Anonymous said...
Yes, we must do whatever we can to stop the DNC from buying votes using groups like ACORN (registering Donald Duck, etc.), Gosh, I'm sure Donald wasn't questioned when he showed up to vote, ya think?
ACORN's most serious violations have occurred in Florida, where an ACORN-operated political action committee, Floridians for All, is actively supporting a ballot initiative to raise the state minimum wage to $6.15 an hour (a higher wage than many ACORN employees receive). In St. Petersburg, ACORN submitted a false voter registration card for Charles Schuh. Schuh, a 68-year-old former Democratic mayor and city council member, was registered as a 30-year-old female Republican. While one may be tempted to write this off as simple sloppiness (a plausible thought, considering this is the same organization that failed to turn in thousands of voter registration cards on time, resulting in voters being denied the opportunity to participate in the primary), this is clearly another case of voter fraud. When Schuh asked to see his supposed registration card, he found that someone had signed his name but it "was certainly not [his] signature." In addition, Schuh noticed his social security number had been altered. I'm certain this one really helped the Democrats, lol!
allowing convicted felons to vote (which is currently against the law), Nope. In Florida it is, if one hasn't had a hearing and been restored to voting privileges. The law varies by state. In some states restoration occurs on release, in others, felons are allowed to vote while in prison.
disinfranchising the military, The votes in question here had postmarks after the legal date. The rePublicans wanted an exception made ex post facto, believing the illegal votes favored them.
trying to determine how a person meant to vote by looking a hanging chad, etc. Your memory seems to be very short. Oh, no: I remember quite well the paid-for "spontaneous" riots of rePublican Congressional Aides (Brownshirts) bringing vote counting to a halt. This image will live with me till I die: had the Democrats done it, I'd be registered as a Green, now. How about you? No shame?
3:57 AM, June 02, 2006
BUT: Did you forget the paid rePublican registration card gatherers in Arizona and Nevada who instructed their employees to destroy Democratic registration cards?
AND: Do you honestly believe any of this compares to the vote fraud outlined in the article on which this was a comment? Or did you not bother to read it?
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Buying a vote involves handing money to a qualified, registered citizens in exchange for a promise to cast a ballot for a particular candidate or issue. Whether or not a ballot is case as promised is impossible to determine, given the confidentiality of the voting booth. So, trying to buy votes is a chancey proposition.
Some people have found it useful to divide the amount of money paid out to media and consultants to advertise a candidate or issue by the number of supportive ballots actually cast and to categorize the resulting number as the "cost" of each vote. But this is sloppy thinking--yet another example of the failure to relate cause and effect appropriately.
In any event, there has been no evidence of "voter fraud" presented--i.e. of unqualified individuals casting a ballot. What we have evidence of is electoral fraud in which voters were deprived or defrauded of their opportunity to vote, to have their ballot accurately tabulated and/or included in the totals. Indeed, it's not even been determined at what point in the process an individual's ballot does or does not belong to him. You could argue that the right to vote implies the right to have that vote counted but, like the right to privacy, implied rights tend to be ellusive.
Troo dat, Monica!
Oh, i did forget to mention the taxpayer-funded Citizenship USA program under the Clinton-Gore administration, which abandoned criminal background checks to naturalize 1.3 million immigrants (including scores of criminal alien felons) in time for the 1996 elections.
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