Posted on 11/29/2002 8:42:21 PM PST by sweetliberty
Since I am renewing this thread a little sooner than planned, I am leaving the original body of the thread in place and just making additions of references at this time. I think it is important to keep the statement of purpose and how we came to it at the forefront for now. Later on, as more people become aware of the thread and how it is set up, I will probably change it some and just give a link back to the original.
"The right of citizens to vote and have their vote count is the cornerstone of our democracy - the necessary precondition of government of the people, by the people and for the people. Enforcing the laws that guarantee voting rights and punish voting fraud is the duty of the Department of Justice. More than mere law enforcement, our responsibility to protect the access to and integrity of elections is the responsibility of upholding freedom itself.
America is a nation whose founding documents and most inspired words uphold the ideal of democratic self-government as a model for the world. The opening phrases of the Declaration of Independence declare that governmental power, if it is to be just, must be derived from the consent of the governed. The Constitution begins, purposefully and deliberately, with these three words: "We the people . . ."
America has failed too often to uphold the right of every citizen's vote, once cast, to be counted fairly and equally. Votes have been bought, voters intimidated and ballot boxes stuffed. The polling process has been disrupted or not completed. Voters have been duped into signing absentee ballots believing they were applications for public relief. And the residents of cemeteries have infamously shown up at the polls on election day.
Today, it is more important than ever before that we embrace the privilege that makes us unique among the peoples, nations and societies of human history. Our way of life is not a given, and our freedom is not an accident. Liberty is a rare gift for which millions have worked and suffered and sacrificed and died. It now falls to us to guard this gift from those who would destroy it. It falls to us, the free, to ensure that the cornerstone of our freedom - government of the people, by the people, and for the people - does not perish from the earth."
(Excerpted from remarks of Attorney General John Ashcroft at the Voting Integrity Symposim - October 8, 2002)
It has been quite a month and overall a victorious one for Republicans. The new year looms bright on the horizon with the promise of much needed changes taking place now that we have the majority in both the House and Senate and with the opportunity to finally have some conservative judges seated who will uphold the Constitution rather than legislating the socialist agenda of the Democrats from the bench and Tiny Tommy Daschle and his obstructionist thugs have been spanked soundly and sent to their rooms.
While we had several days of delirious gloating, drunk on the thrill of a hard earned and well-deserved victory, we know all too well that the election and the events leading up to it were not without incident and once again the deck was stacked against us as the Democrats tried every trick in the book in yet another shameless effort at stealing an election. With the blatant disregard for the law so characteristic of them when it obstructs their designs, they managed to get a liberal kangaroo court to uphold the replacement of Torricelli on the ballot in New Jersey beyond the legal deadline for doing so for no other reason than having determined that the scandal and corruption surrounding Torricelli rendered him incapable of winning. In Minnesota, prior to Paul Wellstone's ill-fated final flight, a plan was uncovered that had Democrats busing in students from out of state to take advantage of Minnesota's same day voter registration to vote illegally for Paul Wellstone. Even as this was being revealed, the campaign was underway to push a similar same day registration legislation in Colorado and California, thereby opening new avenues for illegal voting in those states. In South Dakota Democrat operatives (sorry, I cannot bring myself to use the word "Democratic") paid a field worker in excess of $12,000 over a period of 3 months to register native Americans on the reservations. It was later discovered that many registration cards that had been turned in by that worker had been written in the same handwriting. Among the newly registered was at least one who was known to be recently deceased. This and other irreglarities that were uncovered in South Dakota has led to 1 out of 10 ballots there being under investigation. Fish need water, plants need sunshine, an addict needs a fix and Democrats need power and these three cases are just samples of the extent to which they will go to get it.
The idea for this thread was born following the Arkansas Hog Wild FReepers' discovery of organized intimidation tactics on the part of Democrat and NAACP operatives in Jefferson County, Arkansas as relayed by FReeper, stop_the_rats, a Republican poll watcher who gained undesired and unfair national notoriety during early voting, and by a Republican campaign worker who "infiltrated" the Clinton led, pre-election campaign "event" there. The original story was posted as part of the after-FReep report with more detail added in a post-election update. The story generated such outrage that the thread turned into a FReeper brainstorm as we labored over how we might counteract the dishonest methods employed by the Democrats to hijack elections. The effort yielded an abundance of references and it was generally agreed that voter fraud is, or at least should be, of great concern to all of us. There is a strong probability that the South Dakota election was stolen and in Arkansas the fraud machine was spinning out of control and may well have cost Tim Hutchinson his senate seat as well, despite the shadow cast over him in the wake of his divorce and remarriage. Chances are that we'll never know. Thankfully neither of these races ended up being the tie-breaker that would determine the balance of power in the Senate, but either could have been and had that been the case, you can bet it would have gotten really ugly and may have produced an entirely different result.
Even as the Democrats are still licking their wounds and wondering what on Earth happened on November 5, they are already scrambling and scheming and conniving as to ways to prevent our intercepting their next power grab in 2004. This is revealed in their ongoing efforts to block any attempt to validate a voter's legitimacy whether it be by requiring a legal form of ID at the polls, the repeal of motor voter legislation, cracking down on absentee balloting and early voting, doing away with same day registration or by the presence of poll watchers at polling places. In every case they play the race card crying "black voter intimidation" when in reality they are simply thrashing against the net that could trap those guilty of voting illegally thereby inhibiting travel on their familiar roads of voter fraud. Thankfully, Republicans were more diligent this year and undoubtedly made an impact. More questionable ballots were challenged, more questions raised, more accountability called for and more light shed on irregularities. Until recently, prosecution for voter fraud has been virtually unheard of, but that is starting to change. There have been hundreds of stories published over the past several weeks relating to voting irregularities and credible allegations of fraud. Some have led to criminal charges being filed and still others have led to investigations which are ongoing. While it is unlikely that all election fraud can be stopped, it is much harder for it operate under a spotlight, which is exactly why we must each do our part to make sure that the spotlight stays on those "shadowy" recesses where voting machines mysteriously vanish, ballot boxes are obscured from view and the demons of electoral darkness run amok.
It was suggested that the opening remarks of Attorney General John Ashcroft be used as the basis of our mission statement for this thread. In these precarious times when we are at war and we are threatened daily by terrorism, our liberty has become more precious than ever and we must be vigilant to protect it not only from foreign invaders, but also from those who would erode it from within by compromising the integrity of our elections. In order to succeed in a battle it is essential to know the enemy and attack at his greatest point of vulnerability. Included here is a list of links, which while by no means exhaustive, can serve to enlighten the electorate. Many of these stories are from Arkansas only because this was the springboard for this thread and we look forward to other FReepers adding stories from their own areas as well as any based in personal experience. The original thread also produced a wealth of resources as we discussed who we should contact if we became aware of voting irregularities or suspected fraud. Again the list of links is far from comprehensive and additions are welcome. Of course the whole point of this exercise is to get more conservative voters involved in changing the laws to close loopholes which make it easy to cheat, to promote the enforcement of existing election laws and to take part in the election process at the local level all with the goal of intercepting future fraud campaigns. In other words our goal is to STOP THE RATS FROM HIJACKING THE ELECTION PROCESS AND TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK!
Many thanks to all the wonderful FReepers who contributed their time, energy and ideas to produce the foundation for this thread:
For their contributions of information and links, thank you to kcvl; kayak; zeaal; demosthenes the elder; terriergal; Brad's Gramma; Budge; TheLion; backhoe; ForGod'sSake; Congressman Billybob; nicmarlo; Ragtime Cowgirl; to ST.LOUIE1 for his graphics and of course to Jim Robinson who has given us this great forum and sense of purpose. A very special thanks and salute goes out to stop_the_rats for her patriotism and tenacity in facing down the enemy within. She is a warrior of whom we should be proud. What a great screen name AND battle cry for the mission of this thread!
On thread 2, I also want to thank Saundra Duffy, Mia T and mlmr for their alerting us to a couple more hot spots and also providing some additional information. Thank you to diotima, ffrancone, and Nick Danger for their efforts to move this campaign beyond Free Republic and disseminate information for public consumption. Updates on this effort will be posted regularly as well. Geist Krieger, has provided a very interesting and in depth analysis of methods of voting and their impact on our elections. If anybody has a means of storing a document for public access, please let me know and I will FReepmail it to you so that a link can be posted. It is quite long.
AWARENESS
KNOW THY ENEMY! If you're like me, you once had a naive trust in the integrity of our elections in America. All that changed for me though, with the election debacle of 2000 when it became readily apparent that Al Gore was trying to steal the presidency and his operatives were so desperate that they were doing it right in the face of the American people. I was absolutely furious but I believed that now that people could see the Clinton/Gore political machination for the shameless assault on America that it was, they would wake up and demand accountability from those responsible. I really wasn't prepared for seeing how many people would continue to perpetrate the lies the Democrats told even in the face of that fiasco and how many would continue to buy into them. Even after that I believed that surely, now that it was out in the open, something would be done to fix it before the next election. I also was not prepared to discover the extent to which voter fraud had woven its way into our political system like a burrowing parasite with expanding tentacles entwining themselves around the arteries of freedom. The sense of betrayal I have felt has been disheartening, to say the least, but it gave rise to the outrage that made me determined to try to do something about it. If you read even a few of these links, it will change forever the way you look at future elections and will hopefully encourage you to be part of the solution.
If any of these links become outdated many of these articles are posted in their entirity on the original FReep thread. If you let me know via FReepmail, I will make editorial adjustments accordingly before renewing the thread.
GENERAL ARTICLES ON VOTER FRAUD -
The Greatest Cover-up Of All: Vote Fraud In America
ELECTION FRAUD 2002 (Lots of links)
How Some Elections Are Stolen! (Lots of Links)
Controlling Fraud, Corruption and Unfair Practices
Voter Reform: Why Are Democrats Opposed To A Photo ID to Vote?
Should Georgia Adopt Early Voting? (Relates to Problems Associated with Early Voting)
Vote Fraud: Will YOUR Vote Be Stolen This November?
Should We Take Voter Fraud as Seriously as Business Fraud?
Stopping Voter Fraud Made a BIG Difference!
Orgins of Modern Democrat FRAUD
Fraud a Part of Demos' Senate Strategy?
CASTING BALLOTS: GOP to have hundreds of spotters at polling sites
Bond Celebrates President's Signing of Anti-Vote Fraud Bill
Need Vote Fraud articles, stories, and evidence? Here's a source...
It's Voter Fraud Season Again!
The Nagging Problem of Election Fraud
Democrats want to drop vote fraud plan, Bond says (Election "Reform")
GOP Uncovers Democrat Vote Fraud
Bond's Debates Schumer Amendment that Undermines His Election Reform Bill
Too Easy to Steal: Why don't liberals want to stop voter fraud?
The Dangers of Voting outside the Booth
The Motor Voter Act and Voter Fraud
Congress to establish voter-fraud task force: Nationwide investigation will 'put people in jail
Can we trust the vote count anywhere? In any race? In any election?
The Greenwood Position (Peggy Noonan)
Knock and Drag: Ryan Lizza reveals how Dems. got out the black vote
Voter Fraud! It Doesn’t Get Any More Blatant Than This !
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WE KNOW THESE STATES HAVE PROBLEMS -
ALABAMA -
Voter Fraud in Alabama Is a Proven Fact
Alabama Primary Challenge Goes Down in Flames
ARKANSAS -
Grand jury requested to delve into elections (Excerpt)
Arkansan pleads guilty in vote fraud
Looking Back On Tuesday's Election Problems
Arkansas - Democratic Party seeking injuction to keep polls open until 10:00 p.m. tonight
GOP to ask for probe of Phillips Co. voting
Scandal: Postal Exec Caught Using USPS Budget to Unseat GOP Senator
1,000 Republican Students Denied Right to Vote
Arkansas GOP charges vote fraud
FRAUD in Arkansas!!! Voters Illegally Casting Ballots 2 Weeks Early in Organized Effort by Dems
CALIFORNIA -
Elections Officials Hand Over Voter Info
State Assembly Race Still Too Close to Call and What's Up With Those MILITARY ballots?
Provisional ballots are questioned
Fresno judge halts counting of provisional ballots in close assembly race
United States Attorney Northern District of California
California Govervor's Race: A Democratic Party Art Form - Inventing Voters
Election fraud in Arvin, Ca -all who committed voter fraud got away with it in 2000 election"
CONNETICUT -
FLORIDA -
Voters Accused of Double-Voting Attempt
Florida Saga Continues- Broward County "Finds" 104,000 Votes, Oliphant, "Only A Small Problem"
Fears of Massive Illegal Ballots in Fla. - Again!
McBride Campaigns In Black Church -- IRS Violation?
165 Broward precincts lacked GOP staff, review finds
18 new voting machines go missing in Broward
Could It Be That Florida Democrats Are Too Stupid To Vote?
Black Republicans Suffered Worst in Florida Vote Count
Non-Voted Ballots and Discrimination in Florida
2,000 Floridians voted illegally Nov. 7
"Explicit statistical evidence of massive ballot tampering in Palm Beach, Fl"
Democrats: Party Without a Conscience
Voting Irregularities in Duval County
Downside Legacy on THE RECOUNT to 12/2/00 (More links to articles on 2000 election)
Felon For Gore: 2,000 Felons Voted for Gore in Florida alone
Exclusive: Recount Observers Tell NewsMax.com of Democrat Fraud
Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart: eye-witness account of Miami-Dade ballot fraud
How Gore and Chris Sautter Are Stealing Our Election and Our Country
DEMOCRAT MEMO ON HOW TO DISQUALIFY MILITARY VOTES
Palm Beach County "massive voter fraud is now evident"
Absentee Ballot Fraud among Democrats in Florida an Old Story
Missing Voting Mechanism Recovered
Evidence shows HOW the Palm Beach Democrats voided 15,000 Bush ballots, 3,400 Buchanan Ballots
Open Letter To Mark Levin - Statistical Proof Of Election Fraud
Al Gore's Class-Action : Trial lawyers try to litigate their man into the White House
INDIANA -
The law can be such a hassle sometimes: Or another example of how Rats steal elections
Absentee ballot requests seized; probe launched
KANSAS -
Democrats Urge Kansans to Vote Illegally
KENTUCKY -
Investigators monitor 17 counties across state
LOUISIANA -
Two convicted of voter fraud get probation
MAINE -
RATS Stealing State Elections In Maine -- A Measured and Thoughtful Response
Hall Named Provisional Winner in Dist. 16 -- Fossel Withdraws Appeal -- New Strategy Revealed
Overt Disenfrancisement Condemned
DEMOCRATS REFUSE TO COUNT ALL THE VOTES
MARYLAND -
Maryland: 10,000 Republican Absentee Ballot ApplicationsTossed Out
Maryland Gov. Race: Polls Good for Ehrlich, Dem. Party Disenfranchises GOP Absentee Voters
MASSACHUSETTS -
Howie Carr - Photos and Video of RAT Voter Fraud in Massachusetts!
Romney (R) Complains Of Voter Irregularities In Boston
MICHIGAN -
Detroit's voter rolls in question (too many registered)
MINNESOTA -
Scores use strip club as voter registration address
VOTE 2002: Taxpayers League says group backs voter fraud
MISSOURI -
Voter Fraud: Can It Be Stopped?
Democratic officials challenge rule on provisional voting (Missouri)
Most (Almost All) of the 3,000 registration cards turned in for next month's primary were fraudulent
St. Louis city voting extension raises questions
NEW HAMPSHIRE -
Don't use students to abuse elections
NEW YORK -
Hillary: Why I Oppose Stopping Election Fraud
2-BALLOT VOTERS FACE DOUBLE TROUBLE
NORTH CAROLINA -
Martin County elections board to discuss alleged vote buying
OKLAHOMA -
More allegations of vote fraud surface
Investigators Look Into Another Vote Fraud Case
Arrests made in voter fraud case (Oklahoma Dems Runoff)
PENNSYLVANIA -
Penn Researchers Document Large-Scale Voter Registration Problem
RHODE ISLAND -
Citizens Group Alleges Elections Fraud Group Says Non-Citizens, Immigrants Can Vote
SOUTH DAKOTA -
Let’s Hear It for Fraud – And REAL Soon
The Oglala Sioux's Democrat Vote Fraud Scheme Has A Familiar Ring
VOTER FRAUD ARREST TO BE MADE - SD
Arrest Expected in Voter Fraud Investigation
The New Democrat Plantation: A FR Roundup of Vote Fraud In South Dakota (Multiple Links)
Vote Fraud South Dakota Style - by the numbers
Dem Ethics? South Dakota Dems don’t acknowledge the importance of their voter-fraud problem
Daschle accuses Republicans of voter harassment
South Dakota Dem Hit with Vote Fraud Indictment
15 false absentee ballot applications found(in SD)and more may be coming
TEXAS -
A Poll Watchers Tale - Vote Fraud in Houston, Texas
Official raises concerns of voter fraud in Hidalgo County (Heart of DemocratCounrty in Texas).
WASHINGTON D.C. -
D.C. MAYOR WILLIAMS CANNOT BE ON THE BALLOT! (MORE DEMOCRAT VOTER FRAUD!)
WISCONSIN -
Democratic Vote Fraud in Wisconsin Gov. Race
ACCESS
In order to effect changes it is important to have channels through which we can make our voice heard. One reason the Democrats get away with as much as they do is because they make a lot of noise. It is time WE make some noise of our own. There are a number of individuals, organizations and media sources who support our Constitution and seek to protect the integrity of our elections. Here are a few of them. Rather than clutter the body of this thread with a long list of email addresses, I will post the websites. Most of these have contacts and email addresses on them. While I have not listed any here, it is important to keep in mind that just because a source is on the opposing side doesn't mean that they can't still be used to our advantage. Consider this parable of Jesus.
"In a certain city there was a judge who did not fear God and did not respect man. "There was a widow in that city, and she kept coming to him, saying, 'Give me legal protection from my opponent.' "For a while he was unwilling; but afterward he said to himself, 'Even though I do not fear God nor respect man, yet because this widow bothers me, I will give her legal protection, otherwise by continually coming she will wear me out.'" (Luke 18: 2-5)
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INDIVIDUALS, ORGANIZATIONS AND MEDIA SOURCES
Department of Justice Voting Rights Home Page
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ELECTION LAW
Election laws and practices vary widely from state to state, and therein lies part of the problem. In order to address the issues we need first to know what the law, as it currently exists is and work within it and where applicable work to see that it is enforced. Second, you will come to discover that many of the opportunities for fraud are born from flaws in the laws themselves, in which case we need to work on getting those laws changed. Below is a very brief list of some election laws and guidelines which we have referenced recently. I am sure this section will grow considerably as others add their contributions.
ELECTION LAWS, RULES, GUIDELINES
State Requirements For Voter ID
Vote Fraud and Election Issues (Lots of Links)
Proposition 52 Dealing With Voter Fraud in California
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GENERAL REFERENCE
National Association of Counties
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ACTION
What can FReepers do? For starters we can identify states that will have key races in the 2004 election. Is your state one of them? Are there known problem precincts in YOUR county? Let's start getting important information about the race, the candidates, the electoral history of the state, the laws in that state and how open they may leave the process to tampering, history of voter fraud in the state, conservative media outlets there, and whatever else you can think of that might be relevant to equip the electorate to head off problems in advance.
Democrats LIE! Their biggest and most effective lie is that Republicans are deliberately trying to prevent blacks and/or other minorities from voting. In effect, they're calling us racists. The truth is that it is them who seem to consider blacks and other minorities so inferior and ignorant and lacking in initiative that they are incapable of voting without the benefit of THEIR (the Democrats') "guidance" and "protection". They squeal "intimidation" at every opportunity and intimidation certainly comes into play. The real question is "who is doing the intimidating?" Their greatest fear is that blacks will recognize how badly they've been duped and insulted by these people and leave the party in droves. That can work in our favor if we work with it. Black conservatives have perhaps the greatest responsibility for telling other black voters the truth about the Democrat party, although it is certainly something we should all work on. Independent thought is the enemy of the Democrats.
Talk about election fraud. Bring it up whenever an opportunity presents itself. Keep a notebook at all times and if someone tells you anything pointing to vote fraud, get more details. Write down such things as county, precinct, candidates in the race, name of the witness and whatever else you can think of. If it seems credible, report it to someone, then follow it up and find out what, if anything, was done with the information.
Have your elected officials, city attorneys, election officers and judges in your email address book, your regular address book and on speed dial. When you become aware of a credible allegation of voter fraud, get busy and push for them to prosecute offenders very publicly and to the FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW! If a few people are seen to be doing time for their electoral indiscretions, observers may be less willing to follow suit.
Rally others and spend election day in parking areas of and near problem polling places at ready with notebook and camera. A favorite technique of Democrats is to load up buses full of paid voters and haul them from precinct to precinct to cast multiple votes. Getting license numbers of these buses and observing them closely could yield enough evidence to prove fraud. Note or photograph anything "out of the ordinary".
"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything." (Josef Stalin)
Take part in the process. Here is a list of suggestions that stop_the_rats posted on another thread:
1. Plan to take election day off in 2004.
2. Be a poll worker. You get paid for this.
3. Be a poll watcher. Call your local Republican headquarters or the campaign office of one of your Republican candidates and volunteer to be a poll watcher.
4. Count absentee ballots. You get paid for this also.
5. Be a poll closer. It's a long day. Some people who can't poll watch because of work, could agree to come after work for 2 hours and close the polls to give poll watchers a break. Get final counts and make sure no "late" voters turn up.
6. Take lunches to poll workers and poll watchers.
7. Man the headquarters so if problems arise, poll workers or watchers have a place to call for help. Have a list of numbers: local election officals, state officals.
8. Find a person who will agree to "be in charge"of all the rules poll watchers and poll workers need to follow. Each state has rules and in some cases, state election representatives will come to your city and give a presentation.
9. Encourage others to get involved.
10. Smile; we have them worried!
Some might want to take it a step furthur, if that is an option in your area, and be an election judge. Or you may have specific talents and training that you could donate to the cause, such as legal assistance and advice.
Finally; ask questions. FReepers have an uncanny ability to ask the right questions in most any situation AND to find answers and we have an inexhaustable resource right here on Free Republic. Here are just a few questions to start with.
"If fraud is suspected, how do we find out who is behind it?"
"How do we work to get cooperation between poll watchers and workers and clarify expectations on all sides BEFORE an election?"
"How can you prove fraud? What is legal in a given state (photos, tape recording, witness statements, compiling a list of names, video taping) and how can these techniques be implemented in a non-obtrusive way?"
How limiting is jurisdiction on working in some capacity at the polls? This may vary from state to state. For example, during the training for counting absentee ballots in Pulaski County, Arkansas, I was told that to be a poll worker or to count ballots, you had to be a resident of the county in which you served, but that a poll watcher could be from anywhere as long as he or she was authorized by the candidate or party. This could be very useful to pursue. In the 2002 election, in spite of all the Rat hype, there was still a shortage of Republican poll watchers in a number of "problem" locations. There were also quite a few FReepers who expressed a desire to do something, but there were no particular problems in their own areas. If we can, in fact, be poll watchers anywhere, that may have great potential for wider coverage of historically fraud prone precincts in future elections.
And last, but certainly not least, pray!
"If My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land." (2 Chronicles 7:14)
"Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord" (Psalm 33:12a)
FReepers; your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to get out there and STOP THE RATS!
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As information has been posted, I have been keeping track of counties that have a history of voting "irregularities" and/or blatant fraud or in which there is legal action currently pending. From that information I have generated a county "watch list". This is not only to alert those seeking to combat the voter fraud travesty, but also to put those responsible for it on notice that the game is up and the heat is on. This list will no doubt grow as more cases come to light, and by all means, if you know of such concerns in your local areas, alert this thread and have the offending county "hot listed". It is the contributions of FReepers that will make this effort work!
ALERT!
COUNTIES ON THE WATCH LIST!
ALABAMA -
Greene CountyHale County
ARKANSAS -
Clark CountyJefferson CountyPhillips CountyPulaski County
CALIFORNIA-
Fresno CountyKern County
Conneticut -
New Haven County
FLORIDA -
Broward CountyDuvall CountyLake CountyMiami-Dade CountyOrange CountyOsceola CountyPalm Beach CountySeminole CountyVolusia County
INDIANA -
Marion County
LOUISIANA-
East Baton Rouge ParishOrleans Parish
MAINE -
Cumberland CountyLincoln County
MARYLAND -
Baltimore CountyMontgomery CountyPrince George's County
MASSACHUSETTS -
Suffolk County
MICHIGAN -
Wayne County
MINNESOTA -
Dakota County
MISSOURI -
St. Louis - city
NEW HAMPSHIRE -
Stafford County
NORTH CAROLINA -
Martin County
OKLAHOMA -
Haskell County
SOUTH DAKOTA -
Bennett CountyCodington CountyDewey CountyMinnehaha CountyPennington CountyShannon CountyZiebach County
TEXAS -
Harris CountyHidalgo County
WISCONSIN -
Kenosha CountyMilwaukee CountyWashington CountyWaukesha County
The following states have been pinged, which means if your state's flag isn't flying, then FReepers in your state have not yet been alerted! The flags are posted in the order the states were pinged. It would be nice to have a representative FReeper from each state, particularly those states that are "fraud zones". If anyone would be willing to represent your state on this thread on a regular basis, please let me know and I will begin a list of FReeper contacts for each state.
And there's no end to those who have no conscience about committing fraud.....and there'll be no end, as you've said Lion, with this kind of "punishment": "hand-slapping" or telling them "no, no, don't do that."
Six candidates in the May primary in East Chicago, including mayoral challenger George Pabey, are alleging widespread vote fraud in the city.
They want a judge to impound more than 1,600 absentee ballot applications that have been received so far by county election officials.
The allegations and the request for a preliminary injunction were filed Monday in a lawsuit in Lake Superior Court in Crown Point.
The lawsuit attempts to strike at the heart of the city’s Democratic machine headed by Mayor Robert Pastrick by listing allegations of pressure tactics used to force city employees and their families to vote for him to keep their jobs.
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The lawsuit lists a litany of allegations relating to potential voter fraud including:
Valdez requesting and collecting absentee ballots from city employees and many new hires in the city;
Callas, who holds three jobs in the city, is listed as the coordinator of the absentee ballot process for the “machine”;
Paying money to the homeless and drug addicted to cast false votes; as well as collecting votes from non-residents, non-citizens, the dead and nursing home residents.
The lawsuit even lists an attempt to sign up a special education student at East Chicago Central High School for an absentee ballot.
The student’s mother, Gilda Orange, says the candidates will stop at nothing to win. “It’s just amazing to me the lengths these people will go to. I'm really upset,” Orange said of the recent attempt. “Don’t abuse the handicapped children.”
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If not politics, the state's financial problems might doom a Republican plan to require voters to show photo identification before casting ballots in Wisconsin. Advertisement.
The Assembly last month passed a voter ID bill that would require the state to issue free photo ID cards to voters who don't already have them. The bill, similar to proposals introduced in previous sessions of the Legislature, is needed to ensure the integrity of elections and to help prevent voter fraud, Republicans say.
But the plan would cause an estimated $736,900 dip in fee revenue, which might lead Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle to kill it, even if it makes it through the Republican-controlled Senate.
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Voters: Mail ballot signatures forged
Candidate denies signing applications; DA investigating
04/22/2003
A Dallas City Council candidate submitted at least 12 mail ballot applications that contained the forged signatures of voters, according to interviews with voters and the elections administrator.
Clair Conly Woertendyke, a candidate for council District 3, submitted about 265 applications for mail ballots this month. The Dallas County elections department spotted the questionable applications because they appeared to be signed by the same person and came from the same West Dallas precinct. The Dallas County district attorney's office is investigating the possibility of forgery.
In interviews, eight voters said they did not sign the applications that Mr. Woertendyke sent to the elections department. And two of the voters whose applications were submitted moved from West Dallas more than a year ago, neighbors said.
Mr. Woertendyke said he did not forge the signatures and argued that it could not be proved whether the signatures are bogus. He said a voter's relative might have signed the application for the voter, and the voter simply forgot. He said neither he nor his campaign volunteers could ask a voter for identification.
"Most of these seniors ... can't remember what they did yesterday," said Mr. Woertendyke, who lost an election for Dallas County clerk in November. "There is always the possibility that someone in the family signed for it and the person [the voter] did not know."
Bruce Sherbet, Dallas County elections administrator, said Monday that he had sent the applications to the Dallas County district attorney's office for investigation.
"There is no question in my mind that the voters didn't sign those applications," Mr. Sherbet said.
....."I'm one of the advocates that North Carolina should be the seventh state and remove this barrier (to voting)," said Rep. Earline Parmon, D-Forsyth. "It will help younger people get involved." Parmon said.
To discourage voter fraud, people would be required to show identification and proof of residency, and sign a statement swearing that the information they gave is accurate. They could be prosecuted for perjury - a felony -if they lie.
"There's more checks on this kind of voting than on any other kind of voting that you do in this state," said Rep. Deborah Ross, D-Wake, a chief sponsor of the bill that is scheduled for debate in a House committee today.
Chris Haggerty of the N.C. Center for Voter Education said he was initially skeptical of the proposal, given the history of voter fraud in North Carolina. But he said that the multiple security provisions put his doubts to rest.
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UPPER MARLBORO (Maryland) -- State prosecutors said yesterday that Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s campaign hired hundreds of homeless people to hand out Election Day literature in an attempt to deceive voters and create "the illusion of support."
"They were hired to pose as supporters," Assistant State Prosecutor Thomas M. McDonough told Prince George's County Circuit Judge Richard H. Sothoron Jr. The accusation came during a hearing in the case of three people charged with violating a 1979 state law that bars the use of so-called "walk-around money," the payment of Election Day poll workers. Lawyers for the three defendants, however, say the law is unconstitutional and the charges must be thrown out.
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Court records show the payment of the Election Day workers was witnessed by an investigator from State Prosecutor Stephen Montanarelli's office, who watched as more than 100 homeless persons were paid $150 each the day after the election.
Brookins' lawyers have acknowleded that the workers were paid.
"The papers Ms. Brookins paid people to distribute were campaign materials," Nathans stated in a 16-page brief filed Feb. 19.
In addition to the homeless workers from Washington, the Democrats for Ehrlich Committee recruited high school and college students from Prince George's County to hand out campaign materials on Election Day. The students, however, said they were never paid as promised.
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This article (see my post #626) has now been posted on FR.
This is without a doub t the lamest, most bogus BS excuse I've ever heard. Just try to do anything in this country without having to show an ID. It is impossible. These people have ID. The RATs do now want people having to show ID, because it gets in their way. It is as simple as that.
Backers say plan would draw more more illegal and repeat RAT voters
Very true....they have done everything possible to PREVENT voter ID's, saying it's discrimination.
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