Posted on 03/23/2008 5:58:43 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
As Ohio election officials investigate illegal crossover voting in the 2008 primary, questions arise on Rush Limbaugh's role.
Limbaugh, the nation's top-rated talk radio host, was urging Republicans in Texas and Ohio to skip their party's primary on March 4 and instead cast a vote for Hillary Clinton in order to prolong the fight between her and Barack Obama.
What Limbaugh encouraged Republican voters to do in Ohio was a fifth-degree felony in that state, punishable with a $2,500 fine and six to 12 months in jail.
On Thursday, March 20, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported that the "Cuyahoga County Board of Election has launched an investigation that could lead to criminal charges against voters who maliciously switched parties for the March 4 presidential primary."
In 2008, 2.22 million Ohioans voted in the Democratic primary, compared to 1.27 million in 2000, according to unofficial results released by Brunner's office. In contrast, 1.01 million Ohioans voted in the 2008 Republican primary, compared to nearly 918,000 people in 2004.
Michael Slater of Project Vote, a nonpartisan group that designs voter registration drives for low-income people, said GOP meddling in the Ohio Democratic Primary was a clear-cut example of fraudulent voting, which is how Republicans have defined the issue in recent years, as GOP advocates have urged state legislatures and Congress to adopt anti-fraud measures such as tougher voter ID laws.
"Here we have a real instance of spurring people on to engage in illegal election activities with a real intent to affect the outcome," Slater said. "That is voter fraud. People were encouraged to break the law. They had to declare allegiance to a political party and sign a document under penalty of perjury. Intent is what matters in voter fraud."
Since when would a little thing like common sense get in the way of a Democrat bent on punishing Rush Limbaugh?
No, I stopped listening to him years ago, I surely could not listen to him now, first he tried to destroy Mc Cain (Mc Cain is not my and many conservatives favorite, but it is better evil from remaining 2 ), then Rush wants Hillary to get elected to "punish" Rep Party, bla bla bla, he is an idiot with a personal agenda now, he's got lots of "shipple" still following him.
However he has done a lot of good in the past for conservative movement, he just somehow lost it as the years passed by...
Rush is not running. The people playing with fire are the GOP. If they were serious, they would run a full bore, unapologetic Conservative. THEY are the ones should be blamed. You are letting THEM off the hook, and as long as that continues, we will get candidates like McCain.
Won't be hard at all. First the OH version of Ronnie Earl/Eliot Spitzer convenes a special grand jury. Then he subpoenas a sufficient number of voters who switched registration on election day and starts dragging them before the grand jury. Eventually someone will spill the beans, especially if granted immunity.
Mr. Horse....have you had too much Easter cheer?
It would seem that with your strong position on this issue you would at least KNOW the difference/similarities in the laws of OH and NH.
Even with Rush's advocacy to cross-vote the decision to do such was made by individual voters. Thus the state would have to prove, on an individual basis, whom was "dishonest" in switching registration/cross-voting. They would need witnesses, confessions by the voter etc. And who is to disprove that once in the voting booth some had a change of heart and pocketed the ballot.
If the theory is to not cross-over vote because Ronnie Earl and Mike Nifong-type malicious Democrat prosecutors exist the difference is that, again, they would have to mount thousands of individual cases or else none.
What? Where do you get these thoughts?
RL has been on for twenty years making money.....good lord. Do you even listen and understand his show?
“Agree 100%. It will take time for many people on this forum to see what you just said if they will see it all because many of them follow El Zibo to hell if they tell them to do so and then they say that people like us are crazy.”
Have you spiked your koolaid with “wacky juice”?
So you DO want Hillary to win to teach the GOP a lesson?
More importantly, they are both spending money hand over fist. When it's over, whoever wins, will be just as muddy as the loser.
No. But if it happens, it will be their own fault. Not Rush’s.
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This is the thread about Rush and his agenda to elect Hillary I believe.
What it has to do with Russia Germany and WW2?
Operation Chaos is working exactly as I had planned. Don't doubt me.
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255½ posted on 03/23/2008 10:13:53 PM EDT by Rush Limbaugh (Documented to be almost always right; 97.9 percent of the time!)
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Nobody wants to be the next Nifong, even if it helps ‘Rats. They don’t want that kind of scrutiny.
-PJ
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