Commentary: Trump's fears about Philly well-founded

Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | 10/26/2016 | Bruce Marks and Alex Marks

[Kid Shelleen]

--SNIP-- Democratic machine thugs forcibly preventing Republican poll watchers from challenging fraudulent activity. Democratic city officials, who were responsible for supervising the election, participating in the wrongdoing. The Democratic state Senate candidate illegally sworn into office.

Is all this a figment of Donald Trump's mind? Hardly. They were the findings by late federal Judge Clarence Newcomer, who overturned the 1993 election in Philadelphia's Second Senatorial District, removed my opponent from office, and found me to be the winner.

In criminal proceedings brought by Pennsylvania's attorney general, Democratic workers pled guilty to crimes although the masterminds who (temporarily) stole the election were never brought to justice.

[Kid Shelleen]

And the money line is:
Despite this sordid history of illegal voting and use of government resources for political purposes, it is unfair to suggest that Philadelphia's Democratic machine engages in fraud every year. Rather, conventional wisdom is that they only steal elections when they have to.

[editor-surveyor]

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They always have to rig the election.

Dems can’t win a fair election
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[castlegreyskull]

I remember vividly in 2012, there was a voting center in Philadelphia that forced Republican poll watchers out for a few hours.

[lacrew]

Voting in Philly, 2012:

[MaxistheBest]

Trump should make a major speech announcing that when he becomes President he intends to prosecute every case of voter fraud from the smallest to the largest and any that are convicted will receive the maximum penalty allowed by law.

From the big shots to the little guys!

[tomkat]

If I were running the show, vote fraud would be HANGING offense.

In Public.

Televised.

[tomkat]

..be a HANGING..

[Ray76]

That’s a keeper.

Page saved.

[circlecity]

Seems like I read that in the last presidential election there where precincts in Penn. where there were more votes cast than there were registered voters in the precincts.

[Albion Wilde]

In South Philadelphia back in the 70s-80s when there were big heavy voting booths made of metal, union guys used to take one or two of the machines out on a dolly and “fix” them, and then wheel them back in periodically throughout the day.