Posted on 09/19/2006 6:18:58 AM PDT by Dubya
Covering up, as usual, democrat voter fraud.
If it's a crime to put other people's absentee ballots in the mail, I can think of a few dozen scenarios where this law will prohibit people from voting.
You are encouraged to list them, in detail, with appropriate speculation as to the consequences, then.
I'm not much for doing homework for people without life experience or imaginations. Here's a hint. Think seniors. Think assisted living for a start. Think about stupid impractical laws.
I've put my husband's ballots in the mail. I'm just the one who goes to the post office regularly.
All that notwithstanding, you appear to be much for picking the least probable and most easily allowed-for excecptional cases to dive-bomb an attempt to rein in actual crime.
Then again, if a disabled person cannot get to their personal mailbox, I suspect that having their caregiver walk the item, along with the rest of the mail to the box won't be something high on the deputies' work list.
Or would such be also something you're not much for?
How noble.
One wonders where these people are that mail doesn't get picked up.
I remember the election of 1960, where between Cook county IL. and west Texas, enough votes were manufactured to steal two states. Some counties in West Texas had 180 percent turnout! Without those two states Kennedy would have lost. Later, when Nixon won, the Democrats complained about "dirty tricks". Surely the voter fraud as described in this article is the ultimate dirty trick.
You say the law is needed to cut down on voting crime and then you point out how the police probably won't waste time enforcing it. Make up your mind.
I'm responding to the part of the law that seems to address who puts it in the mail. I think that's ridiculous and unenforcable. What's important is who printed the ballot, filled it out etc.
Watch out! Some folks here would have you arrested. LOL!
Silly retort. I mean that the police, who have some little training in this kind of thing, can probably tell the difference between the case I cited and one where some black wardheeler is trucking a dozen or more 'absentee ballots' (all of which she filled out herself) down to the precinct.
Even you can make that gross a distinction, yes?
It's those nasty racists democrats who did this and passed all those Jim Crow laws as well.
Actually, if it clearly states that it's illegal to do this on the mail-in ballots, then these folks have no excuse.
Gloria Meeks of Fort Worth, also 69, said she stepped out of her morning bath last month and screamed.
Two voter fraud investigators from Attorney General Greg Abbott's office were peeking in her bathroom window, Meeks said in a sworn statement. Abbott's office declined to discuss specifics but said its investigation of Meeks has been "conducted professionally and properly, to the full extent allowed by law."
You can tell it's going to be a biased article when...
In your example, the person filling out the illegal ballots is putting them in the mail. Not addressing the part of the law I was talking about. But hey! Silly me.
It is an affirmative defense to prosecution, however, if the person assisting the voter is a relative, a registered voter living at the same address or if the individual provides his or her printed name, signature and address on the outside of the envelope carrying the ballot.
There is no crime if you mark on the envelope that you handled the absentee ballot.
The law requires only that the person who puts it in the mail to put their name on the outside. That would identify the corrupt vote manufacturers, because they don't do it by 1s and 2s. It would be interesting to see what an honest election looks like in some democratic strongholds.
A friend of mine ran for "county Judge" rather like a county mayor in one county in Texas. The local democratic party held a barbecue at the "traditionally Black college" in the county, and got nearly all the students, most of which were from out of state, or had previously voted in another county, to fill out ballots.
Surprise! the Democratic state attorney general didn't care to investigate, inspite of the 100 signed affidavits that the locals produced. The Democrat candidate won, still pale from being released after serving time for his felony.
Thanx. Now that makes sense.
I always laugh at how the threads point out how machines can be hacked by several contortionists. We have such a rich tradition of corruption, I don't think we can have a failproof system. In my lifetime the dems have been very creative.
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