Local Dems do not realize that as more and more states computerize their records, it becomes easier and easier for an investigator to correlate the data bases. The days of hiding illegal votes in a huge sea of voters, assuming no one has the time and resources to cross check are over. If the GOP is smart, have data base experts on standby to challenge many Dem districts. I think it would be interesting to see how big of a margin does illegal voters play in the Democrat election strategy. Preliminary cross checks between NY and FL data bases already has yielded several hundred Dem voters who registered to vote in NY and FL, and many of the NY voters requested for an absentee ballot to cast a ballot in NY and personally voted in FL for the national elections (IOW voted twice). They assumed no one would cross check the records. Many of them are elderly and once caught they claim senility.
Kerry won Pennsylvania by 120,000 votes but his margin in just the city of Philadelphia, with lots of 100-105% precinct turnouts, was 400,000.
Kerry won Michigan by 150,000 votes but without Detroit Bush won the rest of the state handily, but a bigger margin.
Without Chicago, Bush wins Illinois.
Without Los Angeles and San Francisco, Bush takes California by a hair.
Without four of five boroughs in New York, Bush wins NY state by a hair.
Amazing, isn't it? Inner city black votes, both legitimate and fraudulent, are all that is standing between the Democrats and permanent electoral defeat. That's why Bush is playing up African-American issues this term. If the fraud can be prevented and the black turnout shift from 90:10 to 80:20 or 75:25, the Democrats will be in permanent minority status for a looong time.
The number was closer to 46,000 voters registered in both states, 68% of whom were registered as Democrats.
-PJ
You need to start from scratch. Purge all voting rolls and start fresh. Computerize everything. Digitize the signatures and when people come in to vote, they will sign a digipad that will verify the signature.
This isn't rocket science, yet no one wants to address it.
This is an easy win for Bush. The Election Reform Act. ERA can also coiniced with Equal Rights. Now let the RATS argue against it.