Posted on 11/01/2005 7:22:52 AM PST by goldstategop
Need Help Voting?: Detroit Votes for You By Debbie Schlussel
Need help voting? In a solution to the Palm Beach fiasco (butterfly ballots with old people who couldn't figure it out), the City of Detroit "pre-votes" for you.
As reported by Detroit's ABC news affiliate, some Detroit voters received their absentee ballots with the votes already cast for Detroit City Clerk Jackie Currie and her buddy, embattled Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick ("the Hip Hop Mayor").
Strangely, Currie--who administers all elections in Detroit and distributes the ballots--got more votes than any candidate in the August primary. Gee, I wonder why.
All of this is in top of a Sunday Detroit News investigation that showed many absentee ballots--as many as 380,000!--registered to dead people, fraudulent/invalid addresses, and mentally incapacitated voters. The News reported that Currie's paid workers "help" incapacitated voters in a back room at nursing homes.
The paper also reported that these suspicious "practices" date back to 1964, when Currie and her late husband were charged with solciting people to sign applications for absentee ballots and "advising" them how to mark their ballots.
With Detroit as the largest voting bloc in the State of Michigan, is it any surprise that John Kerry won the State--with Jackie Currie on his side?
Unfortunately, The Detroit News (a/k/a "The Detroit Spews") gives credence to Malik Shabazz as a legitimate Currie critic. He is a racist and anti-Semite in the Farrakhan mold, who blamed Israel and the Jews at a 9/11 memorial right after the 2001 attacks. Incredibly, the Spews doesn't mention a lick of this. Par for the course at this apologist paper for radical Islam.
("Denny Crane: Gun Control? For Communists. She's a liberal. Can't hunt.")
Detroit, Michigan = Lagos, Nigeria
Sending out unrequested absentee ballots invites fraud. Who is checking to see if the people who are supposed to get the ballots are really voting? Two hundred fifty dollars for disobeying a court order is ridiculous. If you fail to appear for a traffic ticket, you will end up paying a greater fine, not to mention insurance costs.
Tripe
I thought The Detroit News was the conservative paper, or at least it was when I was still living in Windsor. I'd love to hear what Debbie thinks of the Free Press!
Lagos is probably better.
The News hasn't been conservative since Thomas Bray stopped running the show.
Too bad. It was a fresh breath of sanity in a nutty city.
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