Posted on 10/22/2004 6:20:08 PM PDT by kattracks
(CNSNews.com) - The Ohio Republican Party officially filed challenges Friday to approximately 35,000 registrants in 65 counties where voter fraud is believed to have taken place.
The state's Republican Party is pre-challenging these registrants' right to vote in the 2004 presidential election because mail to the new registrants was returned as undeliverable by U.S. Postal Service authorities.
"Our goal in filing these pre-election challenges is to protect the integrity of Ohio's electoral process," said Bob Bennett, chairman of the Ohio Republican Party. "We want to ensure that voters are not disenfranchised by fraud in this election. This is an effort to clarify questionable registrations in advance so they don't become an issue on Election Day."
Earlier in the week, Bennett was joined by Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie at a news conference where he showed thousands of pieces of undeliverable mail to newly registered voters. Concern was raised when the rate of return was at an unprecedented higher rate than in the past.
At the previous news conference, Bennett cited that the normal rate of return on new registrations in less than 1 percent. However, this year the rate of return has ranged from 2 percent to 11 percent in Ohio counties.
Bennett also called on the Democratic Party to help in ensuring a fair and honest election this November, instead of making outrageous claims that the Republican Party is trying to suppress voters.
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Thw Dumbocraps will atempt to steal the election if we permit it. Remeber that for evil to succeed it require sthat good men to do nothing.
Way to go! Maybe some of our people are actually on the ball this time around. Question is, can we match them lawyer for lawyer?
i do like the thumbprint idea...safer than giving out social. i know it wouldnt fly either...don't we sound like anti-ACLU super right winger pubbies who LOVE the patriot act and want to take away everyone's civil rights? I love it! Lets do a commercial!
glad you're here ;)
Rant away! I agree.....this voter fraud crap is just ridiculous. The Dims think the election in 2000 was stolen from them (NOT!)....and so they will do anything to steal this election.
I am getting a bit "sick to my stomach" to think they could actually pull it off. I cannot have that horrible group of people leading my country! (well, actually, not leading my country!) ....was that a flip flop?
35,000 huh ... Those 527's and college student sure were busy
That's either $35,000 or $70,000 of Soros' money used to buy beer and pizza, or joints and munchies.
oh, i know how you feel. i thing the President has this election in the bag, except for voter fraud - because no matter what the polls say now, when you have thousands of people double voting, you never know whats going to happen. it makes me very nervous, and it makes me mad that it can be so easily avoided. (and yes, i think that was a flip-flop..."and THATS not a flip-flop!!")
No chance of anything in law controlling fraud...it will be a matter of will to enforce the law, time after time, that will matter. And if you can't enforce the law, then it simply doesn't matter...your only recourse is civil war. The Democrats care nothing about our system, only about their own power. We will be faced with acquiesence or war within a very few elections.
one explanation being given for the new added voters causing an area's population to be greater than the census states, is that people are kept on the voter rolls long after they move. In other words, it's just an accounting artifact.
Actually there may be some truth to this. TX once required annual registration, which had to be completely by Jan. 31 of every year. This kept the voter rolls automatically up-to-date. However, in the early 1970s, maybe 1971, SCOTUS ruled that such annual registration and prior to Jan. 31 was an undue burden on voters. TX then adopted permanent registration in 1975. Every two years new voter certificates are mailed out, and many are returned by the Postal Service. Presumably, those returned are dropped from the voter rolls.
Now some Republicans have also opposed having picture ID for voting on grounds that such a requirement might discourage high turnouts.
BUMP
Elvis:
Return to sender.
Address unknown.
No such number,
No such zone.
"Actually there may be some truth to this."
I also believe there is some truth to this, but the contention of the apologists is that because there is some truth to it, then it just logically follows that there exists NO voter fraud.
If we don't confront these people, that's when we will get the really 'scary times'. Bring it on, as far as I'm concerned. I'm tired of these people. They are a paper tiger, easily shouted down and easily defeated if good people stand up and expose them for what they are. And I'm on board, and no one should be afraid of being on board too.
It should have been done before this election.
Unfortunately, bush passed a bad election law and also made some big mistakes, like appointing tommy thompson to HHS instead of leaving him in wisconsin, where he could have signed a voting ID bill after the wisconsin legislature titled heavily to the republicans.
"Now some Republicans have also opposed having picture ID for voting on grounds that such a requirement might discourage high turnouts."
Sometimes republicans are their own worst enemies.
I'm glad we're not just going to sit on our butts and wait for the Dems to steal this election away from us.
The problem is that any move we make to clamp down on vote fraud is immediately jumped on by the left as "an attempt to disenfranchise black voters."
(Which I've always thought was funny ... are the libs saying that only black voters commit fraud?)
I think if the congress and/or state legislatures would grow a set and tackle this issue seriously, most voters would come down on our side...
suppress the vote = you mean repubs wont let phony or fake ballots count
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