The GOP scam. They just don't want blacks and latinos to vote.
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Voter Fraud?
29 Mar 2007 08:39 am
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Or absentee voters in college towns.
or Democrats.
From the article, WITHIN THE SAME PARAGRAPH.
"But the notion of widespread voter fraud, as these prosecutors found out, is itself a fraud..." "Where fraud exists, of course, it should be prosecuted and punished. (And politicians have been stuffing ballot boxes and buying votes since senators wore togas; Lyndon Johnson won a 1948 Senate race after his partisans famously "found" a box of votes well after the election.)"
Yes, its all a myth, isn't it?
Sk
(Psst... the key word is "1948")
Most Democrats will acknowledge that 1960 wasn't a myth, either. But phony registrations mostly seem to be the result of telling poor and homeless people that you'll pay them more if they collect more registrations, that's all. There's simply no evidence that people are actually going out and using these fictitious registrations to vote.
Voter fraud is rampant in NH. Have you ever gone to the polls to vote to have the attendant tell you, sorry, your name is already checked off you've already voted? I HAVE.
When people show up to vote using addresses that they have NEVER LIVED AT, there is massive out of state voter fraud going on.
This PC bullcrap about some party keeping minorities from voting is just that -- I am a minority and I am for better voting management. There is none right now.
College students here just vote twice as well....Kerry worker from SDakota voted here illegally and then went home the next day....he got away with it.
Stop this politically correct bullcrap about not wanting minorities to vote. True residents, minority or not, are being denied their vote when people who have no right are being allowed.
Stop your whining and start being fair to all people, not just your liberal socialists.
I'm a MN kid, so I live in a state with probably the most liberal voter registration rules in the country. The GOP former SecState tried getting people spun up about "voter fraud", and we ran her out on a rail. Why? Because there is no proof of wide-spread voter fraud in the state! Which is not unusual.
The kind of measures that the GOP keeps proposing disproportionately affect a portion of the electorate that doesn't vote their way. That's a problem.
But the bigger problem is this is a non-issue. they're attempting to push regulations that will effectively disenfranchise thousands of voters in an effort to stop a small handful of fraudulent votes (most of which are the result of human error in the process or mistake anyways). I'll get interested when the solution to this "problem" isn't the equivalent of swatting a fly with an aircraft carrier.
Actually the key word is not 1948. The key distinction is one you will understand, Sk, if you read the article more carefully! It's between individual-voter fraud (people voting twice, or people ineligible to vote voting) and wholesale inside-job vote-counting fraud. LBJ's is an example of the latter.
1960 IS a myth. Chicago didn't turn the election.
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Or the elderly and disabled.
Posted by Chris | March 29, 2007 9:10 AM