Posted on 11/15/2012 9:22:24 AM PST by Little Ray
(NaturalNews) In the weeks leading up to the Nov. 6 election, there were scattered concerns from across the political spectrum that vote fraud could occur in some sections of the country. While many of those fears did not come to fruition, based on final vote tallies in some polling districts, it's hard to fathom that some form of fraud did not occur.
Take Philadelphia, for instance - the "city of Brotherly Love" - where, once again, New Black Panther Party members were seen at some of the same polling places they were at in 2008, when charges of voter intimidation were leveled against them. In 59 districts around the city, GOP presidential challenger Mitt Romney got zero votes.
Zip. Nada. None.
Granted, in heavily Democratic urban districts in the city, it's not unusual for that party's candidate - in this case, President Obama - to win a heavy proportion of the vote. But all of them?
Sure, say analysts. It's not unusual at all. Nothing to see here.
Saddam Hussein always got nearly 100 percent of the vote too
"We have always had these dense urban corridors that are extremely Democratic," Jonathan Rodden, a political science professor at Stanford University, told Philly.com, a joint website of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News newspapers.
"It's kind of an urban fact, and you are looking at the extreme end of it in Philadelphia," he said.
That's because most large cities are 75-80 percent Democrats, making them practically politically homogenous and much easier to organize than, say, rural areas where folks live far apart, said Sasha Issenberg, author of The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns.
"One reason Democrats can maximize votes in Philadelphia is that it's very easy to knock on every door," she said.
But isn't it just as easy to knock on doors in Republican strongholds, even if they are farther apart? And that's another issue - if we are to believe there are Democratic "corridors," doesn't it follow that there are Republican "corridors" as well?
Some GOP officials are asking these very same questions, especially after learning that, in 59 Philadelphia voting districts Obama out-polled Romney by a stunning 19,605 to zero. Even in heavily Democratic Philly, are we to believe that in nearly 60 polling districts there is not a single dissenting voter? The last political candidate in recent member to poll that overwhelmingly was Iraq's Saddam Hussein.
Those districts were concentrated in overwhelmingly black sectors of the city. But again - not a single Romney supporter? Not even one?
That's a huge stretch, to say the least, says Steve Miskin, a spokesman for Republicans in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
"We believe we need to continue ensuring the integrity of the ballot," he said, referencing his party's voter ID initiative that, perhaps not surprisingly, was held off the state ballot for this election.
No such thing as a 100 percent Republican voting precinct
University of Virginia political scientist Dr. Larry Sabato, who has studied voting in African American-dominated precincts, told Philly.com he had occasionally seen instances where 100 percent of the vote went to the Democratic candidate, citing precincts in Chicago and Atlanta which recorded no votes for the GOP's candidate, Sen. John McCain, in 2008.
"I'd be surprised if there weren't a handful of precincts that didn't cast a vote for Romney," he said.
Still, the high number of zero precincts in Philadelphia deserves examination, he added.
"Not a single vote for Romney or even an error? That's worth looking into," he said.
In a city with 1,687 of the ward subsets known as divisions, each with hundreds of voters, 59 is about 3.5 percent of the total, Philly.com reported.
Not much has been made about this voting phenomenon by the mainstream media, but we suspect the outrage and uproar would have been loud and boisterous, to say the least, if there were wide swaths of voting districts where not a single Democratic vote was cast.
Sources:
http://articles.philly.com
http://www.foxnews.com
http://marketdailynews.com
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You’d think at least one person would vote by mistake for Romney.
These are the welfare, food stamp, handout precincts. Still, not ONE holdout or mis-vote? Fishy.
Many of these voters have a very limited educational background. It is hard to believe that not a single voting error was made even if they all intended to vote for Obama.
Can you imagine if 20,000 grade school children were asked to vote for a particular candidate that not one of them would have made an error?
The woman who chose our President.
My initial thought is to look at the “down ticket” totals in these precincts. Not sure if there were any Republicans running in some of the other races there, but if those were also 0 votes for Republicans, that might be telling.
They’re sending a message. It’s pretty in your face, and they know no one will do anything. Submit or else, they are saying.
I have to agree, but if a person voted for Romney and learned Romney recieved zero votes in that precint, you would think they would have come forward by now quetioning ZERO votes.
Standard union thuggery.
Theyre sending a message. Its pretty in your face, and they know no one will do anything. Submit or else, they are saying.
Defiant nails it.
I’d like to see at least one voter in one of these districts who DID vote for Romney (assuming as we ALL do that one exists), stand up and be heard. They’d have standing to pursue a voter-fraud case, as they were disenfranchised directly.
Fraud or not, the current occupant of the oval office gets a pass. Even if there’s proof of fraud, he will get a free pass.
Looking at the numbers from Flint Michigan it looks like Romney received less votes than republican straight ticket voters.
It is possible because we can vote straight ticket and still split the vote but it seems pretty unlikely that people voted straight GOP ticket and broke for Obama.
Does it make sense to anyone that in areas where most of the people cannot even read, they would not make one error in whom to vote for out of almost 20,000 votes cast???
bkmk
Too many problems, too many irregularities. Early voting, absent voting, motor voter, etc. have led us to a point that it makes it easy for politicians with no moral compass to win, even though a majority of the peple did not support him/her.
Shows how low our elected (I did not say fairly elected) officials are. They do not care they are not liked or preferred. They are less than admirable.
Anyone have any idea when the last fair election occured? It may have been before the secret ballot. It is not those who vote that determine the outcome, but those that count the vote.
When congress changed the way we elect senators, our country was forever doomed to be corrupted by the election process.
Expecting voters to know whats going on and their reliance on MSM is just part of why our great loss. While there are examples of fraud which may close up the gap, the gap is too big to blame the loss on fraud ...Expecting GOP Es to address media bias or Romney to call Obama a congenital liar or even point out that the fact and figures released by the white house were allways questionable is another . But the fault lies really in the messaging the Republican campaign gave.choking on political correctness parameters devised by the socialist party known as Democrat ..
Romney ran a Johnny One Note Campaign. Used a poison dart blow gun when he should have used a cannon loaded with grape shot because he had pleanty of stuff he could fill that cannon barrel with..
They failed to hammer away on what will happen when Obama gets returned; The Obama past due 2013/14 Tax Increases. The impact of Obamas choking energy policies, restricted drilling, use of coal ,ban on fracking, and that related price..(a socialist construct never branded as such) was a bread and butter issue which reached into every demographics pocketbook...The impact of Supreme Court Appointments.. 18,000 new IRS agents and on and on. Including rampant corruption . Some were very briefly touched most werent and Benghazi was left to languish. Then there is Obamas personal extravagance and behavior refusing to visit Nashville after its disaster showing up at New Orleans after Mitt visited it.
Instead we got a sales pitch on executive ability but not the reason why one should toss the old model and buy his. That print and tv pitch , 20 million new jobs, was given a discrarded dose of skepticism .
In addition Rove who I understand was handling the Charter PAC senate campaign played games. His material never warned voters that IF OBAMA GETS RE-ELECTED AND SENATE CONTROL REMAINED . .. OBAMACARE AND ALL THE TAX INCREASES THAT GO WITH IT WILL NEVER GET REPEALED Let alone tie into or cover the formentioned grape shot which would have perhaps changed that body. I don’t recall any of that material directed toward that fact.
Finally they didnt believe the polls which turned out were dead on. Even going as far as setting up focus groups which could have looked into whats going on . Even to the point of going out to local eateries and bars and eavesdrop into conversations and pick up on topics being discussed.(chat rooms twitter too contrived)
Our local small population (-8000) rural blue county GOP had at the outset good and growing attendence at their meetings 50 plus. At the meeting the Thursday before the election only about a dozen people showed up and I knew we were in trouble .
Nuts...This loss is inexcuseable, while I trully don’t believe Mitt Romney would never continence losing, I’m begining to wonder if many GOPE’s didn’t want to see O care go ..
Tallies from Detroit are apparently top secret because I still haven’t found those.
no 3rd party votes either?
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