Kerry Pins Hopes in Iowa on Big Vote From Absentees [heads up]

New York Times ^ | Sep 28, 2004 | R.W. Apple, Jr.

[foolscap]

I lived in Iowa and still have a lot of family there. There are a lot of yellow dog Dems there and this would not surprise me at all. The only hope is that Kerry keeps running so far to the left even they will be offended.

[Arrowhead1952]

Just the right thread to post the links to download the absentee forms for Texas Sec of State. Please ping any and all lists you have for Texas FReepers.

Sec of state home page
Voter index
Form Index

Go to the 4th form, which is the "Application for Ballot by Mail". After completing the ballot, send it to the Early Voting Clerk for your precinct. You can get the address from the Voter Information @ 1-800-252-8683. This may take quite a while, as I was on hold for about 15 minutes.

[MeekOneGOP]

Kerry Pins Hopes in Iowa on Big Vote From Absentees

Arrowhead1952's post (#42):

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Just the right thread to post the links to download the absentee forms for Texas Sec of State. Please ping any and all lists you have for Texas FReepers.

Sec of state home page
Voter index
Form Index

Go to the 4th form, which is the "Application for Ballot by Mail". After completing the ballot, send it to the Early Voting Clerk for your precinct. You can get the address from the Voter Information @ 1-800-252-8683. This may take quite a while, as I was on hold for about 15 minutes.

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[Ditter]

Thanks, I just sent this to my American cousins in Abu Dabi. Thats 2 votes for President Bush right there.

[Theodore R.]

I hope the GOP has been working hard on getting absentee ballots out.

I am fairly certain that the GOP has neglected getting out early voters and absentee voters. We know that GOP registration has lagged far behind Kerry's this year.

[Theodore R.]

There are a lot of yellow dog Dems

Those are the base of the Tom Harkin boosters. Also, IA has a large labor vote, doesn't it, though it was of no help to Richard A. Gephardt in the caucus in January.

[FITZ]

Scary --- I wonder how much fraud there is with the absentee voting system.

[TheGrimReaper]

Kerry Pins Hopes in Iowa on Big Vote From Absentees, Dead People, Prison Inmates and the French

[In the interest of full disclosure]

[MeekOneGOP]

Excellent !! :^D

[MeekOneGOP]

I bet we would all be surprised if we learned how much.

[MeekOneGOP]

[chris1]

I don't like the smell of this. I am 100% certain that what is going on is that the RATS are going into nursing homes and registering the comatose to vote and then filling out the absentee ballots in their names and sending them in. I have no proof of this, but I saw something similar in NY as a poll watcher in the Bronx.

These RATS are so despicable. GWB better be up at least 8-10 on election day in order to counter the fraud factor.

[airborne]

I did a search here on site, using the words "VOTER FRAUD" and I am stunned at the number of stories across the nation.

Now the good news.

All of the incidents were discovered over a month before the election. And they are all being investigated.

Finding these fraud attempts so far ahead of the election gives us the time to locate and disqualify illegal votes, and catch the perpetrators.

Have faith FReepers!

[chris1]

I will have faith when I see the RAT fraud machine indicted and prosecuted.

I am so hoping for an avalanche this year. I want to rub it into every RATS stupid face I see.

[airborne]

"I want to rub it into every RATS stupid face I see.

I hope you get your wish!

[Dubya]

Thanks for the ping.

[JulieRNR21]

Being optimistice is nice but as the great Ronald Reagan said....'Trust BUT verify!

We MUST get everyone to vote AND volunteer to work at the polls as an observer, so we can watch out for fraudulent voting.

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Insider Report: Dems Have Secret Plan to Steal Election
NewsMax ^ | Monday, Sept. 27, 2004

Democrats May Steal Election as Voter Registration Grows

Despite Kerry's lagging polls, the Democrats still plan to win this November. How?

Perhaps by the old fashioned way: stealing the election. That's the word from a top Republican strategist in Washington who tells NewsMax the Democrats have put an unusual amount of resources into "voter turnout" efforts.

NewsMax's Insider Report reported weeks ago that the 527 groups supporting Kerry, and backed by the likes of billionaire George Soros, were earmarking most of the $160 million they have raised toward voter registration and "get out the vote" efforts.

Approximately two-thirds of the 527 money – or a $100 million – will go toward these efforts. Republicans believe many of these voter registration efforts open up the door for qualified and multiple voting schemes on Election Day.

Worse, the 527's are now claiming they will spend three times what has been previously reported to "get out the vote."

One pro-Kerry group, America Votes, told the New York Times that its backers – "labor unions, trial lawyers, environmental groups, community organizations - will spend $300 million on registration and turnout in swing states, a sum that dwarfs the $150 million in public financing the two candidates together will receive for the entire fall campaign."

NewsMax has also reported that only a handful of states were being targeted for this avalanche of cash, notably Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania. However, Republicans believe this will lay the groundwork not for a Democratic electoral victory on November 2nd, but for election theft on November 2nd. NewsMax reports were confirmed this Sunday in the New York Times, which headlined its story "A Big Increase of New Voters in Swing States."

The paper said, " A sweeping voter registration campaign in heavily Democratic areas has added tens of thousands of new voters to the rolls in the swing states of Ohio and Florida, a surge that has far exceeded the efforts of Republicans in both states, a review of registration data shows."

As it turned out in 2000, Bush won Florida by less than a 1000 votes, and Ohio by about 30,000 votes. Republicans have been shy about raising the voter registration and fraud issue because of the race issue; Democrats have been quick to say the Republicans are "racist" for challenging voter registration efforts in minority and inner city areas.

But the Times notes that's exactly where the Democrats have been focusing their resources. The paper reported: "The analysis by The New York Times of county-by-county data shows that in Democratic areas of Ohio – primarily low-income and minority neighborhoods – new registrations since January have risen 250 percent over the same period in 2000. In comparison, new registrations have increased just 25 percent in Republican areas.

"A similar pattern is apparent in Florida: in the strongest Democratic areas, the pace of new registration is 60 percent higher than in 2000, while it has risen just 12 percent in the heaviest Republican areas.

" Of course, the Kerry campaign says it has nothing to do with the 527 efforts, but they appear to be happy with the results. "We know it's going on, and it's a very encouraging sign," Steve Elmendorf, deputy campaign manager for Senator John Kerry, told the Times. He added that these efforts "could very much be the difference" for Kerry.

Steve Rosenthal, the head of another 527 group – Americans Coming Together, or ACT – told the Times, "I think what's happening on the streets, below the radar, is what's going to make the big difference on Election Day." Rosenthal claimed that by Election Day the 527 groups will have registered two and a half million new voters.

A chart in the Times showed that the Democrat registrations are outpacing Republicans in Ohio and Florida by five times or more.

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/9/27/153454.shtml

[MeekOneGOP]

I'll be doin' the early voting thing here, as always.

In the early voting, I can usually get in and out in a whopping 10 minutes most
times. I go either before or after lunch when there aren't many people there.

That should start in about 3 weeks, I think.

[shezza]

So Mr. Kerry is well known to Iowa's electorate, perhaps as well known as Mr. Bush.

Mr. Kerry isn't even well known to Mr. Kerry ("If it's Tuesday, I must be anti-war"). How can Iowans presume to "know" him at all?

[austingirl]

Democrats - the party of voter fraud.