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Could the US election be stolen?
AFP ^ | October 20, 2008

Posted on 10/20/2008 9:52:47 AM PDT by NCjim

TOLEDO, Ohio (AFP) — With John McCain and Barack Obama already swapping accusations of widespread voter fraud, experts warn that a bitter and protracted fight could ensue if the race to the White House is decided by a narrow margin.

The legal battle over election rules has already made it all the way to the Supreme Court as Republicans fight to block potentially false registrations from being validated and Democrats struggle to prevent voter disenfranchisement.

Compounding the problem is the decentralized US electoral system, which hands often partisan local officials the power to make rules and maintain the voter registration rolls.

"I'm hoping it's not close," said Richard L. Hasen, a professor who specializes in election law at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles.

"I am certain there will be problems on election day."

(Excerpt) Read more at afp.google.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ballotstuffing; howtostealanelection; ohio2008; votefraud
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Could the US election be stolen?

Is the Pope Catholic?

1 posted on 10/20/2008 9:52:47 AM PDT by NCjim
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Yes.

And if the liberals win, the next election will be even worse...


2 posted on 10/20/2008 9:53:57 AM PDT by Tzimisce (How Would Mohammed Vote? Obama for President!)
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To: NCjim

The first stolen election in my memory was the Kennedy theft from Nixon. Thanks to the corruption in Chicago!!!


3 posted on 10/20/2008 9:55:49 AM PDT by Carley (she's all out of caribou.............but does have a bracelet!!!!)
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To: NCjim

It must be made abundantly clear, riots and civil unrest are not the exclusive domain of the “obama demographic”


4 posted on 10/20/2008 9:57:10 AM PDT by fortunate sun ("I don't need change. I need foldin' money!" Steve Gaines)
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To: NCjim
Where is the Lord of the Obvious? Once in, the Democrats will pad the pockets of the dishonest and the National political picture will be a larger version of Chicago Politics until the Muzzies blow D.C. off the face of the Earth. We are on the cusp of seeing the US cease to be a Democracy.
5 posted on 10/20/2008 9:57:28 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: NCjim

It is being stolen as we write.


6 posted on 10/20/2008 9:58:11 AM PDT by 3AngelaD (They screwed up their own countries so bad they had to leave, and now they're here screwing up ours.)
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Could the US election be stolen?

Does a bear crap in the woods?
Does a frog have a water tight arse?

Vote Early, Vote Often

7 posted on 10/20/2008 9:58:42 AM PDT by Just A Nobody (PISSANT for President '08 - NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA)
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To: NCjim

Why do you think voting has already started with absentee voters? Why do you think the federal government is giving grants to counties to install electronic voting machines? Why do you think they teach ‘government’ in high school instead of civics these days?


8 posted on 10/20/2008 9:59:41 AM PDT by hedgetrimmer
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“Compounding the problem is the decentralized US electoral system...”

Ah yes, what we need is clearly a CENTRALIZED electoral system that puts all the power in the hands of a few people. That would be MUCH harder to systematically screw with!


9 posted on 10/20/2008 10:00:11 AM PDT by Kahonek
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To: NCjim

With upwards of 40 million in this country illegally, it’s a safe bet that U.S. elections are being and have been compromised and undermined for some period of time now.


10 posted on 10/20/2008 10:00:27 AM PDT by dragnet2 (We witnessed the biggest expansion of government in American history)
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To: fortunate sun
It must be made abundantly clear, riots and civil unrest are not the exclusive domain of the “obama demographic”

I agree.

11 posted on 10/20/2008 10:02:16 AM PDT by meyer (We are all Joe the Plumber)
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To: NCjim

Naa...we all know democrats are honorable, peaceful, tolerant people who are fair in all of their proceedings...:-)


12 posted on 10/20/2008 10:02:55 AM PDT by EnigmaticAnomaly ("Democrats: Seeking an easy life at someone else's expense for 150 years")
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To: vetvetdoug
We are on the cusp of seeing the US cease to be a Democracy

First the US would have to become a Democracy. Last time I checked, it was still a Republic, but we could loose it.

13 posted on 10/20/2008 10:03:47 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: NCjim


14 posted on 10/20/2008 10:05:18 AM PDT by vietvet67
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To: Carley
Compare Nixon's response in '60 to Gore's response in '00 and the ultimate result of those responses.

Nixon becomes President 8 years later, and Gore widens a rift which will probably never be healed.

Proof that the Dems care more for themselves then for the country.

15 posted on 10/20/2008 10:05:18 AM PDT by Michael.SF. ("They're not Americans. They're liberals! "-- Ann Coulter, May 15, 2008)
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To: NCjim
Could be the primarys were stolen.. BOTH of them..
McLaim came out of the dark..(like a cockroach)..
O'bama rode over Hillary like a speed bump..

Everything about this election cycle is strange.. i.e. coo-coo..

16 posted on 10/20/2008 10:05:18 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: Dixie Yooper

Which voting machine company is it that Chavez owns? He does own one of them. ... And in which states are those amchines used?


17 posted on 10/20/2008 10:06:22 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: NCjim

Like in 1948 or 1960?


18 posted on 10/20/2008 10:06:47 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Dixie Yooper

democrat concern about disinfranchisement doesn’t exist if you’re legal citizen. What republicans are concerned about is fraud voters that are not legal to vote

what democrats seem to want is voter fraud to occur, as every attempt to have stricker laws against fraud are rejected by them.


19 posted on 10/20/2008 10:07:12 AM PDT by 4rcane
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To: <1/1,000,000th%

It’s funny you mention 1948, because having just read on it, I would have almost considered it similar to the current election, only the parties reversed.


20 posted on 10/20/2008 10:09:22 AM PDT by HungarianGypsy (I)
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