Election Day: Behind Enemy Lines(Pollwatcher's account of Philly hijinks he witnessed)

see comments section | 11/5/04 | texasrainmaker

[Solar Wind]

"When Pennsylvania went to Kerry, I also was disappointed until someone pointed out that Cambria County, where I worked hard to get out the vote, went to Bush this year. It is a county that traditionally goes 2-1 Democrat and was won easily by Gore in 2000. I admit I am proud of the part that I did now and would recommend to everyone that they turn out in 2008 to help keep the fraud at bay. Could be that is exactly what is needed to turn some blue states like PA into red states."

Optimom, Thank you for your hard work and service. I am convinced of what you proved. If fraud was stopped in its tracks a lot more of America would be in the Red zone. It would bring about a great awakening for America to see how she is really voting without fraud.

I agree. This voter fraud must be beaten by the involvement of local Conservative volunteers and activists and by changes to State and National voting laws.

Mr Sol

[wildbill]

This is really scary to me. One of these days they will win using these tactics.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Well, it wasn't a total waste - in additional to Specter's win, arguably good for the Repubs, local Philly TV tonight reported that the statewide election for Attorney General was still up in the air, with the Republican candidate leading the 'rat by about 125,000 votes; absentees and provisional ballots are still to be counted - interestingly, Kerry seems to have won the state by not much more than that, but given the leftwing bias of the press, that race must be already decided in their minds......

[ladyinred]

This story justifies everything I have been thinking about democrat voter fraud for some time now. Thankyou Texasrainmaker for going the extra miles and clearly putting your personal safety in jeopardy for President Bush. These things will never be reported by the media who are delighting in pretending that the republican's committed fraud to make the President appear to be illegitimate once again.

[King Prout]

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[Diddle E. Squat]

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[Diddle E. Squat]

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[PosterQue]

We need to work hard to clean up voter roles, recruit poll watchers, and organize for 2006, 2008 and beyond. This is a battle we can win but we must be smarter and better organized than the enemy.

I was an election worker for my county. Never again. My efforts could have been MUCH better spent as an unpaid volunteer for the GOP. I'm going to poll watch in 2006.

[Slyfox]

This guy stood in front of the polling place videotaping for 10 minutes. This is a tactic the Democrats allege Republicans do to intimidate voters. Of course, it came as no surprise to me that a Democrat would do the very act he accused Republicans of.

This an old Saul Alinsky technique. It is intended to make it easier for a radical liberal to shift attention temporarily to the opposite side permitting the other side to take the media hit, so that when it is found out that the radical liberal is actually engaging in the activity it won't matter because the other side got saddled with the shame.

[Slyfox]

Even as an election worker we can be of tremendous service to the GOP. I am a precinct chairman and I hired three pretty committed democrats for this election. I treated them VERY well. So well in fact that they asked that if I ever needed them again they would be very happy to work. I believe that we have to smash the stereotype they have of us. We are not cold-hearted, money-hungry, racist, homo-phobes. We are pretty nice people who like to play by the rules.

[hripka]

SOURCE: http://www.conservativeaction.org/resources.php3?nameid=votefraud

How Democrats Steal Elections - Top 10 Methods of Liberal Vote Fraud

1. Over-Voting. In Democrat strongholds like St. Louis, Philadelphia and Detroit, some precincts had 100% of their registered voters voting, with 99% of the ballots going to Gore. Clearly, multiple voting resulted in extra tallies for Gore in the 2000 election. (New York Post, 12/09/00).

2. Dead Voters. This classic Democratic method of vote fraud goes all the way back to 1960 in Chicago and Dallas. The 2000 election was no exception. In Miami-Dade County, for example, some of the 144 ineligible votes (those which officials actually admitted to) were cast by dead people, including a Haitian-American who's been deceased since 1977 (Miami-Herald, 12/24/00).

3. Mystery Voters. These "voters" cast votes anyway but are not even registered to vote. In heavily Democratic Broward County, for example, more than 400 ballots were cast by non-registered voters. (Miami-Herald 1/09/01)

4. Military ballots. Many of these votes were disqualified for the most mundane and trivial reasons. At least 1,527 valid military ballots were discarded in Florida by Democratic vote counters (Drudge Report, 11/19/00).

5. Criminals. Felons are a natural Democratic voter and they're protected on voter rolls across the country. In Florida at least 445 ex-convicts - including rapists and murderers -- voted illegally on November 7th. Nearly all of them were registered Democrats. (Miami-Herald 12/01/00)

6. Illegal aliens. These voters have long been a core liberal constituency, especially in California. In Orange County in 1996, Rep. Bob Dornan had his congressional seat stolen from him when thousands of illegal aliens voted for Loretta Sanchez (Christian Science Monitor, 9/2/97).

7. Vote-buying. Purchasing votes has long been a traditional scheme by Democrats, and not just with money. In the 2000 election in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Democratic workers initiate a "smokes-for-votes" campaign in which they paid dozens of homeless men with cigarettes if they cast ballots for Al Gore (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 11/14/00).

8. Phantom Voters. These voters don't really exist, but their ballots do. In the 1996 Lousiana Senate race, GOP candidate Woody Jenkins had the election stolen from him when he discovered that 7,454 actual votes were cast but had no paper trail to authenticate them (Behind the Headlines, F.R. Duplantier, 4/27/97).

9. Dimpled chads. Those infamous punch-cards were a ballot bonanza for Al Gore. Democratic poll workers in Palm Beach, Dade and Broward counties tampered and manipulated thousands of ineligible ballots and counted them for Gore, even though no clear vote could be discerned. (NewsMax.com 11/27, 12/22, 11/18, 11/19/00).

10. Absentee ballots. Normally it's assumed that Republicans benefit from absentee ballots. But in the case of Miami's 1997 mayoral election, hundreds of absentee ballots were made for sale or sent out to non-Miami residents. Fraud was so extensive in the race that the final results were overturned in court (FL Dept. of Law Enforcement Report, 1/5/98)."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=votefraud

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=electionfraud

EVERY VOTE COUNTS . . . INCLUDING FRAUDULENT ONES!!

[Temple Owl]

I was a young reporter for the late Philadelphia Evening Bulletin in 1960. The Bulletin was America's largest evening newspaper and the third largest overall. I had left the Philadelphia Daily News to take the Bulletin job and my first assignment was to investigate vote fraud. I uncovered enough to have a whole team assigned. We found a man doing life for murder voting in every election, The chief magistrate lived in a small row house with his mother. There were 24 persons with different names registered from that address. We had 40 registered voters living in a banana warehouse by the Delaware. There were the usual folks voting from paved-over parking lots and cemeteries. We were aware of the trick of ringing up votes on the machines before the polls opened. There was for a very short period-after we published our stories-- fairly honest elections in Philly. Things quickly regressed. We won the National Headliners Award for the series by the way and I feel the honor was well deserved.

[Temple Owl]

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[Diddle E. Squat]

Thanks for the good summary.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Interesting story. Do you think the local GOP really wants to end this fraud, or do some look the other way, for certain reasons(I've heard Specter and Rendell have had some sort of 'gentleman's agreement')?

[Temple Owl]

I don't know about any "gentleman's agreement", but I remember Democrats registering fellow Democrats as Republicans in order to control committee and ward seats, In other words the Republican committeeman was actually a Democrat. There is probably more of that now than ever.

[macrahanish #1]

Next time, recruit some poll watchers from Northern PA. We had a surfeit of volunteers.

[Kenny Bunk]

... recruit some poll watchers from Northern PA.

Waddayousenuts or what? Talk about suicide missions. Philly poll-watching is more stressful than directing traffic in Fallujah.

Besides, with your phantom voters and your fake absentees, a lot of the scam takes place out of sight.

[cyn]

"A few poll watchers were on the ball, and happened to catch the opening of the voting machines that magically already had votes for Kerry on them. . . "

Good work, TR; thanks.

Too bad PA isn't getting the recount attention Ohio is.

[oyez]

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