Posted on 09/28/2010 4:30:47 PM PDT by Kaslin
Electoral Process: The price of liberty is indeed eternal vigilance, especially at the ballot box. A group of Texans who decided to get involved in local elections uncovers massive vote fraud connected to a powerful union.
Being an election judge or poll watcher is often a thankless task and one of those things that many voters have no particular interest in doing. The job is often left to party hacks and other foxes willing to guard the henhouse. Yet they are the ones who rock the cradle of democracy.
Perhaps concerned about the election shenanigans of recent years involving Acorn and bogus registrations, Black Panthers intimidating voters with nightsticks and suspicious recounts that go on and on until a desired result is achieved, as in Minnesota, Catherine Engelbrecht and 50 other Houston neighbors decided to get involved.
They volunteered to work at Houston polling places in the 2008 election cycle. "What we saw shocked us," Engelbrecht said. "There was no one checking IDs, judges would vote for people that asked for help. It was fraud, and we watched like deer in the headlights."
Seeing that it wasn't quite the way their old civics class textbooks said it would be, they decided to form a group, "True The Vote," which would do what governments were unable or unwilling to do: ensure that voters are alive, eligible, who they say they are and cast their ballots only once. "It was a true Tea Party moment," Engelbrecht recalls.
She and her associates collected publicly available polling data to prove that the fraudulent voting they saw was real, rampant and organized. "The first thing we started to do was look at houses with more than six voters in them," she said, because those were houses most likely to have fraudulent voters attached to them.
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The Tea Party has done so much good getting good candidates elected in the primaries, and it’s good to see that they are fighting voter fraud as well.
Very well said
Somebody had better be fighting voting fraud, because it is going to be rampant in the coming November elections, very likely decisive in some cases.
It is a very dangerous time, because if trust in the election process is lost, the next step is civil war.
It is indeed a dangerous time we live in
Guess the SEIU can’t spell it’s own name. :)
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I’ve been posting that pic for over a month, and you are the first Freeper to notice...
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We all need to be fighting voter fraud, wherever we can. Given the idiots that we see in Washington, I would say that the issue is much more significant than anybody thinks.
“It was fraud, and we watched like deer in the headlights.”
What is the point of poll watchers if all they can do is watch like deer in the headlights?
Isn’t there some way to throw a flag on the play?
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