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JACOBY: How to steal an election
Boston Globe ^ | September 16, 2004 | Jeff Jacoby

Posted on 09/16/2004 1:48:17 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

A RECENT story that didn't get nearly the attention it deserved was the New York Daily News report that 46,000 registered New York City voters are also registered to vote in Florida. Nearly 1,700 of them have had absentee ballots mailed to their home in the other state, and as many as 1,000 have voted twice in the same election. ...........

It is illegal to register to vote simultaneously in different jurisdictions, but scofflaws have little to worry about. As the Daily News noted, "efforts to prevent people from registering and voting in more than one state rely mostly on the honor system." Those who break the law rarely face prosecution or serious punishment. It's easy -- and painless -- to cheat.

I learned this firsthand in 1996, when I registered my wife's cat as a voter in Cook County, Ill., Norfolk County, Mass., and Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and then requested absentee ballots from all three venues. My purpose wasn't to cast illegal multiple votes but to demonstrate how vulnerable to manipulation America's election system has become.

It was a simple scam to pull off. "Under the National Voter Registration Act -- the `Motor Voter Law' -- states are required to accept voter registrations by mail," I wrote at the time. "No longer can citizens be asked to make a trip to town hall or the county office. No longer do they have to provide proof of residence or citizenship. In fact, they don't have to exist. Motor Voter obliges election officials to add to the voter list any name mailed in on a properly filled-out registration form. Anyone so registered can then request an absentee ballot -- by mail, of course. The system is not only open to manipulation, it invites it."

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida; US: New York
KEYWORDS: absenteeballot; ballot; election; fraud; registration; vote
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To: krakath

There always has been fraud.

We'll just have to be dilgent and confront problems.

It will always be a fight we must wage.


21 posted on 09/16/2004 2:08:01 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: dokmad

I don't know. maybe social insurance cards should have a magnetic strip that can be swiped. That way a person can only vote once. We have the technology, and it wouldn't be hard to implement it.


22 posted on 09/16/2004 2:11:33 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: dokmad
Email the govenors of N.Y and Florida and ask them WHAT THE HE}} are you doing about this!?

Reach the Governor (FL)

Contact the Governor (NY)

23 posted on 09/16/2004 2:11:56 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Crazieman

I know. The left is so ignorant.


24 posted on 09/16/2004 2:12:38 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Crazieman

If this is not stopped, the nation will not stand. I know some voter fraud has always existed but this is too much!


25 posted on 09/16/2004 2:13:03 AM PDT by jazzlite (esat)
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To: Hugin

Hillary wants the Electoral College to go bye-bye and to not have people's I.D.s checked at the polls.


26 posted on 09/16/2004 2:14:23 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
There always has been fraud.

One question that troubles me though whenever I consider this topic is just how much fraud is there exactly? IIRC, the Palm Beach Post found somethign like 4,000 felons voted illegally in Florida in 2000.

But this is obviously just the tip of the iceberg as it doesn't count two state voters, the dead, illegal aliens, Irv Slosberg's vot-a-matic, etc.
27 posted on 09/16/2004 2:14:39 AM PDT by swilhelm73 ("I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things" -- Dan Rather)
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To: dokmad

How many of us would volunteer in our state to check the records of every absentee ballot to determine whether the person had voted twice? Also, to check to see whether the person was an existing human, a cat or whatever? I would.


28 posted on 09/16/2004 2:16:20 AM PDT by jazzlite (esat)
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To: stands2reason
Excerpts from: Thousands Registered to Vote in 2 States-Report [Sun Aug 22,12:07 PM ET] NEW YORK (Reuters) - About 46,000 people are registered to vote in two states, New York and Florida, a violation of both states' laws that could affect the outcome of the November presidential election, according to an investigation by the Daily News. [...] Of the 46,000 registered in both states, 68 percent are Democrats, 12 percent are Republicans and 16 percent didn't align themselves with a party, the newspaper reported on Sunday. [...]
29 posted on 09/16/2004 2:16:41 AM PDT by Gondring (They can have my Bill of Rights when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers!)
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To: Gondring

That's the one! Most Republicans are honest as we can see.
68% of democrats are felons. those are almost the same numbers as democrat senators who are felons, LoL (joking, I think)


30 posted on 09/16/2004 2:21:23 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: Crazieman
Zot? What the hell?
31 posted on 09/16/2004 2:28:33 AM PDT by Jaysun (The probability of someone watching you is proportional to the stupidity of your action)
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To: Jaysun

Look at the To - Its a removed post. Was a troll.


32 posted on 09/16/2004 2:29:30 AM PDT by Crazieman (Hanoi John Effin Kerry. War Criminal. Traitor. Democrat.)
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To: swilhelm73

It's a fact of life. There do need to be safeguards.

We can only be so diligent and still have free elections.

The answer this year is to wipe the floor with them.


33 posted on 09/16/2004 2:31:12 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Nathan Zachary

That's an amazing statistic - do you perchance have a source?


34 posted on 09/16/2004 2:31:44 AM PDT by Mudcat
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To: Nathan Zachary

10 whacks with the silly stick to me! Didn't see your "(joking)" until a second read...


35 posted on 09/16/2004 2:32:34 AM PDT by Mudcat
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; anniegetyourgun

And, this is as true now, as it was in 1992, 1996, 2000, and will be true in 2008.

A point though.

Hillary will be running in 2008. And, perhaps, 2004.


36 posted on 09/16/2004 2:34:35 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Kerry's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: jazzlite
How many of us would volunteer in our state to check the records of every absentee ballot to determine whether the person
had voted twice? Also, to check to see whether the person was an existing human, a cat or whatever? I would.

I would too.

46,000 registered New York City voters are also registered to vote in Florida

What are their names and addresses?

37 posted on 09/16/2004 2:35:56 AM PDT by trickyricky
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To: swilhelm73

My opinion?

NO real numbers.

Probably any election that is "close" - 1% maybe - is threatened win/loe by fraud. Above that?

So far, they can't pull it off.


38 posted on 09/16/2004 2:37:05 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Kerry's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Crazieman
Look at the To - Its a removed post. Was a troll.

Oh, sorry. I was dizzy for a minute there.
39 posted on 09/16/2004 2:41:19 AM PDT by Jaysun (The probability of someone watching you is proportional to the stupidity of your action)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

Ck Post #26.


40 posted on 09/16/2004 2:42:08 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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