1. You can register to vote on election day in Wisconsin.
2. In Miwaukee alone, 10,000 votes cannot be verified - ie, they cannot locate a voter at the address given at the precinct.
3. Kerry won Wisconsin by 11,384 votes.
4. On election day in Wisconsin, a Bush GTV headquarters was vandalized when vehicles that were to take Bush voters to the polls had all their tires slashed.
5. If Wisconsin's 10 electoral votes had gone to Bush, it would have taken Bush's electoral total to 296, which is beyond the margin that Ohio's 20 EVs would have made any difference.
Hey Corn Cobb! Hey Badnarick! Hey Rev. Jackson! Hey Tubbs-Lard Jones! Hey Boxer Shorts! Why aren't you crybabies saying anything about Wisconsin if you are so interested in preserving the integrity of every vote.
I agree with you. However, it is the GOP's fault that they did not press this, nor challenge the electorial slate.
They're only interested in preserving the integrity of their own election results. They don't care what they have to do to get their opponents votes miscounted.
BTW you had a ton of credibility with me until you started name calling in that last little bit there. You could have just avoided that entirely.
The GOP is far too weak kneed to take on the issue in a serious manner for fear of being called "racist."
See Philadelphia:
According to CNN, Bush lost Pennsylvania to Kerry by 121,818 votes (out of more than 5.6 million cast - a razor thin margin).
Also according to CNN, Kerry received over 517,000 votes and Bush received over 124,000 votes in Philadelphia (or a ratio of 4.16 for Kerry).
Now, for the really interesting numbers. According to the recent US Census, the Population of Philadelphia that is of voting age is 1,105,066. This number includes people who by law can not vote (non-American citizens, felons, out of state college students, etc.). In 2004, there are 1,035,395 registered voters in Philadelphia, up 34,000 from 2001.
So, what does this mean?
First, even as Philadelphia looses population, the number of registered voters continues to increase year after year. Today, in Philadelphia, nearly 100% of every person of voting age must registered to vote (as compared to a national average of 60% by the Census Bureau). Second, the total lopsidedness of the 4.16 ratio is an absolutely astounding number - even heavily democratic Broward Country, FL (one of the only places Gore wanted recounted in 2000) only went for Kerry 2:1 and Cook County, IL (Chicago - THE definition of the democrat voting machine) only went for Kerry 2.5:1.
Either Philadelphia has the most engaged and civic population in the history of the World, or there is massive voter fraud.
And the amount of fraud easily exceeds the margin of loss of President Bush. For instance, if the registration was slightly above average and if Philadelphia was just your "average-democrat-rustbelt-city-union-stronghold with a 50 year democrat political machine," the vote for Kerry in Philadelphia would have been just over 300,000. The voter fraud in Philadelphia is worth about 200,000 votes - a deficit that any Republican running for statewide office must overcome with real votes.
Absolutely correct. Bill Richardson failed to deliver his state, which he had virtually guaranteed, and Blackwell in Ohio is a hero, imho.
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More: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1321079/posts
* 84,000 people registered at the polls on November 2.
* 10,000 people, despite filling out illegible registration cards, were given ballots.
* The other 74,000 registrations have yet to be verified through mailing a confirmation to the address listed.
My question is, if your average blogger can come up with plausible fraud scenarios backed by common-sense math using widely-known recent election result irregularities, then why isn't the GOP legal machine going after this large-scale fraud with gusto? Hmmm?
Owl_Eagle
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You sure wont see Doyle or Peg 'the keg' Lautenslagger look into any crimes that might damage the democrats in WI
imo
Spread the word around. It's absolutely nonsense that the only allegations of voter fraud have been that the GOP somehow stole Ohio and maybe Florida. It's totally ridiculous in those state's cases because of the huge margin between Bush and Kerry. But what people need to realise is that, had President Bush carried Wisconsin, he wouldn't have needed Ohio. We need to neutralise their stupid theories with the fact that there very well could have been enough fraud in Wisconsin (and possibly PA) to make Ohio arguments irrelevant.
Bottom line: voter fraud is not a Republican thing.
I knew Kerry winning Wisconsin was weird. I'm sure President Bush really won Wisconsin. Same with Michigan and Minnesota. But you know if the republicans Challenge any state that Kerry won, their case would be dismissed. With the liberal media only the democrats can get away with "challenging" state results, which the dems do just to steal votes! they are the REAL crocks!
My advice here is simple...Every Republican who lives within four hours of Wisconsin...needs to take the next election day off and run to vote. If fraud is accepted...then we might as well play the same game as the Demos. I hate saying this...but you have to play the game the way that people have set up.
Voter rolls should be purged with every 10 year census, automatically reset to zero. It's not too much to ask people to register every 10 years, and it would make fraud easier to track.
These are Federal elections. We have the White House and Congress. It is the GOP's faultif nothing is done.
Heck, give it an Orwellian name-Fair Elections for Minority Voters or something. Just git-er-done.
Although this is part of the petition to recall our Secretary of State Sam Reed, the following pretty much sums up what happened in the state of Washington.
CHARGE 1
King County alone counted approximately 1,800 more votes than the number of people who actually voted. Mr. Reed was aware of this discrepancy before the certification date.
CHARGE 2
After election day (11/2/04) King County "discovered" additional ballots 9 different times (as of 01/10/2005); Mr. Reed was aware of this anomaly before the certification date.
CHARGE 3
In King County Poll workers admitted they fed at least 348 provisional ballots directly into counting machines, commingling them with legal ballots and circumventing the process of keeping them out of the count until they were canvassed and proven to be legal. Mr. Reed was aware of this violation before the date of certification.
CHARGE 4
Elections workers "enhanced" more than 55,000 ballots, and contrary to state law, they permanently obscured the original marks on many, preventing a review of their decisions; Mr. Reed was aware of this violation before the date of certification.
CHARGE 5
There are at least 557 names in the January 7, 2004 King County Voter Data Base for people who voted on Nov. 2,2004 but who weren't listed in the November 1, 2004 King County Voter Data Base. Only 94 of the 557 names are in the December 29, 2004 King County Voter Data Base. 280 of the 557 are shown to have registered on dates between June 7, 2004 and Oct. 2, 2004, yet their names did not appear in any of the earlier versions of the King County voter databases. Mr. Reed was aware of this serious discrepancy before the certification date.
CHARGE 6
Seattle's Precinct 1823 counted 343 ballots, which is 71 more ballots than the 272 voters who cast them. This is the single largest discrepancy between ballots and voters in all of King County. Nearly all of the discrepancy is due to "provisional ballots". Mr. Reed was aware of this serious inconsistency before the date of certification.
CHARGE 7
In violation of WAC 434-262-080, WAC 434-262-090 and WAC 434-262-100, Mr. Reed accepted, as complete, the abstract of votes from 24 counties even though they did not provide all the material required by statute and regulations.
CHARGE 8
Reed violated RCW 29A.04.610 by failing to perform many of the duties detailed therein, including;
A) Failure to examine and test voting systems for certification;
B) Failure to employ standards and procedures to ensure the accurate tabulation and canvassing of ballots;
C) Failure to ensure consistency among the counties of the state in the preparation of ballots, the operation of vote tallying systems, and the canvassing of primaries and elections;
D) Failure to ensure procedures to receive and distribute voter registration applications by mail;
E) Failure to engage in the testing, approval, and certification of voting systems;
F) Failure to enforce standards and procedures to prevent fraud and to facilitate the accurate processing and canvassing of absentee ballots and mail ballots;
G) Failure to enforce uniformity among the counties of the state in the conduct of absentee voting and mail ballot elections;
H) Failure to implement standards and procedures to accommodate out-of-state voters, overseas voters, and service voters;
I) Failure to enforce procedures for conducting a statutory recount;
CHARGE 9
Failure to withhold certification of the third, final and manual recount of the November 2, 2004 election, an election he knew was wrought with violations of election laws and regulations.
How Democrats Steal Elections - Top 10 Methods of Liberal Vote Fraud
1. Over-Voting. In Democrat strongholds like St. Louis, Philadelphia and Detroit, some precincts had 100% of their registered voters voting, with 99% of the ballots going to Gore. Clearly, multiple voting resulted in extra tallies for Gore in the 2000 election. (New York Post, 12/09/00).
2. Dead Voters. This classic Democratic method of vote fraud goes all the way back to 1960 in Chicago and Dallas. The 2000 election was no exception. In Miami-Dade County, for example, some of the 144 ineligible votes (those which officials actually admitted to) were cast by dead people, including a Haitian-American who's been deceased since 1977 (Miami-Herald, 12/24/00).
3. Mystery Voters. These "voters" cast votes anyway but are not even registered to vote. In heavily Democratic Broward County, for example, more than 400 ballots were cast by non-registered voters. (Miami-Herald 1/09/01)
4. Military ballots. Many of these votes were disqualified for the most mundane and trivial reasons. At least 1,527 valid military ballots were discarded in Florida by Democratic vote counters (Drudge Report, 11/19/00).
5. Criminals. Felons are a natural Democratic voter and they're protected on voter rolls across the country. In Florida at least 445 ex-convicts - including rapists and murderers -- voted illegally on November 7th. Nearly all of them were registered Democrats. (Miami-Herald 12/01/00)
6. Illegal aliens. These voters have long been a core liberal constituency, especially in California. In Orange County in 1996, Rep. Bob Dornan had his congressional seat stolen from him when thousands of illegal aliens voted for Loretta Sanchez (Christian Science Monitor, 9/2/97).
7. Vote-buying. Purchasing votes has long been a traditional scheme by Democrats, and not just with money. In the 2000 election in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Democratic workers initiate a "smokes-for-votes" campaign in which they paid dozens of homeless men with cigarettes if they cast ballots for Al Gore (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 11/14/00).
8. Phantom Voters. These voters don't really exist, but their ballots do. In the 1996 Lousiana Senate race, GOP candidate Woody Jenkins had the election stolen from him when he discovered that 7,454 actual votes were cast but had no paper trail to authenticate them (Behind the Headlines, F.R. Duplantier, 4/27/97).
9. Dimpled chads. Those infamous punch-cards were a ballot bonanza for Al Gore. Democratic poll workers in Palm Beach, Dade and Broward counties tampered and manipulated thousands of ineligible ballots and counted them for Gore, even though no clear vote could be discerned. (NewsMax.com 11/27, 12/22, 11/18, 11/19/00).
10. Absentee ballots. Normally it's assumed that Republicans benefit from absentee ballots. But in the case of Miami's 1997 mayoral election, hundreds of absentee ballots were made for sale or sent out to non-Miami residents. Fraud was so extensive in the race that the final results were overturned in court (FL Dept. of Law Enforcement Report, 1/5/98)."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=votefraud
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=electionfraud
Bump for future reference.