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Morning! I refuse to get up before 6am on a Saturday!

Hey Raven, I hear you about the cheating. The 'butterfly' ballots in FL were tampered with during 2000 - the well-known technique is to use piano wire and shove it down through a stack of ballots for the D. If the voter already voted D, then it's still a good ballot. If the voter voted R, then there are two punches for the office and the ballot is rejected, because the voter must have been 'confused'. But the hanging chad thing gave their game away (especially when the piano wire didn't go all the way through all of the ballots and merely dented the ones on bottom, resulting in 'dimpled' ballots).

If PA is any indication, this year it looks like the Dems intend to use a 3-prong approach: Flooding electoral Boards with bogus Absentee Ballots; Running bogus 'Teas Party' candidates as third parties so as to split the R vote; and of course their beloved SecState project, in which they think they can have thier SoS's simply maniplulate the certification of the vote.

In PA, there is a slimeball name Jim Lynch who first denied, denied, denied that his campaign had anything to do with the faux 'Tea Party' candidate in his race, then just the other day admitted to a newspaper ed. board that not only was his campaign involved, his campaign manager and staff ran the petitioning for this other guy to even get on the ballot. The Tea Party ran a big ad in the newspapers saying to the interloper, 'We have never heard of you'. Harry Reid stealthily backed the bogus TP guy in Nevada, so it is a coordinated effort.

Patrick Murphy's campaign in Bucks County set up a bogus organization that was generating Abentee ballots based on signatures on pettitions gotten by kids using false pretenses ('If you sign my petition, I'll get to meet Obama in the White House.'). These Absentee ballots are being rejected 99.9999$ by the election boards, so their technique is not working.

All of this stuff they are doing seems too clever by half. They can't steal it the old fashioned way because the R turnout will be so huge that their usual technique of Absentee ballot faking won't even come into play this year. I think people are too smart to vote for the bogus 'Tea Party' candidates. The SecState thing I worry about (because a combination of SecState/Absentee ballot manipulation is how we got Al Franken), but the margins will be beyond manipulation, hopefully.

I am still saying 8-9 Senate, and at least 77 in the House...;-))

(Also: In 2004, the Dems were caught red-handed sending ACORN-funded students carrying blank absentee ballots into prisons in and around Phila. to obtain the felon vote. This is patently illegal, because the law says 1) no felon can vote (and inmates’ eligibility was determined simply by asking them if they were felons), and 2) no third party can be involved in the distribution of absentee ballots. The students, when caught on videotape by the local NBC affiliate, with then-Congressman Curt Weldon leading the charge, simply dropped the ballots and ran when they saw the camereas and reporters. Weldon filed a criminal complaint, but the (Dem) DA declined to prosecute...;-))