Posted on 11/06/2012 8:46:52 AM PST by Question_Assumptions
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
“Transparancy is so important during elections and if Romney wins, there needs to be a serious conversation about the integrity of voting.”
Exactly. It’s almost like they want voting abolished. Do everything to frustrate voters to the point of giving up.
For those who have not read about my extensive experience in documenting and preventing vote fraud:
My short book on vote fraud for fellow Freepers:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1991953/posts
Report on recent election and new vote fraud methods:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2621405/posts
More info on vote fraud methods:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2615479/posts
bump for later investigation.
This is the single best arguement for the electorial college vs. popular vote. You might get a couple of disticts or state with vote fraud, but it takes a lot more effort to steal enough districts and state when using electorial college.
Even if it turns out that Romney wins the popular vote and Obama wins the electoral vote, I’m going to support the electoral college system.
When was there a Republican machine running Philadelphia? I’m 60 years old and with exception of Frank Rizzo who ran as both a Democrat & a Republican I can’t remember any Republican mayor of Philadelphia.
Philadelphia was run by one of the most corrupt Republian machines in America from the end of the Civil War until the election of 1951 when they were thrown out for good.
Youse guys might find this of interest.
From http://exhibitions.library.temple.edu/exhibits/prohibition/smedley.jsp
Smedley Butler’s attempts to clean up Philadelphia’s speak easies
Big surprise! /s
Democrats are dirty cheats. That’s all you have to understand.
No wonder the UN sent in election observers...
Before your time. The last true Republican mayor was in the early ‘50’s.
Only way I know this stuff was stories from grandfather. He was a Republican, and the reason why my father was a Republican, and hence me. He would laugh at Democrats when they got caught doing crap and then tell stories of “how to do it right”. My father would always get pissed at him for telling me those stories and then I would get a lesson in proper behavior.
He was a real character. He was a bootlegger during prohibition, played in a band and spent a lot of time in Mexico. I think hiding from something. He wasn’t good at the bootlegging thing. Our family certainly didn’t accumulate any wealth like the Kennedy’s.
Don’t get caught up on the party. It is just big city politics. They all have the same genealogy and did the same things. It is part of the reason I loathe cities.
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