“However, in spite of the restrictive original Consent Decree, attempts by the RNC to stop voter fraud – including caging – do still happen. In fact, Kansas Secretary of State (and former Kansas GOP Chair) Kris Kobach allegedly bragged about doing it as a local GOP official in 2007. If it were true that the RNC or its local affiliates could not try to clean up voter rolls or stop fraud at all, Kobach’s boast presumably would have been the subject of a court challenge, or would have immediately been reversed after such a challenge. Such a thing did not happen, so we must ask why not.
The answer is that the Consent Decree itself has been modified since its original version. Specifically, in 1987, the court modified it to be less restrictive. Why? According to a petition by the RNC itself asking for the Consent Decree to be stripped entirely by the Third Circuit Court (filed this year), it was because back then, even the Democrats admitted voter fraud was a problem:
In 1987, based on allegations arising out of the 1986 election for United States Senate in Louisiana, the RNC and DNC (but not the RSC and DSC) amended the consent decree, again with no admission of wrongdoing. The 1987 modification expressly recited that “the RNC and DNC recognize the importance of preventing and remedying vote fraud where it exits.” App. 0404 (1987 Decree Modification). The 1987 Decree stated that “the RNC may deploy persons on election day to perform normal poll watch functions,” but for all other “ballot security efforts” required the RNC to seek preclearance from the court “following 20 days notice to the DNC.”” From an article at the Blaze.
Republicans can fight fraud and contest elections, they just have to be careful about not doing so in a way that manipulates or can be claimed to manipulate minority voters!
ATTENTION:
Wisconsin board of elections has just posted an updated spreadsheet.
This appears to be through midnight last night (Monday night).
I see on the spreadsheet 1,746,943 now having been recounted. This is over 60% of the 2.9 million votes to be recounted.
Repeat— Wisconsin is over 60% complete in their recount.
I now see reports from Madison (Dane County) wards appearing. No significant variance from election day night results.
Some of the Milwaukee County (Milwaukee City) wards are now updating to 100% in that their absentees must have been counted and show no particular variance from election day night.
There are some freepers with better Excel skills than mine so I’ll let them do the absentee exclusions (for wards who have posted partial results pending their absentees).
My total vote count is accurate. Over 60% of the 2.9 million have been recounted. These cheeseheads are going to hit their deadline.
Okay thanks. I didn’t read that one, even though I saw it, because I refuse to go to anything associated with Glenn Beck. Used to like & respect the man a lot, but he has gone off the deep end in my opinion.