Posted on 12/09/2004 5:07:59 PM PST by OPS4
In the waning days before the November 2 election, Democrats are busy positioning lawyers to manipulate the courts and recruiting activists to register Democrat voters any way possible, even if it includes subverting the rule of law.
Just consider that U.S. District Judge and Clinton-appointee James Carr ruled recently that "Ohio voters who show up at the wrong polling place on Election Day can still cast ballots as long as they are in the county where they are registered."
Democrats and the NAACP then succeeded in convincing another Clinton-appointed judge to rule that Michigan must count provisional ballots even when cast in the wrong precinct(s), as well. Fortunately, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned the Ohio and Michigan rulings, but it illustrates the lengths to which Democrats will go in order to tilt the voting process in their favor.
Meanwhile, an Ohio man was supposedly given crack cocaine to register voters, and has been arrested for false registration. The man, Chad Staton, had been hired by Georgianne Pitts, who admitted to paying Staton crack cocaine for the registrations in lieu of money. Pitts, in turn, says she was recruited by Thaddeus J. Jackson, II, of Cleveland, to obtain voter registrations. Jackson is the Assistant Ohio Director of the NAACP National Voter Fund.
A Denver, Colorado television station has documented 719 cases of forms at five different county election offices that show fraudulent names, addresses, social security numbers, or dates of birth. Some registration drive workers earn $2 per application. One woman admitted to forging three people's names on about forty applications. She was helping her boyfriend earn more money from an organization called ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), a far-left, pro-Democrat organization.
In Berks County, Pennsylvania, Director of Elections V. Kurt Bellman says there have been flagrant attempts at voter registration fraud, noting blatant duplicate voter registrations. Some of the registration drives are being conducted in violation of the law because they are paying incentives to sign up voters. Bellman said his office has had numerous calls from people who were registered through ACORN, complaining that those recording voter information deliberately recorded inaccurate information on the forms.
Hamilton County, Ohio election officials are dealing with a rare case of election fraud there. Board of Elections Director John Williams subpoenaed those named on questionable voter registration cards after similar handwriting and false addresses raised election workers' suspicions. The cards were turned in by an individual affiliated with ACORN.
In St. Petersburg, Florida, the state attorney's office is investigating allegations that ACORN fraudulently changed party affiliations on voter-registration applications. ACORN is also under investigation in Miami-Dade County for registering ex-convicts to vote. A former field director for ACORN told investigators that efforts to rig votes for the 2004 election were "routine."
"There was a lot of fraud committed," acknowledged Mac Stuart. His allegations include that ACORN "quality control" workers routinely kicked back Republican voter registrations while paying for Democratic ones, using the excuse that "they had enough" new voters for the GOP. Stuart said "boxes" of Republican voter registration cards were tossed while "thousands of invalid voter registration cards" were submitted in their place.
Stuart also admitted that ACORN "eagerly sought" to register convicted felons, even though they're not allowed to vote under Florida law. He recalled setting up registration tables outside the Miami police department and Dade County jail.
Back in Ohio, ACORN registered al-Qaida member Nuradin Abdi to vote. Abdi was indicted earlier this year as part of a conspiracy to blow up the Columbus Mall.
ACORN also added Iyman Faris as a new Ohio voter. Faris is serving a 20-year jail sentence for his role in surveying potential al-Qaida targets, including the Brooklyn Bridge. Abdi was registered by ACORN employee Kevin Eugene Dooley, who was indicted earlier this year for false election registration and submitting false election signatures to the Ohio Board of Elections. Only after Abdi's case was exposed did Ohio officials strike his name from the voting rolls due to his status as an illegal alien.
Allegations of voter fraud are also under investigation in Nashville, Tennessee. About 200 "citizens" who don't exist registered to vote in Davidson County for the presidential election, and now the TBI is investigating the individual who submitted those forms on behalf of Tennessee Citizen Action (TCA), another liberal group.
There are many more examples of voter fraud that have popped up in the news this election season, nearly all of which have been perpetrated by those friendly to the Democratic Party. Although voter fraud isn't new to elections in the U.S., it appears that fraudulent efforts are indeed more prevalent this year.
At the same time, Democrats such as Jesse Jackson and John Edwards are falsely scaring minorities into believing that the GOP is plotting to suppress their votes this year, even though evidence points to the contrary. In fact, a 66-page Kerry-DNC manual obtained by the Drudge Report on October 14 instructs operatives that "If no signs of intimidation techniques have emerged yet, launch a 'pre-emptive strike.'"
Desperation has fully set in on the Democratic side, and they are pulling every trick out of their hat -- even accusing the GOP of planning what Democrats themselves are already doing. Just as liberals have to rely on activist judges to accomplish what they cannot at the ballot box, so too must they attempt through fraud and manipulation what they cannot achieve in the arena of ideas -- namely to convince a majority of the electorate to vote for them.
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I guess the number of dead people the Dems were counting on didn't come out to vote in the numbers necessary.
Wow...and I didn't hear one of these "documented" complaints at Conyers' and the Democrats so-called voter reform forum. Instead, I was treated to anecdotal tales of college kids waiting in line as they suffered without a lunch-break.
When you add to this list the GOP HQ's being shot-up, campaign workers being beatin' and Republican vehicles being sabotaged, we have what looks to be a well-planned effort of voter intimidation and fraud. And yet, Democrats still have the nerve to play victim throughout this election.
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Exactly. They're learning from their mistakes and could be more of a threat next time.
That rhymes with Gregoire.
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