Posted on 09/23/2006 9:20:00 AM PDT by R.O.Thornhill
A funny thing happened when I went to vote in the primary election. I signed in at my district's desk and a poll worker printed my information on a green card. She gave the card to another worker, who adjusted some mechanism on the side of the voting booth. I entered the booth and soon discovered I could not push down the lever for my candidate. When I asked for assistance, the poll worker checked the lever and said with a shocked tone: "You're a Republican?"
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This could be a case of voter fraud. A while ago in New York during another election, a bunch of poll workers were caught throwing out ballots in the trash. The ballots were recovered and it was discovered that all those ballots were votes for Republicans. None for Democrats. How did the crooked poll workers know which ballots (sealed in envelopes by easch individual voter) were votes for Republicans? Simple. They tampered with the voting machine and disabled the Republican lever. Thereafter, whenever a Republican came to vote. He would try the lever on the machine, find that it wouldnt work. Go to the poll worker who would give him a paper ballot to vote on instead.
When I asked for assistance, the poll worker checked the lever and said with a shocked tone: "You're a Republican?"
The Republican party is starving for Republican poll workers. I worked for quite a few elections in a row as a poll worker when I still lived in New York (Brooklyn). I was the only Republican amongst my group. Everyone else was a Democrat. Some polls went without Republican poll watchers, giving many crooked Democrat poll workers chances to commit fraud.
Slowly but surely we're gaining in NYC, which is 90 percent 'Rat.
We're losing. People are fleeing the state by the thousands due to the liberal policies, taking their votes with them. Many of them are Republican. Dems too, but since the state is 90 percent Dem, they can afford to lose thousands of voters to other states. The local Republican party on the other hand, cannot afford to lose one vote, much less thousands.
And then Bloomberg. Yuck.
The good news? MA and NY are the only states losing population, hence less seats (for dems) in the House.
Statewide, the ratio is 5 to 3 Dem. It's NYC that's 90 percent Dem, while Staten Island is pretty evenly split (and usually doesn't count itself as part of NYC, although technically it is).
I won't even get into the Bronx-Brooklyn feud. ;-)
Uhmm..... no. The current Sun has an editorial by Emmett Tyrell Jr. Ring any bells?
I have been a poll worker, though not in NY. In my state the poll workers could have made it a spoiled ballot (lots more work for the poll workers), offered a paper ballot as they did, or asked him to wait. It would also depend on how many machines they had, and their set-up, what kind of machine they had, and whether they could simply change cards in the machine.
The audacity of which I spoke was their assumption that the voter was a democrat when the voter first came in. Not only did they assume that voter was a dem, but also the next one as well. I've voted my many different places since turning 18 (and in three different states), and never once has anyone not asked me what party I was affiliated with when I came in.
Bloomberg is a LOT better then the socialist nutcases he ran against, if for no other reason then he's kept Giuliani's tough crime rules in place.
I recognize that Bloomberg is essentially a moderate D, closer to Koch then Giuliani, but in a city that elects nutcases like Dekins, and would have elected a nutcase like Green, that's not all that bad.
Ok, point taken.
My thoght as well: Real voter fraud.
I suspect that such contrary treatment was a violation of the Voting Rights Act.
Incidentally, the Voting Rights Act was written by a Republican. Go figure.
I wasn't rebutting you, just clarifying what I was referring to for better understanding.
That is true. The rural areas of the state are by far red zones. But all the Dems live in big cities, and outnumber us 5-3. We'd have to pick up 2 million more voters just to make it even.
Welcome to FR
A moderate D? I'd say a liberal D. Dont forget, he was a lifelong Dem untill he decided to run for Mayor. He saw that he would be running in the Dem primaries against alot more well known and more powerful Dems, while he was an unknown. So he approached the Republican party, offering to run on their ticket and sweetening the pot by promising to bankroll lot of other Republican candidates. He didnt care which party he ran on as long as he became mayor. Thats all that mattered to him: his personal ambitions.
And then when he got elected, he out liberaled Koch, Guiliani, etc. An 18 percent raise in the property tax (he wanted 25 percent, but the Dems cut that down to 18 so that they can pretend to be more conservative), bans on smoking in bars and restaurants, pro-gun control....harrasing outr of state gun dealers acting as if he were the federal government, etc.
And all we got to show for it is that he kept Rudy's anti-crime initiatives in place? Big deal.
Even if you are right, which you're not (there is no way he's to the left of Koch on spending, and he's better then him on union issues too), even by your logic, you'd have all those minus Giuliani's law and order.
So unless you don't mind being knifed so someone can steal $40 out of your pocket, I'd consider myself lucky.
Hey, wait a second here. I'm always right! ;-)
there is no way he's to the left of Koch on spending, and he's better then him on union issues too you'd have all those minus Giuliani's law and order.
I never mentioned spending or the unions. I mentioned the property tax hike, the smoking ban (I forgot to mention the hike in cigarette taxes), acting towards out of state gun dealers as if he were the federal government, etc. His political interference with the WTC building project, making it drag on longer than it should reminds one of the Wollman Rink.
He still outliberals Koch by a wide margin.
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