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Recent fraud-free elections (Missouri) were no accident
STLtoday.com ^ | 3-3-04 | Matt Blunt

Posted on 03/03/2004 8:43:50 AM PST by FairWitness

Edited on 05/11/2004 5:36:24 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

I appreciate the recent attention the Post-Dispatch has given to the importance of election reform in our state and nation, particularly in light of the fraud and irregularities that plagued Missouri in the November 2000 election.

I have been working on a bipartisan basis on changes to state laws that have made the ballot more accessible to registered voters than at any other time in our state's history. At the same time, there are now more stringent anti-fraud measures in the law to combat those who attempt to manipulate the process. Through the administrative rules process, I set uniform voting standards for all three kinds of voting systems used in Missouri to prevent a Florida-style election crisis from occurring here.


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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: corruption; elections; fraudulentvotes; reform; vote; voterfraud; voting
Missouri has taken great strides to correct the problems that have plagued its elections in the past, none of which had anything to do with voting equipment.

In other recent news: New Voting Systems in CA a Total Shambles and Counties report snafus with high-tech voting

1 posted on 03/03/2004 8:43:51 AM PST by FairWitness
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To: FairWitness
Didn't Kit Bond suggest stationing the FBI at St. Louis polling places ?
2 posted on 03/03/2004 9:01:37 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
Didn't Kit Bond suggest stationing the FBI at St. Louis polling places ?

I don't remember that, though I would expect to have remembered the deafening cries of "racism" that would have arisen if he had suggested such a thing.

3 posted on 03/03/2004 9:20:59 AM PST by FairWitness
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To: FairWitness
I thought I heard him say this in a radio news report, but he may have been saying it in jest.
4 posted on 03/03/2004 9:45:11 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: FairWitness
The phrase "fraud free elections" sends the rats into chest grasping despair.
5 posted on 03/03/2004 11:58:32 AM PST by jmaroneps37 ( lurch is dukakis with the eyebrows hacked off. That's the only difference.)
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