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Voter-registration can't be totally fraud-free, group says
The Cleveland Plain Dealer (Headline article Metro section) ^ | October 7, 2008 | Joe Guillen

Posted on 10/08/2008 5:03:05 AM PDT by Gorilla44

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You've got to be kidding me. It's the elections board fault?
1 posted on 10/08/2008 5:03:05 AM PDT by Gorilla44
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Voter-registration can't be totally fraud-free...

In OTHER news: Humans are a flawed species!

2 posted on 10/08/2008 5:07:01 AM PDT by WayneS (Vote Obama bin Biden 2008 - "Because the world doesn't suck enough yet".)
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Lot of guys named Will Power that live in that county. Like all of them.


3 posted on 10/08/2008 5:07:07 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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I love the "We just can't avoid committing fraud" excuse.

I guess the Devil makes them do it.

Addiction to fraud: The new personality disorder.

4 posted on 10/08/2008 5:08:25 AM PDT by NoControllingLegalAuthority
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Aw come on - insisting that voters show photo ID would go a long way toward REDUCING fraud!


5 posted on 10/08/2008 5:09:08 AM PDT by GOPPachyderm
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they better investigate the world


6 posted on 10/08/2008 5:09:59 AM PDT by dalebert
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Actually, it’s the legislatures’ faults (and OUR faults for electing legislators that put and keep lousy voter registration laws on the books) for allowing voter registration to be done anywhere by anyone. The only way to register to vote should be by directly contacting your local elections board and obtaining a registration form directly from them, pre-filled out with the information you gave them in writing, and taking or mailing it directly back to them. There should be no such thing as blank registration forms that can be passed around by anyone and filled out by anyone. And it should be illegal to pay anyone for registering voters (other than the salaried staff of the elections board), just as it is illegal to pay anyone for voting.


7 posted on 10/08/2008 5:10:11 AM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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Then I suppose the “rule of law” cannot be completely vigilante-free.


8 posted on 10/08/2008 5:10:24 AM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (If Hillary is elected, her legacy will be telling the American people: Better put some ice on that.)
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The punishment for federal election fraud should be death.

Tampering with the most basic element of our freedom should carry the maximum allowable punishment


9 posted on 10/08/2008 5:11:33 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Off With her head.....)
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The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, has turned in at least 65,000 cards to the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections in the last year. The board has investigated potentially fraudulent cards since August.

And so far about 64,000 of them have turned out to be fraudulent...

10 posted on 10/08/2008 5:14:24 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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Yes, they can make it fraud free, they just don’t want to.


11 posted on 10/08/2008 5:15:33 AM PDT by edpc
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Well, having quotas is a start to fraud. Existing at all is the other part.


12 posted on 10/08/2008 5:17:39 AM PDT by doodad
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Cloward-Piven Strategy.

This isn’t traditional ballot-box stuffing. This is an attempt to clog and cripple the system itself. ACORN’s purpose is to set the stage for rioting. Just as the ultimate purpose of the CRA and Fannie and Freddie is to destroy the financial system—not to put minorities into homes.


13 posted on 10/08/2008 5:17:58 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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BINGO!!! We have a winner!

Cloward-Piven Strategy.

This isn’t traditional ballot-box stuffing. This is an attempt to clog and cripple the system itself. ACORN’s purpose is to set the stage for rioting. Just as the ultimate purpose of the CRA and Fannie and Freddie is to destroy the financial system—not to put minorities into homes.

14 posted on 10/08/2008 5:23:42 AM PDT by XHogPilot
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The punishment for federal election fraud should be death.

That would cut down on the number of local "humanitarians" who take time from their busy schedules to drive vans between area care facilities and the polls once every four years.

Fewer socialists, less traffic... what's not to like?

Mr. niteowl77

15 posted on 10/08/2008 5:25:25 AM PDT by niteowl77 (The niteowl77s: parents who support those who support their soldier.)
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Aw come on - insisting that voters show photo ID would go a long way toward REDUCING fraud!

So would using the original system of only allowing property owners the ability to vote.

16 posted on 10/08/2008 5:32:29 AM PDT by MamaTexan (* I am not an administrative, political, legal, corporate or collective entity *)
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The group [ACORN] blamed inefficiency and lack of resources for problems

Translation: they need more of our taxpayer dollars.

17 posted on 10/08/2008 5:33:00 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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When I was a kid there were signs as the Post Office that cautioned that stealing or misusing the pencils provided could result in a $10,000 penalty. As a result nobody ever took a pencil.

Make the penalty for voter fraud high enough (and I'm talking hard prison time for depriving other citizens of their civil rights) and voter fraud will grid to a halt.

If we don't have the will to defend our civil rights, then we'll richly deserve everything we got (or, more accurately, everything that will be taken from us).

18 posted on 10/08/2008 5:34:17 AM PDT by The Duke (I have met the enemy, and he is named 'Apathy'!)
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Typical liberal mentality, “It’s gonna happen anyway, why should we try to stop it?”.


19 posted on 10/08/2008 5:37:53 AM PDT by G Larry ("Disgust" is a valid expression!-Vote Family Values!)
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Yeah but you’re not advocating for that are you?


20 posted on 10/08/2008 5:39:58 AM PDT by GOPPachyderm
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