of Rock the Vote.
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New curbs on voter registration could hurt Obama
Yahoo ^ | 4/21/12 | Deborah Charles - Reuters
Posted on April 21, 2012 10:34:24 PM EDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New state laws designed to fight voter fraud could reduce the number of Americans signing up to vote in this year's presidential election by hundreds of thousands, a potential problem for President Barack Obama's re-election bid.
Voting laws passed by Republican-led legislatures in a dozen states during the past year have sharply restricted voter-registration drives that typically target young, low-income, African-American and Hispanic voters - groups that have backed the Democratic president by wide margins.
A further 16 states are considering bills that would end voter registration on election days, impose a range of limits on groups that register voters and make it more difficult for people to sign up, according to the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School.
The new laws - many of which include measures requiring voters to show a photo ID at the polls - could carve into Obama's potential support in Florida, Ohio and a few other politically divided states likely to be crucial in the November 6 election, analysts say.
The analysts note that massive registration drives in 2008 helped put millions of people aged 18 to 29 on voting rolls, and that age group - which makes up roughly one-quarter of the U.S. electorate - helped propel Obama to victory, voting 2-to-1 for him.
Rock the Vote, a nationwide organization that mobilizes young voters, said the new laws would make it more difficult for the group to educate people on how to sign up to vote.
"The types of laws have varied, but state by state they've added up to the fact that it's going to be harder for young people to get registered and vote in this election cycle," said Heather Smith, president of Rock the Vote.
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Va. investigates voter fraud
Credit: BOB BROWN/TIMES-DISPATCH
None of the cases appeared to involve someone who misrepresented his or her identity at the polls to vote.
Results of an ongoing Virginia State Police investigation of voter registration irregularities from the 2008 general election may signal a more significant voter fraud issue than some state lawmakers realized.
As Virginia legislators hotly debated a voter ID bill that narrowly passed the General Assembly, many were unaware of a state police investigation that, so far, has resulted in charges against 38 people statewide for voter fraud. Warrants have been obtained for a 39th person who can't be located.
A majority of those cases already have resulted in convictions, and 26 additional cases are still being actively investigated nearly 3½ years after the state Board of Elections forwarded more than 400 voter and election fraud allegations from 62 cities and counties to Virginia State Police for individual investigation.
"We believe these complaints ran the gamut from voter registration fraud issues through potential fraud at the polling place on Election Day," said Donald Palmer, secretary of the Virginia Board of Elections, who was appointed by Gov. Bob McDonnell in February 2011. "We do not have specific numbers on how the complaints broke down. However, (the state board of elections) is aware that arrests have been made over the past few years for individuals engaging in voter registration fraud."
Palmer added that recent indictments obtained by the Richmond commonwealth's attorney's office for voter fraud and the results of the state police investigation "remind us that unfortunately, fraud does exist in Virginia's elections."
Many opponents of the voter ID law maintained that there was no evidence of widespread election fraud in Virginia, and the law would suppress the vote of minorities and others who don't have adequate identification. About 3.7 million Virginians voted in the 2008 election.
Richmond had by far the largest number of voter-fraud cases opened by state police — 124 — followed by Fairfax County with 37, Chesterfield and Prince William counties with 20 each, Alexandria with 19, Henrico with 17 and Petersburg with 13, according to state police data requested by the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
A total of 194 cases statewide where police determined a violation likely occurred have been closed because the commonwealth's attorneys in those localities declined to prosecute those individuals, police said.
"In some cases, the names were wrong, the individuals could not be located or there was something there that just could not justify the manpower and the resources that had to be devoted to tracking these individuals down, when you had such little to go with initially," said state police spokeswoman Corinne Geller.
Typically in criminal cases, Geller said, state police will fully investigate a criminal matter and then turn over its results to the commonwealth's attorney to determine whether it warrants prosecution. "But because we had so many (voter fraud complaints) — and this was unprecedented — we approached the commonwealth attorney in the very beginning," and a decision was made about whether to proceed before the investigation was completed.
State police said 82 cases were not prosecuted in Richmond, where Commonwealth's Attorney Michael Herring recently moved to indict 10 felons on charges of lying on registration forms during the 2008 election year. Elsewhere in Virginia, eight cases have resulted in an arrest in Chesterfield, four each in Mecklenburg and Nottoway, three in Fairfax, and one each in King and Queen, Loudoun, Madison, Powhatan, Prince William, Falls Church and Manassas, state police said.
Most were charged under a state statute that prohibits making false statements on an election form, but some were charged with illegally casting a ballot.
The majority of cases reviewed by The Times-Dispatch that resulted in arrests in central Virginia involved felons who either illegally registered to vote or who illegally voted in the general election, or both. Felons cannot vote in Virginia unless their rights are restored by the governor.
None of the cases appeared to involve someone who misrepresented his or her identity at the polls to vote.
The 400-plus fraud complaints were forwarded to state police in September 2008, before the November election, by then Board of Elections Secretary Nancy Rodriguez.
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Authorities in several jurisdictions said the felons who were charged claimed they had been solicited to register to vote — despite their status as a felon — by people associated with voter advocacy or voter participation groups.
The solicitors, whom police have not been able to identify, apparently encouraged the felons to vote by suggesting that new legislation had restored their fights to vote or their status as a felon would be resolved in some other fashion.
"What that indicates to me, at least among certain groups, is there is an active effort to subvert the laws of the commonwealth," said Sen. Thomas Garrett, R-Louisa, who as Louisa's former commonwealth's attorney prosecuted two felons for voter fraud in 2009.
In Chesterfield, the cases usually fell into three categories, said Chief Deputy Commonwealth's Attorney Kenneth Nickels. The felons would say: "I was a juvenile when (convicted) and I didn't think it could carry over; (the conviction) "was so long ago" it no longer mattered; "or somebody just told me that I could register and they would take care of getting my rights restored."
"I would say almost all of them voted," Nickels said.
Only one of the voter-fraud defendants in Chesterfield was convicted of a felony. The others were found guilty of reduced offenses, such as obstruction of justice.
The results of the state police investigation appears to contradict, to some degree, claims made by some opponents of the voter ID bill that no evidence existed of widespread voter fraud in Virginia. But it was unclear what, if any, impact that law would have had on preventing felons from illegally registering to vote or casting a ballot.
"It was frustrating for me to stand in committee or in the chamber of the Senate and relate with specificity actual investigations, charges and convictions for voter fraud, and then have someone on the other side of the aisle suggest that it didn't exist and it didn't happen — and we were more likely to find the Loch Ness monster," Garrett said.
The state police investigation and subsequent arrests, Garrett added, "absolutely validates the need" for the voter ID law.
Among the opponents, Del. Alfonso H. Lopez, D-Arlington, said during floor debate that the chances of being struck by lightning were higher than finding a case of voter fraud in Virginia. Lopez wasn't available for comment because of his schedule, an aide said.
Del. Jennifer McClellan, D-Richmond, another strong opponent, said she, unlike some of her colleagues, more specifically questioned whether there was any widespread evidence of people committing fraud by showing up a the polls claiming to be someone they're not — "because that's what the voter ID law is supposed to fix."
"If we have a widespread number of felons showing up to vote when they can't, then the voter ID law is not going to fix that," McClellan added.
Even with the state police investigation, McClellan said, "My question would still be, how many of those (cases) are allegations of people coming to vote claiming to be someone that they're not?"
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Sen. Henry L. Marsh III, D-Richmond, questioned the timing of the release of the state police data after the voter ID issue has been debated by the legislature. "If that existed, why wasn't that information available before the debate?"
The data "doesn't convince me of anything other than the fact that somebody is trying to create an impression that doesn't exist," Marsh added.
Marsh also questioned whether felons being recruited by others to vote constituted election fraud by the the felon.
"If someone tells someone that they can vote, and they believe it, and they present themselves and don't change their identity, then that might be a mistake," Marsh said. "But that's not voter fraud in the sense that we were told that it existed."
Garrett, a strong proponent of the voter ID law and other election fraud legislation, believes the bill would have prevented felons from voting in the 2008 election had it been in place — combined with a companion piece of legislation passed this session that requires local registrars to purge felons or anyone else illegally registered to vote from voting roles several weeks before an election.
Under that law, registrars are required to send prompt notice to anyone whose voting registration has been canceled and report to the local prosecutor's office any registered voter who has made a false statement on his application about having been convicted of a felony.
If that person then shows up to vote, "the only way to catch them is through the voter ID bill — should they come in claiming to be actually who they are," Garrett said.
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http://miami.cbslocal.com/2012/05/08/exclusive-florida-investigating-potential-non-citizen-voters
MIAMI (CBS4) – In a new crackdown, Florida officials are investigating the citizenship of thousands of registered voters. CBS4 News has learned 2,000 of those potential non-citizen voters are registered in Miami-Dade County. At least one person on the list has had the opportunity to vote for the past 40 years.
“These are the people that we have to notify by mail that we have a reason to believe that they’re a non-citizen,” said Christina White, Deputy Supervisor of Elections.
Miami-Dade is not alone. Broward is looking at 260 registered voters and Monroe is investigating four.
Numbers are important in elections. After all, the 2000 presidential election was decided by just over 500 votes.
“So it’s very important that voter registration rolls are accurate and only people who are eligible, are able to vote,” White told CBS4′s Gio Benitez.
It’s unclear if any of these people have ever voted. The new information simply shows they can vote. Each person has 30 days to respond to the County’s inquiry asking them to prove their citizenship. Up until recently, no proof of citizenship was required when registering to vote.
“So, if we find out after the fact that you are actually a non-citizen, and you are registered to vote, then we would report you to the State Attorney’s office,” said White.
The State Attorney may charge anyone unlawfully registered to vote with a felony.
“So if you are not [a citizen] and you check the box on the registration form that says that you are [a citizen], we are required to register you to vote, because you are taking that under oath.”
Broward Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes supports the investigation of non-citizen voters.
“As someone who has to uphold the laws of the state of Florida for elections, it’s totally inappropriate for that person to have been voting, if that’s the case,” said Snipes.
White says, in Miami-Dade, the potential non-citizen voters are a small percentage of the 1.2 million registered voters in Miami-Dade.
“So I don’t want to send an alarming message that we have a lot of non-citizens on our registration rolls,” she said.
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Cause each post is like the one before last.
And you can take your comments and shove em up your ass.
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Sometimes I wonder how long your bullshit's gonna last.
Cause each post is like the one before last.
And you can take your comments and shove em up your ass.
I'd rather go out and lie in the grass.
And think about some pussy or some good ole Rock and Roll.
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53,000 Dead Voters Found in Florida
PJ Media ^ | 5-16-12 | J. Christian Adams
Posted on Thursday, May 17, 2012 2:29:48 PM by afraidfortherepublic
I have learned that Florida election officials are set to announce that the secretary of state has discovered and purged up to 53,000 dead voters from the voter rolls in Florida.
How could 53,000 dead voters have sat on the polls for so long? Simple. Because Florida hadn’t been using the best available data revealing which voters have died. Florida is now using the nationwide Social Security Death Index for determining which voters should be purged because they have died.
Here is the bad news. Most states aren’t using the same database that Florida is. In fact, I have heard reports that some election officials won’t even remove voters even when they are presented with a death certificate. That means that voter rolls across the nation still are filled with dead voters, even if Florida is leading the way in detecting and removing them.
AdvertisementBut surely people aren’t voting in the names of dead voters, the voter fraud deniers argue. Wrong.
Consider the case of Lafayette Keaton. Keaton not only voted for a dead person in Oregon, he voted for his dead son. Making Keaton’s fraud easier was Oregon’s vote by mail scheme, which has opened up gaping holes in the integrity of elections. The incident in Oregon just scratches the surface of the problem. Massachusetts and Mississippi are but two other examples of the dead rising on election day.
Florida should be applauded for taking the problem seriously, even if Eric Holder’s Justice Department and many state election officials don’t.
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Senate Democrats blast national security leak on Iran cyber-attack
By Jeremy Herb - 06/05/12 03:02 PM ET
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The Democratic chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday expressed worry that leaks to press about a cyber attack on Iran authorized by the Obama administration could lead to a counter-attack on the U.S.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) joined other senior Senate Democrats in expressing serious concerns about the leak, which detailed a cyber attack intended to harm Iran's nuclear program. Some Republicans argue the information was leaked to help President Obama's re-election campaign.
Feinstein said the fact that the U.S. is launching cyber attacks against other countries could “to some extent” provide justification for cyberattacks against the U.S.
“This is like an avalanche. It is very detrimental and candidly, I found it very concerning,” Feinstein told reporters Tuesday. “There’s no question that this kind of thing hurts our country.”
Several Democrats noted the Iranian cyber leak is just the latest in a series of media reports about classified U.S. anti-terrorism activity.
“A number of those leaks, and others in the last months about drone activities and other activities are frankly all against national security interests,” said Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. “I think they’re dangerous, damaging, and whoever is doing that is not acting in the interest of the United States of America.”
Feinstein and Kerry, however, rejected Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) charge that the leaks were politically motivated to boost President Obama’s image.
Kerry said that he “categorically” rejected the accusations that the leaks were coming from the White House for political purposes.
And Feinstein said she did not think the White House leaked the cyber story for political purposes.
“That’s hard for me to believe,” she said.
A story in last week’s New York Times revealed U.S. involvement with the Stuxnet virus, a computer virus that was used against Iranian nuclear facilities and caused centrifuges to explode. The story detailed joint U.S. and Israeli efforts to develop the virus as well as conversations Obama had with his advisors on whether to continue the program when the virus became public in 2010. The story cited unnamed current and former U.S., Israeli and European officials.
McCain accused the White House of leaking the story for political purposes, a charge he continued to make on Tuesday as he has called for an investigation into the leak.
McCain and Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) are planning a colloquy on the Senate floor Tuesday afternoon to discuss the Stuxnet story, a McCain aide confirmed.
Senate Armed Services Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) said that he had serious concerns about the cyberattack story going public, but said he didn’t know where the leaks came from.
“I just can’t believe that there’s a decision in any kind of a formal way to leak this kind of a thing,” Levin said. “I just cannot believe that.”
Senate Homeland Security Chairman Joe Lieberman (I-Ct.), an independent who caucuses with Democrats, called for an independent investigation into the leaks on Tuesday.
Asked if he thought there was a political side to the leaks, Lieberman told The Hill he did not know. “The mere fact that people suspect it is means that it ought to be investigated,” he said.
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John McCain: Security leaks coming from ‘highest levels’ of White House
The Hill ^ | 06/06/2012 | By Meghashyam Mali
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Wednesday blasted the Obama administration over the disclosure of classified intelligence operations, leaks he said came from the “highest levels” at the White House.
“This is the most highly classified information and it’s now been leaked by the administration at the highest levels at the White House and that’s not acceptable,” McCain said on CBS "This Morning."
On Tuesday, McCain said the Senate Armed Services Committee would hold hearings about leaks detailing a U.S. cyberattack against Iran’s nuclear program and called for a special counsel to investigate the matter. A report last week in The New York Times revealed how U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies used software viruses to disrupt work at an Iranian nuclear facility.
McCain suggested that the administration was leaking the information, which he called a “breach of national security,” to bolster Obama’s foreign-policy credentials ahead of November’s election.
“It makes the president look very decisive,” McCain said, “and it gives very little credit to the other men and women who make these things happen.”
“This puts American lives in danger, revealing our most highly classified operations both in cyberwar and in drones,” he said.
Senate Democrats have also expressed concerns about the leaks, but rebuffed suggestions that administration officials hope to gain politically from the disclosures.
“I just can’t believe that there’s a decision in any kind of a formal way to leak this kind of a thing,” Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) said on Tuesday.
McCain said that even if the disclosures came from non-administration sources, White House officials should have refused to confirm sensitive, classified details to reporters.
“All they had to do was say ‘this is classified information and we won’t discuss it.’ And administration officials at the highest levels confirmed these facts, they obviously shouldn’t have done that.”
He warned that the leaks could harm American efforts against al Qaeda, which he said ways “making a comeback in Iran.”
The Arizona senator also said that the leaking of national security secrets had a “human side.”
“The doctor who helped us with eliminating [Osama] bin Laden, he was identified and shouldn’t have been. He’s now been sentenced to 33 years in prison,” he said.
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Source: FBI looks into possible White House leaks
wgal.com/cnn ^ | June 6, 2012
Posted on Wednesday, June 06, 2012 1:59:55 PM by Free ThinkerNY
(CNN) - The FBI has begun an investigation into apparent leaks of classified information involving a U.S. cyberwarfare program against Iran, a U.S. official said Wednesday.
FBI spokesman Paul Bresson had no comment on the reported investigation.
Some leading senators have called for a congressional inquiry as well.
But the White House pushed back Wednesday against suggestions that it could be leaking classified information for political purposes.
"This administration takes all appropriate and necessary steps to prevent leaks of classified information or sensitive information that could risk ongoing counterterrorism or intelligence operations," Carney said aboard Air Force One as the president traveled to campaign events on the West Coast.
"Any suggestion that this administration has authorized intentional leaks of classified information for political gain is grossly irresponsible."
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Pattern of White House Leaks Threatens Nation’s Security
newsmax ^ | r kessler
Posted on June 7, 2012 8:42:04 PM EDT by bestintxas
An accelerating series of leaks of classified information all have two things in common: They directly endanger national security, and the stories reporting on them paint President Obama as a hero.
News reports on Tuesday disclosed that the FBI is probing the leaking of information about a classified U.S. cyberattack program aimed at Iran’s nuclear facilities, but a close look at recent developments uncovers a broad and disturbing pattern of leaks of some of the nation’s most guarded secrets by the Obama administration.
John Brennan, Obama’s counterterrorism chief, set the tone a year ago when he went on national television immediately after the killing of Osama bin Laden and gave a highly detailed account of the top-secret operation.
Defense Secretary Bob Gates, for one, was shocked.
“Too many people in too many places are talking too much about this operation,” Gates said, adding that the level of disclosures and blabbing violates an agreement reached in the White House Situation Room on May 8, 2011, to keep details of the raid private.
“That lasted about 15 hours,” Gates said with chagrin.
Then came disclosures that directly revealed secrets helpful to the enemy, could endanger lives, and undermine trust by other countries and potential informants in U.S. intelligence operations.
Soon after the bin Laden raid, word began leaking to the press that a Pakistani doctor had helped the CIA operation.
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Lawmakers blast White House over leaks
By: Reid J. Epstein
June 7, 2012 02:26 PM EDT
Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill don’t agree on much these days, but they agree that the Obama administration has a serious problem with leaking classified information.
And with national security in the balance, a group of congressional leaders says there’s an urgent need to get things back in line.
“A special prosecutor can take years. We don’t have years. We need to legislate, and we need to do things quickly,” Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said Thursday at a press conference of chairs and ranking members of the House and Senate intelligence committees.
(See also: 5 leaks that have Congress steamed)
The four legislators — Feinstein, Sen. Saxby Chambless (R-Ga.) and Reps. Mike Rogers (R-Mich) and Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.) — said they met Thursday morning with James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, and will receive a briefing from FBI Director Robert Mueller later in the day.
But after a glut of stories about secret U.S. operations overseas – from an Associated Press reports of foiled Yemeni bomb plots to drone strikes in Pakistan to last week’s New York Times story confirming long-suspected U.S. involvement in development of the computer virus Stuxnet – they say it’s become clear that there’s a problem that the administration hasn’t been able to address on its own.
Last month’s revelation by Judicial Watch that the White House, the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency allowed filmmakers unusual access to people involved in the planning and execution of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden has also caused concern.
Rogers said the bipartisan presence spoke to the seriousness of the issue. Of the leaks, he said: “It seems to be a pattern that is growing worse and more frequent. … Their inability to keep a secret, this has been as serious a problem as I have seen.”
Rogers also raised the possibility some of the leaks could be coming from the Justice Department of FBI. The Justice Department’s national security division has recused itself from part of the leak investigation, Rogers said.
“It appears the sources of these leaks could be in a position to influence the investigations,” he said.
Rogers later issued a “clarification statement,” saying he “did not intend to suggest” that just because the Justice Department’s national security division recused itself, the recent leaks emanated from Justice.
A Justice official said that it is not uncommon for members of the department to recuse themselves from investigations to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest. That, the official said, does not suggest the person or department that recuses itself is culpable.
Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on Thursday afternoon, White House press secretary Jay Carney said the president takes the leaks “very seriously,” and said the administration is taking “all appropriate and necessary steps to prevent leaks of classified information or sensitive information that could risk our counterterrorism operations.”
Carney said Obama is committed to transparency, “but he is also president and commander-in-chief, and he will not countenance the leaking of classified information that can harm our men and women in uniform, harm Americans who work on our national security, harm counterterrorism operations.”
Even with Feinstein’s call for a legislative response, Rogers still wants a special prosecutor to investigate the matter because, he said, a single investigator could find evidence of wrongdoing “within their chain of command.”
(Also on POLITICO: Newsweek forced NYT’s ‘Kill List’ story)
“I believe this warrants a fair and complete investigation,” he said in an interview Thursday afternoon on CNN. “Someone who would be able to have access to all elements, not just the intelligence community, not just the Department of Defense, but all elements that had access to this information.”
Carney said the president was not in favor of appointing a special prosecutor.
The Hill press conference came hours after Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) took the opportunity of Attorney General Eric Holder’s previously scheduled appearance to testify on the Fast & Furious scandal before the House Judiciary Committee as to accuse his department – which has prosecuted an unprecedented number of prosecutions of alleged leaks of national security matters – of failing vigilance.
“The Department of Justice has not taken the initiative to prosecute leaks of national security secrets,” he said.
The articles, which can be seen as painting President Barack Obama as a strong, decisive leader on national security issues, has Republicans in particular began protesting that the White House is leaking for political gain.
The FBI has already launched its own probe into who provided classified information.
Sen. John McCain’s on Wednesday alleged that the White House is parsing out classified information about supposedly secret activities for political gain.
McCain refused to back off his charge on Thursday.
“I absolutely stand by it,” McCain said.
Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), the House Homeland Security Committee chairman who also sits on the Intelligence Committee, on Thursday echoed McCain’s sentiment.
“It has to be for re-election,” King told POLITICO. “They can deny it all they want. But it would require a suspension of disbelief to believe its not being done for political purposes.”
King cited the AP’s drone story as an egregious breach of national security.
“I think it’s a pattern they have. The fact that [Obama adviser David] Axelrod is sitting in meetings when they are deciding how drone attacks are being carried out,” King said. “What the hell is he doing there?”
National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor said Axelrod was in no such meetings.
Axelrod defended the administration on CNN.
”This administration has no interest in leaking classified information,” he said. “We don’t want to see it leaked from Capitol Hill, we don’t want to see it leaked from the administration. It’s not helpful.”
Axelrod said he’ll “let other people judge” whether the leaks are helpful to Obama and, when asked about a special council investigation the matter, said, “we would welcome anybody to look at anything.”
Vietor added that the White House would not comment on the specific stories, but said the administration was committed to preventing leaks on counterterrorism and intelligence operations.
”Any suggestion that the White House has leaked sensitive information for political purposes has no basis in fact, and has been denied by the authors themselves,” Vietor said. “As one of the authors of The New York Times story on Obama’s counterterrorism record said, ‘the notion that the White House prompted the story or controlled our reporting and writing is absurd.’”
Mitt Romney, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee who has repeatedly attacked Obama on his Iran policy, hasn’t addressed the leak issue. His campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Thursday declined to comment on specific intelligence leaks, but added that she “always [has] concerns about any leaks and what they mean to our national security.” However, Pelosi – a former House Intelligence Committee member — criticized McCain for accusing the Obama administration for leaking information in order to boost President Barack Obama’s political standing.
“With all due respect to Senator McCain, for anybody to say that a leak – and I don’t care party, one way or another – that an intelligence leak is politically motivated is really, really a sad statement,” Pelosi told reporters on Thursday.
But that argument hasn’t assuaged top Senate Democrats who have shared outrage. Sens. John Kerry and Feinstein expressed dismay over the leaks Wednesday, with Feinstein taking to CNN to denounce the “avalanche of leaks” that she said “puts our nation’s security in jeopardy.”
Josh Gerstein, Tim Mak and Scott Wong contributed reporting.
© 2012 POLITICO LLC
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Obama spokesman: ‘No’ to independent probe of national security leaks
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-spokesman-no-independent-leak-probe-200454032.html ^
Posted on Friday, June 08, 2012 8:40:13 AM
President Barack Obama opposes the appointment of a special counsel to investigate whether vital national security secrets were improperly disclosed in a wave of news reports detailing sensitive operations, the White House said Thursday.
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LOL, i wonder why?
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Republicans on Leaks: Either President or Times Is Wrong
Both cannot be correct.
2:46 PM, Jun 8, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPER
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/republicans-leaks-either-president-or-times-wrong_646811.html
President Obama at a press conference this morning insisted that high-level national security leaks are not coming from the White House. "The notion that my White House would purposefully release classified information is offensive," President Obama said.
But a Republican memo from the Senate Republican Policy Committee maintains that either the president or the New York Times is wrong.
"It would appear the President’s statement and the New York Times statements directly conflict with each other and cannot both be true at the same time," the memo states.
For proof, the memo highlights Obama's denial that the White House is responsible for the leaks and certain statements in the Times's stories.
"If that statement were meant to serve as a denial that the Obama Administration leaked classified information, it would appear to stand in direct contrast to the New York Times article describing the President’s personal involvement in a process 'to designate terrorists for kill or capture,'" the memo states. "One of the opening paragraphs described the methodology for compiling the story, saying 'three dozen' of the President’s 'current and former advisers' were interview sources for the story."
The memo cites another example that would seem to contradict the president's statement: "A second story, about cyberattacks on Iran nuclear facilities, citied discussions with 'officials involved in the program,' and went on to say that program 'remains highly classified.'"
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Pretty disturbing. I don't think the president authorized this, but I would bet the farm his people are involved. "Plausible deniability" aside, however, the buck stops with him.
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Attorney General Holder appoints 2 prosecutors to oversee leak probes.
http://www.washingtonpost.com ^ | 06/08/12 | Unattributed
BREAKING: Attorney General Holder appoints two prosecutors to oversee leak probes
LMFAO! ! ! ! !
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Obama to nominate Machen to be District's top prosecutor [2009 -- Leaks investigator is Obama donor]
The Washington Post ^ | December 24, 2009 | Del Quentin Wilber
Posted on June 8, 2012 9:04:46 PM EDT by Hunton Peck
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Machen, who lives in Silver Spring, is expected to move to the District while he holds down the job.
Over the years, he has donated $4,350 to Obama's campaigns. He gave $250 to Obama's U.S. Senate campaign in 2003, a year before Obama, then an Illinois state senator, emerged on the nation's political radar, according to campaign finance records.
The U.S. attorney job is one of the most coveted in federal law enforcement. As the District's top law enforcement official, the U.S. attorney oversees the largest federal prosecutors office in the country, with about 340 prosecutors who handle local and federal criminal cases.
The District does not have an elected local prosecutor.
The Justice Department has declined to release any details about the office's budget. Some of the nation's highest-profile crimes are handled by the District's federal prosecutors.
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WTF!!!!! This is the guy holder has investigating the leaks.
FUCK YOU OBAMA!
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Ridiculous. At least get someone who hasn't donated to Obama's campaign.
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Ridiculous. At least get someone who hasn't donated to Obama's campaign.
People ask me why I consider Obama a communist thug and the worst corrupt thug in my lifetime and this is a perfect example.
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EDITORIAL: Obama, the leaker in chief
The Washington Times ^ | June 8, 2012 | Editorial
Posted on June 8, 2012 7:51:19 PM EDT by jazusamo
Politics trumps national security in Barack’s White House
President Obama takes umbrage at the idea that a spate of leaks of highly classified national-security information is somehow purposefully intended to bolster his leadership credentials. His resistance to an independent investigation will only make things worse for him. The Obama White House is leaking like a sieve. Trying to cover it up will only make the scandal bigger.
On Friday, Mr. Obama took the charges of selective leaks head-on: “The notion that my White House would purposely release classified national-security information is offensive,” he said. “It’s wrong, and people I think need to have a better sense of how I approach this office and how the people around me here approach this office.” His protestations carry little credibility. On the previous day, the White House rejected a bipartisan call by leaders of the House and Senate intelligence committees to appoint a special counsel to investigate the leaks.
Even very liberal legislators are worried about the brewing crisis of administration staff leaks. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat, told CNN on Thursday, “I’ve been on the Intelligence Committee for 11 years and I have never seen it worse.” Mr. Obama’s high dudgeon about the temerity of accusations of White House impropriety will not be enough to save his team from scrutiny.
There have been leaks about drone strikes, U.S. special operations and foreign classified information such as Israel’s alleged deal with Azerbaijan to support a military strike against Iran...
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Racism.
Americans have always been cowards on racial issues.
Eric Holder is a patriot who loves his country.
You extremist tea party types are nothing better than ignorant bigots.
I hate white people and hope they die painfully.
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The Obama administration is keeping open secrets
White House is tight-lipped on drone warfare but has released a gusher of information on other sensitive matters
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On the one hand, the Obama administration, citing national security, asserts that the American public has little right to know anything, even after the fact, about a drone campaign that has killed many Al Qaeda terrorists.
On the other hand, the administration has turned into a veritable sieve on a range of sensitive national security matters.
Readers have been treated to detailed insider accounts of American victories in cyberwarfare against Iran and in special operations against Osama Bin Laden.
They have also been afforded a fly-on-the-wall account — on the administration’s terms — of the President’s role in approving terrorists for targeting on a “kill list.”
The selectivity — or, less charitably, hypocrisy — must stop.
Exhibit A is the White House’s treatment of drone warfare, an essential tactic in the fight against Al Qaeda. By one unofficial count gathered from media reports, drones have struck more than 300 times in Pakistan alone, killing between 1,800 and 2,800 people.
Yet when Obama counterterrorism adviser John Brennan spoke in broad terms about the program in April, it was the first official administration acknowledgment that armed drones are being used at all.
Indeed, since these attacks are considered deniable covert CIA actions, the administration will not even cop to the existence of such operations in court.
This is wrongheaded. The U.S. should confirm an act of war broadly known to allies and enemies alike. Secretary of State Clinton, who supports more openness to be able to counter rampant and often unfounded claims of civilian deaths, is right.
Exhibit B are revelations from inside the national security apparatus, released, it seems likely, to burnish Obama’s credentials in the runup to the fall election.
“Confront and Conceal,” a new book by The New York Times’ David Sanger, is packed with nuggets, including a blow-by-blow account of the development and deployment of the Stuxnet computer malware against Iran.
Daniel Klaidman’s just-released book, “Kill or Capture,” featured in an extensive New York Times report, reveals potentially classified information about the drone campaign.
Serious questions have even been raised about whether movie producers were given exclusive and inappropriate access to information about the Osama Bin Laden kill.
What makes these disclosures especially glaring: The administration has been particularly vigorous in prosecuting leaks — bringing six cases under the Espionage Act alone, part of what expert Gabriel Schoenfeld calls “the most draconian crackdown on leaks in our history — even more so than Nixon.”
There is a strange disconnect between the fervor of these efforts and the enthusiasm of high-level disclosures.
On Wednesday, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat, expressed what has become a common frustration on Capitol Hill:
“What we’re seeing is . . . an avalanche of leaks. And it’s very, very disturbing. You know, it’s dismayed our allies. It puts American lives in jeopardy. It puts our nation’s security in jeopardy.”
Feinstein would not rule out signing on to a proposal by Republican Sen. John McCain to authorize a special counsel to investigate.
On Thursday afternoon, the bipartisan leaders of House and Senate panels were set to hold an unusual joint news conference on the subject.
May they hold feet firmly to the fire.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/obama-administration-keeping-open-secrets-article-1.1091772#ixzz1xOmQlixm
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David Axelrod Says Classified Leaks Not From White House
Yahoo ^ | 6/10/12 | George Stephanopoulos
David Axelrod Says Classified Leaks Not From White House
By George Stephanopoulos | ABC OTUS News – 5 hrs ago
Obama campaign senior adviser David Axelrod said he is confident that newly launched investigations will show that recent leaks on classified national security information did not come from the White House.
"I think the authors of all of this work have said that the White House was not the source of this information," Axelrod told me this morning on "This Week." "I can't say that there weren't leaks. There were obvious leaks, but they weren't from the White House."
Axelrod said Obama takes all "life or death decisions" on national security seriously, and that the White House would not leak information that may jeopardize classified operations.
"He understands that when he commits people to missions that their lives are at stake, and the safety of Americans are at stake," Axelrod said. "And the last thing that he would countenance or anybody around him would countenance are leaks that would jeopardize the security of Americans on these secret missions, and the success of those missions."
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Oh No You Didn't: Mossad Agents Claim Obama Lying About Stuxnet
breitbart.com ^ | 6/10/12 | Joel B. Pollak
Posted on Sunday, June 10, 2012 2:35:58 PM by ColdOne
Israeli officials who were placed at risk by the Obama administration's leaks about the Stuxnet virus are disputing American claims that the cyber-weapon was jointly developed by the U.S. and Israel. Rather, they say, Israeli intelligence first started developing cyberspace warfare against Iran, only convincing the U.S.--with some difficulty--to join in. The Israelis allege that President Barack Obama claimed credit for Stuxnet to boost his re-election campaign.
The source for the new claim is Yossi Melman, a journalist for Israel's left-wing Ha'aretz daily (via Israel Matzav):
The Israeli officials actually told me a different version. They said that it was Israeli intelligence that began, a few years earlier, a cyberspace campaign to damage and slow down Iran’s nuclear intentions. And only later they managed to convince the USA to consider a joint operation — which, at the time, was unheard of. Even friendly nations are hesitant to share their technological and intelligence resources against a common enemy...
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Rep. King: Obama using leaks to build image, trying to be like 'John Wayne'
FoxNews.com ^ | June 10, 2012 | unattributed
Posted on Sunday, June 10, 2012 3:53:09 PM by Hunton Peck
A top House Republican on Sunday rejected President Obama's claim that recent security leaks did not come from the White House, accusing the president of using the leaks -- which detailed the administration's counterterror programs -- to "build up his reputation" before November.
"He's trying to be like George Patton or John Wayne," Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., told Fox News.
The gloves-off accusations from the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee follow Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to appoint two U.S. attorneys to investigate possible unauthorized leaks of classified information.
Since that announcement Friday, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called on the prosecutors to get to the bottom of recent newspaper stories that contained sensitive information on top-secret programs. They included reports on the campaign of cyber-warfare against Iran, the U.S. drone program and a foiled terror plot from an Al Qaeda affiliate.
Obama on Friday assailed as "offensive" and "wrong" the idea that his White House would "purposely release" classified security information.
But King, speaking with Fox News, said the leaks had to have come from the president's inner circle.
"This is the most shameful cascade of leaks I've ever heard or seen in government," he said. "It's clear from those stories this came right from the White House, came right from the National Security Council, came right from the Situation Room. ... It has to lead to people very high up in the administration in his White House."
King, R-N.Y., alleged that the leaks must have been "approved from the top," and accused the president of grandstanding in an election year.
"I give him credit for a lot that he's done on overseas terrorism. There's no need, though, to put the nation's security at risk by trying to build up his reputation for the...
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Israel: Stuxnet Is Our Baby – Obama Disclosed It For Reelection Campaign
Gateway Pundit ^ | June 10,2012 | Jim Hoft
Posted on June 10, 2012 3:33:20 PM EDT by Hojczyk
Israeli Mossad agents told Haaretz that Stuxnet was developed by Mossad and not the Bush Administration. The agents also claim the Obama Administration disclosed the program to help Barack Obama’s reelection campaign. Israel Matzav reported.
A group of Mossad agents speaking with Haaretz’s Yossi Melman on condition of anonymity have said that the Mossad – and not the Bush administration – developed Stuxnet, and that President Obama is now trying to take credit for it in a bid to help his reelection campaign (Hat Tip: MFS – The Other News via Atlantic Wire). Please recall the David Sanger piece in the New York Times about Stuxnet, which I blogged last week, which claimed that the Bush administration had begun developing Stuxnet, that President Obama had ordered it accelerated, and that Israel had only joined in later. Now, look at what Melman has to say about it.
The Israeli officials actually told me a different version. They said that it was Israeli intelligence that began, a few years earlier, a cyberspace campaign to damage and slow down Iran’s nuclear intentions. And only later they managed to convince the USA to consider a joint operation — which, at the time, was unheard of. Even friendly nations are hesitant to share their technological and intelligence resources against a common enemy.
More… John McCain told CNN today the Obama Administration is behind the security leaks.
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Dianne Feinstein vents ire over 'avalanche of leaks' (Sen. Feinstein compares Obama to Hitler)
Politico ^ | 6-10-2012
Posted on June 10, 2012 7:15:47 PM EDT by reagandemocrat
Dianne Feinstein vents ire over 'avalanche of leaks'
In a televised interview Wednesday, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein repeatedly vented her ire over leaks of classified information and she signaled that she favors a more aggressive crackdown on those who are passing national security secrets to the press.
"What we're seeing...is an Anschluss, an avalanche of leaks. And it's very, very disturbing. You know, it's dismayed our allies. It puts American lives in jeopardy. It puts our nation's security in jeopardy," Feinstein (D-Calif.) said on CNN's "Situation Room" program. She said the Senate Intelligence Committee plans to meet Thursday morning with Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to discuss the issue.
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Barack Kardashian strikes again.
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David Axelrod Says Classified Leaks Not From White House
Yahoo ^ | 6/10/12 | George Stephanopoulos
Posted on June 10, 2012 4:10:04 PM EDT by Libloather
David Axelrod Says Classified Leaks Not From White House
By George Stephanopoulos | ABC OTUS News – 5 hrs ago
Obama campaign senior adviser David Axelrod said he is confident that newly launched investigations will show that recent leaks on classified national security information did not come from the White House.
"I think the authors of all of this work have said that the White House was not the source of this information," Axelrod told me this morning on "This Week." "I can't say that there weren't leaks. There were obvious leaks, but they weren't from the White House."
Axelrod said Obama takes all "life or death decisions" on national security seriously, and that the White House would not leak information that may jeopardize classified operations.
"He understands that when he commits people to missions that their lives are at stake, and the safety of Americans are at stake," Axelrod said. "And the last thing that he would countenance or anybody around him would countenance are leaks that would jeopardize the security of Americans on these secret missions, and the success of those missions."
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/08/tom-donilon-disaster-national-security-advisor_n_755708.html
Word is that this is the leaker. Go fucking figure - another inept, incompetent, obama bundler placed into a position he has no business being in.
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Pat Caddell Names National Security Advisor Tom Donilon As Source For Top Security Leaks (Video)
Gateway Pundit ^ | June 11,2012 | Jim Hoft
Posted on June 11, 2012 9:43:49 PM EDT by Hojczyk
Democratic activist Pat Caddell told Sean Hannity tonight that he definitively knows former political hack and current National Security Advisor Tom Donilon was the source of the White House security leaks.
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Re-Election Trumps Security In Obama Leaks Scandal
IBD Editorials ^ | June 11, 2012 | Editor
Posted on June 11, 2012 9:24:48 PM EDT by Kaslin
National Security: It wasn't the usual kind of leaks the New York Times received from numerous Obama officials. To make the president look tough on defense, they actually made America less secure.
What are the motives for illegally revealing national secrets?
Communist spy Alger Hiss, perfectly situated as a high-ranking U.S. diplomat, wanted the Soviet Union to win the Cold War.
For CIA analyst Aldrich Ames, who compromised an array of vital agency assets, the motive was mostly money.
FBI agent Robert Hanssen, who did even more damage than Ames, had psychological issues.
At the root of the new Obama leaks scandal is something that might just be worse than the motives behind these other cases, because it directly involves a presidential election.
Dozens of administration officials were apparently sources for Times writer David Sanger, who reported that President Obama has been secretly ordering cyberattacks against the computers of Islamofascist Iran's nuclear facilities.
Multiple sources within the administration also leaked to the Times word that the president personally oversees "a top-secret 'nominations' process to designate terrorists for kill or capture," as the paper described it.
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http://radio.foxnews.com/2012/06/12/worse-than-watergate-audio
"WORSE THAN WATERGATE"
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From Peter King
To view my Fox News appearance on the White House leaks click here:
I also wrote an op-ed in the Daily News on the issue: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/stop-dangerous-whispers-article-1.1092398
To watch my CNN interview on drone attacks click here:
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http://radio.foxnews.com/2012/06/12/worse-than-watergate-audio
"WORSE THAN WATERGATE"
they cry about a war on everything. of course this is bigger than watergate. oh brother. they should shove a tampon up their ass.
Seriously, wake up as Clint eastwood. Light a cigar at the podium and use a little profanity. Stop playing the victim card, stop bitching, start delivering solutions!!!
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they cry about a war on everything. of course this is bigger than watergate. oh brother. they should shove a tampon up their ass.
Seriously, wake up as Clint eastwood. Light a cigar at the podium and use a little profanity. Stop playing the victim card, stop bitching, start delivering solutions!!!
Solutions? How about you don't appoint a political HACK as National Security Advisor who Gates warned Obama would be a "DISASTER" ? ? ? ? ?
So again - more obama incompetence and corruption is going to lead to deaths of people just like F&F.
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Dems block McCain resolution on special counsel for leaks
The Hill ^ | 6/12/12 | Daniel Strauss
Senate Democrats blocked a resolution introduced by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) calling for Attorney General Eric Holder to introduce an outside special counsel to investigate a number of recent military and intelligence leaks.
McCain introduced a resolution Tuesday expressing the Senate's support for Holder to appoint a special prosecutor. But Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) objected after McCain asked for unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to consideration of his resolution.
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25 posts in less than 1.5 pages with every single article written about it? Maybe the pharmaceutical companies will come up with a new med for Excessive Compulsive Posting Disorder.
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25 posts in less than 1.5 pages with every single article written about it? Maybe the pharmaceutical companies will come up with a new med for Excessive Compulsive Posting Disorder.
This latest scandal is breaking hard with details pouring out to the point barry can't contain the damage.
Holder, Donnilon, and many others in the WH are going to be fired or go sent packing for this.
Again - our allies are steaming mad, operators in the field are going to die, people who helped us are going to get killed, etc.
But its cool - obamadashian living large.
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Gates in 2010: Donilon Would Be a “disaster” as National Security Adviser; Jones: Donilon Has “No Credibility With the Military”
A defense source tells ABC News that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates no longer feels that Tom Donilon would be a “disaster” as National Security Adviser, as Gates is quoted telling National Security Adviser Gen. Jim Jones (ret.) in Bob Woodward’s “Obama’s Wars.”
“They had some issues during the Af/Pak review, which everyone knows got contentious at times,” the defense source says. “But since then, they have addressed and overcome those issues and now enjoy a good working relationship.”
Throughout the Af/Pak review in 2009, Donilon, a former vice president for embattled mortgage giant Fannie Mae, had heated disagreements with Gates. In Jan. 2010, Gates praised Jones to The Washington Post’s David Ignatius, calling him “the glue that holds the team together.”
Reports Woodward: “Gates did this in part, he told an aide, because he did not think Donilon would work out as Jones’s successor. Gates felt that Donilon did not understand the military or treat its senior leadership with sufficient respect. The secretary later told Jones that Donilon would be a ‘disaster’ as Obama’s national security adviser.”
The book also describes a scene where Jones called Donilon into his office.
Jones, clearly thinking of his retirement, is described as thinking Donilon was “indispensible,” with "substantive and organizational skills.”
But he also resented the close relationship his deputy had with chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, senior adviser David Axelrod and others. The main “pipeline continued to be Emanuel-Donilon, who were like two tuning forls – when one vibrated, so did the other.”
Jones offered Donilon a “performance evaluation,” in which he outlined three mistakes.
Recounts Woodward: “First, he had never gone to Afghanistan or Iraq, or really left the office for a serious field trip. As a result, he said, you have no direct understanding of these places. ‘You have no credibility with the military.’ You should go overseas. The White House, Situation Room, interagency byplay, as important as they are, are not everything.”
(Since then, Donilon has been to Afghanistan with President Obama.)
“Second, Jones continued, you frequently pop off with absolute declarations about places you've never been, leaders you've never met, or colleagues you work with. Gates had mentioned this to Jones, saying that Donilon's sound-offs and strong spur-of-the-moment opinions, especially about one general, had offended him so much at an Oval Office meeting that he nearly walked out.”
“Third, he said, you have too little feel for the people who work day and night on the NSC staff, their salaries, their maternity leaves, their promotions, their family troubles, all the things a manager of people has to be turned into. ‘Everything is about personal relations,’ Jones said."
A senior National Security official who has worked closely with Jones and Donilon says the anecdote in the Woodward book “doesn’t strike me as illustrative of the relationship that Tom and Jim have. We have had a very effective interagency process.”
Donilon chaired 183 “Deputies” committee meetings – among the deputy Cabinet Secretaries – and 114 this year, the official said. And those were all “well coordinated interagency meetings.”
“This has been a good relationship,” the official said. “That Gen. Jones is handing off to Tom is indicative that they have had a good working relationship.”
As for the specific concerns Jones raises with Donilon in the book, the source would not discuss them.
When it was pointed out that the White House seemed to embrace the Woodward book, seizing on its portrayal of the president as a “decisive leader,” the source said, “it is true the book shows the president as a decisive leader, but we didn’t embrace the book, we chose not to engage in a back and forth about it, and I’m continuing that position over this alleged incident which I believe is not illustrative of the Jones-Donilon relationship.”
-Jake Tapper
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2010/10/gates-2009-donilon-disaster-national-security-adviser-no-credibil
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Pat Cadell said he has proof or 100% can guaranty that Donilon is the leaker of all the data.
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What the Leakers Have Wrought
By Richard Cohen
www.realclearpolitics.co m
Pity the poor Obama administration leakers. They impart their much-cherished secrets to make their man look good and then, at the first chirp of criticism, are ordered to confess their (possible) crimes by the very same president they were seeking to please. In this, they are a bit like the male praying mantis. He does as asked and then the female bites his head off.
What is remarkable about the recent leaks is the coincidence -- it can only be that -- that they all made the president look good, heroic, decisive, strong, and even a touch cruel -- born, as the birthers long suspected, not in Hawaii but possibly on the lost planet Krypton. The leak that displayed all these Obamian attributes was the one that said the president personally approves the assassinations of terrorists abroad. He gives his OK and the bad guys are dispatched via missiles from drones.
The New York Times, which broke this particular story, said it had interviewed "three dozen of his (Obama's) current and former advisers," which suggests the sort of mass law-breaking not seen since Richard Nixon took out after commies, liberals, conservationists, anti-war protesters, Jews and, of course, leakers. The two U.S. attorneys assigned to finding the leakers may have to use the facilities at Guantanamo, which, as luck would have it, are somehow still open. Of course, the chances of a successful prosecution are slim, leak cases being hard to prove. Journalists, unlike the mob, still adhere to the Mafia code of silence, omertà. We are, at heart, traditionalists.
All administrations leak what they want when they want. Occasionally, some killjoy screams something about national security, but the republic somehow survives and the secret is usually only a secret to the American people, not to the enemy. This is undoubtedly the case with the recent disclosure regarding the use of a computer worm to wreak havoc with the Iranian nuclear program. The Iranians were onto it.
The leak that troubles me concerns the killing of suspected or actual terrorists. The triumphalist tone of the leaks -- the Tarzan-like chest-beating of various leakers -- not only is in poor taste but shreds a long-standing convention that, in these matters, the president has deniability. The president of the United States is not The Godfather.
Of course, we have always known that the president, as commander in chief and all of that, is where the proverbial buck stops. But for the longest time, a polite fiction was maintained that distanced the president from what, after all, is murder, and it helped somewhat in protecting him. Deniability is always a fiction, but it provides some space between the president and his orders, and does not plaster the presidential face on an act of extreme -- and possibly illegal -- violence. Presidents need protection from retaliation -- not just in office, but for the rest of their lives. After all, the poor man's drone is the suicide bomber.
The present and former government officials who leaked to the Times as well as to Newsweek's Daniel Klaidman are forgiven if they thought they were doing the boss' bidding. After all, the president was serenely mum when the stories first hit. The White House did not react until some pesky Republicans, the reliably outraged John McCain, in particular, yelled bloody murder. The leakers had to have noted that a torrent of leaks followed the killing of Osama bin Laden, with Obama characterized as just this side of personally dispatching the man with a butter knife. The Times' David Sanger reports that the bragging got to the point that then-Secretary of Defense Robert Gates told national security adviser Tom Donilon to "shut the f--- up." Pakistan, it turns out, did not want its nose rubbed in its failure to notice bin Laden living in Abbottabad -- or, for that matter, the SEALs coming to get him.
Killing is a serious matter. The death of an American citizen (Anwar al-Awlaki) is deeply troubling (the government asked the government if it was legal, and the government said it was). For this as well as other assassinations, there could be blowback.
Assassination by drone has its charms -- it has severely degraded al-Qaeda -- and war, after all, is war. But I wonder if those presidents who knew war -– a Truman, an Eisenhower, a Kennedy -- would themselves boast about killing or let others do it for them. The leakers set out to blow a mighty trumpet for Obama. It came out, however, like a shrill pennywhistle.
cohenr@washpost.com
Copyright 2012, Washington Post Writers Group
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National Security adviser Tom Donilon the White House leaker in chief?
FoxNews ^ | 6-11-12 | Staff
Posted on Tuesday, June 12, 2012 7:53:57 PM by Anti-Bubba182
This is a rush transcript from "Hannity," June 11, 2012. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
"..PAT CADDELL, FORMER DEMOCRATIC POLLSTER: I'll make news -- the culprit is clear. It's Tom Donilon, the National Security adviser.
Tom Donilon is a political hack. He was a political operative. He was the delegate counter for Carter and then Mondale. And he is now running around -- he was also the guy working with Jim Johnson, corrupting Fannie Mae. And somehow, he is National Security adviser and he is known in Washington as the leaker in chief..."
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Due to the Obama admn leaking like a sieve the doctor who helped us w OBL is sitting in jail for 30 years.
disgusting.
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Leaks Could Sink Obama White House
Buzz feed ^ | 12 Jun 2012 | Michael Hastings
Posted on June 12, 2012 8:43:50 PM EDT by mandaladon
By opening an investigation into the leaks of classified information, the Obama White House appears to be entering the kind of perilous Fill-In-The-Blank-Gate terrain that has eventually engulfed most administrations in the modern era.
The pattern: an initial investigation launched to relieve mounting political pressure snowballs into a much larger scandal, leaving a trail of broken careers in its wake.
And the beginnings of that pattern are in place: Attorney General Eric Holder Friday appointed two federal prosecutors to oversee multiple FBI investigations into leaks involving stories in recently published books and articles in the New York Times, AP, and Newsweek. The move deflected, but didn't end, a rising, bipartisan tide of Congressional criticism of the leaks. Republican senators Tuesday called for a vote in Congress to recommend that an independent counsel look into national security secrets that have appeared in the media.
“It’s going to be trouble, “ says Steve Clemons, an influential policy analyst who has close ties to the administration. “It’s going to be like the search for who leaked Valerie Plame’s name. If the truth does come out, I suspect it will be a major player. Of course the White House is very nervous.”
Those major players are some of the most powerful figures in Obama’s Washington.
The scandal has the potential to drag in a cadre of senior administration officials, both former and current, who have extensive contacts with the press.
The short list could include Leon Panetta, Ben Rhodes, Tom Donilon, Gen. David Petraeus, John Brennan, Jim Jones, and General Doug Lute, among other heavy hitters.
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Impeach and Imprison.
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"Securitygate" — the Administration's Release of Covert Details of the War on Terror..
Familysecuritymatters.co m ^ | 18JUN12 | Victor Davis Hanson
is Far More Serious than either Watergate or Iran-Contra
In the Watergate scandal, no one died, at least that we know of. Richard Nixon tried systematically to subvert institutions. Yet most of his unconstitutional efforts were domestic in nature - and an adversarial press soon went to war against his abuses and won, as Congress held impeachment hearings.
As far as national security went, Nixon's crimes were in part culpable for destroying the political consensus that he had won in 1972, at a critical time when the Vietnam War to save the south was all but over, and had been acknowledged as such at the Paris Peace Talks. But Watergate and the destruction of Nixon's foreign policy spurred congressional cutbacks of aid to South Vietnam and eroded all support for the administration's promised efforts to ensure that North Vietnam kept to its treaty obligations.
Iran-Contra was as serious because there was a veritable war inside the Reagan administration over helping insurgents with covert cash that had in part been obtained by, despite denials, selling arms to enemy Iran to free hostages - all against U.S. laws and therefore off the radar. The Reagan administration was left looking weak, hypocritical, incompetent, and amoral - and never quite recovered. Yet even here the media soon covered the story in detail, and their disclosures led to several resignations and full congressional hearings.
Quite Different
What I call "Securitygate" - the release of the most intricate details about the cyber war against Iran, the revelations about a Yemeni double-agent, disclosures about covert operations in and against Pakistan, intimate details about the Osama bin Laden raid and the trove of information taken from his compound, and the Predator drone assassination list and the president's methodology in selecting targets - is far more serious than either prior scandal. David Sanger and others claim that all this was sort of in the public domain anyway; well, "sort of" covers a lot of ground. We sort of knew about the cyber war against Iran, but not to the detail that Sanger provides and not through the direct agency of the Obama administration itself.
Here is the crux of the scandal: Obama is formulating a new policy of avoiding overt unpopular engagements, while waging an unprecedented covert war across the world. He's afraid that the American people do not fully appreciate these once-secret efforts and might in 2012 look only at his mishaps in Afghanistan or his public confusion over Islamic terror. Ergo, feed information to a Sanger or Ignatius so that they can skillfully inform us, albeit with a bit of dramatic "shock" and "surprise," just how tough, brutal, and deadly Barack Obama really is.
Yet these disclosures will endanger our national security, especially in the case of a soon-to-be-nuclear Iran. They will probably get people killed or tortured, and they will weaken America's ability for years to work covertly with allies. Our state-to-state relations will be altered, and perhaps even the techniques and technology of our cyber and special operations wars dispersed into the wrong hands. There is nothing in the recent "exclusive" writings of David Sanger or David Ignatius that was necessary for the American people to know at this stage, unless one thinks that we had a right to the full story of the Doolittle Raid in 1942, or that Americans by July 1944 needed an insider account of the date and planning of D-Day, or that we should have been apprised about what was really going on in New Mexico in 1944.
Here is why Securitygate is a national outrage and goes to the heart of a free and civil society.
National Security
Iran probably knew of U.S. covert involvement against its nuclear facilities, but now it knows that that the entire world also knows. There is no more plausible deniability on our part. The information about the nature of the cyber war is so detailed, the partnership with the Israelis rendered so complex, and the disclosures about technology and technique so explicit, that the Iranians will not only better defend themselves, but use these details to encourage and support even more terror against the United States. How ironic that Obama once called Guantanamo al-Qaeda's "chief recruiting tool" only to keep it open, and instead give them a real recruiting tool in the disclosure of the inner workings of the war on terror.
Pakistan is a veritable enemy and Iran an explicit one. But now both will recite endlessly David Sanger's catalog of our efforts to subvert them, and claim any new anti-American efforts on their part were simply justified tit-for-tat. Why would the Gulf states help us, when they come off as brutal supporters of the old doomed dictatorships? Europe and our allies no doubt knew all about predators and the cyber war, but their publics did not. Expect even more anti-Americanism, as our enemies decry targeted assassinations and efforts at subverting governments.
George W. Bush turned off the world by waterboarding three known and confessed terrorists - with help from the American Left who publicized that fact hourly for eight years. Barack Obama, we now read, has not only personally selected several hundred suspected terrorists for airborne execution, but alternates between reading their terrorist biographies and theology as he picks who lives and who dies. I am sure Catholic theologians appreciate the fact that St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine bulked up the American president's fortitude when he chose to press the kill button over Waziristan. Crude presidents watch Patton or wear flight suits under "Mission Accomplished" banners; sophisticated metrosexual wartime Presidents read theology. I am surprised only that we did not hear from leaks that Obama had read these didactic texts in the original Latin.
Is the world to be outraged that Russia sends war material to Syria or Iran arms to Hezbollah - when it matter-of-factly now reads that almost all communications inside Pakistan are intercepted? Do we need to know that the U.S. warped medical vaccination programs to gain information about bin Laden - right out of a scene from the film Man on Fire? I bet the Gates Foundation and other American philanthropic organizations will appreciate the doubt that will now be cast on their own vaccination efforts. In the world war of ideas, we accuse Iran of wanting to wipe out Israel and they now will accuse us of resorting even to manipulating vaccination programs for the sick and poor for our own national security. Do we really need to know - or rather does the world need to know - that we sabotaged video cameras in Pakistan? Wait - I err in the use of the past tense: we are still sabotaging video and photographic equipment in Pakistan.
We live in dangerous times, with a war in Afghanistan, a soon-to-be-nuclear Iran, a duplicitous nuclear Pakistan, an estranged nuclear ally Israel, an Arab Spring gone haywire, a failed reset with Russia, and almost all of the above conniving over Syria. The work of National Security Advisor Tom Donilon, New York Times reporter David Sanger, and all their assorted subordinate reporters and Obama administration officials may well help to set off a conflagration unlike any in our time.
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U.S., Israel developed computer virus to slow Iranian nuclear efforts, officials say
WaPo ^ | 6/19/12 | Ellen Nakashima, Greg Miller and Julie Tate,
Posted on Tuesday, June 19, 2012 3:43:18 PM by Nachum
The United States and Israel jointly developed a sophisticated computer virus nicknamed Flame that collected critical intelligence in preparation for cyber-sabotage attacks aimed at slowing Iran’s ability to develop a nuclear weapon, according to Western officials with knowledge of the effort.
The massive piece of malware was designed to secretly map Iran’s computer networks and monitor the computers of Iranian officials, sending back a steady stream of intelligence used to enable an ongoing cyberwarfare campaign, according to the officials.
The effort, involving the National Security Agency, the CIA and Israel’s military, has included the use of destructive software such as the so-called Stuxnet virus to cause malfunctions in Iran’s nuclear enrichment equipment.
The emerging details about Flame provide new clues about what is believed to be the first sustained campaign of cyber-sabotage against an adversary of the United States.
“This is about preparing the battlefield for another type of covert action,” said one former high-ranking U.S. intelligence official, who added that Flame and Stuxnet were elements of a broader assault that continues today. “Cyber collection against the Iranian program is way further down the road than this.”
Flame came to light last month after Iran detected a series of cyberattacks on its oil industry. The disruption was directed by Israel in a unilateral operation that apparently caught its U.S. partners offguard, according to several U.S. and Western officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
There had been speculation that the United States had a role in developing Flame, but the collaboration on the virus between Washington and Israel has not been previously confirmed. Commercial security researchers last week reported that Flame contained some of the same code as Stuxnet. Experts described the overlap as DNA-like evidence that the two sets of malware were parallel projects run by the same entity.
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U.S., Israel developed computer virus to slow Iranian nuclear efforts, officials say
WaPo ^ | 6/19/12 | Ellen Nakashima, Greg Miller and Julie Tate,
Posted on Tuesday, June 19, 2012 3:43:18 PM by Nachum
The United States and Israel jointly developed a sophisticated computer virus nicknamed Flame that collected critical intelligence in preparation for cyber-sabotage attacks aimed at slowing Iran’s ability to develop a nuclear weapon, according to Western officials with knowledge of the effort.
The massive piece of malware was designed to secretly map Iran’s computer networks and monitor the computers of Iranian officials, sending back a steady stream of intelligence used to enable an ongoing cyberwarfare campaign, according to the officials.
The effort, involving the National Security Agency, the CIA and Israel’s military, has included the use of destructive software such as the so-called Stuxnet virus to cause malfunctions in Iran’s nuclear enrichment equipment.
The emerging details about Flame provide new clues about what is believed to be the first sustained campaign of cyber-sabotage against an adversary of the United States.
“This is about preparing the battlefield for another type of covert action,” said one former high-ranking U.S. intelligence official, who added that Flame and Stuxnet were elements of a broader assault that continues today. “Cyber collection against the Iranian program is way further down the road than this.”
Flame came to light last month after Iran detected a series of cyberattacks on its oil industry. The disruption was directed by Israel in a unilateral operation that apparently caught its U.S. partners offguard, according to several U.S. and Western officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
There had been speculation that the United States had a role in developing Flame, but the collaboration on the virus between Washington and Israel has not been previously confirmed. Commercial security researchers last week reported that Flame contained some of the same code as Stuxnet. Experts described the overlap as DNA-like evidence that the two sets of malware were parallel projects run by the same entity.
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Nice. Surprised this wasn't leaked too.
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White House Warned Not To Delete “Leak” Emails
buzz feed ^ | 6/25/12 | Michael Hastings BuzzFeed Staff
Posted on Monday, June 25, 2012 1:25:52 PM by Nachum
As the leak investigation into the unauthorized disclosures of classified information enters into its third week, White House staffers have been warned not to delete any emails or destroy other information that could be pertinent to investigators, according to officials familiar with the matter.
The warning email was sent internally in an office-wide message from administration lawyers last week, according to two U.S. officials, the latest indication that the two FBI investigations into the alleged disclosure of classified information is aimed, at least in part, at the White House.
The email included senior members of the White House staff as well, according to the officials.
A White House spokesperson declined to comment, directing BuzzFeed to President Obama’s strong denial at a press conference in early June that the administration had authorized national security leaks.
“The notion that my White House would purposely release classified national security information is offensive,” Obama said at the time, adding that “the writers of these articles have all stated unequivocally that they didn't come from this White House.”
(Although it’s unclear what writers the president is referring to, the last statement appears to be at odds with what journalist David Sanger wrote in his own book, Confront and Conceal. Sanger attributes much of the information in his book to “almost every senior member of the president’s national security team.”)
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LOL... didn't the bush white house delete about 4 million emails... "all the backup servers were accidentally overwritten too".
Losing all the important emails before and after 911. And you water-carriers were okay with it.
JUST FUCCKING WAIT - Obama will accidentally delete all the F&F emails... and shrug it off with a grin. And you dipshits will suddenly care.
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[Update] Breaking: GOP senators issue letter alleging Tom Donilon is the leaker of classified secrets
By Bronwyn's Harbor
on June 26, 2012 at 10:35 AM in Current Affairs
UPDATE below the fold … it’s a new directive from James Clapper, head intelligence honcho. “Clapper’s order applies to 16 intelligence agencies, including the CIA, FBI, National Security Agency and Defense Intelligence Agency. …”
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Treason, anybody? Fox News reports that, within an hour, Senate Republicans will hold a press conference announcing their letter to AG Eric Holder that reveals their belief that National Security Advisor Tom Donilon (and other White House staff) are actively leaking highly classified information to journalists — all as a desperate attempt to make Obama appear stronger on foreign policy than he really is.
See also: Fox News’s story, “GOP senators press Holder for special prosecutor into potential national security leaks“:
GOP senators are putting the pressure on Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a special counsel to investigate whether the White House is responsible for national security leaks.
“The numerous national security leaks reportedly originating out of the executive branch in recent months have been stunning,” according to a copy of the letter to Holder, signed by more than 30 GOP senators and obtained by Fox News. “If there were ever a case requiring an outside special counsel with bipartisan acceptance and widespread public trust, this is it.”
Among the concerns about the leaks are recent news reports regarding the United State’s drone attacks in the Middle East. …
(Read more.)
This literally makes me feel sick. It’s high time that the Republicans on Capitol Hill pushed hard to stop the dangerous leaks.
It is hard to comprehend that Obama and Axelrod would stoop this low. But they’re seeing the bad poll numbers. They realize that ROMNEY is on a roll and has high poll numbers. They foresee that Obama could be defeated in November.
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UPDATE: Polygraphs for leakers, and more (from The Hill
Officials at the CIA, FBI and other intelligence agencies will be given expanded polygraph tests. …
James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, on Monday announced a series of steps intended to stop the leaks after a furious backlash from Congress over news reports that revealed closely guarded secrets.
The most significant measure is the addition of a new question to the polygraph tests that are used by intelligence agencies. Officials will be asked during the lie-detector tests whether they have disclosed classified information to members of the media, according to Shawn Turner, a spokesman for Clapper.
President Obama’s spy chief is also ordering a review of how the intelligence agencies report contact with members of the media, and will consider changes if he finds the policies inconsistent or insufficient.
The second directive in Monday’s announcement was a request for the Intelligence Community Inspector General to lead investigations of leaks when the Department of Justice declines to do so.
Clapper’s order applies to 16 intelligence agencies, including the CIA, FBI, National Security Agency and Defense Intelligence Agency. He said in a statement that the new measures were the “right thing to do” and “in the interest of our national security.”
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The article at The Hill also gets into the demands by members of Congress — including Democrats like Senator Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.). However, every Democrat is against requiring AG Holder to drop the two U.S. Attorneys and instead appoint independent counsel. Gee, why are the Democrats opposed to independent counsel?
Congress is demanding investigations into a spike in security leaks, and vowing to write new laws following recent revelations about a U.S. cyberattack on Iran, a double-agent infiltrating al Qaeda in Yemen and a terrorist “kill list.”
Attorney General Eric Holder appointed two U.S. attorneys to probe the cyberattack and Yemen leaks, but Republicans have called for a special counsel, fearing the DOJ investigation might not be independent.
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) alleged the leaks were a deliberate effort to aid President Obama’s reelection bid, and has introduced a non-binding Senate resolution calling for a special counsel. That measure has 28 Republican co-sponsors. [...]
The outrage over the leaks has been coming from members of Obama’s own party. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said the leaks were the worst she’d seen … but has rejected GOP calls for a special counsel, arguing the DOJ probe will be sufficient. [SAY WHAT?] Other Democrats have taken a similar position.
Feinstein is working with the heads of the Senate and House Intelligence committees on legislation aimed at cracking down on the release of classified information. She’s looking at provisions that would create more forceful leak investigations, add resources for the government to identify leakers and require the timely disclosure of authorized disclosures.
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There’s much more in the article, including the importance of using the correct wording in the polygraph question. There are also quotes from civil liberty groups concerned the loss of the public’s right to know:
Amy Bennett, assistant director at OpenTheGovernment.org, said that Monday’s announcement showed that the administration already has the tools it needs to investigate leaks.
“We’re really concerned that in Congress’s zeal to crack down on leakers, it’s going to hastily pass legislation that really undercuts people’s right to know what their government is doing,” Bennett said.
Um, okay. I am more worried about the undercover intelligence operatives that the U.S. has around the world, and the fate of the foreign informants they have cultivated — like the Pakistani doctor now serving a 33-year sentence.
http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/68641/breaking-gop-lawmakers-issue-letter-alleging-tom-donilon-is-leaking-highly-sensitive-classified-secrets
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GOP senators press Holder for special prosecutor into potential national security leaks
Published June 26, 2012
FoxNews.com
GOP senators are putting the pressure on Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a special counsel to investigate whether the White House is responsible for national security leaks.
“The numerous national security leaks reportedly originating out of the executive branch in recent months have been stunning,” according to a copy of the letter to Holder, signed by more than 30 GOP senators and obtained by Fox News. “If there were ever a case requiring an outside special counsel with bipartisan acceptance and widespread public trust, this is it.”
Among the concerns about the leaks are recent news reports regarding the United State’s drone attacks in the Middle East.
Their letter points out the recent New York Times story about the drone program and its list of human targets states the reporting involved interviews with "three dozen of [President Obama's] current and former advisers."
It suggests that Thomas Donilon, the national security adviser, is a likely source in The Times reporting, considering he is “the commenter of record on events."
The letter to Holder comes the same week the GOP-led House is expected to vote on whether to hold him in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with subpoena requests to provide more documents regarding the Justice Department’s failed Fast and Furious gun-tracking operation.
The letter also states Holder’s decision to appoint two U.S. attorneys to investigate the apparent national security leaks doesn’t go far enough.
“You have an important role as a member of the president's national security team, and no administration should be expected to investigate itself impartially on such a grave and sensitive matter in the midst of an election,” states the letter signed by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/06/26/gop-senators-press-holder-for-special-prosecutor-into-potential-national/#ixzz1yv3hp5cU
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Feinstein: White House Leaked Some Classified Info
Tuesday, 24 Jul 2012
The Democratic leader of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Monday that the White House appears to be responsible for some leaks of classified information.
"I think the White House has to understand that some of this is coming from their ranks," Sen. Dianne Feinstein told a World Affairs Council forum.
The California lawmaker said she was certain that President Barack Obama, who receives a daily intelligence briefing, isn't disclosing secret information, but she was uncertain about others at the White House. "I don't believe for a moment that he goes out and talks about it," she said.
Republicans have criticized the disclosures, arguing that members of the Obama administration were intentionally leaking classified material to enhance the president's reputation in an election year. Attorney General Eric Holder has appointed two attorneys to lead the investigation into who leaked information about U.S. involvement in cyberattacks on Iran and about an al-Qaida plot to place an explosive device aboard a U.S.-bound airliner.
That hasn't satisfied some Republicans who have pressed for a special prosecutor.
Last Thursday, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testified in closed session before the House Armed Services Committee on the leaks. The committee's chairman, Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon, R-Calif., told reporters afterward that he did not believe the Pentagon was responsible for recent national security leaks.
"I feel pretty secure they were not" from the Pentagon, McKeon said after the three-hour hearing.
Separately, the Pentagon announced that it was taking new steps to try to clamp down on leaks of classified information, saying unauthorized disclosures undermine national security and in some cases rise to the level of criminal acts.
Pentagon press secretary George Little said Panetta has ordered him to join the Pentagon's top intelligence official in monitoring all "major, national level" news media reports for unauthorized disclosures of secrets.
Panetta also reiterated guidance issued by his predecessor, Robert Gates, that the Pentagon's public affairs office should be the only source of defense information provided to the news media in Washington.
Feinstein said her committee would meet Tuesday to craft legislation that would address the leaks of classified information, including additional authorities and rules to stop the leaks.
Her comments came as U.S. officials said the number of people with access to some of the nation's most carefully guarded secrets topped 4.86 million in 2011.
That's up from 4.7 million people granted security clearances the year before, likely reflecting new hires approved by Congress as part of expanded clandestine operations in the Obama administration.
The latest intelligence report to Congress also corrects previous figures, to reflect new guidance that everyone with access to such information be counted — even if they never used the data or no longer hold a job that requires the clearance.
Clearance levels range from confidential to secret to top secret. Top secret clearances in 2011 numbered 1.4 million, down slightly from 1.43 million the year before.
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/US-SecurityClearances/2012/07/23/id/446301
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Feinstein: White House Leaked Some Classified Info
Tuesday, 24 Jul 2012
The Democratic leader of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Monday that the White House appears to be responsible for some leaks of classified information.
"I think the White House has to understand that some of this is coming from their ranks," Sen. Dianne Feinstein told a World Affairs Council forum.
The California lawmaker said she was certain that President Barack Obama, who receives a daily intelligence briefing, isn't disclosing secret information, but she was uncertain about others at the White House. "I don't believe for a moment that he goes out and talks about it," she said.
Republicans have criticized the disclosures, arguing that members of the Obama administration were intentionally leaking classified material to enhance the president's reputation in an election year. Attorney General Eric Holder has appointed two attorneys to lead the investigation into who leaked information about U.S. involvement in cyberattacks on Iran and about an al-Qaida plot to place an explosive device aboard a U.S.-bound airliner.
That hasn't satisfied some Republicans who have pressed for a special prosecutor.
Last Thursday, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testified in closed session before the House Armed Services Committee on the leaks. The committee's chairman, Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon, R-Calif., told reporters afterward that he did not believe the Pentagon was responsible for recent national security leaks.
"I feel pretty secure they were not" from the Pentagon, McKeon said after the three-hour hearing.
Separately, the Pentagon announced that it was taking new steps to try to clamp down on leaks of classified information, saying unauthorized disclosures undermine national security and in some cases rise to the level of criminal acts.
Pentagon press secretary George Little said Panetta has ordered him to join the Pentagon's top intelligence official in monitoring all "major, national level" news media reports for unauthorized disclosures of secrets.
Panetta also reiterated guidance issued by his predecessor, Robert Gates, that the Pentagon's public affairs office should be the only source of defense information provided to the news media in Washington.
Feinstein said her committee would meet Tuesday to craft legislation that would address the leaks of classified information, including additional authorities and rules to stop the leaks.
Her comments came as U.S. officials said the number of people with access to some of the nation's most carefully guarded secrets topped 4.86 million in 2011.
That's up from 4.7 million people granted security clearances the year before, likely reflecting new hires approved by Congress as part of expanded clandestine operations in the Obama administration.
The latest intelligence report to Congress also corrects previous figures, to reflect new guidance that everyone with access to such information be counted — even if they never used the data or no longer hold a job that requires the clearance.
Clearance levels range from confidential to secret to top secret. Top secret clearances in 2011 numbered 1.4 million, down slightly from 1.43 million the year before.
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/US-SecurityClearances/2012/07/23/id/446301
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25 posts in less than 1.5 pages with every single article written about it? Maybe the pharmaceutical companies will come up with a new med for Excessive Compulsive Posting Disorder.
Worth repeating.
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Romney camp asks Va. to probe voter forms
Mitt Romney's campaign is asking Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to investigate mailings from the Voter Participation Center.
The Voter Participation Center posted this video on its website in response to reports of dogs and cats receiving its voter registration...
By: Wesley P. Hester | Richmond Times-Dispatch
Published: July 25, 2012 Updated: July 25, 2012 - 12:00 AM
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's campaign is asking Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to launch an investigation into voter-registration forms that are being sent to Virginia residents and addressed to deceased relatives, children, family pets and others ineligible to vote.
The errant mailings from the Washington-based nonprofit group Voter Participation Center have befuddled many Virginia residents, leading to hundreds of complaints.
The organization has been mass-mailing the forms — pre-populated with key information such as names and addresses — to primarily Democratic-leaning voting blocs such as young adults, unmarried women, African-Americans and Latinos.
In a letter to Cuccinelli's office and the State Board of Elections, Kathryn Bieber, an attorney for the Romney campaign, calls for an investigation into the matter by law-enforcement officials, claiming that the mailings appear to violate "at least one and maybe several Virginia laws aimed at ensuring a fair election."
Bieber refers to the mailings as "tactics that amount to, or at the very least induce, voter registration fraud," and says the issue "presents a very significant risk to the proper administration of the upcoming general election."
Citing a Sunday Richmond Times-Dispatch story that brought the mailings to light, the letter also asks the State Board of Elections to require registrars to reject all pre-populated voter registration applications from the group and review the eligibility of all Virginians who have registered in the past two months.
"This is the only way for voters and other interested parties to regain confidence in the voter registration and electoral process that has been abused by the Voter Participation Center," the letter says.
Page Gardner, president and CEO of the Voter Participation Center, said the organization mailed nearly 200,000 third-party registration forms to Virginia addresses in June, which resulted in 15,026 new voters being registered as of July 18.
On Monday, the Voter Participation Center responded to the Sunday Times-Dispatch story, stating in a letter on its website that "imperfections in the VPC vendors' lists — while regrettable and unfortunate — should not be the reason or the excuse to call an entire process that is working into question."
Justin Riemer, the State Board of Elections' deputy secretary, said forms have been sent by the group to deceased infants, out-of-state family members, and non-U.S. citizens, among others.
In a letter this month, the State Board of Elections asked the group to cease pre-populating their forms and raised questions about how the group was obtaining lists of registered voters, citing the errant forms.
Riemer noted that pre-populating the forms violates rules set forth in the state code and the Virginia Constitution requiring that voters fill out their own forms.
The State Board of Elections had not received the letter from the Romney campaign Tuesday afternoon and declined to comment on the specifics.
No comment was immediately available from Cuccinelli's office.
Asked for comment on the Romney campaign's letter, the Voter Participation Center issued a statement noting that their forms are official applications, not registration cards.
"Furthermore, they were approved before we sent them out by the State Board of Elections and are the same applications that anyone can access at a local government office or on the internet," the statement read. "Our process is legal and working."
whester@timesdispatch.com (804) 649-6976
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Drug money funds voter fraud in Kentucky
By Eric Shawn
Published July 25, 2012
FoxNews.com
Voter fraud has a shocking new meaning in eastern Kentucky.
That is where in some cases, major cocaine and marijuana dealers admitted to buying votes to steal elections, and the result is the corruption of American democracy. The government continues to mete out justice in the scandal, as two people convicted in April in a vote-buying case face sentencing this week, and another public official pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy.
"We believe that drug money did buy votes," Kerry B. Harvey, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky, said of a separate vote-buying case.
He described a stunning vote-buying scheme that includes "very extensive, organized criminal activity, involving hundreds of thousands of dollars, and in many cases that involves drug money."
Harvey has led a recent string of federal prosecutions exposing the widespread and accepted practice of vote buying in eastern Kentucky. The soft-spoken federal prosecutor, along with his team and state authorities, are waging a battle against what he characterizes as a vote-buying culture embedded in many of the communities for generations.
He says the problem is rooted in economic woes, which is why votes are routinely for sale. In that part of the state, jobs are scarce and poverty is high. Controlling local government means controlling jobs.
“These folks go out and hijack the local elections for their own purposes and then they use those jobs to enrich themselves and their confederates. It really is a terrible problem and it has to be stopped,” Harvey explains.
In Clay County, according to court testimony, some of the funds to purchase votes came from massive cocaine and marijuana drug trafficking operations.
"They did use drug money to buy votes, and drug dealers felt they would be protected," Harvey said.
Prosecutors say more than $400,000, part of it drug proceeds, was pooled by Democratic and Republican politicians over several elections, and spent to buy the votes of more than 8,000 voters, usually at $50 apiece.
One voter was even able to bid up the cost of his vote to $800.
In the Eastern District of Kentucky alone, more than 20 public elected officials and others have either been convicted or plead guilty in various vote-buying cases just in the last two years.
On Tuesday, former Breathitt County School Superintendent Arch Turner pleaded guilty to conspiracy during the 2010 primary election, admitting he handed out money to buy votes. On Thursday, two others will be sentenced after they were convicted of vote-buying-related charges in the same contest.
Vote buying "really has a corrosive effect on the very foundations of the freedoms that we enjoy," Harvey said as he sat with Fox News in his office in Lexington. "It’s hard to imagine a more serious problem that would have a more pernicious effect across the whole community."
"When it comes to vote buying, it’s an everyday thing. ... It’s pretty much like jaywalking," admits former Breathitt County magistrate candidate Michael Salyers, who is now serving time in jail for buying votes in his 2010 race. While the funds in his case did not involve drug money, he describes how he was given $500 and ended up buying about 10 votes. He would meet people seeking to sell their votes in the back room of a local store.
"The sellers in this situation would come to me and ask how much was I paying for votes, and ask me if I was buying votes or whatever, and I told them the most I could pay is $25," Salyers described to Fox News. "They would go into the machine and cast their vote...They were supposed to vote for me. They would come back to me and I would pay them for going to vote. I had one gentleman come to me and say 'Mike, I have four votes,' so he took them to vote and I gave him $100, $25 a vote."
Salyers says vote buying has been so blatant that, "you used to be able to go behind the voting machine with voters, to make sure that if you bought their vote, that they would vote the way you wanted to." But the laws were strengthened, and now vote buyers have to trust that the people they pay to cast their ballots vote as they say they will.
He blames what he calls "the excitement of competition" for spurring him to buy his votes, but it turned out to not be money well spent. He lost the election.
"It’s been going on ever since I was a young boy," says 54 year-old voter Richard Moore, who admitted he sold his vote to Salyers for $25. "As soon as you become the age to vote, you have people hounding you to buy your vote."
Moore sat on a sofa in the house where he lives with his mother in Jackson, Ky., and described what happened.
"I knew Mike didn't have a chance of winning, and if he was wanting to give money away like that, then I was going to get some of it," Moore explained. He says the lack of jobs in eastern Kentucky also spurs people to make money through voter fraud.
"I don't feel good about it," he told us. "I wish I'd never done it. ... I think they ought to do something about it and fix it, so they can't sell votes. They should have some ways of doing things differently where people can't buy votes."
In the Clay County case, former Circuit Court Judge Cletus Maricle, 67, and seven others were convicted in 2010 in a massive vote-buying scheme that ran through several elections. Maricle, who was sentenced to more than 26 years behind bars, is appealing his conviction. Several convicted major drug dealers testified during the trial about just how easy it was to spread many thousands of dollars around to buy votes.
‘I always bought votes,” Kenneth Day testified.
The 60-year-old was serving 18 years in federal prison for multimillion-dollar drug trafficking. Prosecutors say he dealt in "millions of dollars in drugs, marijuana, cocaine, and methamphetamine” and “had developed one of the most successful drug trafficking businesses in the whole entire region.”
Day admitted on the stand to “selling tons of marijuana” and hundreds of thousands of dollars of cocaine every other week. He also dealt in votes.
"I bought my first vote with half a pint of liquor," Day testified. He described how that mushroomed to a seemingly routine method to buy protection from politicians and win their elections. He said he even bought votes for the sheriff.
"That showed people on the ground who had the power and who had the money to buy the votes," Day testified. "As time went on, $5 a vote, $10 a vote. I have paid as high as $800 a vote. ... Election after election, day in and day out, every election I ever worked, it went on."
Day was not only an admitted drug trafficker, but he also had served as the longtime Clay County Republican commissioner of the Board of Elections.
Democratic Board of Elections Judge Eugene Lewis, 70, also a convicted cocaine trafficker and marijuana dealer serving a 12 years prison sentence, described how easily he bought votes over a period spanning three decades.
"I've also bought, traded, bought votes for different candidates," he testified. "I would pay them right in the booth. ... You would not believe the percentage of people, from school teachers down, that I have bought their vote from. It's unbelievable."
J.C. Lawson, another convicted marijuana and cocaine dealer, also explained the process of buying votes. The 55-year-old testified that he helped win elections by giving candidates "voters and people and money."
"Where did that money come from?" U.S. Assistant Attorney Stephen C. Smith asked.
"From drug dealing I made," Lawson testified matter-of-factly.
He said he even gave the sheriff about $20,000 for his race, in exchange for protection.
In court, Smith described how Clay County public officials were "working to protect drug dealers" and that "voters were lined up in lines who had been bought and bribed by the group."
"The drug dealer (was) bringing them in," Smith said. "Lining them up. Pay to play, boys. How much is it gonna take? Show who's got the strength, who controls this county."
“Once you had the county clerk and once you had the Democratic commissioner, you had control,” he said.
Lewis testified that in his case, he did not tell Maricle that the money he contributed to his campaign came from selling drugs, but that people "might have suspected it."
Since the convictions last year, prosecutors have continued to bring additional vote-buying charges and say they will pursue even more.
"The good news is, I think it is changing," Harvey, the U.S. attorney, said .He vows to continue the crackdown until the vote buying can one day be eliminated and elections run cleanly.
"When you think about how we honor people in past generations who have made great sacrifices to secure the freedoms for us, and of course the foundational freedom is the right to elect your officials in free and fair elections," he notes. "The fact that we would have people who would so willingly and so completely corrupt that process is just reprehensible. ... They deserve exactly what they are getting."
Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway and Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, both Democrats, have established an election integrity task force and special hotline to try to prevent voter fraud.
"I think we're making a dent in it," Conway told Fox News. "We are doing our best to make sure there are free and fair elections throughout the Commonwealth of Kentucky."
As Conway sat in a conference room in the ornate capitol building in Frankfort, he described how investigators have been placed across the state to investigate vote buying, and he decried the toll voter fraud has on the integrity of the election system.
“If you sell your vote, you are selling the heart of democracy. If the government belongs to someone who is out there buying votes, rather than the free will of the people, then it doesn’t belong to everybody,” he said. “It is very central to our democracy, so I think this work is very important.”
Since starting the task force, Conway says there has been progress. He notes there were “only two allegations of vote buying” reported during the recent May primary.
“Our vigilance has stepped up," he said. "I want elections to be free and fair. I am an elected official. I am grateful that voters have placed their trust in me. I can’t imagine being at the local level thinking that you got your office by something other than a free and fair election.”
It is a message that Salyers now accepts.
He told Fox News that he regrets buying votes, for which he is now serving 60 days in jail. When he is released next month, Salyers will then spend six months in home detention.
"I made a mistake, and what I done I should have been punished and I have been punished. But even if I had got no jail time and walked off scot-free, I still brought shame on myself and on my family. And you talk about punishment, that’s punishment," he said. "I lay in bed at night a lot of times just thinking what I’ve done to them, the community and so forth. You know the only thing I can say to the community and the citizens of Breathitt County is, I'm, sorry."
"When I look at someone like Mike Salyers, I don't see a bad person," his attorney, Jeff Rager, said. "Mr. Salyers is a good person with a good heart, and part of what he did wrong here is part of the culture."
Rager is one of the many who say the dire economic conditions mean selling your vote is a quick and easy way to make some extra money.
“We have a culture down there with a ton of poor people at the bottom and very few people with money and power at the top," Rager said. "And whenever you have a situation like that, those people in power will do whatever they can do to maintain that power, to keep the spigot open, to keep the money flowing. And that's why they can get people... to say, hey, 'do you want to make some money?'"
"I'm not sure who is more culpable in a situation like this,” he said. “Whether it is the person buying the vote or the individuals who are actually selling them. On one hand, you have a person who is buying a right, and on the other hand you have somebody who has that right, that people have fought and died for, that this country is based upon, that is selling it for $25 or $75."
Richard Moore, who sold Salyers his vote, thinks despite the best effort by authorities, vote buying will never be fully eradicated.
"I don't think it will stop. They might slow it down some, and I hope they do," he said, but he doubts it.
Vote buying, he says is "where the money's at."
Meredith Orban contributed to this report. If you suspect voter fraud where you live, tell us: VoterFraud@Foxnews.com.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/07/25/drug-money-funds-voter-fraud-in-kentucky/#ixzz21eGZHBLM
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According to Straw - voter fraud is rare if ever.!
not according to me but rather The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School
don't read this if you want to stay stupid: http://www.brennancenter.org/content/resource/policy_brief_on_the_truth_about_voter_fraud/
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Stealing Virginia and Maybe the Presidency
RedState.com ^ | July 25, 2012 | Dan Spencer (Diary)
Posted on July 25, 2012 8:49:16 PM EDT by justiceseeker93
The Romney campaign today has requested an investigation into potential election fraud in Virginia, a Key battle-ground state.
The request was necessary because of the shenanigans of the DC-based Voter Participation Center which has mailed voter-registration forms to deceased relatives, children, and even pets.
According to the Associated Press, the Voter Participation Center has touted the distribution of some five million registration forms in recent weeks, targeting Democratic-leaning voting blocs such as unmarried women, blacks, Latinos and young adults. The mailings appear official, arriving in privacy envelopes with the headline “VOTER REGISTRATION DOCUMENTS ENCLOSED.” Some information is already completed on the voter registration papers, and recipients also get an envelope to send completed forms to local elections officials.
PJ Media has already followed up with a great investigative piece – the return address on the VPC’s forms, which are allegedly supposed to be Virginia State Board of Elections, actually sends the forms to a rogue address:
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
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Top Republican warns security leaks haven't stopped despite controversy
By Catherine Herridge
Published July 30, 2012
FoxNews.com
The chairman of the powerful House Intelligence Committee told Fox News that security leaks out of the Obama administration have not stopped despite an internal probe, and that President Obama has not done enough to turn off the spigot.
Without providing specifics about the new leaks, Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., said the damaging release of sensitive information continues.
“We’ve seen more leaks, absolutely,” Rogers told Fox News in an interview Monday. “This is an opportunity for the president to be bold, to take a stand, to step up and say, ‘My administration will cooperate fully and that my staff ... should not and will not participate in coordinated or uncoordinated leaking of classified information for any reason. It's a crime.'"
Rogers, following up on criticisms of the leaks made last week by Dianne Feinstein, the Democratic chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Rogers agreed that human intelligence assets had been comprised.
“We know that sources have self selected out of cooperation around the world,” Rogers explained. “We know that operations have had to change. We know that operations have had to shut down.”
Based on the work by his committee investigators, the congressman joined other Republicans by claiming that the classified information came from a small group of people who have access to the White House.
“It is very clear that somebody who had access to the White House situation room, had very senior covert action classified material was responsible for some of these leaks," he said. "That is not a big group of people."
On the level of cooperation from the White House, Rogers suggested it was lacking.
“I don't feel comfortable today that this administration has made every person available when the investigator needs to talk to them and the records they need to provide in a timely way. I'm not comfortable yet," Rogers said.
A congressional staffer told Fox News on Monday that the White House had yet to respond to a July 12 letter from House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas, who told President Obama he’d like to interview seven current and former administration officials who may know something about a spate of national security leaks.
The request follows suggestions by lawmakers a day earlier that they’re interested in potentially pursuing a congressional investigation into the leaks, on top of the Department of Justice-led probe.
“Concern about these leaks knows no party line. When national security secrets leak and become public knowledge, our people and our national interests are jeopardized. And when our enemies know our secrets, American lives are threatened,” Smith said in a letter to the president.
The administration officials he'd like to interview are National Security Adviser Thomas Donilon, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism John Brennan, Deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough, Director for Counterterrorism Audrey Tomason and National Security Adviser to the Vice President Antony Blinken.
The White House did not respond to Fox News's request Monday for comment for this story.
And last Thursday, the White House downplayed comments by David Axelrod, Obama's top political strategist, who said the president didn't leak anything, then followed up by saying the president did not authorize the leaks.
“All those statements are completely true," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said. "I stand by what I've said and what Mr. Axelrod and the president said. What I can tell you is that there are investigations ongoing, and I'm not going to comment on the specifics of the investigations.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/07/30/top-republican-warns-security-leaks-havent-stopped-despite-controversy/
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Has Issa indicted anyone for this yet?
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25 posts in less than 1.5 pages with every single article written about it? Maybe the pharmaceutical companies will come up with a new med for Excessive Compulsive Posting Disorder.
:D :D
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/09/legal-challenge-kill-list-afghanistan
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http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2012/08/10/Michelle-Obama-To-Black-Radio-Get-Out-There-And-Convince-This-Confused-Knuckleheads-to-Vote-Obama
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I cant even watch that, I remember when this was first out there. Makes me angry.
Ridiculous.
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LOL when 240 and I yelled like crazy about this very same bullshit we were laughed off and ignored. meggacrickets. When we said that this wasn't a liberal or conservative issue we were still ignored or laughed off. When we pointed out that it will matter when it's a dem in office, we were fucking ignored!
LOL... Welcome to what you all helped by looking the other way when it benefited you. All Americans should be outraged at this shit, not just the right, not just the left, fucking all. Maybe now we can get over the bullshit and all be against this kind of shit or will the left now ignore it? Personally I've come to the conclusion you're almost all bias assholes and it doesn't really matter anymore.
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LOL when 240 and I yelled like crazy about this very same bullshit we were laughed off and ignored. meggacrickets. When we said that this wasn't a liberal or conservative issue we were still ignored or laughed off. When we pointed out that it will matter when it's a dem in office, we were fucking ignored!
LOL... Welcome to what you all helped by looking the other way when it benefited you. All Americans should be outraged at this shit, not just the right, not just the left, fucking all. Maybe now we can get over the bullshit and all be against this kind of shit or will the left now ignore it? Personally I've come to the conclusion you're almost all bias assholes and it doesn't really matter anymore.
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LOL when 240 and I yelled like crazy about this very same bullshit we were laughed off and ignored. meggacrickets. When we said that this wasn't a liberal or conservative issue we were still ignored or laughed off. When we pointed out that it will matter when it's a dem in office, we were fucking ignored!
LOL... Welcome to what you all helped by looking the other way when it benefited you. All Americans should be outraged at this shit, not just the right, not just the left, fucking all. Maybe now we can get over the bullshit and all be against this kind of shit or will the left now ignore it? Personally I've come to the conclusion you're almost all bias assholes and it doesn't really matter anymore.
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I probably would feel the same way had I voted for the messiah in 2008 w such high hopes.
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I probably would feel the same way had I voted for the messiah in 2008 w such high hopes.
uh... We're talking about the manipulation of the votes, not how I voted in 08 ::) Do you understand what my meltdown is over?
I want the people to be able to go in and vote and have the final outcome reflect what the people voted for no matter what the party is. Are you telling me I'm wrong for wanting that? This has been a huge issue for me for a long time.
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This is an issue that both the left and right should set aside differences and work together to remedy. 3333, GW, do you disagree with that?
Honeslty, if the full electorate went after this rather than just a few when it's their man in trouble, we could possible force a more honest election.
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This is an issue that both the left and right should set aside differences and work together to remedy. 3333, GW, do you disagree with that?
Honeslty, if the full electorate went after this rather than just a few when it's their man in trouble, we could possible force a more honest election.
obama voter who sat silent when the messiah appointed holder summers geithner liew gentsler et al have only themselves to blame
Fuck every obama voter who sat silent while he appointed these thugs
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obama voter who sat silent when the messiah appointed holder summers geithner liew gentsler et al have only themselves to blame
Fuck every obama voter who sat silent while he appointed these thugs
You're changing the fucking subject entirely!!! And I even agree with you on those issues you're changing the subject toward! WTF Asshole?
Did you forget I turned against Obama when I started seeing the bullshit he was doing?
Did you forget I turned against Obama within the first 5 months of his presidency?
Did you forget I have been right there to agree with you on all the Fast and Furious bullshit?
What the hell do you want from me man? I should just shut the fuck up and totally and completely submit to everything you espouse?
Is it to much to ask that we actually stay on topic with this issue? Do you even understand what the topic is? Did you even watch the video GW posted?
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You're changing the fucking subject entirely!!! And I even agree with you on those issues you're changing the subject toward! WTF Asshole?
Did you forget I turned against Obama when I started seeing the bullshit he was doing?
Did you forget I turned against Obama within the first 5 months of his presidency?
Did you forget I have been right there to agree with you on all the Fast and Furious bullshit?
What the hell do you want from me man? I should just shut the fuck up and totally and completely submit to everything you espouse?
Is it to much to ask that we actually stay on topic with this issue? Do you even understand what the topic is? Did you even watch the video GW posted?
not you hugo
You are the rare exception
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not you hugo
You are the rare exception
the issue is an accusation of massive election fraud.
Do you think it is in the best interest of America for both the right and left to stand against all types of election fraud?
We can sit here and point fingers all day long and bring up examples on both sides. Or we can agree that it is our duty to support the cause to fight election fraud no matter what party is at stake. Fucking voting is one of the only things we have left and that's been a fucking massive joke for a while and getting worse with the growing fraud that occurs. What's the point of our system if the people's vote doesn't count?
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the issue is an accusation of massive election fraud.
Do you think it is in the best interest of America for both the right and left to stand against all types of election fraud?
We can sit here and point fingers all day long and bring up examples on both sides. Or we can agree that it is our duty to support the cause to fight election fraud no matter what party is at stake. Fucking voting is one of the only things we have left and that's been a fucking massive joke for a while and getting worse with the growing fraud that occurs. What's the point of our system if the people's vote doesn't count?
i have a full bore vote fraud and election fraud thread going - guess who on this board attacks it?
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i have a full bore vote fraud and election fraud thread going - guess who on this board attacks it?
I know about your thread obviously and you didn't answer my fucking question again..... Why is it that 98 percent of your replies to me are evasive?
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I know about your thread obviously and you didn't answer my fucking question again..... Why is it that 98 percent of your replies to me are evasive?
Uhhh , we have an AG attacking all efforts to fight voter fraud why?
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A. Pity bump
B.No one forgets people like this, there are plenty of people on here who would support a candidate like this, I for one am a huge Ron Paul fan, as many others on this board are.
Unfortunately, the rest of the political establishment hate candidates like this, and do their collective best to assassinate their character, as they usually don't tow their parties line.
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this is what they call covering their bets
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Uhhh , we have an AG attacking all efforts to fight voter fraud why?
Do I support our AG? Can you find a single post where I do? Was that my question to you?
Fuck you asshole... I'm done... You're clear fucking evidence that the same shit is going to go on and get worse because people are mostly idiot bias assholes like yourself... God forbid you commit to right just because you didn't get the answers you wanted from Blacken ::)
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this is what they call covering their bets
This isn't a partisan issue.
They outsourced the vote counting procedure to another country, and made it impossible to tell how many votes were tallied from each precinct.
You should have a major problem with this, if you actually care about the democratic process.
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Do I support our AG? Can you find a single post where I do? Was that my question to you?
Fuck you asshole... I'm done... You're clear fucking evidence that the same shit is going to go on and get worse because people are mostly idiot bias assholes like yourself...
LOL. unlike 90 percent on this site I actually voted for ron paul.
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This isn't a partisan issue.
They outsourced the vote counting procedure to another country, and made it impossible to tell how many votes were tallied from each precinct.
You should have a major problem with this, if you actually care about the democratic process.
It wasn't possible before to tally the votes from each precinct. Almost no attempts to do so have been successful in over a decade and that's been part of what I have bitched about. so fuck it, what's it matter, let Russia count the fucking things for all I give a rats ass ::)
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SCYTL is currently the worldwide leader in the Internet voting space.SCYTL’s customer base in the United States and internationally with customers in over 20 different countries across 5 continents, including France, Spain, Canada, Norway, Switzerland, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, Mexico, India and Australia. i haven't heard of any voter fraud
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LOL. unlike 90 percent on this site I actually voted for ron paul.
I like pussy... I love to eat it, love the smell and juices all over my face. I heard you italians don't like that though... lol...
Hey, as long as we're changing subjects....
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I like pussy... I love to eat it, love the smell and juices all over my face.
Hey, as long as we're changing subjects....
Not changing anything. Its either Romney Ryan or bam biden.
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SCYTL is currently the worldwide leader in the Internet voting space.SCYTL’s customer base in the United States and internationally with customers in over 20 different countries across 5 continents, including France, Spain, Canada, Norway, Switzerland, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, Mexico, India and Australia. i haven't heard of any voter fraud
It doesn't matter, you're really ok with sending the votes to be tallied across the ocean? I don't. Especially with no oversight or accountability.
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For wary Tea Party, Ryan could make Romney easier to swallow
Reuters ^ | August 11, 2012
Posted on August 11, 2012 8:33:30 PM EDT by 2ndDivisionVet
For Tea Party activists uninspired by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, the choice of fiscally conservative Congressman Paul Ryan as his vice presidential running mate might allow them to vote in November without holding their noses.
Hours after Romney's announcement on Saturday, Tea Partiers' reactions ranged from "Wow!" to "a step up from Romney" to "this doesn't change a thing for me" - what one would expect from a notoriously fragmented coalition bound by a desire for smaller government.
Many hailed the selection of as a sign of fiscally conservative movement's growing influence on the Republican Party platform. Others said it will not eradicate the enthusiasm deficit among conservatives that has dogged the former Massachusetts governor's campaign.
"This absolutely brings excitement to the ticket," said Debbie Dooley, co-founder of the Atlanta Tea Party, who said she her reaction was "Wow!" when she heard the news. "This gives us something to vote for rather than voting against (incumbent Democratic U.S. President Barack) Obama."
The main reason for that excitement is, as Dooley puts it, that Ryan has "bold ideas for true reform."
The blend of tax and spending cuts that the congressman and chairman of the powerful House Budget Committee has laid out in what has been called the "Ryan plan" broadly reflects the Tea Party movement's core tenets of fiscal responsibility and limited government.
Although Democrats have lambasted the "Ryan plan" as an extreme measure that would gut Medicaid and Social Security for the elderly, some fiscal conservatives deem it too timid...
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Died up ready to go.
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Not changing anything. Its either Romney Ryan or bam biden.
Oh, that's all that GW's post was about...
::)
I get it, it only matters when it's your guy...
as usual...
I'm done...
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Oh, that's all that GW's post was about...
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I get it, it only matters when it's your guy...
as usual...
I'm done...
Not my guy. I like Ryan more the Romney. I voted for Paul in the primary. Obama needs to go.
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If this is true (that the vote is fixed) why is the Republican party unaware of this or not speaking about this? Is this in any of the news papers (not the online versions)? This can't be true or the Republicans are a bunch of friggin rocks! How could they not be talking about this; not even FNC?
E-mail HAVAinfo@eac.gov or call the EAC toll free at 1-866-747-1471 with this story, they will this con-theory right up for ya!
HM
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Is voter fraud a big issue?
I mean. Most people in the USA don't even vote.
Wasn't it years ago when people would vote 20-30 times?
Seriously. Isn't voter fraud like a 1 out of 100,000 people?
So a .000001 percent of the population issue?
according to this article it's one for every 15 million prospective voters.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20120812_Analysis__In-person_vote_fraud_near_zero.html
Repubs don't give a rats ass about voter fraud. It's all about making it harder for people to vote who tend to vote for the Democratic party
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according to this article it's one for every 15 million prospective voters.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20120812_Analysis__In-person_vote_fraud_near_zero.html
Repubs don't give a rats ass about voter fraud. It's all about making it harder for people to vote who tend to vote for the Democratic party
In a close election you don't have to change many votes and only in one or two states max. The big issue is hacked voting machines.
True, republicans only give a shit when they're at risk of being cheated. Otherwise it's ok. That's the message I'm getting on this board lol
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In a close election you don't have to change many votes and only in one or two states max.
True, republicans only give a shit when they're at risk of being cheated. Otherwise it's ok. That's the message I'm getting on this board lol
I'll be out there w my clip board and whistle this year against the SEIU and AFL CIO goons in the voter fraud watch.
can't wait to mix it up w the thugs in the streets.
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I'll be out there w my clip board and whistle this year against the SEIU and AFL CIO goons in the voter fraud watch.
can't wait to mix it up w the thugs in the streets.
funniest post you've made in months
Im sure your clip board and whistle will scare those thugs
Since you're so scared of thugs everyday I don't understand why you don't always carry a clipboard and whistle
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funniest post you've made in months
Im sure your clip board and whistle will scare those thugs
Since you're so scared of thugs everyday I don't understand why you don't always carry a clipboard and whistle
I actually have a voter fraud watch jacket, hat, the whistle, clipboard, everything ready to go.
best thing I ever saw was in the Bronx w some ghetto creep campaigning for gore in 2000 in the polling place telling some rookie cop he was a republican racist and the cop grabbing him by the throat and slamming that jerk into the wall.
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I actually have a voter fraud watch jacket, hat, the whistle, clipboard, everything ready to go.
best thing I ever saw was in the Bronx w some ghetto creep campaigning for gore in 2000 in the polling place telling some rookie cop he was a republican racist and the cop grabbing him by the throat and slamming that jerk into the wall.
what's the whistle for ?
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what's the whistle for ?
Visible effect mostly. but whistle plus clipboard commands authority
used it once to drown out some AFL CIO goons once trying to obstruct a polling place in Westchester
also used the whistle once to piss off some old dude threading to attack me w his cane in The parking lot when Hillary ran vs Lazio.
that was a trip. Thought that old fuck was going to croak he melted down so hard at me.
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Visible effect mostly. but whistle plus clipboard commands authority
used it once to drown out some AFL CIO goons once trying to obstruct a polling place in Westchester
also used the whistle once to piss off some old dude threading to attack me w his cane in The parking lot when Hillary ran vs Lazio.
that was a trip. Thought that old fuck was going to croak he melted down so hard at me.
the visual imagary is this post is HILARIOUS
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the visual imagary is this post is HILARIOUS
He kept screaming and stalking me saying I wanted LOUSYIO to win. He kept screaming LOUSYIO is lousy! I was standing near the polling entrance amd he was getting louder and raised his Cain at me shaking saying i wanted TP kill old people and steal their SS.
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He kept screaming and stalking me saying I wanted LOUSYIO to win. He kept screaming LOUSYIO is lousy! I was standing near the polling entrance amd he was getting louder and raised his Cain at me shaking saying i wanted TP kill old people and steal their SS.
this old man just started screaming at you for no reason whatsoever
thank jeebus you had your whistle with you
I can just picture you backed into a corner in a panic with the old man raising his cane and then you pulled out your magic whistle
did you need to get any special training on whistle defense
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this old man just started screaming at you for no reason whatsoever
thank jeebus you had your whistle with you
I can just picture you backed into a corner in a panic with the old man raising his cain and then you pulled out your magic whistle
did you need to get any special training on whistle defense
Whistle is for effect mostly. It's fun. I love mixing it up on election day.
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::) 3333, how are you going to watch for hacked vote counts? You won't see that. You're going to go look for thugs but that's not how elections are stolen these days. You probably have idiots trying to intimidate voters on both sides depending on where it's at. But the hacking of the vote will happen in a swing state that means the election, not NY.
But lol, you don't seem to give a rats ass about that.
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::) 3333, how are you going to watch for hacked vote counts? You won't see that. You're going to go look for thugs but that's not how elections are stolen these days. You probably have idiots trying to intimidate voters on both sides depending on where it's at. But the hacking of the vote will happen in a swing state that means the election, not NY.
But lol, you don't seem to give a rats ass about that.
he just wants to have fun with his whistle on election day
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LOL when 240 and I yelled like crazy about this very same bullshit we were laughed off and ignored. meggacrickets. When we said that this wasn't a liberal or conservative issue we were still ignored or laughed off. When we pointed out that it will matter when it's a dem in office, we were fucking ignored!
LOL... Welcome to what you all helped by looking the other way when it benefited you. All Americans should be outraged at this shit, not just the right, not just the left, fucking all. Maybe now we can get over the bullshit and all be against this kind of shit or will the left now ignore it? Personally I've come to the conclusion you're almost all bias assholes and it doesn't really matter anymore.
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good call!!
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http://www.fox16.com/news/local/story/Ark-lawmaker-pleads-guilty-to-election-charge/qjc8PtXwfkC8frDCgwLNrg.cspx
Yeah no fraud at all. ::)
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No one said there wasn't fraud... Of course there is, but it's hardly rampant and it doesn't affect very many people at all.
Only the CLOSEST elections have it affect them... See Presidential Election of 2000.
I know locally of a ton of fraud and personally know a guy who had his law lixcwense suspended for fraud.
Its rampant.
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I know locally of a ton of fraud and personally know a guy who had his law lixcwense suspended for fraud.
Its rampant.
you must have your own definition of the word rampant
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Maryland Democrat quits congressional race amid vote fraud allegations
Washington Post ^ | September 10, 2012
Posted on Monday, September 10, 2012 5:28:01 PM by SMGFan
A Maryland Democratic candidate quit her congressional race Monday after her own party told state officials that she had committed fraud by voting in both Maryland and Florida in recent elections. Wendy Rosen, a small-business owner running against freshman Rep. Andy Harris (R) in the Eastern Shore-based 1st Congressional District, released a statement saying that “with great regret, and much sorrow” she was resigning from the contest.
“Personal issues have made this the hardest decision that I have had to make,” Rosen said Rosen’s announcement came the same day the state Democratic party released a letter to state Attorney General Douglas Gansler and state prosecutors reporting the allegations against Rosen.
“The Maryland Democratic Party has discovered that Ms. Rosen has been registered to vote in both Florida and Maryland since at least 2006; that she in fact voted in the 2006 general election both in Florida and Maryland; and that she voted in the presidential preference primaries held in both Florida and Maryland in 2008,” wrote Yvette Lewis, the state party chair. “This information is based on an examination of the voter files from both states. We believe that this is a clear violation of Maryland law and urge the appropriate office to conduct a full investigation.” A senior Maryland Democrat said the party had been tipped off this weekend by someone within the party about Rosen’s potential issue. After checking the allegation, the party contacted Rosen on Monday morning and urged her to quit. Local Democratic committees in the 1st district will now meet and vote on a new candidate to replace Rosen on the ballot. The new name must be submitted to the state by Sept. 27. Regardless of his opponent, Harris is considered a safe bet for reelection.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
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http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-wendy-rosen-withdraws-20120910,0,355341,full.story
no fraud there alright!
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ESCONDIDO: Mexican man admits to voter fraud
North County Times (San Diego County, CA) ^ | 9-8-2012 | Brandon Lowrey
Posted on Saturday, September 08, 2012 10:16:55 AM
A Mexican who was deported decades ago for drug trafficking pleaded guilty this week to living illegally in Escondido under a false identity and fraudulently voting in the 2008 U.S. presidential election, federal authorities said Friday.
Ricardo Lopez-Munguia, 45, pleaded guilty Thursday to attempted entry to the U.S. after deportation, making a false claim to U.S. citizenship, and voter fraud by an illegal alien, according to a statement from the U.S. attorney's office.
Lopez-Munguia faces a maximum term of 28 years in federal prison, followed by deportation. He is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 19 in San Diego.
In 1986, Lopez-Munguia was convicted of heroin trafficking. A federal judge ordered him to be deported the following year.
Officials said it was unclear when he re-entered the U.S.
Lopez-Munguia assumed the identity of Gustavo Carranza-Madrigal, a U.S. citizen, and obtained a fraudulent California driver's license, a Social Security card and a U.S. passport, according to the statement.
A Border Patrol agent arrested Lopez-Munguia on July 5 as he tried to return from Mexico, the statement said.
Despite accusations often leveled during or after elections, proven cases of voter fraud are exceedingly rare, according to several studies and reports.
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So the mexican guy changed the entire california election in 2008?
OMG McCain would have won!?!?!?!
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Jesus Christ dude really?
you think this is an isolated incident?
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I think California is going blue no matter what man.
You think there's enough fraud to make it go red?
and that should be the standard? Come on are you fng kidding me?
What about local races decided by only a few votes?
voter fraud is serious business and is rampant, regardless of what leftists in denial like straw and holder say.
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If it is racist to have to provide ID to vote why is it okay for me to have to show ID to buy alcohol and cigarettes?
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Vote fraud alert: One out of five registered Ohio voters is bogus
Human Events ^ | September 17, 2012 | John Hayward
Posted on Monday, September 17, 2012 11:30:40 AM
Vote fraud is no big deal, right? It hardly ever happens. It’s so rare that it’s not even worth discussing. Anyone who claims to take the integrity of our ballots seriously is cynically exploiting phantom fears for the purpose of suppressing the Democrat-loving minority vote.
To keep that silly narrative alive, it’s important not to read the Sunday edition of the Columbus Dispatch, in which readers were informed that “more than one out of every five registered Ohio voters is probably ineligible to vote.”
Furthermore, “in two counties, the number of registered voters actually exceeds the voting age population: Northwestern Ohio’s Wood County shows 109 registered voters for every 100 eligible, while in Lawrence County along the Ohio River it’s a mere 104 registered per 100 eligible.”
31 more counties report over 90 percent voter registration, which is a good 20 percent higher than the national average. The Buckeye State sure is civic-minded! Well, except that 1.6 million of the 7.8 million registered voters in the state haven’t voted in at least four years. So I guess they were civic minded, once upon a time. Never fear – I’m sure plenty of those “inactive” voters will reactivate themselves just in time for Barack Obama’s re-election.
You might think these astonishing statistics indicate a crisis-level voter registration problem requiring immediate attention, particularly since this is 2012, not 1912, and modern technology gives us extremely potent tools for accurately managing massive amounts of data. But Attorney General Eric Holder disagrees. Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted sent Holder a letter back in February, warning that “common sense says that the odds of voter fraud increase the longer these ineligible voters are allowed to populate our rolls… I simply cannot accept that.” Husted said existing federal regulations “limit Ohio’s ability to remove ineligible...
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I don't believe it.
A lot of people are registered and then die or whatever... registrations aren't just immediately deleted, so sorry... I call shenanigans.
Voter fraud is rampant and obama and holder and the left wing idiots saying otherwise are flat wrong.
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Basically, you're saying only Democrats commit voter fraud?
did I say that?
I will say this, democrats on average commit fraud way more than Demos. 1960 election anyone?
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Secretary of State: 4K noncitizens on voter rolls
By Chad Livengood
Detroit News Lansing Bureau
Lansing — One day after being sued over a controversial ballot box citizenship question, Secretary of State Ruth Johnson said Tuesday there are an estimated 4,000 noncitizens on Michigan's voter rolls.
The estimate is based on the state's access to citizenship information for one-fifth of the population, Johnson said, adding the federal government won't give her access to more citizenship data.
Johnson said the results of a "very tedious" analysis of 58,000 driver's licenses and state-issued identification cards found 963 noncitizens registered to vote.
Department of State employees cross-referenced those noncitizens with voting records and found 54 have a voting history and have voted a total of 95 times, Johnson said.
Using census estimates that 305,000 noncitizens live in Michigan, Johnson's office extrapolated that 5,064 could be noncitizens and then lowered its estimate to 4,000 to account for children, spokeswoman Gisgie Gendreau said.
Johnson said the discovery justifies her insistence that Michigan's 7.34 million registered voters be asked to affirm their citizenship if they vote at the polls in November. The daughter of a Canadian immigrant, Johnson said the citizenship question is necessary because over the years noncitizens have been automatically registered to vote while legally obtaining a driver's license.
"We have a problem. We need to fix it," Johnson told The Detroit News. "Denying and minimizing it doesn't get the job done."
A group of voting rights advocates, labor unions and citizens sued Johnson in federal court Monday, challenging her authority to ask voters to affirm their citizenship after Gov. Rick Snyder vetoed legislation adding the question to absentee and in-person voting applications.
The plaintiffs say the question is redundant because voters affirm their citizenship when they register to vote and say the question is an ineffective way to root out potential voter fraud.
"If someone is legitimately trying to misrepresent themselves as a citizen in order to interfere with our elections, then what's to say they won't misrepresent themselves a second time at the ballot box," said election attorney Jocelyn Benson, who was Johnson's 2010 Democratic opponent.
Benson said Johnson's office should remove the noncitizens from the voter rolls rather than "using fear and xenophobia" with the citizenship inquiry at the polls.
Johnson, a Republican, also implied President Barack Obama and Democratic county and city clerks are obstructing her efforts to root out noncitizen voters. She specifically noted her office found 80 noncitizens registered to vote in Macomb County, where County Clerk Carmella Sabaugh, a Democrat, has said she won't let the citizenship question appear on applications to vote.
"I don't think anybody wants noncitizens to vote no matter what their party affiliation to vote," Johnson said.
Sabaugh questioned Johnson's data and wanted to know whether the Secretary of State's Office has notified the noncitizens on the voter rolls that it's a felony for them to vote.
"If she sees this as a real big problem, then I think she needs to look at her branch offices" where people register to vote, Sabaugh told The News. "I don't know if we can trust these numbers."
The state Bureau of Elections is "working to remove anyone who is not a qualified voter from the rolls," Gendreau said.
Johnson, a former Oakland County clerk, said she's been "turned away" by the Social Security Administration and U.S. Department of Homeland Security in four attempts to verify the citizenship of all registered voters.
"I think the best way is for this administration to do their job and that's to help us get noncitizens off the voter rolls," Johnson said.
Johnson's late afternoon news release contained statements of support from Oakland County Clerk Bill Bullard Jr.; state Sen. Darwin Booher, R-Evart; and Rep. Pete Lund, R-Shelby Township.
"We know that noncitizens have been invited to register to vote for decades with many doing so,whether they've done it intentionally or not," Lund said in a statement. "Putting noncitizens on notice that casting a ballot is a serious crime is a simple, common-sense solution to this problem."
Citing her general authority to prescribe election forms, Johnson first added the citizenship question to ballot applications in the February Republican presidential primary.
After that contest, Michigan Democratic Party Chairman Mark Brewer filed a Freedom of Information Act with Johnson's office to see how many noncitizens were caught voting in the GOP primary. Johnson's office said four of the 1.2 million may have been noncitizens, according to Brewer.
clivengood@detroitnews.com
(517) 371-3660
From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120919/POLITICS01/209190348#ixzz26vB1cD5n
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Secretary of State: 4K noncitizens on voter rolls
By Chad Livengood
Detroit News Lansing Bureau
Lansing — One day after being sued over a controversial ballot box citizenship question, Secretary of State Ruth Johnson said Tuesday there are an estimated 4,000 noncitizens on Michigan's voter rolls.
The estimate is based on the state's access to citizenship information for one-fifth of the population, Johnson said, adding the federal government won't give her access to more citizenship data.
Johnson said the results of a "very tedious" analysis of 58,000 driver's licenses and state-issued identification cards found 963 noncitizens registered to vote.
Department of State employees cross-referenced those noncitizens with voting records and found 54 have a voting history and have voted a total of 95 times, Johnson said.
Using census estimates that 305,000 noncitizens live in Michigan, Johnson's office extrapolated that 5,064 could be noncitizens and then lowered its estimate to 4,000 to account for children, spokeswoman Gisgie Gendreau said.
Johnson said the discovery justifies her insistence that Michigan's 7.34 million registered voters be asked to affirm their citizenship if they vote at the polls in November. The daughter of a Canadian immigrant, Johnson said the citizenship question is necessary because over the years noncitizens have been automatically registered to vote while legally obtaining a driver's license.
"We have a problem. We need to fix it," Johnson told The Detroit News. "Denying and minimizing it doesn't get the job done."
A group of voting rights advocates, labor unions and citizens sued Johnson in federal court Monday, challenging her authority to ask voters to affirm their citizenship after Gov. Rick Snyder vetoed legislation adding the question to absentee and in-person voting applications.
The plaintiffs say the question is redundant because voters affirm their citizenship when they register to vote and say the question is an ineffective way to root out potential voter fraud.
"If someone is legitimately trying to misrepresent themselves as a citizen in order to interfere with our elections, then what's to say they won't misrepresent themselves a second time at the ballot box," said election attorney Jocelyn Benson, who was Johnson's 2010 Democratic opponent.
Benson said Johnson's office should remove the noncitizens from the voter rolls rather than "using fear and xenophobia" with the citizenship inquiry at the polls.
Johnson, a Republican, also implied President Barack Obama and Democratic county and city clerks are obstructing her efforts to root out noncitizen voters. She specifically noted her office found 80 noncitizens registered to vote in Macomb County, where County Clerk Carmella Sabaugh, a Democrat, has said she won't let the citizenship question appear on applications to vote.
"I don't think anybody wants noncitizens to vote no matter what their party affiliation to vote," Johnson said.
Sabaugh questioned Johnson's data and wanted to know whether the Secretary of State's Office has notified the noncitizens on the voter rolls that it's a felony for them to vote.
"If she sees this as a real big problem, then I think she needs to look at her branch offices" where people register to vote, Sabaugh told The News. "I don't know if we can trust these numbers."
The state Bureau of Elections is "working to remove anyone who is not a qualified voter from the rolls," Gendreau said.
Johnson, a former Oakland County clerk, said she's been "turned away" by the Social Security Administration and U.S. Department of Homeland Security in four attempts to verify the citizenship of all registered voters.
"I think the best way is for this administration to do their job and that's to help us get noncitizens off the voter rolls," Johnson said.
Johnson's late afternoon news release contained statements of support from Oakland County Clerk Bill Bullard Jr.; state Sen. Darwin Booher, R-Evart; and Rep. Pete Lund, R-Shelby Township.
"We know that noncitizens have been invited to register to vote for decades with many doing so,whether they've done it intentionally or not," Lund said in a statement. "Putting noncitizens on notice that casting a ballot is a serious crime is a simple, common-sense solution to this problem."
Citing her general authority to prescribe election forms, Johnson first added the citizenship question to ballot applications in the February Republican presidential primary.
After that contest, Michigan Democratic Party Chairman Mark Brewer filed a Freedom of Information Act with Johnson's office to see how many noncitizens were caught voting in the GOP primary. Johnson's office said four of the 1.2 million may have been noncitizens, according to Brewer.
clivengood@detroitnews.com
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From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120919/POLITICS01/209190348#ixzz26vB1cD5n
CNN) -- What if you found yourself stuck alone at a faraway airport -- with no money, credit cards or ID? How easily could you fly back home again?
You might survive if you had a smartphone. Emerging "empty pockets" technology is increasingly allowing travelers to use their phones to make purchases, book flights, check in and board planes.
Wallets? They're so 2008.
Delta, American and United are already big into electronic boarding passes on smartphones, and stragglers like JetBlue are planning e-boarding programs in the near future.
Google and Intel's new iPhone killer?
Evolution of the iPhone
iPhone 5: Thinner, faster...better?
What's next? If some visionaries have their way, the future of mobile travel will touch virtually every key activity at the airport -- including security and U.S. passports. Smartphone technology might improve airport efficiency and help ease the pain from skyrocketing traffic predicted in the next 20 years.
But is a post-9/11 world comfortable with the idea of merging personal cell phones into the airport security network?
Apple -- still basking in the afterglow of last week's iPhone 5 curtain raiser -- is also unveiling Passbook, an app which organizes e-boarding passes, flight reservations, coupons and other documents.
But Apple has a much more grandiose plan for its empty pocket dreams, according to public U.S. Patent and Trademark Office documents. Read the patent document (PDF).
For example, imagine checking bags with your cell phone -- or passing through security by flashing an official driver's license or U.S. passport displayed on your phone.
Outside the airport, envision using just your phone to rent a car or to check into a hotel. How about using your phone as an electronic hotel room key?
But let's get real, say industry experts and government officials. As cool as all these ideas sound, extending Apple's technology and influence to airport baggage tracking and TSA security would be unprecedented.
"I'm always kind of staggered by the scale and complexity and the ambition that they have," says mobile phone industry analyst Nick Holland of Yankee Group.
As you might expect from the secretive folks at Apple, they wouldn't talk to CNN about the patent documents. But we did grab some time with "Apple Insider" reporter Neil Hughes, who covers nothing but Apple, including its patents for future products.
"Security may be the biggest issue," says Hughes. Carrying all your personal ID and travel documents on a single device would be very tempting for skilled password hacks, says Hughes.
Related story: Your smartphone will eventually be hacked
The concept
The 2008 patent application was approved in July and filed under the working title "iTravel." Hughes suspects the iTravel concept will be folded into Apple's Passbook app, which will be available for download on Wednesday. Right now, Passbook will store electronic versions of airline boarding passes which will automatically pop up on iPhone screens when you arrive at the airport. The phone knows where you are, thanks to geo-locator technology.
That aspect alone will make a lot of gadget-geeky travelers feel all gee-whizzy inside.
Even more gee-whizzy: The patent calls for iPhones to automatically check in luggage when passengers approach an airport baggage check-in kiosk. (See details in the photo gallery above.)
Would security benefit from smart-phone based e-passports and e-drivers licenses? Would they increase speed, efficiency or security at TSA check points?
Currently -- as most of us know -- TSA agents briefly examine government ID and boarding passes as each passenger presents their documents at a checkpoint at the end of a security line.
Related story: Apple's secrets aren't so secret anymore
Under Apple's patent, a traveler's phone would automatically send electronic identification to a TSA agent as soon as the traveler gets in line.
While each traveler waits in line, TSA agents would examine the electronic ID at an electronic viewing station.
Next, at the X-ray stations, a traveler's phone would confirm to security agents that the traveler's ID had already been checked. Throughout the process, the phone photo could be displayed on a screen for comparison with the traveler. Facial recognition software could be included in the process. (See details on Apple's proposal in the photo gallery above.)
The patent documents offer a surprising number of details which open doors to key questions about the system, but Apple declined to discuss the patent.
The TSA wouldn't comment either on the viability of Apple's plan. But other government officials, aviation authorities and longtime industry experts say Apple faces at least three high hurdles if they want to see this idea to fruition.
Verification
Several experts say a key question that must be answered is: How would you prove that the phone is yours? In other words, how would you prove that the e-passport is actually you?
To get around this problem, future phones or electronic ID may require some form of biometric security function -- like fingerprint matching.
In general, passports must be designed to be difficult to copy. Recent security changes to U.S. passports have included a hidden radio frequency identification chip to hinder counterfeiters. The chip includes the same data as the paper passport, a unique chip ID number, a digital version of the passport holder's photo "which will facilitate the use of face recognition technology at ports-of-entry," according to the State Department website.
Universality
Any company that intends to create an official electronic ID will have to work closely with countless government authorities to come up with secure, verifiable standards. Think about the complexity of that idea across 50 U.S. states and all the nations that travelers visit each year.
An electronic passport would have to be approved by an international standards organization, and it would have to be usable from country to country, according to the U.S. State Department, which oversees U.S. passports.
There are ongoing government efforts aimed at using technology to enhance passport security and convenience, according to a State Department official.
But the State Department says a smartphone portable e-passport is unlikely to become a reality anytime soon.
"We're not at a point where the government is going to go digital for any of that stuff," says Hughes, of "Apple Insider." Then he laughs and says, "I mean, I'm not even allowed to laminate my Social Security card."
Related story: Opinion: Airport Wi-Fi and mobile services are lacking
Infrastructure
Apple's patent calls for the placement of special kiosks around the airport which will automatically exchange data with your phone via a close range wireless technology called near field communication (NFC). Apple phones -- including the new iPhone 5 -- don't include NFC, but they eventually would, according to the iTravel patent.
Related story: NFC isn't ready for prime time
If consumers, airlines, airports and the TSA don't embrace the NFC kiosks, experts say it's unlikely Apple's vision would become reality.
"First you would have to sell industry on Apple's idea, says Hughes. "Then you'd have to sell it to travel consumers."
Case in point: Google Wallet, a mobile phone app which allows people to make purchases with their NFC-enabled android phones. You set it up by attaching your Wallet account to your credit card. Then, you wave your phone near a special NFC-enabled point-of-purchase terminal, and voila! It's paid for.
Most NewYork City taxis take Google Wallet. Travelers using Newark Liberty Airport can tap their Wallet-enabled phones at the New Jersey Transit rail station and at New York's Penn Station. Many cabs in San Francisco also are Wallet-friendly. Also, using Google Wallet will get you access to special discount offers. Google isn't ruling out adding more travel features to Wallet -- like e-boarding passes. "A wallet can hold all kinds of things," hints Google's Nate Tyler. "Things are absolutely in development."
A little more than a year after launching, Google Wallet has about 200,000 NFC point of purchase terminals nationwide, according to Google.
Although the concept may be ahead of its time, analyst Holland says Google Wallet remains less than successful because there simply aren't enough terminals. "They're probably about three years premature," Holland says.
"It's a chicken-and-egg problem," says Hughes. "You need to have the NFC kiosks there and you need to be aware of it and the stores have to invest in it, so sometimes it just doesn't catch on."
Along with making a buck, Silicon Valley appears to be trying to make travel more convenient through smartphone technology. That makes sense, because travelers will need all the help they can get to plot a course through increasingly crowded airports.
The number of yearly U.S. commercial airline passengers is expected to nearly double to 1.2 billion by 2032, according to the FAA. As increasingly complicated smart-phone partnerships evolve between the tech world and the sprawling travel industry bureaucracy, it looks like growing pains will be unavoidable.
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If I said what I want to do with him, Barry and everybody associated with this admin..I'd get locked up. I want them to all move to Guam and watch it tip over...or maybe Haiti...along with everybody from the Black Caucus....
lol amazing
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lol amazing
True - Hank Johnson is one of the dumbest fucking people in this country who actually thinks Guam is going to tip over.
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You are certainly alluding to it...
JFK only won in 1960 by fraud in Chicago
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Video snags Dem boss plotting vote fraud
Congressman's son advises forging ID, relying on party lawyers
http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/video-captures-dem-campaign-chief-plotting-vote-fraud/
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GOP operative arrested in VA for trashing voter registration cards
A 31-year-old Pennsylvania man was arrested today in Harrisonburg, VA, and charged with 12 felony counts for destroying (actually, trying to destroy) completed voter registration cards. On Colin Small's LinkedIn profile he says he works for the "Republican National Committee." He is employed by Pinpoint, a company that was hired by the Republican Party of Virginia to help with voter registration.
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Florida Republican Party leader receives hoax letter; FBI investigates
Bogus letters being sent to Florida voters
Published On: Oct 24 2012 03:47:09 PM EDT Updated On: Oct 24 2012 08:34:49 PM EDT
Voters sent fake letter claiming they can't vote
TAMPA, Fla. - The FBI is joining an investigation into bogus letters sent to many Florida residents, including the Republican Party of Florida chairman, that raise questions about their eligibility to vote.
FBI officials said Wednesday the FBI will focus on letters received by voters in 18 counties in central and southwest Florida.
According to the Republican Party of Florida, Chairman Lenny Curry received one of the fake letters on Tuesday.
"This type of activity is not only disgusting, it is criminal, and must be prosecuted to the full extent of the law," Curry said in a release. "I call on Florida Democrats to join me in condemning this false letter writing campaign that appears to target likely voters in Florida, and help RPOF get the word out about this false campaign."
Local 6 first reported the bogus letter scam on Monday, which claim to be from county supervisors of elections but are postmarked from Seattle. They raise questions about the voter's citizenship and appear intended to intimidate people.
The FBI says voters who get a letter should contact their supervisor of elections and then keep the letter for the FBI.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is also investigating.
http://www.clickorlando.com/news/Florida-Republican-Party-leader-receives-hoax-letter-FBI-investigates/-/1637132/17117694/-/acss1ez/-/index.html
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http://articles.philly.com/2012-11-12/news/35069785_1_romney-supporters-mitt-romney-sasha-issenberg
Even Sadam got less votes than Obama!
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19,605 to zero is statistical proof of outright vote fraud in 2012 presidential election
Natural News.com ^ | November 14, 2012 | J. D. Heyes
Posted on Thursday, November 15, 2012 12:22:24 PM by Little Ray
(NaturalNews) In the weeks leading up to the Nov. 6 election, there were scattered concerns from across the political spectrum that vote fraud could occur in some sections of the country. While many of those fears did not come to fruition, based on final vote tallies in some polling districts, it's hard to fathom that some form of fraud did not occur.
Take Philadelphia, for instance - the "city of Brotherly Love" - where, once again, New Black Panther Party members were seen at some of the same polling places they were at in 2008, when charges of voter intimidation were leveled against them. In 59 districts around the city, GOP presidential challenger Mitt Romney got zero votes.
Zip. Nada. None.
Granted, in heavily Democratic urban districts in the city, it's not unusual for that party's candidate - in this case, President Obama - to win a heavy proportion of the vote. But all of them?
Sure, say analysts. It's not unusual at all. Nothing to see here.
Saddam Hussein always got nearly 100 percent of the vote too
"We have always had these dense urban corridors that are extremely Democratic," Jonathan Rodden, a political science professor at Stanford University, told Philly.com, a joint website of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News newspapers.
"It's kind of an urban fact, and you are looking at the extreme end of it in Philadelphia," he said.
That's because most large cities are 75-80 percent Democrats, making them practically politically homogenous and much easier to organize than, say, rural areas where folks live far apart, said Sasha Issenberg, author of The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns.
"One reason Democrats can maximize votes in Philadelphia is that it's very easy to knock on every door," she said.
But isn't it just as easy to knock on doors in Republican strongholds, even if they are farther apart? And that's another issue - if we are to believe there are Democratic "corridors," doesn't it follow that there are Republican "corridors" as well?
Some GOP officials are asking these very same questions, especially after learning that, in 59 Philadelphia voting districts Obama out-polled Romney by a stunning 19,605 to zero. Even in heavily Democratic Philly, are we to believe that in nearly 60 polling districts there is not a single dissenting voter? The last political candidate in recent member to poll that overwhelmingly was Iraq's Saddam Hussein.
Those districts were concentrated in overwhelmingly black sectors of the city. But again - not a single Romney supporter? Not even one?
That's a huge stretch, to say the least, says Steve Miskin, a spokesman for Republicans in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
"We believe we need to continue ensuring the integrity of the ballot," he said, referencing his party's voter ID initiative that, perhaps not surprisingly, was held off the state ballot for this election.
No such thing as a 100 percent Republican voting precinct
University of Virginia political scientist Dr. Larry Sabato, who has studied voting in African American-dominated precincts, told Philly.com he had occasionally seen instances where 100 percent of the vote went to the Democratic candidate, citing precincts in Chicago and Atlanta which recorded no votes for the GOP's candidate, Sen. John McCain, in 2008.
"I'd be surprised if there weren't a handful of precincts that didn't cast a vote for Romney," he said.
Still, the high number of zero precincts in Philadelphia deserves examination, he added.
"Not a single vote for Romney or even an error? That's worth looking into," he said.
In a city with 1,687 of the ward subsets known as divisions, each with hundreds of voters, 59 is about 3.5 percent of the total, Philly.com reported.
Not much has been made about this voting phenomenon by the mainstream media, but we suspect the outrage and uproar would have been loud and boisterous, to say the least, if there were wide swaths of voting districts where not a single Democratic vote was cast.
Sources:
http://articles.philly.com
http://www.foxnews.com
http://marketdailynews.com
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/037952_vote_fraud_Philadelphia_elections.html#ixzz2CJRn1pzH
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http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/340174/voter-fraud-never-happens-keeps-coming-back-john-fund
Critics of voter ID and other laws cracking down on voter fraud claim they’re unnecessary because fraud is nonexistent. For instance, Brennan Center attorneys Michael Waldman and Justin Levitt claimed last year: “A person casting two votes risks jail time and a fine for minimal gain. Proven voter fraud, statistically, happens about as often as death by lightning strike.”
Well, lightning is suddenly all over Cincinnati, Ohio. The Hamilton County Board of Elections is investigating 19 possible cases of alleged voter fraud that occurred when Ohio was a focal point of the 2012 presidential election. A total of 19 voters and nine witnesses are part of the probe.
Democrat Melowese Richardson has been an official poll worker for the last quarter century and registered thousands of people to vote last year. She candidly admitted to Cincinnati’s Channel 9 this week that she voted twice in the last election.
This is how Channel 9′s website summarized the case:
According to county documents, Richardson’s absentee ballot was accepted on Nov. 1, 2012 along with her signature. On Nov. 11, she told an official she also voted at a precinct because she was afraid her absentee ballot would not be counted in time.
“There’s absolutely no intent on my part to commit voter fraud,” said Richardson. . . .
The board’s documents also state that Richardson was allegedly disruptive and hid things from other poll workers on Election Day after another female worker reported she was intimidated by Richardson. . . .
During the investigation it was also discovered that her granddaughter, India Richardson, who was a first time voter in the 2012 election, cast two ballots in November.
Richardson insists she has done nothing wrong and promises to contest the charges: “I’ll fight it for Mr. Obama and for Mr. Obama’s right to sit as president of the United States.”
But, of course, as you know there is no voter fraud. Pay no attention to that lightning coming out of Ohio.
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Oh, hell, let's take their word and based on that remove all common sense.
LOL!!! Fraud is nonexistent?
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Of course it exists... but I do not think it is as rampant as people make it out to be.
Plus, this country got along just fine with voter fraud for 400 years.
It shouldn't exist and election officials should be working to remove any of it. Maybe it is impossible to remove all fraud, but it seems to me we shouldn't give up.
Democrats were all for it back in 2000. How come many seem to support a loosening of rules under the accusation of "discrimination"?
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The Obama/Biden lawn sign remains proudly planted in front of Melowese Richardson's Cincinnati home, three months after the presidential election.
It seems that President Obama has an especially ardent supporter in the veteran Ohio poll worker.
Richardson told a local television station this month that she voted twice for Obama last November. She cast an absentee ballot and then voted at the polls as well.
"Yes, I voted twice," Richardson told WCPO-TV. "I, after registering thousands of people, certainly wanted my vote to count, so I voted. I voted at the polls."
Authorities also are investigating if she voted in the names of four other people, too, for a total of six votes in the 2012 presidential election.
"I'll fight it for Mr. Obama and for Mr. Obama's right to sit as president of the United States," Richardson vowed when asked about the voter fraud investigation that is now under way.
Richardson is one of 19 people suspected of illegal voting by the Hamilton County Board of Elections in the last election.
"I'm outraged, and every voter, regardless of their political affiliation, should be outraged," said Hamilton County Board of Elections member Alex Triantafilou, who is also chairman of the county Republican Party. "It causes folks to have real doubts about the fabric of our very democratic process, and it's dangerous. It is disconcerting that someone would be so bold as to admit their conduct in such a fashion ... We fully intend to prosecute these cases."
Richardson claimed she had submitted an absentee ballot, but was afraid her vote would not count so she also voted in person. She also said she voted in the name of her granddaughter and yet another person.
"There was absolutely no intent on my part to commit any voter fraud," she insisted.
Richardson's granddaughter, India Richardson, confirmed to Fox News that her grandmother voted for her, by submitting an absentee ballot in her name. India told Fox News that she is not angry, and gave her permission to cast her absentee ballot.
"It wasn't a big deal," she said.
But election authorities say voting more than once, or in someone else's name, is a big deal because it is illegal and threatens the credibility of the nation's election system.
"It appears she not only attempted to vote more than once, but was actually successful at it and having those additional votes counted," Ohio Secretary of State John Husted, who is in charge of the state's elections, told Fox News.
"She appears to have used her position as a poll worker to cover her tracks. That would be someone who is an official in the elections process, using that position to commit a fraud. That is especially troubling to me, as the chief elections officer of the state, because it is my responsibility to make sure the system runs effectively, that it has integrity. When I find issues like this, I know that it undermines voter confidence in our elections, and we must pursue it."
Three other absentee ballots in the names of different people were submitted to the Board of Elections from Richardson's address on Nov. 1. Officials say the handwriting on those ballots is similar and that they were all received together, on the same day that Richardson's absentee ballot arrived at the office. Richardson maintains that some of the other voters live at her house.
Attempts by Fox News to reach Richardson were unsuccessful, but she claimed to the local station that the votes were "absolutely legal votes."
In written reports detailing the 19 cases, Board of Elections investigators described their findings. In one instance, an investigator called a suspected double voter and was hung up on.
"I explained that she voted twice and she told me not to bother her and get off her phone and she hung up," the investigator wrote.
Another voter admitted to double voting, but did not think it was an issue.
"The voter said yes she 'voted early' and then voted again, then she asked 'what's the problem?'" according to the report.
Yet another voter was at a loss for explaining why he voted more than once.
"Voter said he remembered both times. He doesn't know why he voted twice," the report said.
The documents show that another voter said he had received a phone call before Election Day telling him his absentee ballot would not count. When investigators questioned him about voting two times, the voter replied "'as usual, you guys are wrong.' ... he was curious about the investigation and asked 'Now what will you do' and 'are you taping me now?"
The Hamilton County Board of Elections is holding hearings to further investigate these cases.
"It is so fundamental to people's faith in the democratic process, that we need to act very strong to make sure that we are doing everything we can to keep people's faith," declared Triantafilou. "There is always the concern, though, that there are those situations where we didn't catch folks."
As part of a new effort to root out any voter fraud, Secretary of State Husted has ordered all 88 of the state's county Board of Elections to hold public hearings on any credible voter fraud allegations or claims of voter disenfranchisement during the 2012 election. He said any substantiated allegations should be turned over to prosecutors.
"Once the election is over, and once the winner is declared, everybody forgets about it. I want to make sure that we don't forget about it, that we make sure we do, essentially, an audit of that process to ensure that we know what happened, and then use that evidence to guide us going forward. ... We need to learn from that last election so that we can be better before the next one gets here."
"Fraud does happen," noted Husted. "Most attempts are caught by the system. But there are cases that do slip through, as this one does, and we need to make sure that we really send a strong message, that if you do this, you are going to be held accountable. It might mean fines, it might mean jail time."
Voter fraud, said Husted, "undermines public confidence in democracy, and that's why we need, whether you are a Democrat or Republican, to root out all cases of voter fraud."
If you suspect voter fraud where you live, tell us: Voterfraud@Foxnews.com
Meredith Amor contributed to this report.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/02/19/ohio-poll-worker-obama-supporter-investigated-for-potentially-voting-six-times/#ixzz2LM2UThNo
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http://www.examiner.com/article/breaking-obama-campaign-caught-major-vote-fraud-scheme
Busted
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Obama Supporter and Poll Watcher Charged for Voting SIX TIMES in 2012 Presidential Election
Pundit Press ^ | 3/11/13 | Aurelius
Posted on Monday, March 11, 2013 2:49:39 PM
Melowese Richardson voted a reported six times for President Obama in November of 2012. Twice she used her real name, then another four using the names of her relatives. If convicted she faces a maximum of 12 years in prison.
More disturbing is that Richardson is a long time poll worker and has worked for the Board of Elections in Hamilton County, Ohio since 1998. People like her were watching the polls when President Obama won by close margins, often with "odd" voting totals, in November.
Richardson
Among these statistical anomalies occurred in Pennsylvania, when President Obama received over 99% of vote at polls where GOP inspectors were removed. In addition, in those areas turnout was somehow "30%" above government numbers.
In Cleveland, President Obama won dozens of districts with 100% of the vote. In some populated areas, in fact, Mr. Obama defeated challenger Mitt Romney by an astounding 14,686 to 23.
(Excerpt) Read more at punditpress.com ...
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Officials found guilty in Obama, Clinton ballot petition fraud
By Eric Shawn
Published April 26, 2013
FoxNews.com
A jury in South Bend, Indiana has found that fraud put President Obama and Hillary Clinton on the presidential primary ballot in Indiana in the 2008 election. Two Democratic political operatives were convicted Thursday night in the illegal scheme after only three hours of deliberations. They were found guilty on all counts.
Former longtime St. Joseph County Democratic party Chairman Butch Morgan Jr. was found guilty of felony conspiracy counts to commit petition fraud and forgery, and former county Board of Elections worker Dustin Blythe was found guilty of felony forgery counts and falsely making a petition, after being accused of faking petitions that enabled Obama, then an Illinois Senator, to get on the presidential primary ballot for his first run for the White House.
Morgan was accused of being the mastermind behind the plot.
According to testimony from two former Board of Election officials who pled guilty, Morgan ordered Democratic officials and workers to fake the names and signatures that Obama and Clinton needed to qualify for the presidential race. Blythe, then a Board of Elections employee and Democratic Party volunteer, was accused of forging multiple pages of the Obama petitions.
"I think this helped uphold the integrity of the electoral system," the prosecutor, Stan Levco told reporters.
“Their verdict of guilt is not a verdict against Democrats, but for honest and fair elections,” he said.
The scheme was hatched in January of 2008, according to affidavits from investigators who cite former Board of Registration worker Lucas Burkett, who told them he was in on the plan at first, but then became uneasy and quit. He waited three years before telling authorities about it, but if revelations about any forgeries were raised during the election, the petitions could have been challenged during the contest. A candidate who did not qualify with enough legitimate signatures at the time, could have been bounced from the ballot.
The case raise questions about whether in 2008, then candidate Obama actually submitted enough legitimate signatures to have legally qualified for the primary ballot.
“I think had they been challenged successfully, he probably would not have been on the ballot,” Levco told Fox News.
Under state law, presidential candidates need to qualify for the primary ballots with 500 signatures from each of the state's nine congressional districts. Indiana election officials say that in St. Joseph County, which is the 2nd Congressional district, the Obama campaign qualified with 534 signatures; Clinton's camp had 704.
Prosecutors say that in President Obama's case, nine of the petition pages were apparently forged. Each petition contains up to 10 names, making a possible total of 90 names, which, if faked, could have brought the Obama total below the legal limit required to qualify. Prosecutors say 13 Clinton petitions were apparently forged, meaning up to 130 possibly fake signatures. Even if 130 signatures had been challenged, it would have still left Mrs. Clinton with enough signatures to meet the 500 person threshold.
Levco said a total of “100 to 200” signatures had been forged on Obama’s and Clinton’s petitions.
An Indiana State Police investigator said in court papers that the agency examined the suspect Obama petitions and "selected names at random from each of the petition pages and contacted those people directly. We found at least one person (and often multiple people) from each page who confirmed that they had not signed" petitions "or given consent for their name and/or signature to appear."
Numerous voters told Fox News that they never signed the petitions.
"That's not my signature," Charity Rorie, a mother of four, told us when we showed her the Obama petition with her name and signature. She was stunned, saying that it "absolutely" was a fake.
Charity told Fox News that her husband's entry was also a forgery, and that they have never been contacted by investigators or any authorities looking into the scandal.
"It's scary, it's shocking. It definitely is illegal," she told us.
Robert Hunter, Jr. told Fox news that his name was faked, too.
"I did not sign for Barack Obama," he told us. As he examined the Obama petition in his hands, Hunter pointed out that "I always put 'Junior' after my name, every time...there's no 'Junior' there
Even a former Democratic Governor of Indiana, Joe Kernan, told Fox News that his name was forged.
“This is a bitter sweet moment for free and fair elections," observed Ryan Nees, the Indiana born Yale “University senior who first exposed the scheme in the independent political newsletter, Howey Politics Indiana and South Bend Tribune.
Nees said the multiple guilty verdicts were "bitter, because a five-person conspiracy succeeded in illegally placing two presidential candidates on the ballot, but sweet because they were exposed, tried for their crimes, and convicted."
Nees previously told Fox News that the fraud was clearly evident, "because page after page of signatures are all in the same handwriting," and that nobody raised any red flags "because election workers in charge of verifying their validity were the same people faking the signatures."
Fox News' Meredith Amor contributed to this report.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/04/26/officials-found-guilty-in-obama-clinton-ballot-petition-fraud/#ixzz2Racrc21C
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Poll worker gets 5-year sentence for voter fraud
WLWT.com ^ | Jul 17, 2013
Posted on Wednesday, July 17, 2013 1:52:15 PM
Judge says woman violated position of trust
CINCINNATI —A Hamilton County poll worker who was found to have voted repeatedly for family members will go to prison.
Melowese Richardson was sentenced to five years in prison for voting fraud on Wednesday. She worked as a poll worker for 14 years.
Richardson said she voted for her sister several times. Her sister has been in a coma since 2003, Richardson said.
Judge Robert Ruehlman said Richardson violated a position of trust and is a criminal, noting she is supposed to be a guardian of free elections.
Ruehlman told Richardson that President Barack Obama would be appalled by her conduct if he knew what she did.
WLWT News 5's John London will have more on this story later today.
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Eric Holder Announces Opposition to Election Integrity Laws
disgusting.
Sounds like Eric Holder and Rand Paul are on the same page on amnesty AND voter fraud.
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If voter fraud was so rampant, wouldn't we have more issues than one or so a year for 333 to find?
I mean, he can't give up the good fight against the rampant voter fraud.
haha
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Vote fraud cases go nowhere with Fairfax prosecutor
By Kenric Ward / July 30, 2014
FAIRFAX, Va. — Four years after the Fairfax County election board began uncovering cases of alleged voter fraud, the local prosecutor has not taken action, and has nothing to say.
More than 200 names were turned over to Commonwealth Attorney Raymond Morrogh for investigation. The names appeared on voter rolls, even though the individuals had excused themselves from jury duty because they were not citizens.
“This should be easy to prosecute,” said Reagan George, director of Virginia Voters Alliance, an election watch group.
But the cases have fallen through bureaucratic cracks in Virginia’s most populous county — and most of the identified aliens remain on the voting rolls.
Fairfax Clerk of Court John Frey said he produced the list of names at the request of the Electoral Board. But neither Frey nor the board has prosecutorial powers in the matter.
According to board records, 278 registered voters did not affirm citizenship, as required, between 2010 and the end of 2011.
Of these, 117 had a history of voting within Virginia.
The Electoral Board referred its findings to Morrogh on four occasions: June 25, 2010; Feb. 28, 2011; May 3, 2011; and Aug. 18, 2011.
Names of an additional 36 non-affirming voters were relayed to the commonwealth attorney March 2, 2012.
Receiving no response from Morrogh, the board stopped sending data to his office.
Brian Schoeneman, secretary of the Electoral Board, said, “One of the most frustrating things is to have evidence that, on its face, justifies further investigation … and then to see zero action.”
“People say there’s no voter fraud because there are no convictions,” noted Schoeneman, a Republican and an attorney.
Election-integrity organizations call the “no-fraud” assertion both misleading and self-fulfilling when prosecutors will not prosecute.
Morrogh, a Democrat, did not respond to Watchdog’s inquiries.
FEELING A CHILL: Catherine Engelbrecht says the U.S. Department of Justice works to “suppress state efforts to maintain accurate voter rolls.”
Catherine Engelbrecht, president of the Texas-based group, True the Vote, said the Obama administration has chilled the atmosphere for warranted prosecutions.
“The kind of selective justice being meted out by the Fairfax County prosecutor, though clearly a violation of voters’ rights, is part of the ‘new normal’ standard supported nationwide by Eric Holder’s Department of Justice,” Engelbrecht told Watchdog.
Engelbrecht noted that in 2009, U.S. Deputy Assistant Attorney General Julie Fernandez “set out clear marching orders to all DOJ attorneys — suppress state efforts to maintain accurate voter rolls.”
“They attacked states like Florida and Colorado for even attempting to remove non-citizens from their registry,” she said.
The DOJ justified its approach by arguing that such maintenance procedures would decrease voter turnout.
“But instead it’s engendered a growing outrage among voters who have gotten fed up with the open borders approach to our election system,” Engelbrecht said.
“As a result, demand for basic election integrity policies like photo voter ID is now reaching record levels of popularity.”
“American voters want free and fair elections. The Holder Justice Department wants control. Decisions like that of Fairfax County suggest that county officials fear the power of the DOJ more than they fear the power of people,” she said.
“History will one day reflect that they had it backwards. American voters have had just about enough.”
Article II Section 1 of the Constitution states: “In elections by the people, the qualifications of voters shall be as follows: Each voter shall be a citizen of the United States, shall be 18 years of age, shall fulfill the residence requirements set forth in this section, and shall be registered to vote pursuant to this article.”
Election fraud in Virginia can be classified as a “false statement,” a Class 5 felony punishable by up to a year in prison and a fine of up to $2,500.
http://watchdog.org/162159/vote-fraud-non-citizens/
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http://www.examiner.com/article/liberal-activist-caught-on-video-rigging-election
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http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/10/22/Ineligible-DACA-Beneficiaries-Discovered-On-NC-Voting-Rolls
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Could non-citizens decide the November election?
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By Jesse Richman and David Earnest October 24 at 3:06 PM
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Could control of the Senate in 2014 be decided by illegal votes cast by non-citizens? Some argue that incidents of voting by non-citizens are so rare as to be inconsequential, with efforts to block fraud a screen for an agenda to prevent poor and minority voters from exercising the franchise, while others define such incidents as a threat to democracy itself. Both sides depend more heavily on anecdotes than data.
In a forthcoming article in the journal Electoral Studies, we bring real data from big social science survey datasets to bear on the question of whether, to what extent, and for whom non-citizens vote in U.S. elections. Most non-citizens do not register, let alone vote. But enough do that their participation can change the outcome of close races.
Our data comes from the Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES). Its large number of observations (32,800 in 2008 and 55,400 in 2010) provide sufficient samples of the non-immigrant sub-population, with 339 non-citizen respondents in 2008 and 489 in 2010. For the 2008 CCES, we also attempted to match respondents to voter files so that we could verify whether they actually voted.
How many non-citizens participate in U.S. elections? More than 14 percent of non-citizens in both the 2008 and 2010 samples indicated that they were registered to vote. Furthermore, some of these non-citizens voted. Our best guess, based upon extrapolations from the portion of the sample with a verified vote, is that 6.4 percent of non-citizens voted in 2008 and 2.2 percent of non-citizens voted in 2010.
Estimated Voter Turnout by Non-Citizens
2008 2010
Self reported and/or verified 38 (11.3%) 13 (3.5%)
Self reported and verified 5 (1.5%) N.A.
Adjusted estimate 21 (6.4%) 8 (2.2%)
Because non-citizens tended to favor Democrats (Obama won more than 80 percent of the votes of non-citizens in the 2008 CCES sample), we find that this participation was large enough to plausibly account for Democratic victories in a few close elections. Non-citizen votes could have given Senate Democrats the pivotal 60th vote needed to overcome filibusters in order to pass health-care reform and other Obama administration priorities in the 111th Congress. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) won election in 2008 with a victory margin of 312 votes. Votes cast by just 0.65 percent of Minnesota non-citizens could account for this margin. It is also possible that non-citizen votes were responsible for Obama’s 2008 victory in North Carolina. Obama won the state by 14,177 votes, so a turnout by 5.1 percent of North Carolina’s adult non-citizens would have provided this victory margin.
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We also find that one of the favorite policies advocated by conservatives to prevent voter fraud appears strikingly ineffective. Nearly three quarters of the non-citizens who indicated they were asked to provide photo identification at the polls claimed to have subsequently voted.
An alternative approach to reducing non-citizen turnout might emphasize public information. Unlike other populations, including naturalized citizens, education is not associated with higher participation among non-citizens. In 2008, non-citizens with less than a college degree were significantly more likely to cast a validated vote, and no non-citizens with a college degree or higher cast a validated vote. This hints at a link between non-citizen voting and lack of awareness about legal barriers.
There are obvious limitations to our research, which one should take account of when interpreting the results. Although the CCES sample is large, the non-citizen portion of the sample is modest, with the attendant uncertainty associated with sampling error. We analyze only 828 self-reported non-citizens. Self-reports of citizen status might also be a source of error, although the appendix of our paper shows that the racial, geographic, and attitudinal characteristics of non-citizens (and non-citizen voters) are consistent with their self-reported status.
Another possible limitation is the matching process conducted by Catalyst to verify registration and turnout drops many non-citizen respondents who cannot be matched. Our adjusted estimate assumes the implication of a “registered” or “voted” response among those who Catalyst could not match is the same as for those whom it could. If one questions this assumption, one might focus only on those non-citizens with a reported and validated vote. This is the second line of the table.
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Finally, extrapolation to specific state-level or district-level election outcomes is fraught with substantial uncertainty. It is obviously possible that non-citizens in California are more likely to vote than non-citizens in North Carolina, or vice versa. Thus, we are much more confident that non-citizen votes mattered for the Minnesota Senate race (a turnout of little more than one-tenth of our adjusted estimate is all that would be required) than that non-citizen votes changed the outcome in North Carolina.
Our research cannot answer whether the United States should move to legalize some electoral participation by non-citizens as many other countries do, and as some U.S. states did for more than 100 years, or find policies that more effectively restrict it. But this research should move that debate a step closer to a common set of facts.
Jesse Richman is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Old Dominion University, and Director of the ODU Social Science Research Center. David Earnest is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Old Dominion University, and Associate Dean for Research & Graduate Studies in the College of Arts and Letters.
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Here Comes the 2014 Voter Fraud
Progressives and the Justice Department are doing all they can to stop improvements in election integrity.
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Hans von Spakovsky
Oct. 27, 2014 7:00 p.m. ET
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In the past few months, a former police chief in Pennsylvania pleaded guilty to voter fraud in a town-council election. That fraud had flipped the outcome of a primary election. Former Connecticut legislator Christina Ayala has been indicted on 19 charges of voter fraud, including voting in districts where she didn’t reside. (She hasn’t entered a plea.) A Mississippi grand jury indicted seven individuals for voter fraud in the 2013 Hattiesburg mayoral contest, which featured voting by ineligible felons and impersonation fraud. A woman in Polk County, Tenn., was indicted on a charge of vote-buying—a practice that the local district attorney said had too long “been accepted as part of life” there.
Now come the midterm elections on Nov. 4. What is the likelihood that your vote won’t count? That your vote will, in effect, be canceled or stolen as a consequence of mistakes by election officials or fraudulent votes cast by campaign workers or ineligible voters like felons and noncitizens?
Unfortunately, we can’t know. But one thing is almost certain: Voter fraud will occur. Many states run a rickety election process, lacking rules to deter people who are looking to take advantage of the system’s porous security. And too many groups and individuals—including the NAACP, the American Civil Liberties Union and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder —are doing everything they can to prevent states from improving the integrity of the election process.
Their refrain is that voter fraud either doesn’t exist or is so insignificant that nothing needs to be done to improve ballot security. Yet in the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2008 ruling that upheld Indiana’s voter ID law, Justice John Paul Stevens acknowledged “flagrant examples of such fraud” throughout the nation’s history and observed that “not only is the risk of voter fraud real” but also that “it could affect the outcome of a close election.”
Polling shows that the November general election will likely have many close races, particularly on the local level. Nothing new there. In 2014, 16 local races in Ohio were decided by one vote or through breaking a tie. In 2013, 35 local races in Ohio were that close.
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Voting by noncitizens alone could swing such races. A new study by two Old Dominion University professors, based on survey data from the Cooperative Congressional Election Study, found that 6.4% of all noncitizens voted illegally in the 2008 presidential election, and 2.2% voted in the 2010 midterms.
Since 80% of noncitizens vote Democratic, according to the survey, the authors concluded that these illegal votes were “large enough to plausibly account for Democratic victories in a few close elections.” Those that might have been skewed by noncitizen votes included Al Franken ’s 312-vote win in the Minnesota race for the U.S. Senate. As a senator, Mr. Franken would cast the 60th vote needed to make ObamaCare law.
We’ll never know what role noncitizen voting has played in past elections, but the problem is real. While states like New York ignore this problem, other states have passed rules to deal with it.
In addition to voter ID laws, Kansas and Arizona have put in place new proof-of-citizenship requirements for registration to prevent illegal voting. It is a common-sense and needed reform. In recent weeks North Carolina found more than 100 illegal aliens, still in the country thanks to the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, registered to vote. Yet opponents including the League of Women Voters and Common Cause are challenging citizenship requirements in the courts.
Some states have also tried to eliminate same-day registration, which is a recipe for fraud since it prevents election officials from verifying the eligibility of voters and the accuracy of voter-registration information. States also are reducing early voting days, a relatively new phenomenon that has its share of election-administration problems.
These moves to shore up election integrity have been resisted by progressives at every turn, claiming without evidence that such efforts suppress minority turnout. While the lawsuits have largely failed to overturn the rules, they have succeeded in delaying their implementation and made it costly for states to improve election security. South Carolina’s voter ID law will be in place in the November election, but it cost the state $3.5 million in 2012 to beat Eric Holder’s Justice Department in court. The U.S. Supreme Court just upheld a decision throwing out an injunction against a Texas voter ID law, which was in place in state elections in 2013 and primary elections this year.
North Carolina, Ohio and Wisconsin are still battling progressives and the Justice Department in court over their election rules, although North Carolina and Ohio also got favorable decisions from the Supreme Court, allowing them to implement their rules for this election cycle. As John Fund and I outline in our new book on Attorney General Holder, the Justice Department refuses to enforce the federal law requiring states to keep accurate voter rolls—even though a 2012 Pew study found that the rolls are riddled with errors and ineligible voters.
How far are some liberals willing to go in undermining ballot integrity? This month, the conservative guerrilla filmmaker James O’Keefe caught a director of the “social change” organization Work for Progress and an employee for the Greenpeace environmental group voicing their approval of absentee-ballot theft and fraudulent voting in Colorado. Recent polls indicate that the state’s governor and U.S. Senate races are statistical ties.
Greenpeace fired the worker who was caught approving voter fraud, but too many on the left shrug at the prospect of tainted elections. At a Cincinnati “voting rights” rally in March, Rev. Al Sharpton and other liberal activists celebrated Melowese Richardson, who was convicted last year of voter fraud by using her position as a poll worker to vote more than once in the 2012 presidential election. Her five-year prison sentence was amended to five years of probation earlier this year—a delayed wrist-slap that further erodes respect for the ballot box.
For too long, America has basically used the honor system in the voter-registration and election process. That approach is increasingly being revealed as indefensible in a vibrant democracy, where we should make it easy to vote and hard to cheat.
Mr. von Spakovsky, a Heritage Foundation senior legal fellow and former commissioner on the Federal Election Commission, is the co-author, with John Fund, of “Obama’s Enforcer: Eric Holder’s Justice Department” (HarperCollins/Broadside 2014).
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The Voter-ID Myth Crashes: New Study -- Enough non-citizen votes have decided close elections
National Review ^ | 10/28/2014 | Mona Charen
Posted on 10/28/2014 10:50:37 AM by SeekAndFind
Democrats want everyone to vote: old, young, white, black, Hispanic, Asian, citizen, non-citizen. Wait, what was that last one again? We’ll get to that.
Voter-ID laws, passed by thirty states so far, are efforts by legislatures to ensure the integrity of votes. Being asked to show a photo ID can diminish several kinds of fraud, including impersonation, duplicate registrations in different jurisdictions, and voting by ineligible people including felons and non-citizens.
The Democrats have made a number of arguments against voter-ID laws. They argue a) that the problem of voter impersonation or in-person voter fraud is nonexistent; b) that black and poor voters are more likely than others to lack a valid ID; and c) that Republicans are attempting to “suppress” the votes of Democratic constituencies in a bid to revive Jim Crow.
To believe a), you must assume that Americans, who engage in widespread tax evasion (an estimated $2 trillion in income goes unreported), insurance fraud (an estimated $80 billion dollar’s worth in 2006), identity theft (15 million victims annually), and thousands of other deceptions and crimes large and small are perfect angels when they step into the voting booth. Vote fraud simply “doesn’t exist,” pronounced Attorney General Eric Holder.
It’s extremely difficult to track vote fraud. Most states put only half-hearted efforts into purging their voter-registration rolls of the dead or those who’ve moved out of state. Prosecutions for vote fraud are rare. But prosecutions for perjury are rare, too — and not because it “doesn’t exist.” Earlier this year, the Virginia Voters Alliance found that more than 44,000 people were simultaneously registered to vote in Maryland and Virginia. Catherine Englebrecht’s True the Vote found some 6.9 million overlapping voter registrations in the 28 states they examined. For those unburdened by conscience who live close to the border, it’s more than possible to vote early and often.
Being registered in more than one jurisdiction doesn’t prove that you committed fraud, only that you’ve arranged things to permit it or that you’ve overlooked, perhaps by absent-mindedness, this detail of good citizenship. But persuasive evidence that vote fraud is both real and consequential has appeared. A new academic paper published in the journal Electoral Studies provides evidence of voting by non-citizens that directly contradicts the Democrats’ “nothing to see here” mantra. Under the neutral headline “Do Non-Citizens Vote in U.S. Elections?” three professors from Virginia universities answer in the affirmative. Using an enormous database of voters nationwide (32,800 from 2008, and 55,400 in 2012), the authors find that about one-quarter of the non-citizens who participated in the survey were registered to vote.
Studying survey responses, the authors judge that non-citizen voters tend to favor Democratic candidates by large margins.
In many states, their participation wouldn’t be large enough to make a difference, but in North Carolina in 2008, the authors calculate, non-citizens may well have tipped the state into Obama’s column. “So what?” you may say. Even if John McCain had won that state, it wouldn’t have changed the outcome of the national election. True, but remember the presidential race in 2000? Remember “hanging chad” Florida?
Several House seats, and one very significant Senate seat, were probably won by Democrats on the strength of illegal votes. In 2008, the authors note, Senator Al Franken won by just 312 votes in Minnesota. That seat was the sixtieth vote to give Democrats a filibuster-proof supermajority to pass major legislation such as Obamacare. “[Voting] participation by just 0.65 percent of non-citizens in Minnesota is sufficient to account for the entirety of Franken’s margin,” the authors write. “Our best guess is that nearly ten times as many voted.”
Voter-ID laws will not prevent non-citizens from voting. Green-card holders and even illegal aliens get driver’s licenses. But that’s not an argument against voter ID. It’s an argument for issuing driver’s licenses that specify non-citizenship.
As for blacks being “targeted” by voter-ID laws, a study by Reuters found almost no difference (2 versus 3 percent) in the number of white and black voters who lacked ID.
Voting is a semi-sacred act of civic religion. Trust that only those eligible are determining our future as a nation is the foundation of civic peace. Voter-ID laws should be just one part of ensuring voter integrity. When Democrats resist those measures, it only feeds suspicion that they’re trying to steal elections.
— Mona Charen is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
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Statistics: Illegal Voting May Have Cost Romney Florida in 2012
Pundit Press ^ | 10/28/2014 | Thomas
Posted on 10/28/2014 2:42:32 PM by therightliveswithus
One of the critical firewalls for the Romney campaign in 2012 was the (apparently mistaken) belief that Florida voters had turned sour on President Obama. The state’s demographics, including a surging older population seemed to seal the deal. In the RealClearPolitics final poll of polls before the election, Romney led by a small but significant 1.5%. In three of the six last polls, he led by as much as 6%, with one tied and Obama up in two polls by 1% and 2% respectively.
However, when the votes started pouring in, a different story was told. There was Karl Rove’s insistence that Romney was going to win the state, even as FoxNews called it for Obama.
The final totals came in slowly and Obama seemed to creep up in the totals as the night went on.
When all was said and done, the numbers turned out to be:
Obama: 4,237,756 50.01% Romney: 4,163,447 49.13% Obama Victory Margin: 74,309
Obama’s total margin of victory was 74,309. it was small but enough to avoid a recount, especially with the rest of the country clinching 270 electoral vote for him.
But was it a victory that was earned?
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ve Been Elected With Illegal Votes
Judicial Watch ^ | 10/28/14 | staff
Posted on October 28, 2014 at 9:06:26 PM EDT by Nachum
A large number of non-citizens cast ballots in U.S. elections and it’s possible that the illegal votes were responsible for President Obama’s 2008 victory, according to an in-depth academic study that confirms Judicial Watch’s assessment that foreign nationals have helped Democrats steal elections.
Non-citizens tend to favor Democrats and Obama won more than 80% of the votes of non-citizens in the 2008 sample gathered by the Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES), a large-scale academic survey project operated by teams of researchers from across the country. In fact, enough ineligible voters cast ballots in 2008 to conceivably account for Democratic victories in a few close elections, CCES researchers found. A respected Ivy League professor is coordinator of the CCES which has produced national sample surveys, stratified by state and type of district, in every federal election since 2006. This allows the optimal study of congressional and state races as well as an ideal setting for understanding the relationship between the congressional and presidential elections.
The CCES is an esteemed and highly respected operation that recently published shocking information, gathered from big social science survey datasets, that supports Judicial Watch’s work in this area. In 2012 JW launched the Election Integrity Project, a widespread legal campaign to clean up voter registration rolls and support election integrity measures across the country. Our investigations immediately uncovered data that proved voter rolls in a number of states—including Mississippi, Iowa, Indiana, Missouri, Texas, Florida, California and Colorado—contained the names of individuals who are ineligible to vote.
Now the CCES confirms this, specifically that large numbers of foreign nationals vote in U.S. elections. The “participation was large enough to plausibly account for Democratic victories in a few close elections,” according to a mainstream newspaper article written by two of
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At a Tuesday evening campaign event for Mary Burke, Democratic nominee for governor of Wisconsin, President Barack Obama encouraged voters to participate in early voting.
"One week, Wisconsin. One week. One week from today you get to choose a new governor. And because early voting runs through this Friday, you don't have to wait until election day," Obama told the crowd in Milwaukee.
"You can vote all week," Obama added.
"I mean you can only vote once, this isn't Chicago now," Obama told the crowd, laughing.
"I'm teasing Chicago, I'm messing with you. That was a long time ago," Obama added.
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One of the critical firewalls for the Romney campaign in 2012 was the (apparently mistaken) belief that Florida voters had turned sour on President Obama. The state’s demographics, including a surging older population seemed to seal the deal. In the RealClearPolitics final poll of polls before the election, Romney led by a small but significant 1.5%. In three of the six last polls, he led by as much as 6%, with one tied and Obama up in two polls by 1% and 2% respectively.
However, when the votes started pouring in, a different story was told. There was Karl Rove’s insistence that Romney was going to win the state, even as FoxNews called it for Obama.
The final totals came in slowly and Obama seemed to creep up in the totals as the night went on.
When all was said and done, the numbers turned out to be:
Obama: 4,237,756 50.01% Romney: 4,163,447 49.13% Obama Victory Margin: 74,309
Obama’s total margin of victory was 74,309. it was small but enough to avoid a recount, especially with the rest of the country clinching 270 electoral vote for him.
But was it a victory that was earned?
(Excerpt) Read more at thepunditpress.com ...
Romney lost FL because voters in Lee County had to stand in line for up to SIX TO SEVEN HOURS to vote. Look it up - longest wait in the nation. This county went 55% Romney back in 2012... and on a rainy cold Nov Tuesday, you make the elderly wait for 7 hours to vote?
Yeah, that benefited obama in a big way.
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Largest Voter Fraud Investigation in Texas History Underway in Tarrant County
empowertexans ^ | Oct 6, 2016 | Ross Kecseg
Posted on 10/7/2016, 8:15:19 AM by dila813
A massive investigation is underway in Tarrant County as law enforcement officers from the Texas Attorney General’s Office investigate a vote-harvesting scheme alleged to involve as many as 20,000 ballots.
Last month, Texas Scorecard reported that Tarrant County Elections administrator Frank Phillips disclosed the AG’s office had launched a criminal investigation into voting abnormalities inside Tarrant County.
The investigation was the result of a complaint filed by Aaron Harris, of Direct Action Texas, an organization that also uncovered significant errors in Hill County’s primary election results.
Today, Harris confirmed that AG investigators have been spotted on the ground in Tarrant County interviewing witnesses. In a statement released online, Harris claimed the investigation is into a vote harvesting scheme involving as many as 20,000 ballots.
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I don't know if this has been mentioned in the previous posts, but remember those Black Panther thug scum that stood outside voting centers. AND THEY WERE ARMED!!! FFS. They would intimidate anyone coming in to vote republican when Obummer was first running. Don't say it had no effect. Little old grandma headed down to vote at the site of these thugs, turned and headed home. So this time out it will be both BLM and the Black panther scum. And no one did anything then, not will they this time around. Crazy ass country this is sometimes.
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Smartmatic Group, an electronic voting corporation whose headquarters are located in the U.K., offer support services to the Electoral Commissions of 307 counties in 16 States. The chairman of Smartmatic’s board, Lord Mark Malloch-Brown, also serves on the board of George Soros’s Open Society Foundation and has very close ties to the billionaire. According to Smartmatic’s website, they supply voting machines in the following States:
Arizona, California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, Nevada, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin
REQUEST PAPER BALLOTS!
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Voter Fraud Is Real. Here’s The Proof
Data suggests millions of voter registrations are fraudulent or invalid. That’s enough to tip an election, easily.
John Gibbs By John Gibbs
OCTOBER 13, 2016
This week, liberals have been repeating their frequent claim that voter fraud doesn’t exist. A recent Salon article argues that “voter fraud just isn’t a problem in Pennsylvania,” despite evidence to the contrary. Another article argues that voter fraud is entirely in the imagination of those who use voter ID laws to deny minorities the right to vote.
Yet as the election approaches, more and more cases of voter fraud are beginning to surface. In Colorado, multiple instances were found of dead people attempting to vote. Stunningly, “a woman named Sara Sosa who died in 2009 cast ballots in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013.” In Virginia, it was found that nearly 20 voter applications were turned in under the names of dead people.
In Texas, authorities are investigating criminals who are using the technique of “vote harvesting” to illegally procure votes for their candidates. “Harvesting” is the practice of illegally obtaining the signatures of valid voters in order to vote in their name without their consent for the candidate(s) the criminal supports.
These are just some instances of voter fraud we know about. It would be silly to assume cases that have been discovered are the only cases of fraud. Indeed according to a Pew Charitable Trust report from February 2012, one in eight voter registrations are “significantly inaccurate or no longer valid.” Since there are 146 million Americans registered to vote, this translates to a stunning 18 million invalid voter registrations on the books. Further, “More than 1.8 million deceased individuals are listed as voters, and approximately 2.75 million people have registrations in more than one state.” Numbers of this scale obviously provide ripe opportunity for fraud.
Don’t Let Data Contradict My Narrative
Yet in spite of all this, a report by the Brennan Center at New York Univeristy claims voter fraud is a myth. It argues that North Carolina, which passed comprehensive measures to prevent voter fraud, “failed to identify even a single individual who has ever been charged with committing in-person voter fraud in North Carolina.” However, this faulty reasoning does not point to the lack of in-person voter fraud, but rather to lack of enforcement mechanisms to identify and prosecute in-person voter fraud.
The science of criminal justice tells us that many crimes go unreported, and the more “victimless” the crime, the more this happens. The fact is, a person attempting to commit voter fraud is very unlikely to be caught, which increases the incentive to commit the crime.
The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) is a sophisticated, comprehensive effort to catalog “the number and types of crimes not reported to law enforcement authorities.” However, it tends to deal mostly in violent crimes. As complex as the NCVS is, gathering accurate data for unreported victimless crimes such as voter fraud is even harder, since 1) outside of the criminal, no one may know a crime has taken place, and 2) there is no direct victim to report the crime in the first place. Yet we are expected to believe that, unlike violent crime, voter fraud is limited only to the cases that are actually reported and prosecuted? This is a senseless position.
Further, the Brennan Center report argues that because prosecutor Kris Kobach’s review of 84 million votes cast in 22 states found only 14 instances of fraud referred for prosecution (which amounts to a 0.00000017 percent fraud rate), voter fraud is so statistically small that it’s a non-issue. Let’s follow this logic. Does the fact that 109 people were cited for jaywalking in Seattle in 2009 mean that only 109 people jaywalked in Seattle that year? Does the fact that 103,733 people were cited for driving without a seatbelt in Tennessee in 2015 mean that only that many people were driving without seatbelt in Tennessee in 2015?
Absolutely not. This can be proven easily because in 2014, the previous year, only 29,470 people were cited. The disparity is largely due to increased enforcement efforts in 2015. In other words, increasing enforcement of the crime revealed a much larger number of people committing the crime.
The exact same is true for voter fraud. We have no reason to believe that the low number of prosecutions means only that exact amount of voter fraud is happening. Rather, it could mean a lack of enforcement is failing to reveal the bulk of the violations that are occurring. Thus, as with many types of crimes, especially victimless crimes, the real number of cases is likely significantly higher than the number reported.
How to Effectively Target Voter Fraud
So now that we know voter fraud is a serious issue, what are some solutions to this problem? States like Michigan have Poll Challenger programs, where observers from both parties may be present at voter check-in tables at precincts. They check each voter’s ID against a database of registered voters for that precinct to ensure the person attempting to vote is actually legally qualified to vote in that precinct. If there’s a discrepancy, the poll challenger may officially challenge the ballot. Other states should implement similar programs.
States should sponsor initiatives to remove dead voters and correct the registrations of people registered in multiple states (make them choose just one state). Since many local jurisdictions are reluctant to clean their voter rolls, federal or state oversight with teeth may be necessary.
Further, voter ID laws, such as the one implemented by North Carolina, but (wrongly) struck down by three liberal judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit— one appointed by Bill Clinton and the other two appointed by President Obama—are needed to ensure there’s no cheating with votes. States should continue to press the issue regardless of recent setbacks by liberal activist judges.
Finally, some have claimed that strong voter ID laws are racist, because they disproportionately impact minorities and would prevent minorities from voting. As a black person, I’m naturally interested in this claim. Thankfully, it turns out to be false. The Heritage Foundation has shown that black voter turnout actually increased after North Carolina passed its voter ID law.
Not only was the claimed negative outcome false, but the reasoning was faulty as well. The fact that the law disproportionately impacts minorities does not mean that it is discriminatory. It means, unfortunately, that fewer minorities are in compliance with common-sense safeguards to protect the integrity of our elections (i.e., having a driver’s license or photo ID).
To mitigate this concern, states can offer a service that will take people without valid ID to their local government office to apply for proper ID, free of charge. Users could schedule the pickup with their smartphone or a phone call. That way there will be as few barriers as possible to those who want to vote and are capable of obtaining a valid ID, but cannot due to transportation concerns (a reason often given by those who claim voter ID laws hurt minorities).
So let us not believe false claims that voter fraud doesn’t exist. It’s real, and we must work to stop it, while making sure those who are eligible to vote but without proper ID are accommodated fairly.
http://thefederalist.com/2016/10/13/voter-fraud-real-heres-proof/
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Voter Fraud Is Real. Here’s The Proof
Data suggests millions of voter registrations are fraudulent or invalid. That’s enough to tip an election, easily.
John Gibbs By John Gibbs
OCTOBER 13, 2016
This week, liberals have been repeating their frequent claim that voter fraud doesn’t exist. A recent Salon article argues that “voter fraud just isn’t a problem in Pennsylvania,” despite evidence to the contrary. Another article argues that voter fraud is entirely in the imagination of those who use voter ID laws to deny minorities the right to vote.
Yet as the election approaches, more and more cases of voter fraud are beginning to surface. In Colorado, multiple instances were found of dead people attempting to vote. Stunningly, “a woman named Sara Sosa who died in 2009 cast ballots in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013.” In Virginia, it was found that nearly 20 voter applications were turned in under the names of dead people.
In Texas, authorities are investigating criminals who are using the technique of “vote harvesting” to illegally procure votes for their candidates. “Harvesting” is the practice of illegally obtaining the signatures of valid voters in order to vote in their name without their consent for the candidate(s) the criminal supports.
These are just some instances of voter fraud we know about. It would be silly to assume cases that have been discovered are the only cases of fraud. Indeed according to a Pew Charitable Trust report from February 2012, one in eight voter registrations are “significantly inaccurate or no longer valid.” Since there are 146 million Americans registered to vote, this translates to a stunning 18 million invalid voter registrations on the books. Further, “More than 1.8 million deceased individuals are listed as voters, and approximately 2.75 million people have registrations in more than one state.” Numbers of this scale obviously provide ripe opportunity for fraud.
Don’t Let Data Contradict My Narrative
Yet in spite of all this, a report by the Brennan Center at New York Univeristy claims voter fraud is a myth. It argues that North Carolina, which passed comprehensive measures to prevent voter fraud, “failed to identify even a single individual who has ever been charged with committing in-person voter fraud in North Carolina.” However, this faulty reasoning does not point to the lack of in-person voter fraud, but rather to lack of enforcement mechanisms to identify and prosecute in-person voter fraud.
The science of criminal justice tells us that many crimes go unreported, and the more “victimless” the crime, the more this happens. The fact is, a person attempting to commit voter fraud is very unlikely to be caught, which increases the incentive to commit the crime.
The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) is a sophisticated, comprehensive effort to catalog “the number and types of crimes not reported to law enforcement authorities.” However, it tends to deal mostly in violent crimes. As complex as the NCVS is, gathering accurate data for unreported victimless crimes such as voter fraud is even harder, since 1) outside of the criminal, no one may know a crime has taken place, and 2) there is no direct victim to report the crime in the first place. Yet we are expected to believe that, unlike violent crime, voter fraud is limited only to the cases that are actually reported and prosecuted? This is a senseless position.
Further, the Brennan Center report argues that because prosecutor Kris Kobach’s review of 84 million votes cast in 22 states found only 14 instances of fraud referred for prosecution (which amounts to a 0.00000017 percent fraud rate), voter fraud is so statistically small that it’s a non-issue. Let’s follow this logic. Does the fact that 109 people were cited for jaywalking in Seattle in 2009 mean that only 109 people jaywalked in Seattle that year? Does the fact that 103,733 people were cited for driving without a seatbelt in Tennessee in 2015 mean that only that many people were driving without seatbelt in Tennessee in 2015?
Absolutely not. This can be proven easily because in 2014, the previous year, only 29,470 people were cited. The disparity is largely due to increased enforcement efforts in 2015. In other words, increasing enforcement of the crime revealed a much larger number of people committing the crime.
The exact same is true for voter fraud. We have no reason to believe that the low number of prosecutions means only that exact amount of voter fraud is happening. Rather, it could mean a lack of enforcement is failing to reveal the bulk of the violations that are occurring. Thus, as with many types of crimes, especially victimless crimes, the real number of cases is likely significantly higher than the number reported.
How to Effectively Target Voter Fraud
So now that we know voter fraud is a serious issue, what are some solutions to this problem? States like Michigan have Poll Challenger programs, where observers from both parties may be present at voter check-in tables at precincts. They check each voter’s ID against a database of registered voters for that precinct to ensure the person attempting to vote is actually legally qualified to vote in that precinct. If there’s a discrepancy, the poll challenger may officially challenge the ballot. Other states should implement similar programs.
States should sponsor initiatives to remove dead voters and correct the registrations of people registered in multiple states (make them choose just one state). Since many local jurisdictions are reluctant to clean their voter rolls, federal or state oversight with teeth may be necessary.
Further, voter ID laws, such as the one implemented by North Carolina, but (wrongly) struck down by three liberal judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit— one appointed by Bill Clinton and the other two appointed by President Obama—are needed to ensure there’s no cheating with votes. States should continue to press the issue regardless of recent setbacks by liberal activist judges.
Finally, some have claimed that strong voter ID laws are racist, because they disproportionately impact minorities and would prevent minorities from voting. As a black person, I’m naturally interested in this claim. Thankfully, it turns out to be false. The Heritage Foundation has shown that black voter turnout actually increased after North Carolina passed its voter ID law.
Not only was the claimed negative outcome false, but the reasoning was faulty as well. The fact that the law disproportionately impacts minorities does not mean that it is discriminatory. It means, unfortunately, that fewer minorities are in compliance with common-sense safeguards to protect the integrity of our elections (i.e., having a driver’s license or photo ID).
To mitigate this concern, states can offer a service that will take people without valid ID to their local government office to apply for proper ID, free of charge. Users could schedule the pickup with their smartphone or a phone call. That way there will be as few barriers as possible to those who want to vote and are capable of obtaining a valid ID, but cannot due to transportation concerns (a reason often given by those who claim voter ID laws hurt minorities).
So let us not believe false claims that voter fraud doesn’t exist. It’s real, and we must work to stop it, while making sure those who are eligible to vote but without proper ID are accommodated fairly.
http://thefederalist.com/2016/10/13/voter-fraud-real-heres-proof/
This can't be true. Tim Fogarty insists the only voter fraud is Anne Coulter voting in the wrong state. Neverending that she only casts 1 vote
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O'Keefe: Creamer Visited The White House 340 TIMES. Tell Chris Wallace To Ask Hillary
twitter.com ^ | 19 Oct 2016
Posted on 10/19/2016, 6:27:31 AM
Creamer visited the @WhiteHouse 340 TIMES in the last few years. Tell Chris Wallace to ask @HillaryClinton tomorrow
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-video-sting-democratic-operatives-james-okeefe-20161019-story.html
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Complaint Filed Against Clinton’s Campaign Following O’Keefe Videos
The Washington Free Beacon ^
Posted on 10/19/2016, 1:55:12 PM by Blue Turtle
An election integrity group has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission following the release of undercover videos from James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas.
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2 Investigators: Chicago Voters Cast Ballots From Beyond The Grave
October 27, 2016
By Pam Zekman
CHICAGO (CBS) — Susie Sallee was buried in 1998. Yet records show she voted in Chicago 12 years later.
Victor Crosswell died in 1994, but records show he's voted six times since then.
And there's Floyd Stevens. Records show he's voted 11 times since his death in 1993.
"It's crazy," Sharon Stevens Anderson, Stevens' daughter, tells CBS 2's Pam Zekman. "I don't see how people can be able to do something like that and get away with it."
Those are just a few of the cases CBS 2 Investigators found by merging Chicago Board of Election voter histories with the death master file from the Social Security Administration.
In all, the analysis showed 119 dead people have voted a total of 229 times in Chicago in the last decade.
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http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2016/10/27/2-investigators-chicago-voters-cast-ballots-from-beyond-the-grave/
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Action News Investigation: Voting from the Grave
Wendy Saltzman reports. (WPVI)
Friday, October 28, 2016
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) --
The key to one of the most contentious presidential elections in history could be right here in the Keystone state.
Republican candidate Donald Trump has made allegations of fraud at polls in the City of Philadelphia.
So, Action News dug through a decade's worth of election and death records to see if there was any truth to the claim.
Some of what Action News investigation found was stunning.
Rita A. Pezzano, who passed a decade ago, was found listed as an active voter. Her daughter-in-law was shocked when we shared the news.
"I was about seven months pregnant when she died," said Audrey Marchiano.
"So she has been dead about 10 years now?" asked Investigative Reporter Wendy Saltzman.
"Yes," said Marchiano.
Pezzano passed in 2006. But state voting records show the South Philadelphia native still listed as an "Active Voter" who cast ballots in 2008, 2012, 2014, and the 2016 primary election.
Wendy Saltzman asked Marchiano if there was any way Pezzano could have voted in 2016.
"Not if she was dead," Marchiano replied. "So no."
Our investigation also found Joseph B. Haggarty resting peacefully in a Bucks County cemetery. His grave marker confirmed he died in 2010, but records show he voted five years after his death.
"Any chance he voted in 2015?" Wendy Saltzman asked a neighbor.
"I'm sure he didn't, personally. God rest his soul, he's long gone," he replied.
Action News also found Paul Bunch, who died in 2006, also cast a vote in this year's primary which was nearly ten years after death records show he died.
Wendy Saltzman asked Bunch's former neighbor if that seemed impossible.
"I believe so. It sounds like it, unless he is coming back from the dead," he said.
Action News also visited the former neighborhood of Concetta Gallara. Records show she died in 2009, but voted in 2013.
When asked if there was a way Gallara could have voted, her former neighbor Jeanie Pizzo told Saltzman, "I don't know, it's awfully funny. Unless a dead person came out of their grave."
Action News took our findings to election watchdog, The Committee of Seventy.
President and CEO David Thornburgh said, "There's going to be some error and some level of petty fraud and we should have no tolerance for that."
We also asked Philadelphia City Commissioner Al Schmidt, who is a Republican, about our findings. His office is in charge of overseeing Philadelphia's elections.
"It is certainly an irregularity, there is no doubt about that," Schmidt said.
Commissioner Schmidt's office also checked some of the names Action News provided them. Schmidt said in the small sample-check he did, his office found no clear evidence of fraud.
"We do have one guy that is questionable, definitely," he added.
Schmidt also said that most of the issues he found would be considered human error. He cited things like poll workers scanning the wrong name, a person who would have signed in the wrong spot, or a son with the same name who may have voted in his dead father's place instead of his own.
Saltzman also asked Schmidt about how people like Timothy Turner could still be an active voter in Philadelphia.
"Timothy Turner died in 2006. How is he still on the voter roles for somebody to vote in his place in 2016?" asked Saltzman.
"He would be removed if the Department of Health knew about it at the state level and then the state notifies us," Schmidt said.
Schmidt also said deceased voters would remain on the election rolls if Philadelphia County wasn't informed of their death.
We told Turner's son about his father's "vote from the grave". He told Saltzman he wasn't happy about it.
"I figure whoever is running the voter registration ain't doing their job, for them to still have my father's name and for him to have been deceased for 10 years," said Darryl Turner.
The Committee of Seventy also cautions that intentional fraud is a tiny fraction of the one million votes cast in the City of Philadelphia.
"Clearly dead people shouldn't be casting ballots," added David Thornburgh.
Thornburgh and Schmidt both agreed that the number of inaccuracies uncovered by Action News couldn't sway the election.
Saltzman asked if it could however fuel critic's questions on the legitimacy of Philadelphia's voting process.
"Doesn't that open up the voter rolls to the possibility of fraud?" Saltzman asked Schmidt.
"It definitely makes it so that there is an opportunity for it," Schmidt replied.
Schmidt also said the dead voters we uncovered will be removed from the rolls.
http://6abc.com/politics/action-news-investigation-voting-from-the-grave/1575596/
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Harris County poll workers plead guilty to voter fraud
KHOU Houston ^ | 5-22-2017 | Tim Wetzel
Posted on 5/23/2017, 11:00:10 AM by Snickering Hound
HOUSTON - Two Harris County poll workers pled guilty to unlawfully depositing a ballot during the May 2016 primary runoff election.
Jeanene Johnson and Latunia Thomas both took oaths swearing to be fair while working the polls during the May 2016 primary run-off. But prosecutors claim they broke that promise.
Investigators said Thomas forged her own daughter's signature and then illegally cast a vote on her behalf. They also said Johnson was aware of this and illegally checked the daughter in,even though she was not present.
They both pled guilty.
“You are stealing someone's vote, it's wrong, and we are going to be watching we are going to catch you and turn you over to the DA,” said Stanart. Both women have criminal records.
Thomas pled guilty to disorderly conduct in 2007 and assault in 1989.
Johnson was accused of hindering apprehension in 2003 and convicted of check fraud in both 1990 and 1980. She was also accused of theft in 1984.
Stanart said both women were nominated by the Harris County democratic party. His office knew about their past, but decided enough time had passed to let them work the polls.
(Excerpt) Read more at khou.com ...
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Watchdog Claims 5K Noncitizens Registered to Vote in Virginia
A new report released shortly after the forming of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity finds that more than 5,000 individuals were determined to be non-U.S. citizens registered to vote in Virginia.
Dubbed a “sequel” to a similar 2016 effort, the latest study found 5,556 voters were “quietly removed” from the records for reasons related to non-citizenship “between 2011 and May 2017,” according to an advanced look at the findings provided by the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF). Of the total registered, one-third of unlawful voters managed to cast ballots—leading to a total of more than 7,400 illegal votes cast, according to the report.
http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2017/05/30/5k-noncitizens-registered-vote-virginia-report-finds/ (http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2017/05/30/5k-noncitizens-registered-vote-virginia-report-finds/)
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Watchdog Claims 5K Noncitizens Registered to Vote in Virginia
A new report released shortly after the forming of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity finds that more than 5,000 individuals were determined to be non-U.S. citizens registered to vote in Virginia.
Dubbed a “sequel” to a similar 2016 effort, the latest study found 5,556 voters were “quietly removed” from the records for reasons related to non-citizenship “between 2011 and May 2017,” according to an advanced look at the findings provided by the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF). Of the total registered, one-third of unlawful voters managed to cast ballots—leading to a total of more than 7,400 illegal votes cast, according to the report.
http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2017/05/30/5k-noncitizens-registered-vote-virginia-report-finds/ (http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2017/05/30/5k-noncitizens-registered-vote-virginia-report-finds/)
This is why demofaggets oppose all voter id efforts
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Student headed to prison for registering dead voters for Democrats
CBS News Local ^ | June 26, 2017
Posted on 6/26/2017, 3:28:51 PM by Oldeconomybuyer
HARRISONBURG, Va. — A man paid to register Virginia voters prior to the 2016 Presidential Election will spend at least 100 days in prison for submitting the names of deceased individuals to the Registrar’s Office.
James Madison University student Andrew J. Spieles, 21, of Harrisonburg, pled guilty Monday in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia. As part of the plea agreement, Spieles agreed to a prison sentence of 100 to 120 days.
Spieles worked for Harrisonburg Votes when he committed the crime, according to acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle.
Harrisonburg Votes is a political organization affiliated with the Democratic Party.
“In July 2016 Spieles’ job was to register as many voters as possible and reported to Democratic Campaign headquarters in Harrisonburg,” a U.S. Attorney’s Office spokesperson said. “In August 2016, Spieles was directed to combine his registration numbers with those of another individual because their respective territories overlapped. After filling out a registration form for a voter, Spieles entered the information into a computer system used by the Virginia Democratic Party to track information such as name, age, address and political affiliation. Every Thursday an employee/volunteer hand-delivered the paper copies of the registration forms to the Registrar’s Office in Harrisonburg.”
Later that month, someone at the Registrar’s Office called police after another employee saw a name they recognized on a registration form.
The name was the deceased father of a Rockingham County Judge.
“The Registrar’s Office discovered multiple instances of similarly falsified forms when it reviewed additional registrations. Some were in the names of deceased individuals while others bore incorrect middle names, birth dates, and social security numbers,” the spokesperson continued. “The Registrar’s Office learned that the individuals named in these forms had not in fact submitted the new voter registrations. The assistant registrar’s personal knowledge of the names of some of the individuals named in the falsified documents facilitated the detection of the crime.
“Spieles later admitted that he prepared the false voter registration forms by obtaining the name, age, and address of individuals from “walk sheets” provided to him by the Virginia Democratic Party, fabricating a birth date based on the ages listed in the walk sheet, and fabricating the social security numbers. Spieles admitted that he created all 18 fraudulent forms himself and that no one else participated in the crime.”
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Harrisonburg Police Department investigated the crime
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Boston: RMV Employees Arrested For Creating False IDs for Illegals
Legal Insurrection ^ | 08/05/2017 | Posted by Fuzzy Slippers
Posted on 8/6/2017, 11:49:47 AM by Rusty0604
Four Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles employees and two others were arrested for allegedly creating false identification cards for illegal aliens; some of the false ids were used to register the illegals to vote in Boston.
Mass Live reports: Four state Registry of Motor Vehicle clerks along with two other people were arrested Wednesday after authorities say they were making false identifications through the registry and selling them to people living in the country illegally, some of whom had been deported in the past.
Some of those phony licenses and identifications were used to fraudulently register to vote in Boston, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Evelyn Medina, 56, of Boston; Annette Gracia, 37, of Boston; Kimberly Jordan, 33, of Randolph; David Brimage, 46, of Boston; Bivian Yohanny Brea, 41, of Boston; and a 32-year-old man identified as John Doe were all charged in federal court with aggravated identity theft. Officials are still trying to determine John Doe’s true identity and list multiple aliases for him. Medina, Gracia, Jordan, and Brimage were employed as clerks at the Haymarket Registry of Motor Vehicles. Authorities said Brea and Flako worked with the RMV clerks to operate the scheme.
The case against the six people began after Massachusetts State Police received an anonymous letter in October 2015 claiming a “corrupt RMV employee” was providing stolen identifications and drivers’ license to people seeking the phony documents.
“An investigation revealed that several Haymarket RMV clerks – Medina, Gracia, Jordan, and Brimage – were allegedly working with Brea, who acted as the document vendor, and Flako, who acted as the document dealer, to provide licenses and identification cards to illegal aliens for cash,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
These fake ids can also be used to apply for state and federal welfare benefits.
(Excerpt) Read more at legalinsurrection.com ...
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Student headed to prison for registering dead voters for Democrats
CBS News Local ^ | June 26, 2017
Posted on 6/26/2017, 3:28:51 PM by Oldeconomybuyer
HARRISONBURG, Va. — A man paid to register Virginia voters prior to the 2016 Presidential Election will spend at least 100 days in prison for submitting the names of deceased individuals to the Registrar’s Office.
James Madison University student Andrew J. Spieles, 21, of Harrisonburg, pled guilty Monday in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia. As part of the plea agreement, Spieles agreed to a prison sentence of 100 to 120 days.
Spieles worked for Harrisonburg Votes when he committed the crime, according to acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle.
Harrisonburg Votes is a political organization affiliated with the Democratic Party.
“In July 2016 Spieles’ job was to register as many voters as possible and reported to Democratic Campaign headquarters in Harrisonburg,” a U.S. Attorney’s Office spokesperson said. “In August 2016, Spieles was directed to combine his registration numbers with those of another individual because their respective territories overlapped. After filling out a registration form for a voter, Spieles entered the information into a computer system used by the Virginia Democratic Party to track information such as name, age, address and political affiliation. Every Thursday an employee/volunteer hand-delivered the paper copies of the registration forms to the Registrar’s Office in Harrisonburg.”
Later that month, someone at the Registrar’s Office called police after another employee saw a name they recognized on a registration form.
The name was the deceased father of a Rockingham County Judge.
“The Registrar’s Office discovered multiple instances of similarly falsified forms when it reviewed additional registrations. Some were in the names of deceased individuals while others bore incorrect middle names, birth dates, and social security numbers,” the spokesperson continued. “The Registrar’s Office learned that the individuals named in these forms had not in fact submitted the new voter registrations. The assistant registrar’s personal knowledge of the names of some of the individuals named in the falsified documents facilitated the detection of the crime.
“Spieles later admitted that he prepared the false voter registration forms by obtaining the name, age, and address of individuals from “walk sheets” provided to him by the Virginia Democratic Party, fabricating a birth date based on the ages listed in the walk sheet, and fabricating the social security numbers. Spieles admitted that he created all 18 fraudulent forms himself and that no one else participated in the crime.”
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Harrisonburg Police Department investigated the crime
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http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/u-s-has-3-5-million-more-registered-voters-than-live-adults-a-red-flag-for-electoral-fraud/
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Philadelphia finds hundreds of illegal voters
Fox News
Dozens of people who are not U.S. citizens were allowed to register to vote due to a glitch in Pennsylvania's electronic driver's license system, a Philadelphia election official said Wednesday.
Al Schmidt, a Republican who sits on Philadelphia's three-member election commission, told reporters that at least 168 noncitizens -- who are legal residents of the U.S. -- had registered to vote in the city through the licensing system.
Philly.com reported that 317 such illegal voters have contacted the commission since 2006 to have their registrations canceled. Of those, Schmidt's office said that 220 were registered to vote from 2006 to 2017. Forty-four voted in one election and 46 voted in more than one election.
"This is a real concern," Schmidt said. "It is harmful to election integrity, and it is harmful to members of the immigrant community who are applying for citizenship. If you've registered to vote in the U.S., and you're not a citizen, it's potential grounds for the denial of your citizenship application."
Schmidt said that many more noncitizens could have mistakenly registered through the system, both in Philadelphia and elsewhere in Pennsylvania. However, he pointed out that no municipal election was close enough to have potentially been affected by improper voting.
Schmidt also said that the cases likely did not rise to the level of voter fraud because of the apparent lack of intent by the registrants.
"All voter fraud is an irregularity; not all voter irregularities are fraud," he said. "Regardless of the intent, the damage is still the same."
The Pennsylvania Department of State said it is working to fix the system and was aware of the problem before Schmidt contacted it in July. A spokeswoman could not immediately say when the department first became aware of the issue.
The department is looking into the total number of mistakenly registered voters and could not provide an estimate, the spokeswoman said.
Last fall, during a legislative hearing on the integrity of the state's voting systems, Secretary of State Pedro Cortes, a Democrat, acknowledged that someone who is not a citizen "may inadvertently register" while getting or updating a driver's license, according to a transcript of the hearing.
Some 6.1 million people voted in Pennsylvania in November's presidential election, including more than 700,000 in Philadelphia. Donald Trump, a Republican, won Pennsylvania; Hillary Clinton, a Democrat, won Philadelphia.
The registration problem stemmed from electronic touch screens in state driver's license centers that were programmed to give users the option to register to vote while getting new or updated licenses. The system showed noncitizens the voter registration option, even though they had already provided information showing that they were not citizens, officials said.
"For the majority of these people, it’s completely plausible to believe they thought they were eligible to vote," Schmidt said.
In August 2016, the department took a step to try to prevent such registrations. It changed the software so that users are immediately asked if they are U.S. citizens. The process stops if a user answers "no," the department said.
It said it is working on creating a new touch-screen system in which a noncitizen would not see the motor voter screens at all, the department said.
The motor voter system may not be the only problem in Pennsylvania. Schmidt said he discovered 52 other noncitizen legal immigrants who registered to vote through other means, including paper voter registration applications. The Department of State is looking into that, as well, the spokeswoman said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/09/20/philadelphia-finds-hundreds-illegal-voters.html
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this has nothing to do with voter fraud
this guy created 18 fake registrations, most likely because he was getting paid by the name
actually fraudulent voting is either
1. someone not legally allowed to vote who casts a ballot
2. someone voting more than once
Both are extremely rare because the perpetrator has no personal gain yet huge personal risk.
It's a crime of epic stupidity which is why you often see Republicans getting caught committing actual voter fraud
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Philadelphia finds hundreds of illegal voters
Fox News
Dozens of people who are not U.S. citizens were allowed to register to vote due to a glitch in Pennsylvania's electronic driver's license system, a Philadelphia election official said Wednesday.
Al Schmidt, a Republican who sits on Philadelphia's three-member election commission, told reporters that at least 168 noncitizens -- who are legal residents of the U.S. -- had registered to vote in the city through the licensing system.
Philly.com reported that 317 such illegal voters have contacted the commission since 2006 to have their registrations canceled. Of those, Schmidt's office said that 220 were registered to vote from 2006 to 2017. Forty-four voted in one election and 46 voted in more than one election.
"This is a real concern," Schmidt said. "It is harmful to election integrity, and it is harmful to members of the immigrant community who are applying for citizenship. If you've registered to vote in the U.S., and you're not a citizen, it's potential grounds for the denial of your citizenship application."
Schmidt said that many more noncitizens could have mistakenly registered through the system, both in Philadelphia and elsewhere in Pennsylvania. However, he pointed out that no municipal election was close enough to have potentially been affected by improper voting.
Schmidt also said that the cases likely did not rise to the level of voter fraud because of the apparent lack of intent by the registrants.
"All voter fraud is an irregularity; not all voter irregularities are fraud," he said. "Regardless of the intent, the damage is still the same."
The Pennsylvania Department of State said it is working to fix the system and was aware of the problem before Schmidt contacted it in July. A spokeswoman could not immediately say when the department first became aware of the issue.
The department is looking into the total number of mistakenly registered voters and could not provide an estimate, the spokeswoman said.
Last fall, during a legislative hearing on the integrity of the state's voting systems, Secretary of State Pedro Cortes, a Democrat, acknowledged that someone who is not a citizen "may inadvertently register" while getting or updating a driver's license, according to a transcript of the hearing.
Some 6.1 million people voted in Pennsylvania in November's presidential election, including more than 700,000 in Philadelphia. Donald Trump, a Republican, won Pennsylvania; Hillary Clinton, a Democrat, won Philadelphia.
The registration problem stemmed from electronic touch screens in state driver's license centers that were programmed to give users the option to register to vote while getting new or updated licenses. The system showed noncitizens the voter registration option, even though they had already provided information showing that they were not citizens, officials said.
"For the majority of these people, it’s completely plausible to believe they thought they were eligible to vote," Schmidt said.
In August 2016, the department took a step to try to prevent such registrations. It changed the software so that users are immediately asked if they are U.S. citizens. The process stops if a user answers "no," the department said.
It said it is working on creating a new touch-screen system in which a noncitizen would not see the motor voter screens at all, the department said.
The motor voter system may not be the only problem in Pennsylvania. Schmidt said he discovered 52 other noncitizen legal immigrants who registered to vote through other means, including paper voter registration applications. The Department of State is looking into that, as well, the spokeswoman said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/09/20/philadelphia-finds-hundreds-illegal-voters.html
weird that you would post this in the "voter fraud" thread since this isn't voter fraud
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weird that you would post this in the "voter fraud" thread since this isn't voter fraud
::) ::) They are not supposed to be voting in the first place. These welfare mobs and grifting leeches vote democrat for free stuff and handouts so they can layabout all day, smoke crack, eat bon bons, make other little failures that we have to pay for, etc.
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'What voter fraud?" - Strawman
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New Chicago ID card created for undocumented immigrants to be accepted for voter registration
FEBRUARY 27, 2018
CHICAGO (Illinois News Network) — A new municipal ID designed primarily for illegal immigrants will be accepted in Chicago as a valid form of identification to register to vote.
The CityKey will be a government-issued photo identification card available to all Chicago residents regardless of immigration status, criminal record, housing status, or gender identity, according to the city clerk’s website.
State Board of Elections spokesman Matt Dietrich says the final call on what documents to accept rests with local officials.
“There are 109 local election authorities in Illinois,” Dietrich said. “They’re the ones who actually handle the registration, the checking of IDs, and keeping the documentation. We maintain an electronic database of voter registrations that we get from them.”
Dietrich says there is no state requirement to prove citizenship while registering to vote. He’s not expecting a surge in potential voter fraud cases because the process will remain the same.
“When you go to register to vote, you do check a box that attests to your citizenship,” Dietrich said. “You are signing a legal document that says, ‘Yes, I am a citizen.’ But no one who registers to vote is required to bring in, for example, a birth certificate or other proof of citizenship. That’s something that you check the box, and you attest to it.”
Dietrich believes the penalty for illegally registering to vote is steep enough to discourage those who might be considering it.
“The main thing that would happen is deportation,” Dietrich said. “If you’re not a citizen, and you have any thoughts of ever attaining citizenship, registering to vote is almost an instant trigger that when you apply for citizenship, you will be deported. That’s one of the first things they check.”
Chicago officials will accept a long list of documents from residents to establish their identities. Current driver’s licenses and state IDs will be valid, as will expired foreign passports, foreign driver’s licenses, high school or GED diplomas, and more. Dietrich says given the information he has seen, it appears the Chicago commissioners are making the right call.
“I believe, from what I’ve read, the Chicago municipal ID would live up to the qualifications under state statute for what a government-issued ID is. So that would be a legal form of ID for the board of elections to accept.”
In addition to a photo identification, CityKey also will serve as a library card and transit card in Chicago. City leaders also are working with cultural institutions, sports teams, and local businesses to offer discounts and benefits for card holders. Officials say the card could offer the most appeal to illegal immigrants, the homeless or those recently released from prison.
http://wqad.com/2018/02/27/new-chicago-id-card-created-for-undocumented-immigrants-to-be-accepted-for-voter-registration/
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Mexican woman charged with voter fraud, accused of illegally voting in 2016 election
Alex Pappas By Alex Pappas | Fox News
Laura Janeth Garza, a 37-year-old Mexican national, was indicted May 10 on charges of voter impersonation and ineligible voting. (Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office)
A Mexican woman has been charged in Texas with voter fraud after prosecutors said she illegally voted in the 2016 presidential election.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said his office will prosecute Laura Janeth Garza, a 37-year-old Mexican national who lives in Houston, after a grand jury indicted her May 10 on charges of voter impersonation and ineligible voting.
Both charges are second-degree felonies. If convicted, Garza faces two to 20 years in prison and a $10,000 fine, according to Fox 4 News in Dallas-Ft. Worth.
“This case demonstrates my office’s commitment to protecting the integrity of elections,” Paxton said in a statement. “We will continue to do everything in our power to safeguard the electoral process in Texas.”
According to the attorney general’s office, Garza is accused of voting illegally in Harris County in November 2016, as well as in elections in 2004 and 2012.
Paxton said a joint investigation with the Texas Department of Public Safety determined that Garza obtained documents to steal the identity of a U.S. citizen and illegally register to vote.
Law enforcement became aware of Garza after a U.S. citizen attempted to obtain a passport, but discovered Garza had already done so using her identity, Paxton said. The State Department referred Garza’s case to Texas Department of Public Safety, which then handed it over to Paxton’s office for prosecution.
President Trump has long claimed widespread voting fraud took place in the 2016 election, an assertion that has not been substantiated.
"It's not a conspiracy theory, folks," Trump said at an event in West Virginia last month, claiming millions voted illegally in 2016.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/05/15/mexican-woman-charged-with-voter-fraud-accused-illegally-voting-in-2016-election.html
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Mexican woman charged with voter fraud, accused of illegally voting in 2016 election
Alex Pappas By Alex Pappas | Fox News
Laura Janeth Garza, a 37-year-old Mexican national, was indicted May 10 on charges of voter impersonation and ineligible voting. (Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office)
A Mexican woman has been charged in Texas with voter fraud after prosecutors said she illegally voted in the 2016 presidential election.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said his office will prosecute Laura Janeth Garza, a 37-year-old Mexican national who lives in Houston, after a grand jury indicted her May 10 on charges of voter impersonation and ineligible voting.
Both charges are second-degree felonies. If convicted, Garza faces two to 20 years in prison and a $10,000 fine, according to Fox 4 News in Dallas-Ft. Worth.
“This case demonstrates my office’s commitment to protecting the integrity of elections,” Paxton said in a statement. “We will continue to do everything in our power to safeguard the electoral process in Texas.”
According to the attorney general’s office, Garza is accused of voting illegally in Harris County in November 2016, as well as in elections in 2004 and 2012.
Paxton said a joint investigation with the Texas Department of Public Safety determined that Garza obtained documents to steal the identity of a U.S. citizen and illegally register to vote.
Law enforcement became aware of Garza after a U.S. citizen attempted to obtain a passport, but discovered Garza had already done so using her identity, Paxton said. The State Department referred Garza’s case to Texas Department of Public Safety, which then handed it over to Paxton’s office for prosecution.
President Trump has long claimed widespread voting fraud took place in the 2016 election, an assertion that has not been substantiated.
"It's not a conspiracy theory, folks," Trump said at an event in West Virginia last month, claiming millions voted illegally in 2016.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/05/15/mexican-woman-charged-with-voter-fraud-accused-illegally-voting-in-2016-election.html
wow, we finally found one
Should be easy to find the other 4,999,999 that Trump claims voted in the last election (and no doubt they all voted for Hillary - everyone knows that)
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According you and the libs this stuff is rare and never happens.
wow, we finally found one
Should be easy to find the other 4,999,999 that Trump claims voted in the last election (and no doubt they all voted for Hillary - everyone knows that)
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Dems caught cheating again
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Dems caught cheating again
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/he-fought-in-world-war-ii-he-died-in-2014-and-he-just-registered-to-vote-in-va/2016/09/29/5e0bffee-8670-11e6-ac72-a29979381495_story.html?utm_term=.d1e6e9d6907c
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Mexican woman charged with voter fraud, accused of illegally voting in 2016 election
Alex Pappas By Alex Pappas | Fox News
Laura Janeth Garza, a 37-year-old Mexican national, was indicted May 10 on charges of voter impersonation and ineligible voting. (Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office)
A Mexican woman has been charged in Texas with voter fraud after prosecutors said she illegally voted in the 2016 presidential election.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said his office will prosecute Laura Janeth Garza, a 37-year-old Mexican national who lives in Houston, after a grand jury indicted her May 10 on charges of voter impersonation and ineligible voting.
Both charges are second-degree felonies. If convicted, Garza faces two to 20 years in prison and a $10,000 fine, according to Fox 4 News in Dallas-Ft. Worth.
“This case demonstrates my office’s commitment to protecting the integrity of elections,” Paxton said in a statement. “We will continue to do everything in our power to safeguard the electoral process in Texas.”
According to the attorney general’s office, Garza is accused of voting illegally in Harris County in November 2016, as well as in elections in 2004 and 2012.
Paxton said a joint investigation with the Texas Department of Public Safety determined that Garza obtained documents to steal the identity of a U.S. citizen and illegally register to vote.
Law enforcement became aware of Garza after a U.S. citizen attempted to obtain a passport, but discovered Garza had already done so using her identity, Paxton said. The State Department referred Garza’s case to Texas Department of Public Safety, which then handed it over to Paxton’s office for prosecution.
President Trump has long claimed widespread voting fraud took place in the 2016 election, an assertion that has not been substantiated.
"It's not a conspiracy theory, folks," Trump said at an event in West Virginia last month, claiming millions voted illegally in 2016.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/05/15/mexican-woman-charged-with-voter-fraud-accused-illegally-voting-in-2016-election.html
That's one, which leaves 2.8 million to go. ;D
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That's one, which leaves 2.8 million to go. ;D
After you die, I'll be sure to register you as Republican. :-*
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After you die, I'll be sure to register you as Republican. :-*
Okay thanks. That's one more vote for your side. I'll be sure to provide you with my SSI #, DOB and whatever other information you might need to do that....just don't die before me, or it's a bust! :-* back at ya (no homo). ;)
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https://www.kxan.com/video/austin/about-58-000-non-us-citizens-voted-in-one-or-more-texas-elections/1726285856
According to libfags this must be fake.
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Former Philadelphia Judge of Elections Indicted for Election Fraud in Favor of Democrats
Townhall.com ^ | May 21, 2020 | Reagan McCarthy
Posted on 5/21/2020, 7:18:29 PM by Kaslin
United States Attorney William McSwain announced on Thursday that Domenick DeMuro, a former Judge of Elections in Philadelphia, has been charged with multiple counts of election-related fraud:
“(1) conspiracy to deprive Philadelphia voters of their civil rights by fraudulently stuffing the ballot boxes for specific Democratic candidates in the 2014, 2015, and 2016 primary elections, and (2) a violation of the Travel Act, which forbids the use of any facility in interstate commerce (here, a cell phone) with the intent to promote certain illegal activity (here, bribery),” per a DOJ release.
U.S. Attorney @USAttyMcSwain says, “Demuro fraudulently stuffed the ballot box by literally standing in a voting booth and voting over and over, as fast as he could, while he thought the coast was clear."
The case was investigated by the FBI and @PAStatePolice.— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) May 21, 2020
DeMuro conceded that a political consultant, whose name was not revealed, paid him to illegally doctor votes for multiple Democratic candidates. The bribery money would be disguised as "consulting fees":
“DeMuro fraudulently stuffed the ballot box by literally standing in a voting booth and voting over and over, as fast as he could, while he thought the coast was clear. This is utterly reprehensible conduct. The charges announced today do not erase what he did, but they do ensure that he is held to account for those actions,” said U.S. Attorney McSwain. “Voting is the cornerstone of our democracy. If even one vote is fraudulently rung up, the integrity of that election is compromised. I want the public to know that this investigation is active and ongoing, and my Office is taking every possible step that we can to ensure the integrity of the upcoming primary and general elections in the nine counties of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.”
DeMuro’s indictment eviscerates the narrative, pushed predominantly by Democrats, that voter fraud is non-existent.
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Former Philadelphia Judge of Elections Indicted for Election Fraud in Favor of Democrats
Townhall.com ^ | May 21, 2020 | Reagan McCarthy
Posted on 5/21/2020, 7:18:29 PM by Kaslin
United States Attorney William McSwain announced on Thursday that Domenick DeMuro, a former Judge of Elections in Philadelphia, has been charged with multiple counts of election-related fraud:
“(1) conspiracy to deprive Philadelphia voters of their civil rights by fraudulently stuffing the ballot boxes for specific Democratic candidates in the 2014, 2015, and 2016 primary elections, and (2) a violation of the Travel Act, which forbids the use of any facility in interstate commerce (here, a cell phone) with the intent to promote certain illegal activity (here, bribery),” per a DOJ release.
U.S. Attorney @USAttyMcSwain says, “Demuro fraudulently stuffed the ballot box by literally standing in a voting booth and voting over and over, as fast as he could, while he thought the coast was clear."
The case was investigated by the FBI and @PAStatePolice.— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) May 21, 2020
DeMuro conceded that a political consultant, whose name was not revealed, paid him to illegally doctor votes for multiple Democratic candidates. The bribery money would be disguised as "consulting fees":
“DeMuro fraudulently stuffed the ballot box by literally standing in a voting booth and voting over and over, as fast as he could, while he thought the coast was clear. This is utterly reprehensible conduct. The charges announced today do not erase what he did, but they do ensure that he is held to account for those actions,” said U.S. Attorney McSwain. “Voting is the cornerstone of our democracy. If even one vote is fraudulently rung up, the integrity of that election is compromised. I want the public to know that this investigation is active and ongoing, and my Office is taking every possible step that we can to ensure the integrity of the upcoming primary and general elections in the nine counties of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.”
DeMuro’s indictment eviscerates the narrative, pushed predominantly by Democrats, that voter fraud is non-existent.
Why not reveal the name? Is this person going to be arrested and charged? Why not reveal the names of the Democratic candidates? Did they win their elections?
And if a guy like DeMuro was approached it is possible that others who held similar positions might have been approached for the same reason and committed the same crimes.
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Sherikia Hawkins was charged Monday with six felony counts for allegedly altering absentee ballots during the November 2018 election in her capacity as city clerk for the Detroit suburb of Southfield, Mich. Hawkins, a 38-year-old registered Democrat, stands accused of altering 193 absentee ballots. She was arraigned Monday in Southfield on charges including falsifying returns or records, forgery of a public record, misconduct in office, and multiple counts of using a computer to commit a crime. She was released on $15,000 bond...The alleged misconduct was discovered after the Oakland County Clerk’s Office noticed that 193 voter files had been changed to reflect that the voters failed to include a valid signature or return date, when all of the implicated voters had in fact included both items. The county clerk’s office later discovered the original voter files in the trash at the election-division office. The Michigan State Police then launched an investigation that resulted in Hawkins’s arrest.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2020/05/26/voter-fraud-michigan-democratic-official-charged-with-altering-ballots-in-2018-election-n2569417
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Former Philadelphia Judge of Elections Indicted for Election Fraud in Favor of Democrats
Townhall.com ^ | May 21, 2020 | Reagan McCarthy
Posted on 5/21/2020, 7:18:29 PM by Kaslin
United States Attorney William McSwain announced on Thursday that Domenick DeMuro, a former Judge of Elections in Philadelphia, has been charged with multiple counts of election-related fraud:
“(1) conspiracy to deprive Philadelphia voters of their civil rights by fraudulently stuffing the ballot boxes for specific Democratic candidates in the 2014, 2015, and 2016 primary elections, and (2) a violation of the Travel Act, which forbids the use of any facility in interstate commerce (here, a cell phone) with the intent to promote certain illegal activity (here, bribery),” per a DOJ release.
U.S. Attorney @USAttyMcSwain says, “Demuro fraudulently stuffed the ballot box by literally standing in a voting booth and voting over and over, as fast as he could, while he thought the coast was clear."
The case was investigated by the FBI and @PAStatePolice.— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) May 21, 2020
DeMuro conceded that a political consultant, whose name was not revealed, paid him to illegally doctor votes for multiple Democratic candidates. The bribery money would be disguised as "consulting fees":
“DeMuro fraudulently stuffed the ballot box by literally standing in a voting booth and voting over and over, as fast as he could, while he thought the coast was clear. This is utterly reprehensible conduct. The charges announced today do not erase what he did, but they do ensure that he is held to account for those actions,” said U.S. Attorney McSwain. “Voting is the cornerstone of our democracy. If even one vote is fraudulently rung up, the integrity of that election is compromised. I want the public to know that this investigation is active and ongoing, and my Office is taking every possible step that we can to ensure the integrity of the upcoming primary and general elections in the nine counties of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.”
DeMuro’s indictment eviscerates the narrative, pushed predominantly by Democrats, that voter fraud is non-existent.
Election fraud does happen but it is not limited to one political party or another. In Clackamas County, OR, an elections processor was caught intentionally changing ballots by filling in the boxes for Republican candidates where no candidate had been selected.
"Eviscerates" is an interesting word to you use in this instance. It's clearly inflammatory and used for effect not accuracy. It is however, a good example of how some reporters in the media seek to manipulate the readership.
Trump is against vote by mail because he says it increases voter fraud. In this case, the fraud would not have happened using a vote by mail system. Votes are initially counted by machine.
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/trump-proven-right-mail-carrier-charged-west-virginia-voter-fraud-case-connection-manipulation-absentee-ballot-requests
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Trump could never be wrong! there is always some piece of evidence in some way which vindicates him!
You have a megalomaniac for a president who couldn't care less about people and you guys are spurring him on, its very odd to see a egomaniac like him being cheered on. He clearly is a narcissist, he is constantly gas lighting yet no one seems to care.
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Trump could never be wrong! there is always some piece of evidence in some way which vindicates him!
You have a megalomaniac for a president who couldn't care less about people and you guys are spurring him on, its very odd to see a egomaniac like him being cheered on. He clearly is a narcissist, he is constantly gas lighting yet no one seems to care.
You mean he uses evidence to form his opinions? That's terrible! He should just use his feelings like the libtards do.
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Trump could never be wrong! there is always some piece of evidence in some way which vindicates him!
You have a megalomaniac for a president who couldn't care less about people and you guys are spurring him on, its very odd to see a egomaniac like him being cheered on. He clearly is a narcissist, he is constantly gas lighting yet no one seems to care.
every president that i can remember is insane
not a job for the "normal"
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It's time to return to all paper ballots...electronic voting holds the possibility of technical "hacking"...
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Minneapolis has not had a Republican Mayor since 1973.
Let little Mogadishu burn.
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Michigan City Clerk Charged with Altering Ballots in 2018 Midterms
(https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/iosconews.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/7/00/700fd972-4941-593c-bd2c-b1a80d085536/5ef4e6bf37864.image.jpg?resize=590%2C802)
Sherikia Hawkins was charged Monday with six felony counts for allegedly altering absentee ballots during the November 2018 election in her capacity as city clerk for the Detroit suburb of Southfield, Mich.
Hawkins, a 38-year-old registered Democrat, stands accused of altering 193 absentee ballots. She was arraigned Monday in Southfield on charges including falsifying returns or records, forgery of a public record, misconduct in office, and multiple counts of using a computer to commit a crime. She was released on $15,000 bond.
The alleged misconduct was discovered after the Oakland County Clerk’s Office noticed that 193 voter files had been changed to reflect that the voters failed to include a valid signature or return date, when all of the implicated voters had in fact included both items. The county clerk’s office later discovered the original voter files in the trash at the election-division office. The Michigan State Police then launched an investigation that resulted in Hawkins’s arrest.
Hawkins, who makes $101,500 per year, has been placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of her trial.
The Michigan Democratic party honored Hawkins this year with the prestigious Dingell/Levin award at its annual Legacy Dinner in Detroit, and she was included in the Michigan Chronicle‘s “40 under 40” list in 2017.
Hawkins, who has overseen a total of 16 elections in Oakland County, began working in government in 2010 as deputy city clerk for the city of Pontiac, according to her LinkedIn profile. She was serving as the Pontiac city clerk when Democrat Gary Peters won a very tight congressional race against Republican Rocky Raczkowski in the state’s ninth congressional district in November 2010, the same election cycle that Republicans overwhelmingly reclaimed the House majority. Peters, who has has since been elected to the Senate, bested Raczkowski by just 6,405 votes out of a total 245,055 cast.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/michigan-city-clerk-charged-with-altering-ballots-in-2018-midterms/
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Democrats are such upstanding citizens.
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U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain Announces Election Fraud Charges Against Former U.S. Congressman and Philadelphia Political Operative
justice.gov/ ^ | 7/23/2020 | justice.gov/
Posted on 7/24/2020, 12:14:58
PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that former U.S. Congressman Michael “Ozzie” Myers, 77, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has been charged by Indictment with multiple counts, including conspiring to violate voting rights by fraudulently stuffing the ballot boxes for specific Democratic candidates in the 2014, 2015, and 2016 Pennsylvania primary elections, bribery of an election official, falsification of records, voting more than once in federal elections, and obstruction of justice. U.S. Attorney McSwain’s video statement providing additional details about this case is available on the Office website here: https://www.justice.gov/usao-edpa/video/us-attorney-william-m-mcswain-announces-indictment-former-congressman-election-fraud.
Specifically, Myers is alleged to have bribed the Judge of Elections for the 39th Ward, 36th Division in South Philadelphia, Domenick J. Demuro, in a fraudulent scheme over several years. Demuro, who was charged separately and pleaded guilty in May 2020, was responsible for overseeing the entire election process and all voter activities of his Division in accord with federal and state election laws.
The voting machines at each polling station, including in the 39th Ward, 36th Division, generate records in the form of a printed receipt documenting the use of each voting machine. This printed receipt, also known as the “results receipt,” shows the vote totals, and the Judge of Elections and other Election Board Officials at each polling place attest to the accuracy of machine results.
Myers is charged with bribing Demuro to illegally add votes for certain candidates of their mutual political party in primary elections. Some of these candidates were individuals running for judicial office whose campaigns had hired Myers, and others were candidates for various federal, state, and local elective offices that Myers favored for a variety of reasons. According to the Indictment, Myers would solicit payments from his clients in the form of cash or checks as “consulting fees,” and then use portions of these funds to pay Demuro and others to tamper with election results.
After receiving payments ranging from between $300 to $5,000 per election from Myers, Demuro would add fraudulent votes on the voting machine – also known as “ringing up” votes – for Myers’ clients and preferred candidates, thereby diluting the value of ballots cast by actual voters. At Myers’ direction, Demuro would add these fraudulent votes to the totals during Election Day, and then would later falsely certify that the voting machine results were accurate. Myers is also accused of directing Demuro to lie to investigators about the circumstances of the bribes and the ballot-stuffing scheme.
more...
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/guy-leads-by-a-dozen-votes
unbelievable
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It's time to return to all paper ballots...electronic voting holds the possibility of technical "hacking"...
FYI, here in Ga, each and every vote has a paper copy to verify for recounts and audits.
https://www.studentnewsdaily.com/daily-news-article/georgias-new-paper-ballot-voting-system/
This is why Ga could verify each and every vote and Trump ended up losing Ga 3x in 2020 ;)
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FYI, here in Ga, each and every vote has a paper copy to verify for recounts and audits.
https://www.studentnewsdaily.com/daily-news-article/georgias-new-paper-ballot-voting-system/
This is why Ga could verify each and every vote and Trump ended up losing Ga 3x in 2020 ;)
It didn't hurt that Dominion registered a 26% win even when equal Trump votes were entered into the machine.
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Wisconsin election law violations: Racine County sheriff reveals findings
By FOX6 News Digital Team
Published October 28, 2021
https://www.fox6now.com/news/wisconsin-election-law-violations-racine-county-sheriff-reveals-findings?utm_medium=email&utm_source=ncl_amplify&utm_campaign=20211028-icymi_wisconsin_election_law_violations_racine_county_sheriff_reveals_findings&utm_content=ncl-UdQQtaBmXn&_nlid=UdQQtaBmXn&_nsid=b558538b-e5c6-4d63-9990-0d480806ef53
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Former PA congressman pleads guilty to ballot-stuffing for Democrats in federal elections
Fox News ^ | June 8, 2022 | Jessica Chasmar
Posted on 6/8/2022, 12:17:25 PM by American Number 181269513
A former Pennsylvania congressman has pleaded guilty to extensive voter fraud, including stuffing ballot boxes for Democratic candidates, spanning multiple elections in the state.
Former U.S. Rep. Michael "Ozzie" Myers, 79, of Philadelphia, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to deprive voters of civil rights, bribery, obstruction of justice, falsification of voting records, and conspiring to illegally vote in a federal election, the Justice Department announced Monday.
Federal prosecutors said Myers orchestrated schemes to fraudulently stuff ballot boxes for Democratic candidates in the 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 Pennsylvania elections.
Myers admitted to bribing an elections judge, Domenick Demuro, in a voter fraud scheme over several years. Demuro pleaded guilty in May 2020 and was convicted for his role in accepting bribes to cast fraudulent ballots and certify false voting results.
Myers also admitted to conspiring to commit election fraud with another elections judge, Marie Beren, who pleaded guilty to the scheme in October 2021.
"Voting is the cornerstone of our democracy," U.S. Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams said in a press release. "If even one vote has been illegally cast or if the integrity of just one election official is compromised, it diminishes faith in process."
Myers was expelled from Congress in 1980 after being caught taking bribes in the Abscam sting investigation, when he was convicted of bribery and conspiracy for taking money from FBI agents who posed as Arab sheiks. He served more than a year in prison.
Myers also served six years in the Pennsylvania House before his 1976 election to Congress.
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Former PA congressman pleads guilty to ballot-stuffing for Democrats in federal elections
Fox News ^ | June 8, 2022 | Jessica Chasmar
Posted on 6/8/2022, 12:17:25 PM by American Number 181269513
A former Pennsylvania congressman has pleaded guilty to extensive voter fraud, including stuffing ballot boxes for Democratic candidates, spanning multiple elections in the state.
Former U.S. Rep. Michael "Ozzie" Myers, 79, of Philadelphia, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to deprive voters of civil rights, bribery, obstruction of justice, falsification of voting records, and conspiring to illegally vote in a federal election, the Justice Department announced Monday.
Federal prosecutors said Myers orchestrated schemes to fraudulently stuff ballot boxes for Democratic candidates in the 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 Pennsylvania elections.
Myers admitted to bribing an elections judge, Domenick Demuro, in a voter fraud scheme over several years. Demuro pleaded guilty in May 2020 and was convicted for his role in accepting bribes to cast fraudulent ballots and certify false voting results.
Myers also admitted to conspiring to commit election fraud with another elections judge, Marie Beren, who pleaded guilty to the scheme in October 2021.
"Voting is the cornerstone of our democracy," U.S. Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams said in a press release. "If even one vote has been illegally cast or if the integrity of just one election official is compromised, it diminishes faith in process."
Myers was expelled from Congress in 1980 after being caught taking bribes in the Abscam sting investigation, when he was convicted of bribery and conspiracy for taking money from FBI agents who posed as Arab sheiks. He served more than a year in prison.
Myers also served six years in the Pennsylvania House before his 1976 election to Congress.
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Damn.
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And we are called conspiracy theorists.
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Former PA congressman pleads guilty to ballot-stuffing for Democrats in federal elections
Fox News ^ | June 8, 2022 | Jessica Chasmar
Posted on 6/8/2022, 12:17:25 PM by American Number 181269513
A former Pennsylvania congressman has pleaded guilty to extensive voter fraud, including stuffing ballot boxes for Democratic candidates, spanning multiple elections in the state.
Former U.S. Rep. Michael "Ozzie" Myers, 79, of Philadelphia, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to deprive voters of civil rights, bribery, obstruction of justice, falsification of voting records, and conspiring to illegally vote in a federal election, the Justice Department announced Monday.
Federal prosecutors said Myers orchestrated schemes to fraudulently stuff ballot boxes for Democratic candidates in the 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 Pennsylvania elections.
Myers admitted to bribing an elections judge, Domenick Demuro, in a voter fraud scheme over several years. Demuro pleaded guilty in May 2020 and was convicted for his role in accepting bribes to cast fraudulent ballots and certify false voting results.
Myers also admitted to conspiring to commit election fraud with another elections judge, Marie Beren, who pleaded guilty to the scheme in October 2021.
"Voting is the cornerstone of our democracy," U.S. Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams said in a press release. "If even one vote has been illegally cast or if the integrity of just one election official is compromised, it diminishes faith in process."
Myers was expelled from Congress in 1980 after being caught taking bribes in the Abscam sting investigation, when he was convicted of bribery and conspiracy for taking money from FBI agents who posed as Arab sheiks. He served more than a year in prison.
Myers also served six years in the Pennsylvania House before his 1976 election to Congress.
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Judicial Watch and New York City Settle Federal Lawsuit on Voter Registration Clean-Up after City Removes 441,083 Ineligible Names from Voter Rolls
Judcial Watch ^ | December 28, 2022
Posted on 1/4/2023, 10:00:59 AM by grundle
Judicial Watch announced today that it is settling a federal election integrity lawsuit against New York City after the city removed 441,083 ineligible names from the voter rolls and promised to take reasonable steps going forward to clean its voter registration lists
Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit in July against New York City after it failed to clean voter rolls for years. The lawsuit, filed under the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), pointed out that New York City removed only 22 names under the federal law over six years (Judicial Watch v Valentine et al. (No.1:22-cv-03952)).
The Judicial Watch lawsuit detailed that New York City’s “own recent data concedes that there were only 22 total” removals under this provision “during a six-year period, in a city of over 5.5 million voters. These are ludicrously small numbers of removals given the sizable populations of these counties.” Moreover, the “almost complete failure of Kings, Queens, New York, Bronx, and Richmond Counties, over a period of at least six years, to remove voters” under a key provision of federal law “means that there are untold numbers of New York City registrations for voters who are ineligible to vote at their listed address because they have changed residence or are otherwise ineligible to vote.”
Today’s announced settlement details how the city responded to Judicial Watch’s notice about its voting roll deficiencies with a massive clean-up:
[The Board of Elections] notified Judicial Watch that, in February 2022, they removed, pursuant to Section 8(d)(1)(B) of the NVRA, 82,802 registrations in Bronx County, 128,093 in Kings County, 145,891 in New York County, 66,010 in Queens County, and 18,287 in Richmond County, for a total of 441,083 registrations.
[The Board of Elections] notified Judicial Watch that going forward they intend to cancel registrations pursuant to Section 8(d)(1)(B) in each odd-numbered year in the months following a federal election.
Specifically, the city also agrees to track in detail report its voter roll maintenance efforts through 2025:
For both 2023 and 2025 … the [Board of Elections] will notify Judicial Watch … on or before March 31, by means of separate excel spreadsheets for Bronx County, Kings County, New York County, Queens County, and Richmond County, of the number of removals, including removals pursuant to … the NVRA, made during the previous two years.
The NVRA requires states to “conduct a general program that makes a reasonable effort to remove” from the rolls “the names of ineligible voters” who have died or changed residence. Among other things, the law requires registrations to be cancelled when voters fail to respond to address confirmation notices and then fail to vote in the next two general federal elections. In 2018, the Supreme Court confirmed that such removals are mandatory (Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Inst. (138 S. Ct. 1833, 1841-42 (2018)).
“This historic settlement is a major victory for New York voters who will benefit from cleaner voter rolls and more honest elections. Judicial Watch is pleased that New York City officials quickly moved to remove 441,000 outdated registrations from the rolls. We look forward to working together under this federal lawsuit settlement to ensure New York City maintains cleaner rolls for future elections,” stated Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
Judicial Watch is a national leader in voting integrity and voting rights. As part of its work, Judicial Watch assembled a team of highly experienced voting rights attorneys who stopped discriminatory elections in Hawaii, and cleaned up voter rolls in California, Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky, among other achievements.
California settled an NVRA lawsuit with Judicial Watch and began the process of removing up to 1.6 million inactive names from Los Angeles County’s voter rolls. Kentucky also began a cleanup of hundreds of thousands of old registrations last year after it entered into a consent decree to end another Judicial Watch lawsuit.
In February 2022, Judicial Watch settled a voter roll clean-up lawsuit against North Carolina and two of its counties after the North Carolina removed over 430,000 ineligible names from the voter rolls.
In March 2022, a Maryland court ruled in favor of Judicial Watch’s challenge to Maryland’s Democratic legislature “extreme” congressional redistricting gerrymander.
In May 2022, Judicial Watch sued Illinois on behalf of Congressman Mike Bost and two other registered Illinois voters to prevent state election officials from extending Election Day for 14 days beyond the date established by federal law.
Robert Popper, Judicial Watch senior attorney, leads its election law program. Popper was previously in the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, where he managed voting rights investigations, litigations, consent decrees, and settlements in dozens of states.
Ethan Leonard, Esq. and Neal Brickman, Esq. of The Law Offices of Neal Brickman, P.C. in New York City assisted Judicial Watch in the lawsuit.
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How about those fake electors? Does that count as voter fraud? Kind of hearing crickets on those.
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How about those fake electors? Does that count as voter fraud? Kind of hearing crickets on those.
Dumb low IQ bitch with no actual life, but you still get everything completely wrong.
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Libs when Trump won: "He stole the election it was rigged"
same Libs when Shitter won: "There is no way someone can rig an election"!!
LIbs - Dumbest in history! ::) ::)
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Libs when Trump won: "He stole the election it was rigged"
same Libs when Shitter won: "There is no way someone can rig an election"!!
LIbs - Dumbest in history! ::) ::)
FYI, I am a "lib" and I never said "He stole the election it was rigged" Clinton got more popular votes than Trump did but that doesn't determine the winner in the U.S. The electoral college determines who won by their vote which should reflect that of the people, but it doesn't always work as it should as we witnessed in 2016.
Also note in 2016 Trump claimed foul with regards to Clinton winning the popular vote... so did several Getbiggers.
Seems to be a trend these days. People claim fraud or foul when they don't like then election results.
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Human Error Turns Every Registered Nassau County Voter Democrat
NBC NewYork ^ | May 16, 2023 | Melissa Colorado
A mistake listing every Nassau County registered voter as blue had many — especially Republicans — seeing red.
Many voters in the GOP-leaning Long Island county got their voter ID cards in the mail on Tuesday, and a half-million who got their cards saw a pretty glaring typo: All the cards say voters are registered Democrats, when in fact they might be Republican, independent or members of another political party.
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Human Error Turns Every Registered Nassau County Voter Democrat
NBC NewYork ^ | May 16, 2023 | Melissa Colorado
A mistake listing every Nassau County registered voter as blue had many — especially Republicans — seeing red.
Many voters in the GOP-leaning Long Island county got their voter ID cards in the mail on Tuesday, and a half-million who got their cards saw a pretty glaring typo: All the cards say voters are registered Democrats, when in fact they might be Republican, independent or members of another political party.
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Human error?
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The electoral college determines who won by their vote which should reflect that of the people, but it doesn't always work as it should as we witnessed in 2016.
It worked exactly as it should in 2016.
It wasn't designed to mimic the popular vote.
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Human error?
Perhaps. What is most relevant is who made the error and who did not. The printing company said it was a human error and is now apologizing. A spokesperson called it "an isolated event, but we apologize for our mistake, especially to Nassau County officials, who bear no responsibility for this problem."
A printer error likely has nothing to do with politics. Had Nassau County Officials made the error, any suspicion of intentional wrongdoing might make sense.
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Human Error Turns Every Registered Nassau County Voter Democrat
NBC NewYork ^ | May 16, 2023 | Melissa Colorado
A mistake listing every Nassau County registered voter as blue had many — especially Republicans — seeing red.
Many voters in the GOP-leaning Long Island county got their voter ID cards in the mail on Tuesday, and a half-million who got their cards saw a pretty glaring typo: All the cards say voters are registered Democrats, when in fact they might be Republican, independent or members of another political party.
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Why are these mistakes almost always ones that help Democrats and hurt Republicans?
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Why are these mistakes almost always ones that help Democrats and hurt Republicans?
How does this mistake help or hurt anyone? Will folks have to vote accordingly or will the mistake be rectified in time for their state primary/runoff election on June 25, 2024 or of more concern the Presidential primary on February 6, 2024
https://abc7ny.com/nassau-county-voters-mailer-board-of-election/13255440/
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How does this mistake help or hurt anyone? Will folks have to vote accordingly or will the mistake be rectified in time for their state primary/runoff election on June 25, 2024 or of more concern the Presidential primary on February 6, 2024
https://abc7ny.com/nassau-county-voters-mailer-board-of-election/13255440/
How does listing every voter as a Democrat help Democrats? Oh no. I'm stumped. ::)
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How does listing every voter as a Democrat help Democrats? Oh no. I'm stumped. ::)
It would help Democrats if Republicans could not vote for a Republican candidate in the state and congressional primaries. That's not going to happen. In New York, voters must affiliate with a party to vote in that party's primary election (closed primaries).
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In Texas you pick a primary and you can only vote in one...You don't have to pick beforehand.
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I Texas you pick a primary and you can only vote in one...You don't have to pick beforehand.
Texas has 'open' primaries. Fifteen states have open primaries. The rest have closed primaries.
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Nobody wants the guy that is in office, nobody knows why he's there(or who voted for him) or thinks things have improved ... and nobody wants the woke agenda.
Just look at the questions and answers on this poll.
"Journalist Glenn Greenwald has highlighted how a new Harris-Harvard poll, which has been covered practically nowhere in the mainstream media, displays how Americans hold almost wholly opposite opinions to liberal corporate media narratives."
https://summit.news/2023/05/22/poll-shows-how-radically-different-americans-opinions-are-from-liberal-corporate-media-narratives/
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Nobody wants the guy that is in office, nobody knows why he's there(or who voted for him) or thinks things have improved ... and nobody wants the woke agenda.
Just look at the questions and answers on this poll.
"Journalist Glenn Greenwald has highlighted how a new Harris-Harvard poll, which has been covered practically nowhere in the mainstream media, displays how Americans hold almost wholly opposite opinions to liberal corporate media narratives."
https://summit.news/2023/05/22/poll-shows-how-radically-different-americans-opinions-are-from-liberal-corporate-media-narratives/
Rigged election 2.0 coming up, Biden elected again.
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Rigged election 2.0 coming up, Biden elected again.
Now you are making excuses for another Trump failure in advance of it happening. Nice way to hedge your bet. But you are right about one thing, Biden will likely be elected again. On another note, will Trump once again summon his mob to storm the capital in an attempt to overturn the results?
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It's remarkable how poorly this thread has aged
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It's remarkable how poorly this thread has aged
Not quite as remarkable as how quiet it is when someone wants to talk about real election fraud - the fake electors - and all that is heard is crickets.
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It's remarkable how poorly this thread has aged
Yes, because all of the news stories have someone become false over time. ::)
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Yes, because all of the news stories have someone become false over time. ::)
Try again
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Try again
A meaningless comment. When you cannot address the merits. Common.
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A meaningless comment. When you cannot address the merits. Common.
So, we're just going to ignore all the information and conclusions of the last 3 years about election fraud from the courts, officials, Attorney Genera, state courts, state supreme courts? Not surprising
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So, we're just going to ignore all the information and conclusions of the last 3 years about the election? Not surprising
This thread was started on 11 November 2011 and has been updated with numerous stories for years since then. So your comment about the thread not aging well is pretty dumb.
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This thread was started on 11 November 2011 and has been updated with numerous stories for years since then. So your comment about the thread not aging well is pretty dumb.
I can understand why you might say that.. but we'll agree to disagree since I'm obviously addressing this threads last 3 years
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Now you are making excuses for another Trump failure in advance of it happening. Nice way to hedge your bet. But you are right about one thing, Biden will likely be elected again. On another note, will Trump once again summon his mob to storm the capital in an attempt to overturn the results?
No Trump needs to retire. You will be suffering from Biden's policies, can you name one policy that is good ???
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No Trump needs to retire. You will be suffering from Biden's policies, can you name one policy that is good ???
Here's just a couple of them I believe are good:
Biden signed into law the CHIPS and Science Act and the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022.
Asylum-seekers who cross the border illegally to be deported under new Biden administration rule.
Biden's proposal to invest in Medicare's trust fund so that the program can remain solvent into the 2050s,
Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act last year.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/briefing-room/2023/03/09/fact-sheet-president-bidens-budget-lowers-energy-costs-combats-the-climate-crisis-and-advances-environmental-justice/#:~:text=He%20set%20an%20ambitious%20domestic,make%20their%20own%20bold%20contributions.
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Here's just a couple of them I believe are good:
Biden signed into law the CHIPS and Science Act and the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022.
Asylum-seekers who cross the border illegally to be deported under new Biden administration rule.
Biden's proposal to invest in Medicare's trust fund so that the program can remain solvent into the 2050s,
Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act last year.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/briefing-room/2023/03/09/fact-sheet-president-bidens-budget-lowers-energy-costs-combats-the-climate-crisis-and-advances-environmental-justice/#:~:text=He%20set%20an%20ambitious%20domestic,make%20their%20own%20bold%20contributions.
Two are good, and two were needed because of his incompetence. . my comments below:
Biden signed into law the CHIPS and Science Act and the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022.
Asylum-seekers who cross the border illegally to be deported under new Biden administration rule.
This was needed as he placed a huge sign that said "all are welcome" - levels not seen in more than two decades
Biden's proposal to invest in Medicare's trust fund so that the program can remain solvent into the 2050s,
Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act last year.
Inflation has increased since the day President Biden took office in January 2021, and began its rise to the fastest rate in 40-years
https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/briefing-room/2023/03/09/fact-sheet-president-bidens-budget-lowers-energy-costs-combats-the-climate-crisis-and-advances-environmental-justice/#:~:text=He%20set%20an%20ambitious%20domestic,make%20their%20own%20bold%20contributions.
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Two are good, and two were needed because of his incompetence. . my comments below:
Biden signed into law the CHIPS and Science Act and the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022.
Asylum-seekers who cross the border illegally to be deported under new Biden administration rule.
This was needed as he placed a huge sign that said "all are welcome" - levels not seen in more than two decades
Biden's proposal to invest in Medicare's trust fund so that the program can remain solvent into the 2050s,
Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act last year.
Inflation has increased since the day President Biden took office in January 2021, and began its rise to the fastest rate in 40-years
https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/briefing-room/2023/03/09/fact-sheet-president-bidens-budget-lowers-energy-costs-combats-the-climate-crisis-and-advances-environmental-justice/#:~:text=He%20set%20an%20ambitious%20domestic,make%20their%20own%20bold%20contributions.
Title 42 was implemented by Trump because of the pandemic (you know, the one some say was a hoax). Title 42 expired at 11:59 p.m. on May 11, because the national COVID-19 public health emergency also expired, eliminating one of the legal underpinnings of the policy. Could Biden have extended it? I don't know the answer to this, do you? Maybe Biden did all that he could legally. Since Title 42 was implemented, there have been 2.8 million migrant expulsions. When Title 42 ended, the U.S. government reverted to immigration law as it existed before the world went into lockdown. In response, the Biden administration has added a new limitation on asylum that, with Mexico’s cooperation, promises to continue the pandemic-era practice of sending asylum seekers away from the United States, placing many in danger.
Trump had the good fortune to inherit a growing economy from Obama. For as long as I can remember and probably long before that, the economy has been fluid, sometimes it goes up and sometimes it goes down and so on and so on. Like the old saying, “what goes up, must come down.” Biden inherited an economy that was headed downward because of COVID. That downturn has already begun to level out and even reverse. It will soon be on the upswing, barring another pandemic or similar catastrophe that blows it up.
The current job market is hot because there is a workforce shortage, so positions are going unfilled.
What effect on the economy do you suppose higher interest rates have?
For a decade or more housing prices experienced huge increases which priced many folks out of the market both in sales and rentals. Now high interest rates have cooled the housing market with fewer people moving, selling, or buying properties. For example, let’s suppose I wanted to downside. My current mortgage interest rate is 2.25% APR. Why would I choose to sell just to buy another at the current rate of 7.09 % APR. Even a lesser priced property would likely result in higher mortgage payments.
On the plus side, if you have a CD, it has higher earnings than it did when interest rates were low. More people putting money into savings accounts and low risk investments will help stabilize the economy. It is all a huge balancing act, always has been.
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I can understand why you might say that.. but we'll agree to disagree since I'm obviously addressing this threads last 3 years
Your own words were clearly not limited to the last 3 years:
It's remarkable how poorly this thread has aged
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Title 42 was implemented by Trump because of the pandemic (you know, the one some say was a hoax). Title 42 expired at 11:59 p.m. on May 11, because the national COVID-19 public health emergency also expired, eliminating one of the legal underpinnings of the policy. Could Biden have extended it? I don't know the answer to this, do you? Maybe Biden did all that he could legally. Since Title 42 was implemented, there have been 2.8 million migrant expulsions. When Title 42 ended, the U.S. government reverted to immigration law as it existed before the world went into lockdown. In response, the Biden administration has added a new limitation on asylum that, with Mexico’s cooperation, promises to continue the pandemic-era practice of sending asylum seekers away from the United States, placing many in danger.
Trump had the good fortune to inherit a growing economy from Obama. For as long as I can remember and probably long before that, the economy has been fluid, sometimes it goes up and sometimes it goes down and so on and so on. Like the old saying, “what goes up, must come down.” Biden inherited an economy that was headed downward because of COVID. That downturn has already begun to level out and even reverse. It will soon be on the upswing, barring another pandemic or similar catastrophe that blows it up.
The current job market is hot because there is a workforce shortage, so positions are going unfilled.
What effect on the economy do you suppose higher interest rates have?
For a decade or more housing prices experienced huge increases which priced many folks out of the market both in sales and rentals. Now high interest rates have cooled the housing market with fewer people moving, selling, or buying properties. For example, let’s suppose I wanted to downside. My current mortgage interest rate is 2.25% APR. Why would I choose to sell just to buy another at the current rate of 7.09 % APR. Even a lesser priced property would likely result in higher mortgage payments.
On the plus side, if you have a CD, it has higher earnings than it did when interest rates were low. More people putting money into savings accounts and low risk investments will help stabilize the economy. It is all a huge balancing act, always has been.
no matter what you copy and paste - it does not change the facts.
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Two Northeastern States Crackdown on Mail-In Ballot Election Fraud
by: Wendi Strauch Mahoney 11/03/2023
https://uncoverdc.com/2023/11/03/two-new-england-states-crackdown-on-mail-in-ballot-election-fraud
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Two Northeastern States Crackdown on Mail-In Ballot Election Fraud
by: Wendi Strauch Mahoney 11/03/2023
https://uncoverdc.com/2023/11/03/two-new-england-states-crackdown-on-mail-in-ballot-election-fraud
Congrats, you beat coach.. you picked a source that even beats Coach's go to's
Questionable Reasoning: Conspiracies, Pseudoscience, Propaganda, Poor Sourcing, Lack of Transparency, False Claims
Bias Rating: EXTREME RIGHT
Factual Reporting: LOW
Country: USA
Press Freedom Rating: MOSTLY FREE
Media Type: Website
Traffic/Popularity: Medium Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating: LOW CREDIBILITY
Congrats, you make Coach look smart...
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/uncoverdc/
So you're saying they caught the bad guys... that's good. Sounds like it's pretty hard to pull off mass voter fraud.
But I would say mail in ballot system needs to be looked at to improve security.
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Congrats, you beat coach.. you picked a source that even beats Coach's go to's
Questionable Reasoning: Conspiracies, Pseudoscience, Propaganda, Poor Sourcing, Lack of Transparency, False Claims
Bias Rating: EXTREME RIGHT
Factual Reporting: LOW
Country: USA
Press Freedom Rating: MOSTLY FREE
Media Type: Website
Traffic/Popularity: Medium Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating: LOW CREDIBILITY
Congrats, you make Coach look smart...
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/uncoverdc/
So you're saying they caught the bad guys... that's good. Sounds like it's pretty hard to pull off mass voter fraud.
But I would say mail in ballot system needs to be looked at to improve security.
They Banned a sitting president from Twitter
Impeached him twice , jailed his supporters,
Raided his home, and indicted him four times...
And then go on MSM and try to tell us That
We're the Fascists.
Fucking lowlife Scumbag Khvnts Democrats 🤬🤬🤬
HTH
;D
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Congrats, you beat coach.. you picked a source that even beats Coach's go to's
Questionable Reasoning: Conspiracies, Pseudoscience, Propaganda, Poor Sourcing, Lack of Transparency, False Claims
Bias Rating: EXTREME RIGHT
Factual Reporting: LOW
Country: USA
Press Freedom Rating: MOSTLY FREE
Media Type: Website
Traffic/Popularity: Medium Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating: LOW CREDIBILITY
Congrats, you make Coach look smart...
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/uncoverdc/
So you're saying they caught the bad guys... that's good. Sounds like it's pretty hard to pull off mass voter fraud.
But I would say mail in ballot system needs to be looked at to improve security.
(https://storage.googleapis.com/pubzapuscentral/watchprosite/timeout/279/raw/timeout_6069781.jpg)
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They Banned a sitting president from Twitter
Impeached him twice , jailed his supporters,
Raided his home, and indicted him four times...
And then go on MSM and try to tell us That
We're the Fascists.
Fucking lowlife Scumbag Khvnts Democrats 🤬🤬🤬
HTH
;D
Yeah, and morons still support the reprobate. Go figure
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Yeah, and morons still support the reprobate. Go figure
Donald is the only Republican to get over 75million votes
& the only incumbent President to in American history to
Get significantly more votes 2nd time round & Yet Not
Win the Oval.
I have a Functioning brain, so I well know for sure that a
Dementia patient who didn't campaign & couldn’t fill a
McDonald's parking lot, & can't string a single sentence
Together sure as hell didn't break every single voting
Record in America politics in all of America's history.
WTF - Kind of La La land do the corrupt Democrats
Live in.
It never ceases to amaze that a lot of Low IQ non thinking
Folk still believe A Lying Corrupt Pedo Joe supposedly won. ::)
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Idiot red hats whining about “election fraud” with false accusations but yet completely ignore the real election fraud by their side with tons of evidence. ::)
GTFO
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They Banned a sitting president from Twitter
Impeached him twice , jailed his supporters,
Raided his home, and indicted him four times...
And then go on MSM and try to tell us That
We're the Fascists.
Fucking lowlife Scumbag Khvnts Democrats 🤬🤬🤬
HTH
;D
Who is this “us” and “we” you speak of? Because you can’t vote at all in our elections so stop trying to include yourself. You will never be one of us. :'(
HTH
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Donald is the only Republican to get over 75million votes
& the only incumbent President to in American history to
Get significantly more votes 2nd time round & Yet Not
Win the Oval.
I have a Functioning brain, so I well know for sure that a
Dementia patient who didn't campaign & couldn’t fill a
McDonald's parking lot, & can't string a single sentence
Together sure as hell didn't break every single voting
Record in America politics in all of America's history.
WTF - Kind of La La land do the corrupt Democrats
Live in.
It never ceases to amaze that a lot of Low IQ non thinking
Folk still believe A Lying Corrupt Pedo Joe supposedly won. ::)
It's probably hard to see from way over there, but over here, the reason the dementia patient was able to break every voting record was simply because the orange clown was so disgusting that people who normally don't give a rats ass about an election got off their couches or bought stamps and participated. That's how awful Trump was.
On a side note, IF Trump is not convicted of the many charges he faces, and is eligible to hold the office, it is very very likely he will cost himself the election by being an arrogant, lying, bragging dickhead in front of the cameras, and remind the same people that voted last time against him, to repeat the process. If Trump simply shut up for 12 months he could likely win. He can't do that. He is incapable of acting rational and decent for any length of time. He's smarter than his advisors...
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Idiot red hats whining about “election fraud” with false accusations but yet completely ignore the real election fraud by their side with tons of evidence. ::)
GTFO
Don't forget election interference.
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It's probably hard to see from way over there, but over here, the reason the dementia patient was able to break every voting record was simply because the orange clown was so disgusting that people who normally don't give a rats ass about an election got off their couches or bought stamps and participated. That's how awful Trump was.
On a side note, IF Trump is not convicted of the many charges he faces, and is eligible to hold the office, it is very very likely he will cost himself the election by being an arrogant, lying, bragging dickhead in front of the cameras, and remind the same people that voted last time against him, to repeat the process. If Trump simply shut up for 12 months he could likely win. He can't do that. He is incapable of acting rational and decent for any length of time. He's smarter than his advisors...
Hmmmmm who is ahead in the polls right now. ;D
And as for being an arrogant, lying, bragging dickhead in front of the cameras,
Sniffing Children, Plagiarizing, corruption, making stories up about the death of his son,Looking gormless, wandering around on stage lost - Let alone the loony libturd policies ,& Pedo Joe is capable of acting decent & Rational is he ?
look at your Hero Pedo Joe, Sure is a Fine upstanding man
to Support isn't he. ::)
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Yeah, and morons still support the reprobate. Go figure
And you support BLM, Asshole!
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no matter what you copy and paste - it does not change the facts.
Of course it does not change the facts because these cut and pastes are the facts.
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Don't forget election interference.
Yep. Red Hats got their asses handed to them getting caught at that too.
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Of course it does not change the facts because these cut and pastes are the facts.
Trumpturds can’t recognize or understand facts. Their tears of impotent rage completely detaches them from reality and critical thinking.
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Yep. Red Hats got their asses handed to them getting caught at that too.
Sure we did
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Hmmmmm who is ahead in the polls right now. ;D
And as for being an arrogant, lying, bragging dickhead in front of the cameras,
Sniffing Children, Plagiarizing, corruption, making stories up about the death of his son,Looking gormless, wandering around on stage lost - Let alone the loony libturd policies ,& Pedo Joe is capable of acting decent & Rational is he ?
look at your Hero Pedo Joe, Sure is a Fine upstanding man
to Support isn't he. ::)
It looks like Trump is.. Hillary was ahead as well. We know how that turned out. We are a year out, a lot can happen. One thing is for sure, the choices we have between Trump and Biden are abismal. The Democrats AND the Republicans should put forth someone better suited for the good of the country.
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Sure we did
4 indictments
Dozens charged
Fake electors busted
Attorneys losing their licenses
Guilty pleas
So yeah, you sure did.
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4 indictments
Dozens charged
Fake electors busted
Attorneys losing their licenses
Guilty pleas
So yeah, you sure did.
Election interference, Asshole! Get packing shitbag, China wants you.
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4 indictments
Dozens charged
Fake electors busted
Attorneys losing their licenses
Guilty pleas
So yeah, you sure did.
Some idiot doesn’t know what election interference looks like. So here is the quote again.
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Some idiot doesn’t know what election interference looks like. So here is the quote again.
All manufactured bullshit. Trump 2024, the TDS will be insane.
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All manufactured bullshit. Trump 2024, the TDS will be insane.
I expect suicides.
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What happens if it doesn’t occur? 4 more years of crying and stolen election excuses? :D
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The Fulton County stuff seems really odd.
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What happens if it doesn’t occur? 4 more years of crying and stolen election excuses? :D
Whole country turns into Portland.
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'Dirty voter rolls’ slammed, 131% of eligible DC voters registered
by Paul Bedard, Washington Secrets Columnist
December 08, 2023
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/dirty-voter-rolls-slammed-131-of-eligible-dc-voters-registered#google_vignette
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'Dirty voter rolls’ slammed, 131% of eligible DC voters registered
by Paul Bedard, Washington Secrets Columnist
December 08, 2023
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/dirty-voter-rolls-slammed-131-of-eligible-dc-voters-registered#google_vignette
And DC would vote overwhelmingly for democrats anyway. They cheat even when they don't have to cheat.
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And DC would vote overwhelmingly for democrats anyway. They cheat even when they don't have to cheat.
Right?
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Coming clean: 1 in 5 admits 2020 election fraud
by Paul Bedard, Washington Secrets Columnist
December 12, 2023
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/coming-clean-1-in-5-admit-2020-election-fraud#google_vignette
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Certainly is a good thing for them to start looking to punish those people that were conducting election interference and attempting to overturn the will of the people.
Seems I can't find any other party doing that but Republicans. Wonder why?
Don't worry, everything will come to light. Thanks Cheeseybro :D
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Fake elector plotter Kenneth Chesebro is reported to be cooperating with a Wisconsin investigation
An attorney who helped design a plot to create slates of false electors for former President Donald Trump in 2020 is cooperating with Wisconsin investigators, according to a new report.
Kenneth Chesebro, a Wisconsin native and former campaign attorney for Trump, is now helping investigators in at least four states who are probing the scheme to overturn the 2020 election, CNN reported Friday citing unnamed sources.
Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul has not previously disclosed whether state Department of Justice officials are investigating the scheme involving 10 Wisconsin Republicans who met in state Capitol on Dec. 14, 2020 to sign paperwork falsely claiming to be electors for Trump.
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I expect suicides.
2024 will be a great year, no doubt in my mind.
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Certainly is a good thing for them to start looking to punish those people that were conducting election interference and attempting to overturn the will of the people.
Seems I can't find any other party doing that but Republicans. Wonder why?
Don't worry, everything will come to light. Thanks Cheeseybro :D
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Fake elector plotter Kenneth Chesebro is reported to be cooperating with a Wisconsin investigation
An attorney who helped design a plot to create slates of false electors for former President Donald Trump in 2020 is cooperating with Wisconsin investigators, according to a new report.
Kenneth Chesebro, a Wisconsin native and former campaign attorney for Trump, is now helping investigators in at least four states who are probing the scheme to overturn the 2020 election, CNN reported Friday citing unnamed sources.
Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul has not previously disclosed whether state Department of Justice officials are investigating the scheme involving 10 Wisconsin Republicans who met in state Capitol on Dec. 14, 2020 to sign paperwork falsely claiming to be electors for Trump.
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No comment?
Everyone wants to talk voter fraud, but no one wants to talks facts. No surprise.
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No comment?
Everyone wants to talk voter fraud, but no one wants to talks facts. No surprise.
Facts are we have a compromised retard currently in control and Mr. Trump is going to bring a hard stop to the current stupidity.
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Facts are we have a compromised retard currently in control and Mr. Trump is going to bring a hard stop to the current stupidity.
Yeah, he really drained the swamp and hired only the best the first time right? ::)
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Facts are we have a compromised retard currently in control and Mr. Trump is going to bring a hard stop to the current stupidity.
For Trump to even attempt to stop anything, he will have to be found innocent of all the many charges against him and somehow be elected to office. What is more, it appears he is unravelling more and more by the day. His future does not seem very bright at this point. Your Lord and master, Trump is going insane and some of you either cannot accept this or just refuse to see it.
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For Trump to even attempt to stop anything, he will have to be found innocent of all the many charges against him and somehow be elected to office. What is more, it appears he is unravelling more and more by the day. His future does not seem very bright at this point. Your Lord and master, Trump is going insane and some of you either cannot accept this or just refuse to see it.
But I thought Trumpy was the 6'3", 215lbs, specimen of excellent health. Beginning to look like he won't need makeup to achieve the orange face look.
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Yeah, he really drained the swamp and hired only the best the first time right? ::)
This is why I only see his posts if someone else quotes them. Unless you produce a handicap placard, to explain your mental retardation, it will continue to be so
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This is why I only see his posts if someone else quotes them. Unless you produce a handicap placard, to explain your mental retardation, it will continue to be so
Don't worry. You are not missing anything. Like the rest of the red hat morons, it's all whining and no substance to any of his posts.
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Don't worry. You are not missing anything. Like the rest of the red hat morons, it's all whining and no substance to any of his posts.
I see that
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No comment?
Everyone wants to talk voter fraud, but no one wants to talks facts. No surprise.
What facts? You post a bunch of words, no link, no evidence, no nothing, within your own bullshit you use the word "reported to be cooperating" So once again, you have gone out of your way to post something that fits your narrative with no evidence to back it up and then chanted all around about how it's facts. Typical leftist, **insert pigeon on the chess board analogy here**
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What facts? You post a bunch of words, no link, no evidence, no nothing, within your own bullshit you use the word "reported to be cooperating" So once again, you have gone out of your way to post something that fits your narrative with no evidence to back it up and then chanted all around about how it's facts. Typical leftist, **insert pigeon on the chess board analogy here**
Oh you must have missed the examples I posted above that contain and are related to the facts.
4 indictments
Dozens charged
Fake electors busted
Attorneys losing their licenses
Guilty pleas
So yeah, you sure did.
Are you saying the fake electors are not a fact? The various felonies from the various indictments in multiple states are not fact related? Attorney's taking plea deals and admitting their actions were not lawful in regards to their election efforts?
Oh wait.... you didn't miss that. You just didn't want to address it. Or you were too stupid to understand it. Your problem, not mine. I supplied facts and evidence related to it.
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Oh you must have missed the examples I posted above that contain and are related to the facts.
Are you saying the fake electors are not a fact? The various felonies from the various indictments in multiple states are not fact related? Attorney's taking plea deals and admitting their actions were not lawful in regards to their election efforts?
Oh wait.... you didn't miss that. You just didn't want to address it. Or you were too stupid to understand it. Your problem, not mine. I supplied facts and evidence related to it.
Where are those "facts" in this post, fucking idiot. Again, no links, just your drug induced opinion.
Certainly is a good thing for them to start looking to punish those people that were conducting election interference and attempting to overturn the will of the people.
Seems I can't find any other party doing that but Republicans. Wonder why?
Don't worry, everything will come to light. Thanks Cheeseybro :D
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Fake elector plotter Kenneth Chesebro is reported to be cooperating with a Wisconsin investigation
An attorney who helped design a plot to create slates of false electors for former President Donald Trump in 2020 is cooperating with Wisconsin investigators, according to a new report.
Kenneth Chesebro, a Wisconsin native and former campaign attorney for Trump, is now helping investigators in at least four states who are probing the scheme to overturn the 2020 election, CNN reported Friday citing unnamed sources.
Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul has not previously disclosed whether state Department of Justice officials are investigating the scheme involving 10 Wisconsin Republicans who met in state Capitol on Dec. 14, 2020 to sign paperwork falsely claiming to be electors for Trump.
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Where are those "facts" in this post, fucking idiot. Again, no links, just your drug induced opinion.
Those "facts" are all over this board.
But since you requested it for this specific post... here you go. The facts are in bold. Try a bit harder to keep up.
Certainly is a good thing for them to start looking to punish those people that were conducting election interference and attempting to overturn the will of the people.
Seems I can't find any other party doing that but Republicans. Wonder why?
Don't worry, everything will come to light. Thanks Cheeseybro :D
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Fake elector plotter Kenneth Chesebro is reported to be cooperating with a Wisconsin investigation
An attorney who helped design a plot to create slates of false electors for former President Donald Trump in 2020 is cooperating with Wisconsin investigators, according to a new report.
Kenneth Chesebro, a Wisconsin native and former campaign attorney for Trump, is now helping investigators in at least four states who are probing the scheme to overturn the 2020 election, CNN reported Friday citing unnamed sources.
Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul has not previously disclosed whether state Department of Justice officials are investigating the scheme involving 10 Wisconsin Republicans who met in state Capitol on Dec. 14, 2020 to sign paperwork falsely claiming to be electors for Trump.
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Given your past posting history and dazzling reading comprehension display, I understand why you have problems identifying facts.
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Those "facts" are all over this board.
But since you requested it for this specific post... here you go. The facts are in bold. Try a bit harder to keep up.
Given your past posting history and dazzling reading comprehension display, I understand why you have problems identifying facts.
Great links to back up your "facts", retard liberal.
*Facts are bolded above ^^
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Great links to back up your "facts", retard liberal.
*Facts are bolded above ^^
The links are all over this board. Just like the facts. :) If they are not facts then you could easily refute them. But you can't. You never can. Astutely aware of your own lack of intellect and meaningful starting point to work with, you don't even try. No surprise. Because as we all know.... you can't post anything beyond the equivalent of tv static.
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Facts are Biden and Cunter are headed to prison.
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Facts are Biden and Cunter are headed to prison.
Sorry for not keeping up with your nicknames, but who is Cunter?
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Sorry for not keeping up with your nicknames, but who is Cunter?
His nickname for your butthole.
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His nickname for your butthole.
Thanks for the information, Chaos, it is good to know. Did deadz tell you this? He often posts something about my eminent death, but I have not noticed him calling me a butthole, like some folks (not me) call you a conehead with ‘crankles.’
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Thanks for the information, Chaos, it is good to know. Did deadz tell you this? He often posts something about my eminent death, but I have not noticed him calling me a butthole, like some folks (not me) call you a conehead with ‘crankles.’
Hunter aka Cunter. Don't worry old man I'll ease up on you.
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Hunter aka Cunter. Don't worry old man I'll ease up on you.
Thanks deadz, I should have been able to figure this out. I must be slipping. This can happen at my age. ;D
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Hahaha well isn't this a surprise. (not). Apparently Cheeseybro wasn't so honest after all. Now he has possibly screwed up his plea deal.
Republicans..... just can't stop lying. Even when it is to their own benefit. This is the REAL voter fraud that no little Trumpturd wants to talk about or act like they can see the threads on it. There really was election improprieties related to the 2020 vote - and it was all Republicans trying to subvert the actual vote results. Every accusation is actually a confession with these morons.
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Key figure in fake electors plot concealed damning posts on secret Twitter account from investigators
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=key+figure+in+fake+electors+plot+concealed+damning
Kenneth Chesebro, the right-wing attorney who helped devise the Trump campaign’s fake electors plot in 2020, concealed a secret Twitter account from Michigan prosecutors, hiding dozens of damning posts that undercut his statements to investigators about his role in the election subversion scheme, a CNN KFile investigation has found.
“More indictments await”: Experts say Jan. 6 architect’s secret tweets may lead to "felony charges”
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=%E2%80%9CMore+indictments+await%E2%80%9D%3A+Experts+say+Jan.+6+architect%E2%80%99s+secret+tweets+may+lead+to+%22felony+charges%E2%80%9D
"He is not a viable cooperator for the Fulton County D.A.," Honig added. "They gave Kenneth Chesebro a softball deal. They let him plead out to probation. And the reason they gave us well, he's cooperating, no he is not, he has not come clean. He is a failed cooperator. That's a black eye for the Georgia district attorney as well."
“Chesebro’s secret Twitter account could lead to serious felony charges in Michigan and will augment his eventual federal indictment by Jack Smith,” Tribe tweeted. “The guy is in a huge heap of trouble that his guilty plea in Georgia barely touches.”
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Now what? Hahahahahaha. I thought the "fake electors" were not real. The retard on here said so.
Cheesebro obviously was sleeping the day in law school they taught that if the feds ask you something, there is a chance that they already know the truth.
GOOD TIMES!
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Legal experts say Trump’s Jan. 6 architect has a “new perjury problem”: His “goose looks cooked”
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Legal+experts+say+Trump%E2%80%99s+Jan.+6+architect+has+a+%E2%80%9Cnew+perjury+problem%E2%80%9D%3A+His+%E2%80%9Cgoose+looks+cooked%E2%80%9D
Former Trump attorney Kenneth Chesebro, one of the architects in the former president’s fake elector plot, may have a "perjury" problem over his testimony to a Nevada grand jury.
The Washington Post on Monday reported on a cache of documents in the Nevada grand jury probe of the fake elector scheme, including Chesebro's statements to the panel.
New York University Law Prof. Ryan Goodman highlighted the statements on X/Twitter, warning that "Chesebro has a new perjury problem."
Chesebro's "goose looks cooked," agreed former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann, who served on special counsel Bob Mueller's team.
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Now what? Hahahahahaha. I thought the "fake electors" were not real. The retard on here said so.
Cheesebro obviously was sleeping the day in law school they taught that if the feds ask you something, there is a chance that they already know the truth.
GOOD TIMES!
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Legal experts say Trump’s Jan. 6 architect has a “new perjury problem”: His “goose looks cooked”
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Legal+experts+say+Trump%E2%80%99s+Jan.+6+architect+has+a+%E2%80%9Cnew+perjury+problem%E2%80%9D%3A+His+%E2%80%9Cgoose+looks+cooked%E2%80%9D
Former Trump attorney Kenneth Chesebro, one of the architects in the former president’s fake elector plot, may have a "perjury" problem over his testimony to a Nevada grand jury.
The Washington Post on Monday reported on a cache of documents in the Nevada grand jury probe of the fake elector scheme, including Chesebro's statements to the panel.
New York University Law Prof. Ryan Goodman highlighted the statements on X/Twitter, warning that "Chesebro has a new perjury problem."
Chesebro's "goose looks cooked," agreed former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann, who served on special counsel Bob Mueller's team.
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Keep grasping while Trump keeps on WINNING!
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And if you thought all the voter fraud retards were from The Villages, well apparently not. Typical GOP felon. Every accusation is a confession.
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Georgia Republican Party official voted illegally nine times, judge rules
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Georgia+Republican+Party+official+voted+illegally+nine+times%2C+judge+rules
A judge ruled this week that a top Georgia Republican Party official, who has promoted former President Donald Trump's claims of widespread voter fraud affecting the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, has repeatedly voted illegally.
Brian Pritchard, first vice chairman of the Georgia Republican Party and a conservative talk show host, was fined $5,000 for voting illegally and registering to vote while serving a sentence for a felony conviction. Pritchard was also ordered not to commit further violations, to face public reprimand for his conduct and to pay the State Election Board's investigative costs.
In a 25-page ruling Wednesday, Administrative Law Judge Lisa Boggs affirmed the board's finding that Pritchard had voted illegally nine times in defiance of his extended probation in connection with a pair of felony convictions dating back nearly 30 years.
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And if you thought all the voter fraud retards were from The Villages, well apparently not. Typical GOP felon. Every accusation is a confession.
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Georgia Republican Party official voted illegally nine times, judge rules
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Georgia+Republican+Party+official+voted+illegally+nine+times%2C+judge+rules
A judge ruled this week that a top Georgia Republican Party official, who has promoted former President Donald Trump's claims of widespread voter fraud affecting the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, has repeatedly voted illegally.
Brian Pritchard, first vice chairman of the Georgia Republican Party and a conservative talk show host, was fined $5,000 for voting illegally and registering to vote while serving a sentence for a felony conviction. Pritchard was also ordered not to commit further violations, to face public reprimand for his conduct and to pay the State Election Board's investigative costs.
In a 25-page ruling Wednesday, Administrative Law Judge Lisa Boggs affirmed the board's finding that Pritchard had voted illegally nine times in defiance of his extended probation in connection with a pair of felony convictions dating back nearly 30 years.
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How the heck did this happen? Usually people of his ilk are ranting about not allowing felons to vote and checking id before voting. Yet he was a felon and voted 9 times?
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How the heck did this happen? Usually people of his ilk are ranting about not allowing felons to vote and checking id before voting. Yet he was a felon and voted 9 times?
Goes to prove voter fraud is possible - Not a great voting system for
checking who can & cannot vote.
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How the heck did this happen? Usually people of his ilk are ranting about not allowing felons to vote and checking id before voting. Yet he was a felon and voted 9 times?
Pritchard lied on voting forms while he was on probation, voting nine times in the Georgia primary and general elections despite his felony convictions. His fine was only $5K. $45K would have been a more appropriate fine IMO.
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Pritchard lied on voting forms while he was on probation, voting nine times in the Georgia primary and general elections despite his felony convictions. His fine was only $5K. $45K would have been a more appropriate fine IMO.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Georgia+Republican+official+and+outspoken+election+denier+caught+voting+illegally+9+times
Now compare it to the punishment this woman received for once. (5 Years)
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Texas mother who faced 5 years in prison has illegal voting conviction reversed
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Texas+mother+who+faced+5+years+in+prison+has+illegal+voting+conviction+reversed
A Texas mother who was sentenced to five years in prison for voting illegally in the 2016 election said she is “overjoyed” after her conviction was reversed Thursday by the Texas Second Court of Appeals.
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And let's not forget all the retards in The Villages that were caught :
A man charged with voter fraud in Florida blames rivalry between Trump and DeSantis supporters
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=A+man+charged+with+voter+fraud+in+Florida+blames+rivalry+between+Trump+and+DeSantis+supporters
More voter fraud in The Villages. What else is new?
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=More+voter+fraud+in+The+Villages.+What+else+is+new%3F+
4th resident of The Villages admits to voting twice in the 2020 election
https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2023/01/30/4th-resident-of-the-villages-admits-to-voting-twice-in-the-2020-election/
In Florida, not all voter fraud is considered equal
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2023/06/24/in-florida-not-all-voter-fraud-is-considered-equal/
The Villages sees a voter-fraud outbreak — with a MAGA twist
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/05/villages-sees-voter-fraud-outbreak-with-maga-twist/
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Pritchard lied on voting forms while he was on probation, voting nine times in the Georgia primary and general elections despite his felony convictions. His fine was only $5K. $45K would have been a more appropriate fine IMO.
I think prison time too, not just small fine or probation.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/09/michigan-clerk-charged (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/09/michigan-clerk-charged)
Former US town clerk and her lawyer charged for allegedly accessing 2020 voter data in hunt for fraud
Stephanie Scott and Stefanie Lambert charged for promoting ‘baseless conspiracies’ and showing ‘disregard for voter privacy’
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;D looking forward to November.
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Biden's human centipede.
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Back to real, legit voter fraud. :D :D
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Georgia's Republican Party has removed one of its officers after an administrative law judge found he voted illegally nine times after moving to the state.
The state Republican Committee voted 146-24 on Friday to remove Brian K. Pritchard, its first vice chairman, state Chairman Josh McKoon said after the closed meeting.
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80K at rally, vs. 80 for Shitter at the dementia ward... ::) ::) ::)