JACOBY: How to steal an election

Boston Globe ^ | September 16, 2004 | Jeff Jacoby

[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."

[Congressman Billybob]

No, my friend, it is too late for Hillary! to run in 2004. But as for 2998, we should "be afraid, be very afraid." The motto should be "don't fire 'til you see the whites of her thighs." (Sorry for saying that at breakfast time.)

Congressman Billybob

Latest column, "Time to Talk about the 2008 Election"

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[Congressman Billybob]

Wow! What a typo. Unless Hillary! is preserved like Lenin, we don't have to worry about the election of 2998. However, the election of 2008 is a real concern.

Sorry about that. Billybob.

[Gondring]

Part of "going on and on..."
Don't forget the announcement that polls were closed in Florida an hour earlier than they actually did close in the panhandle part of the state, reducing participation there by an estimated 10,000 to 19,000 votes--in an area that's 2:1 Republican:Democrat (Senate investigation testimony at http://www.senate.gov/~gov_affairs/050301_Perrin.htm)

What's funny is that in a post-election report by CBS (http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/c2k/pdf/REPFINAL.pdf), they skirt this issue... but an independent researcher's* report is attached as an appendix to theirs, and in it, the author points out that reporting of the polls closing was done an hour early by...guess who... Our Man, The Dan!

*Dr. Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Professor of Communication and The Walter H. Annenberg Dean of The Annenberg School for Communication and Director, The Annenberg Public Policy Center

[Cultural Jihad]

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.

Rather than a 537 vote difference in Florida, it was really a 46,537 vote difference once you subtract the likely New York City cheaters.

[airborne]

I did a search for 'voter fraud' and here's a BRIEF list of threads within the last month ...

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Voter Registration Fraud in Nevada
Blogs for Bush ^ | July 10, 2004 | Mark Noonan


but that fraudulent voter registration has hit new highs here in Clark County, Nevada (think: Las Vegas) is indisputable:

"Nevada's position as a battleground state in the presidential election has sparked a surge in fake voter registrations, Clark County's top election official said.

'We've never seen anything close to this,' said Larry Lomax, registrar of voters.

So far, the office has flagged several hundred suspicious registration forms, but Lomax believes many more escaped detection among the 5,000 forms coming through his office every week."

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N.M. kids getting voter ID cards [vote fraud alert]
upi | 8/20/4


Posted on 08/20/2004 11:29:57 AM EDT by NativeNewYorker


ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Aug. 20 (UPI) -- New Mexico officials are asking the federal government to investigate a rash of voter-registration cards being mailed to children in Bernalillo County.

Some 3,000 of the cards have been found to be questionable because they lack signatures, have incorrect addresses or contain other discrepancies, said County Clerk Mary Herrera.

Sheriff Darren White has asked the U.S. attorney's office to investigate.

Herrera said her staff has called some of the people whose names appear on suspicious forms. Some have said they didn't register -- raising the question of who is registering them and why.

She and White say the numerous voter-registration drives going on in New Mexico could be to blame.

Critics say some groups pay their workers for each voter they register, giving them incentive to file improper forms

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Voter registration drive anti-Bush

Posted by ResistorSister

The Repository (Canton, Ohio) ^ | Sunday, July 11, 2004 | TIM BOTOS
CANTON — Trudging uphill, Dave Leasure climbed to the top of the slanted concrete driveway on Sandwith Avenue SW. It was a hot, sticky June evening. The kind of night that inspires some to cuddle next to an air conditioner. The reward for Leasure’s ascent was behind the front door of this house at the top of a hill. A glance at the electronic Palm Pilot in his hand told Leasure that Tim and Sharon Tomsho lived there. His mission: Convince the couple to not only vote in November’s election, but to cast their ballots for progressive Democrats. Not John...

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(Jeb) Bush tosses felon voter form

Posted by Former Military Chick

orlandosentinel.com ^ | July 24, 2004 | Sentinel Staff Writer
Bush tosses felon voter form Sentinel Staff Writer July 24, 2004 ST. PETERSBURG -- One week after a court ordered Florida officials to help felons fill out an application that could start the process of restoring their voting rights as they exit the prison system, Gov. Jeb Bush eliminated the form. The names of felons being released from prison or probation will be forwarded electronically to the Office of Executive Clemency, which will determine which felons qualify to have their rights automatically restored, said Jacob DiPietre, a spokesman for the governor.

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Man Charged With Forging Voter Registration Forms

Posted by esryle

7 News Denver ^
DENVER -- Forgery charges have been filed against an Aurora man accused of submitting 48 false voter registration forms to state officials. John Samuel MaCarthy, 27, faces four counts of forgery and one count of procuring false registration. He's accused of submitting fake registration forms for people in Arapahoe, Jefferson and Denver counties while working for a voter registration collection business known as Choose 2 Vote. He had forged voter registration documents or falsely registered residents with the intent to defraud his Lakewood employer, said Attorney General Ken Salazar. The 48 false registrations occurred between April 19 and April 22...

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Voter cards put AFL-CIO in bind

Posted by neefer

Akron Beacon Journal ^ | 8/19/2204 | Lisa A. Abraham
The Summit County Board of Elections is expected to act today on what appear to be fraudulent voter registration cards sent to the board from the Cleveland AFL-CIO. John Schmidt, deputy director of the board of elections, said the board is expected to refer the matter to the sheriff or prosecutor's office for further investigation. Schmidt said several dozen cards were mailed to the board in an envelope that contained a return street address but no name. Aside from the lack of identification of the sender, he said board workers had questions about the cards for other reasons. They were...

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[Robert A Cook PE]

Hmmmmmmn.

Did Rather report "first" that FL had gone to Gore?

(I know, once "somebody" said it, everybody else in the naitonal press corpse jumped on the prediction and repeated it immediately. But did Rather actually go first, while the Panhandle was still in play? Lost Panhandle votes are estimated at over 10,000 Bush votes!)

[Robert A Cook PE]

Ref Dan Rather reporting first that FL was conceded to Gore in 2000.

"First" as far as network anchors go: Many people don't get Fox news on their cable/broadcast stations, so I not sure that a Fox news releaase would have affected as many Panhandle voters.

[COBOL2Java]

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

You left out "...to not have people's I.D.s checked at the polls, provided they are from the right Party".

[Heart of Georgia]

I don't remember the web site, but there was one where you could watch the vote tallies as the precincts were coming in. With a very small percentage yet to come in (and the experts agreeing that it wasn't enough for gore to take Florida) the election was called for GW, and we waited for his acceptance speech.

When it all hit the fan, I went back to the web site and noticed that there had been a huge amount of votes dumped in for gore from one or two precincts in Florida, more than the percentage allowed.

I don't recall hearing this brought up during the re-re-re-re-counts, but FReepers were busy showing how these were manufactured votes, and how the likely scenario was that they stacked ballots and punched them for gore. Then to give cover for the fraud, and to substantiate the "confusing butterfly ballot" claims, they stacked used ballots and punched them for gore...hence the problem with pregnant/dangling chads and the double votes for gore/PB or gore/Bush. They were safe in doing this because, if the votes were cast for gore, gore kept the vote...if the vote was cast for PB or GW, they would be disqualified as a double vote, as they would also have the gore chad punched. A win-win for them, or so they thought.

I also remember them trying to say that no one there would vote for GW, and especially not PB, so they must have meant to vote for gore. PB agreed. This was also one of the ways they tried to discern voter intent in one of the re-re-re-re-counts.

[AFPhys]

"IF IT'S NOT CLOSE, THEY CAN'T CHEAT"

I once believed this. However, given the incredibly simplicity of cheating in voting now, and the type of groups now doing anything and everything they can to defeat the Republican Party (including the 527s, CBiaS, and other FRAUDcasters), I am starting to be worried it is no longer true.
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[steve-b]

If some Democrats had their way, the country would have a National ID card that you would have to produce and scan to buy a stick of gum... but would not be required at the polls for fear of "voter intimidation".

[\/\/ayne]

I believe the Democrats are going to legally challenge Absentee Military Ballots again, which is why I wrote a column on my website called "They Need Our Help."

I have also emailed conservatives like Sean Hannity and Michael Medved who regulary spar with high level Democrats requesting they ask liberals about this. I can't listen to everything so I don't know if they have. Here is my letter to the editor of our local paper - not published of course.

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It is a well known fact that during the 2000 election the Democrats sent teams of lawyers to challenge and disqualify absentee military votes throughout Florida. Technicalities such as no postage mark were cited. (Military mail is somtimes not postmarked.) Later it was found that most were wrongly disqualified, but it was too late to reinstate them. An estimated 1,500 absentee military votes were never counted in Florida.

Democratic Presidential Candidate John Kerry recently told the NAACP in a speech that his campaign would provide teams of lawyers "in your cities" to "monitor elections and enforce the law." Are Democratic legal teams again planning to challenge the absentee votes of our overseas troops on technicalities?

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Many liberal lawyers will be on the side of John Edwards, of course and will have plenty of time, money and legal shennanigans to donate to him and Kerry. If there are any patriotic lawyers out there, be they Republican, Libertarian or even patriotic Democrats, they should immediately volunteer to the Bush campaign to help fight the gigantic legal battle this campaign will surely generate.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

BUMP!

[Gondring]

Well, not that 68% of Democrats are felons, but that 68% of these felons are Democrats. Jokes aside, that's a big difference; still, a 5:1 ratio of Democrats to Republicans would be a big story if the MSM were unbiased. It's a great example of how most bias is expressed not by blatant hack jobs like the Killian memos, but rather by simple and subtle omissions and misrepresentations.

[Marak]

How about checking the license plates on cars in the parking lots at polling places?

[Gondring]

According to the CBS coverup report--oops, I mean followup report -- it was called for Gore less than 15 minutes before the polls actually closed in the panhandle. That's how they claim they had little effect.

However, the report also states that at 7:00 pm (presumably Eastern), The Dan announced that the polls were closed in Florida -- an hour before they were actually closed in the panhandle.

Also, apologists claim that calling elections early have no effect, since if a candidate has already won, it makes no sense for people to vote for either major candidate. They claim it only adds to the "protest vote" of third party candidates, like Nader.

BUT...even if that were true (and it's not, since it disregards peoples' tendency not to just behave in strict logical game-theory manners), the "closing of the polls" announcement without calling the election DOES have a major impact, when the electorate is not distributed--and/or split--evenly within a voting area. Since the panhandle was likely to vote 2:1 for Bush, the fact that polling places were eerily empty in that last hour, according to reports, indicates Bush lost many legitimate votes from this (more than 10,000 of them, as stated).

BTW, every major network seems to have reported the wrong poll-closing time, to my knowledge...and I think the error might have originated with the VNS, but I'm not sure of it.

[Gondring]

See "ON-AIR NETWORK AND VNS CALLS, PRESIDENTIAL RACE, NOV. 7/8, 2000"

Actually, NBC/MSNBC led the call for Gore, with CBS and CNN following closely thereafter. Fox might have been early, too. ABC was the only one to call it after the polls actually closed, waiting til 8:02.

Interestingly, Fox never retracted the call for Gore until about 2 am; they were the the first to call it for Bush, at 2:16 am.


Note the following excerpt from Nader-voter David Kopel (http://www.davekopel.com/Terror/Fiftysix-Deceits-in-Fahrenheit-911.htm):

In fact, the networks which called Florida for Gore did so early in the evening—before polls had even closed in the Florida panhandle, which is part of the Central Time Zone. NBC called Florida for Gore at 7:49:40 p.m., Eastern Time. This was 10 minutes before polls closed in the Florida panhandle. Thirty seconds later, CBS called Florida for Gore. And at 7:52 p.m., Fox called Florida for Gore. Moore never lets the audience know that Fox was among the networks which made the error of calling Florida for Gore prematurely. Then at 8:02 p.m., ABC called Florida for Gore. Only ABC had waited until the Florida polls were closed.

About an hour before the polls closed in panhandle Florida, the networks called the U.S. Senate race in favor of the Democratic candidate. The networks seriously compounded the problem because from 6-7 Central Time, they repeatedly announced that polls had closed in Florida--even though polls were open in the panhandle. (See also Joan Konner, James Risser & Ben Wattenberg, Television's Performance on Election Night 2000: A Report for CNN, Jan. 29, 2001.)
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Even if the premature television calls affected all potential voters equally, the effect was to reduce Republican votes significantly, because the Florida panhandle is a Republican stronghold. Most of Central Time Zone Florida is in the 1st Congressional District, which is known as the "Redneck Riviera." In that district, Bob Dole beat Bill Clinton by 69,000 votes in 1996, even though Clinton won the state by 300,000 votes. So depress overall turnout in the panhandle, and you will necessarily depress more Republican than Democratic votes. A 2001 study by John Lott suggested that the early calls cost Bush at least 7,500 votes, and perhaps many more. Another study reported that the networks reduced panhandle turn-out by about 19,000 votes, costing Bush about 12,000 votes and Gore about 7,000 votes.

[Robert A Cook PE]

I guess I as thinking of the hour-earlier call by the networks for the Senate.

Them again, a confused voter driving home through traffic would be equally likely to "Aw the hell with it" and go straight home rather than fight her way to the polling place for a (Senate) race that didn't matter.


So, if 538 others had thought that way ...........

[Robert A Cook PE]

But I specifically remember a letter that Harris sent EVERY network before the election reminding the anchors that FL was split in two time zones .

[Robert A Cook PE]

You remember those precints?