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To: Cheerio

I imagine the DemocRATs who count the votes in most places gave them the America-haters the go ahead to do this. Americans need to unite against this and demand that the government declare the 2016 elections “unconstitutional” until all states clean up their voter rolls and can guarantee that they will only allow U.S. citizens to vote. Ever since America became a third world banana republic, our elections have been corrupt.


10 posted on 12/13/2015 6:46:26 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Have you unpacked from your white privilege guilt trip yet?)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

The so called BANANA republic of Honduras puts us to shame.

Voting Procedures in Honduras, a Banana Republic———
(a re-write of excellent post by Gideon300)

I had the opportunity to go watch my wife, a citizen of Honduras, vote in last year’s presidential election in Tegucigalpa. It was a real eye-opener, and I can only wish the US had such a strict voting process.

Everyone in Honduras is required to vote only in the precinct as indicated on their government issued (free) photo ID card. Every citizen over 18 is required to have an national ID, and everyone with an ID can vote. No one else, and no one is registered as a member of a certain party, merely a citizen. My wife’s precinct is Barrio El Bosque, so she was required to go to the Escuela de 14 de Julio (local elementary school) if she wanted to vote.

When we arrived at the voting place there were hundreds of people milling around the street and a long line was waiting to enter. The entire scene was closely watched over by Army and Policía Nacionál to make sure order was kept. For the most part everything was quite orderly, and people were polite to each other even with the shoulder-to-shoulder crowd. After showing ID, passing the guard and entering the school we went to the main table in the courtyard where they ran her ID through a computer and she was given a little slip of paper that indicated her name, her precinct, her “mesa” (voting area) and “linea” number (her number on the voter registration list). Every citizen is automatically registered to vote, and their name, Id photo and precinct number is on a list posted in that precinct.

The “mesas” in this case are rooms in the school, numbered in order to handle the hundreds of people waiting to vote. Her mesa was number 8586, so after finding the room, there was a list of all registered voters beside the door. She checked her line number with photo, 235, to make sure she is at the right door, the man watching the door checked her ID against the list, and let her in. She went to the table inside the room
for a ballot, was checked again for ID and compared it to the info and photo in the registry, was given two ballots, one for president and one for congress, and this time they held her ID while she voted. I was allowed in as a foreign observer, but was not on school tables for privacy, so after voting she deposited her ballots in the appropriate boxes, was given her ID back and we left.

I wanted to take photos but no cameras were allowed anywhere but in the street. No alcohol is sold anywhere in Honduras from Saturday through Monday, the day before and the day after election.

They take voter ID, and potential vote fraud, VERY seriously. All ballots are paper, and all have the candidate’s info and photo. There are eight official parties in Honduras, and the one with the most votes wins. The police and the army watch the voting very closely. One woman was caught with an extra ballot, and was immediately arrested. The Honduras news media, which is quite politically unbiased, indicated that both local and official foreign observers found only three cases of vote fraud in the entire country.

It was certainly an eye-opener for me! If this is the difference between a the US and a Banana Republic, then I’ll take a banana republic election anytime.


49 posted on 12/13/2015 7:34:09 PM PST by entropy12 (Go Trump 2016!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

The Republicans are subject to a consent decree from many years ago in which they were ordered to never challenge voter fraud against the Dems. The order is renewed for each election. You think this is fraud, look at the court case, and you will see how deep it goes.


68 posted on 12/13/2015 10:19:24 PM PST by LachlanMinnesota
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