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Video: SEIU pushes out member protesting ballot-counting rules violations
Hot Air ^ | 6/15/11 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 06/15/2011 1:58:50 PM PDT by Nachum

Here’s another entry for the Somebody Left The Irony On Department today. The SEIU held an election by mail for an internal election — for which it apparently uses the same kind of secret ballots that they want to deny workers with Card Check. By SEIU’s own rules, those ballots are supposed to arrive via US Postal Service, with postmarks to note the date so that the counters can verify they arrived before the deadline. One SEIU observer noticed counters opening large envelopes of ballots with no postmarks at all on them — and when she tried to protest, the other SEIU officials in the room pushed her out the door:

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: out; pushes; seiu; video

1 posted on 06/15/2011 1:58:55 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Honesty? In SEIU? It is to laugh. You’d sooner find it in the Mafia, who were at least loath to turn upon their clan.


2 posted on 06/15/2011 2:02:04 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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3 posted on 06/15/2011 2:03:40 PM PDT by Maverick68
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To: Nachum
"It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes."

-- Josef Stalin

4 posted on 06/15/2011 2:03:50 PM PDT by reg45
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To: Nachum

bi-racial commies to riot?...
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=311433


5 posted on 06/15/2011 2:04:03 PM PDT by biggredd1
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To: Nachum

SEIU is a thugocracy.


6 posted on 06/15/2011 2:04:32 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Pelosi: Obamacare indulgences for sale.)
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To: Nachum

What are the chances the purple people beaters will be shown on the LSM or any of our local papers around the country?

If this is not covered, a few thousand calls to the editors or your various news outlets might be in order. Let the dialing begin.


7 posted on 06/15/2011 2:17:27 PM PDT by Wurlitzer (Welcome to the new USSA (United Socialist States of Amerika))
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To: Nachum

The SEIU is corrupt?

Who’d of thunk it?


8 posted on 06/15/2011 2:18:40 PM PDT by Tzimisce (Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
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To: Wurlitzer

bttt


9 posted on 06/15/2011 2:18:51 PM PDT by TEXOKIE (Anarchy IS the strategy of the forces of darkness!)
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To: Nachum

What state/locality did this occur?


10 posted on 06/15/2011 2:20:24 PM PDT by Wurlitzer (Welcome to the new USSA (United Socialist States of Amerika))
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To: Nachum
By SEIU’s own rules, those ballots are supposed to arrive via US Postal Service, with postmarks to note the date so that the counters can verify they arrived before the deadline. One SEIU observer noticed counters opening large envelopes of ballots with no postmarks at all on them — and when she tried to protest, the other SEIU officials in the room pushed her out the door:

This is precisely the problem with 'vote by mail'

It makes it easier to ignore rules set up to keep criminals honest.
A 'Rat paradise.

11 posted on 06/15/2011 3:34:32 PM PDT by Publius6961 (you don't need a president-for-life if you've got a bureaucracy-for-life.)
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Their day of reckoning is coming. The fact they have been losing ground under this president means their time is very nearly at an end.


12 posted on 06/15/2011 3:35:25 PM PDT by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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To: Nachum
SEIU is a communists organization made up of thugs and anti-Americans.
13 posted on 06/15/2011 3:52:23 PM PDT by Logical me
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To: Nachum

I am quite certain that this will be taken up immediately by the NLRB (National Labor Relations Board) - [snort, giggle]


14 posted on 06/15/2011 3:55:26 PM PDT by SES1066 (Michael Moore - a pernicious progluddite of socialism!)
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To: Nachum

Do they still have to pay dues then?


15 posted on 06/15/2011 5:39:20 PM PDT by Only1choice____Freedom (FDR had the New Deal. President 0bama has the Raw Deal.)
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