Posted on 04/01/2011 8:06:44 PM PDT by Kaslin
One of the most surreal experiences of our lives was watching an unelected bureaucrat pick and choose what ballots she wanted to count in the closely contested election featuring pseudo-Republican Lisa Murkowski and Tea Party Favorite Republican Joe Miller in Alaska. Having spent decades watching ballots be counted in hundreds of elections, and never once have we seen a situation with such outrageous manipulation of the vote.
But I guess we weren't in Colorado. Hot off the presses is a report that documents 5,000 non-citizens voting in that states highly contested elections. According to a report in The Hill, the "Secretary of State Scott Gessler, a Republican, told the panel that his department's study identified nearly 12,000 people who were not citizens but were still registered to vote in Colorado.Of those non-citizen registered voters, nearly 5,000 took part in the 2010 general election in which Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet narrowly defeated Republican John Buck. Colorado conducted the study by comparing the state's voter registration database with driver's license records."
In state after state corruption is beginning to undermine the credibility of the fairness of elections. We all remember the election officials in Florida holding up ballots looking for hanging chads in the Presidential race between Al Gore and George W Bush. The presidential race in 2000 was sadly decided in the US Supreme Court, and it undermined the credibility of President Bush until his more convincing re-election victory in 2004. To his day, we still see bumper stickers that say re-elect Gore in 2008.
In Washington State Dino Rossi lost a Governor's race in 2004 only after the ballots were counted three times. Every new count featured the Liberal King County election officials discovering votes that were not counted the first time. These votes just appeared from nowhere weeks after the election was over.
All citizens left, right, center, Republican, Green, Democrat, and Libertarian should be able to have confidence in the integrity of the voting process. Without faith in the process, the illegitimate election results undermine the ability to govern.
Let us suggest some reforms.
1. Identification should be required to vote. No American should be offended for having to produce identification to prove residency and citizenship. This will give us all confidence in the outcome, and we will be confident that some activists are not attempting to vote in multiple jurisdictions.
2. Every time someone votes it should produce a paper record of the votes cast. Machine tabulation is open to hacking and manipulation by the individuals running the election. If every vote produces a paper ballot, it leaves an audit trail that will insure integrity. A laser printer could be attached to voting machines and the print out could be reviewed by the voter for errors. Every ballot could feature a control number to keep it from being miscounted.
3. Write in voting should be eliminated in this era of instant information. Instead of write in candidates, the actual ballots should adjust to allow additional candidates on the ballot. Filing deadlines could be extended to accommodate multiple participants and parties. Systems that limit the number of candidates in any race should be eliminated. A wide open process with maximum participation is best.
4. Ballots not entered into the counting process during a pre-approved voting period would not me counted. Officials could say if a ballot is not found within a week of the election it would not be valid. This would keep
Unless elections processes are reformed, bitter partisanship will linger beyond the tally of the vote. Just the left felt betrayed by the election of George W Bush after Florida in 2000, conservatives in Alaska are embittered against Senator Lisa Murkowski and consider her election a fraud.
Only with clear rules and concise audit trails will we all feel like elections are won and lost, fair and square. In a high tech society that keeps records of millions of atm and credit card transactions, don't tell us we cannot figure out how to validate voters and the ballots they cast.
Secretary of state, attorney general races etc are IMPORTANT!
Thank God we hit the jackpot with a SOS with a taste for the blood of fraudsters in Michigan.
Bad example. George Bush won the election, and it was only as close as it was because of "found" votes. The only elections I have seen where the original loser ended up "winning" after several recounts are elections where the Democrat had lost. I'm a scientist. If I conducted a scientific study the way elections are held--reanalyzing the results until I get the results I want--my scientific career would end, quickly.
The #1 absolute top priority along with limiting and preferably eliminating public union bargaining is to pass voter ID laws in every state we can.
Cut off their money, stop the voter fraud, and the Dems die on the vine.
Good reforms. And they must happen or we will soon change governments at the point of a gun. The problem is that when real controls are enacted the Rats will loose big time. They know it too. They are so corrupt, so rotten, they care nothing for decency or virtue. Only about the socialist utopia that can never be. Their own vileness shows why it can never be.
Not going to happen. Not in the Peoples' Soviet of Washington.
Not to mention corrupt politicians, LEO's and judges
All of these controls would make for an honest election. Plus I would add one more. 10 years in the pen for individual voter fraud and LIFE in prison for fraud involving two or more votes
The problem is I think we are just too far gone. We let groups like Acorn and such openly commit voter fraud and absolutely nothing has been done about it. I also suspect BHOs campaign was largely funded by foreign money and other illegal contributions that were laundered through the Internet as “individual” donations.
The democrat party is the party of fraud and lies. I have said for many years that if we let the left attain too much power and hold too many positions in the bureaucracy you reach a point where they can never be voted out. The left has been working on election immunity for many years and I think they are finally there.
Bravo! Bring on the reforms.
However, it will mean nothing if there are no Republicans to oversee the voting on Election Day.
Here again is my short booklet on vote fraud and what YOU can do to stop it:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2621405/posts
Note how incredibly brazen the democrats are at cheating! For example, when there are no Republican election officials or Poll Watchers present, they sometimes just start casting HUNDREDS of ballots for voters who did not show up:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2625281/posts
We have caught democrat Election Clerks slipping a dozen or more ballots to their activist friend when he comes through the line. You will need enough volunteers to watch the entire polling place:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2615479/posts
One last note: We can win in 2012 with our Ground Game. For example, it is time RIGHT NOW to start scrubbing dead people and felons off the Poll List. Make sure that every Republican voter has a current voter ID and that they know where their precinct will be voting.
The commies will never give up. My greatest fear is that conservatives will sit on their duff after the nice wins in 2010. Do that and we will lose in 2012. Don’t get cocky just because we won a few seats.
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