Posted on 10/03/2008 6:53:17 PM PDT by markomalley
Election Day? Who needs it?
Americans already are casting ballots, five weeks before Nov. 4. This is a boon for vote fraud and a bust for democracy.
In Ohio, most dramatically, an individual can register to vote between Sept. 30 and Oct. 6, then immediately receive an absentee ballot. Existing and brand-new electors also can cast ballots at early-voting centers.
This is a gourmet recipe for voter fraud.
What if some new registrants turn out to be non-citizens? Or felons? Or gung-ho 16-year-olds who only look 18? No problem. Why, we'll just fish out their ballots from the pile. Uh-oh. The secret ballots all look alike and no longer can be tied to any given voter.
Oops.
In a close election, Ohio's 20 electoral votes could swing into John McCain's or Barack Obama's column based on the ballots of non-Ohioans, foreign citizens, felons, or even children. If, in a photo finish, the presidency hinges on such tainted Ohio votes, McCain or Obama could be inaugurated beneath a thundercloud. Fairly or not, cries of "Thief!" will haunt him wherever he goes. Not surprisingly, such grievances grind democracy down. So it goes when our leaders govern with the consent of those who never should have been asked.
"Independent groups seeking to increase poor and minority participation also transported voters from places like homeless shelters, halfway houses, and soup kitchens," The Associated Press reported Wednesday. One hopes this population consists entirely of adult American citizens free of felony convictions.
Potential vote fraud aside, early balloting assaults the notion of contemplative self-government. This is true in Ohio and the 30 other states that allow early voting at special polling sites and, more often, via no-questions-asked absentee ballots. Oregon, for its part, votes 100 percent by mail-in ballot.
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Bookmarked.
Sadly - Too much a (deliberate!) repeat of too many stories today.
It’s time for REAL Americans to stand up and say we’ve had enough of this bullsh*t. Obama is going to win this election and it will have been rampant voter fraud that let him get away with it. If you can’t vote AT THE POLLS on November 4th, YOU REALLY DON’T NEED TO VOTE.
The Democrat Party has become a fascist organization. It embraces all the elements of fascism.
Since the Supreme Court figured out that the right to bear arms is actually, you know, a right like the right to vote...why not place equivalent regulation on both activities? Photo ID produced, papers filled out, check for felony record, and in my state (in the South no less) a fingerprint. A constitutional right is a constitutional right and what is good for the goose is good for the gander. Pass a law that each state must follow the same procedure for voting as for buying a gun—that would be a hoot for most blue states.
The lines outside some early poling places in OH look like footage from 1929 depression era soup kitchen lines. Sad. :-(
Is he going to come out and ask his fellow democrats to stop thuggery and fraud in Ohio, Penn, Michigan etc.
Is he going to stop ACORN?
If the election is in dispute because of OH then the new president would take office amid a cloud of controversy, Mr Murdock says. That would only happen if the president is McCain. If 0bama wins no matter how tainted the vote is, the media will drop it.
Democrats don’t want fair and honest elections. They don’t win fair and honest elections.
In the third world, the winner knows he/she is going to win no matter what. Their strategy:
Promise everything
Promise everything will be given away free
Mention that the other party is for the rich
And he/she is only looking after the little guy.
Then, twist each and every argument to fit the above.
Welcome to the Third World of America!
Yea, they got this in just before the annual migration of the bums to warmer climes.
Nobody forget the dead. They’re probably getting ready to vote too!
Yeah, but they're long-time registered Dhimmicrats. They'd have to cross-reference the voter registration and death records.
I admit that I wasn’t paying too much attention to what happened in Ohio in the ‘04 election that made the ‘rats scream, “Bush stole ‘04!” But I do remember the hubbub. What was all of that about again? Someone wanted to argue about it, but I couldn’t reply.
I’m one of those weird kinds of guys who has no problem admitting ignorance.
They started “grinding Democracy down” in 2000 with the cries of “stolen election”. We’re no better than a banana republic when it comes to elections these days.
It sickens me to see what the Democrats have done to this country.
Early voting is a sham—unless you’re going to be away from home on election day and can get an absentee ballot, this is just a way to let the lazy and/or stupid vote at their convenience.
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