It looks like dead man voted in Ford election (Tennessee Democrats at it again)

Tennessean.com ^ | 12/12/05

[LdSentinal]

Election records of a September special election that put Ophelia Ford in a state Senate seat show that someone may have used the name of a man who had been dead for six weeks to vote.

Ford, a Democrat, beat Republican challenger Terry Roland by 13 votes in a race in which 8,750 ballots were cast. The election was to replace Ford's brother John Ford, who resigned in May after being indicted on bribery charges.

The name Joe L. Light was entered into the poll registration book during the Sept. 15 election at the Memphis precinct where Light was registered to vote. Light had died Aug. 6.

A Senate committee of three Democrats and three Republicans is continuing to investigate Republican complaints of voting irregularities in the election. A hearing is scheduled today in Memphis.

"There's so much question as to the whole process (of the special election), the feds should step in and look at it," said John Harvey, a volunteer who's heading the Roland campaign's investigation of the returns.

Election officials already have conceded that three convicted felons and a voter registered outside District. 29 voted improperly in the contest.

Harvey said he's found as many as 69 people, including Light, who cast ballots that shouldn't count. Most are people who don't live at addresses given in voter-registration records, he said.

Shelby County Election Commission Chairman Greg Duckett agreed the development is serious.

If a dead person voted, "then we have a major issue that we need to turn over to the district attorney," Duckett said.

Still, Duckett, a Democratic election commissioner, said he believes the incident was isolated and said he doesn't see grounds for overturning the election.

"You'd have to have a conspiracy the size of JFK" to have widespread fraud, he said.

[Theodore R.]

And the Four Horsemen will be FDR, Clinton, HRC, and who else? Maybe Robert C. Byrd.

[chimera]

Many Democrats believe that fraud is alright if done in the name of "democracy" or "the people" or the "democratic process" or "helping the downtrodden"

I know it. This is another major reason why 'Rats are a danger to our system of representative government. For them, the ends justify the means, and anything goes as long as they get into office.

The recent theft of the governorship of WA state by the 'Rats is perhaps the arch-typical case of 'Rat election fraud at its most gross. It took them three separate counts to "win" that office, and on the third try it took them two go-arounds on mining additional votes in a heavily democratic county to put the 'Rat over the top. Check out the posts on soundpolitics.com sometime, and see how the 'Rats try to defend the indefensible (sound familiar?) by excusing the blatant fraud as "modest mistakes" and "human error". If would be laughable if it were no so tragically serious a danger to our form of self government.