Posted on 11/26/2016 2:24:01 AM PST by Iron Munro
Voting machines suspiciously defaulting to Barack Obama? Buses loaded with strangers appearing at polling stations? Even ballots turning out 100 percent for one candidate in precinct reports?
In short, suspicions of vote fraud?
That’s too bad, because a race-based consent decree negotiated by Democrats against the Republican National Committee a generation ago still has tied the RNC’s hands, and GOP officials could be cited for contempt – or worse – if they try to make sure American elections are clean.
Impossible?
No. Fact.
The case is the Democratic National Committee vs. the Republican National Committee, originally from 1982.
Democrats alleged Republicans were trying intimidate minority voters in New Jersey and brought the legal action. The RNC, inexplicably, decided to agree to a consent decree before a Democrat-appointed judge rather than fight the claims.
The judge, Dickinson Debevoise, appointed by Jimmy Carter, later retired but decided he would continue to control the case. The decision requires the RNC – but not the DNC – to “refrain from undertaking any ballot security activities in polling places or election districts where the racial or ethnic composition of such districts is a factor in the decision to conduct, or the actual conduct of, such activities there and where a purpose or significant effect of such activities is to deter qualified voters from voting; and the conduct of such activities disproportionately in or directed toward districts that have a substantial proportion of racial or ethnic populations shall be considered relevant evidence of the existence of such a factor and purpose.”
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Ballot applicant photography in 2018.
Sound thinking.
Don't let the democrats goad them into another court appearance so that the decree can be extended again.
Wisconsin GOP, Michigan GOP, and Pennsylvania GOP is not governed by the consent decree.
Sorry. I’m not content to simply accept criminality. It undermines our Republic. If the RNC signed up to some stupid consent decree it doesn’t impact those who were not a party to that agreement . E.g. Candidates or third party organizations.
“the decree is now set to expire in 2017. “.......
“Courts cannot enforce an agreement for illegal activities.”......
How did the Republicans ever agree to that in the first place. Time to drain the swamp and revise/improve the election process.
But it is just FRiendly advice (and good FRettiquette).
Understood - I know you were trying to be helpful so no problem.
I also posted the article as extended news but that distinction doesn't appear anywhere in the posting.
Also, the posting format automatically enters the date and time of posting which can be misleading.
I searched for a more recent article on the subject but didn't find anything.
I feel that the subject is timely (vote fraud) and information of the decree is something important that many FREEPERS might not be aware of so I went ahead with the article even though it is dated.
Change the law. How can a retired judge still control anything that he granted??? s he still alive?
Another reason to love PR Trump!!!
See my LONG post at thread 3498497 Post #89. I state how I would clean up the voter rolls.
According to the modification to the original decree it will expire on Dec. 1 2017.
EXCEPT -
It also allows for a another possible 8 year extension "if the DNC proves by a preponderance of the evidence that the RNC has violated the Decree."
That explains why the RNC has to take an absolute hands-off posture of any vote fraud until the decree expires.
And why the brazen conduct of democrats in questionable activity related to possible voter fraud.
Here is the pertinent part of the court order:
The District Court agreed with the RNC that the lack of an expiration date in the Decree was “inherently inequitable.” Democratic Nat’l Comm. , 671 F. Supp. 2d at 621. The District Court modified the Decree by adding an eight- year expiration date, December 1, 2017, and allowing for an extension of the Decree for another eight years if the DNC proves by a preponderance of the evidence that the RNC has violated the Decree. The RNC argues that the District Court’s December 1, 2017 expiration date is an abuse of discretion and that the appropriate Decree termination date is either eight years after the parties entered into the Decree in 1982, eight years after the Decree’s modification in 1987, or, at worst, eight years after the Malone litigation.
That information was found in a PDF of the case here:
Case No. 09-4615 (C.A. 3, Mar. 8, 2012).
APPEAL FROM THE JUDGMENT OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY
(D.C. Civ. Action No. 2-81-cv -03876)
https://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/rnc-v-dnc.pdf
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