Posted on 10/09/2014 8:34:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
PJ Media has put together a new publication about voter fraud called Crimes Against the Republic.
When it comes to voter fraud, there are several myths and several truths of note — enough to leave everyone unhappy. Here are five:
1. Myth: President Obama won reelection because of voter fraud. Nonsense. The margins in key swing states such as Ohio and Virginia were too vast to be driven by voter fraud. No voter fraud scheme can move tens of thousands of votes. That’s impossible and would be detected. The machinery of elections simply doesn’t allow for the possibility of organizing and procuring tens of thousands of votes. If you are desperate for a singular explanation for Obama’s reelection, you should get to know Catalist. This massive database and how the modern left uses it to drive turnout among the base are behind Obama’s releection, not voter fraud. That Republicans and conservatives have absolutely no effective counterpart makes it even more so.
2. Fact: Voter fraud has altered the outcome of elections. Senator Al Franken (D-Lino Lakes), the Saturday Night Live clown, is in the United States Senate because of voter fraud. Franken won his election because Minnesota has same-day voter registration, where a person can register to vote and cast a ballot simultaneously. Felons were ineligible to vote but did so anyhow — by the thousands (1099 of them to be exact). This means that Franken owes his Senate seats to graduates of Faribault and Lino Lakes. Remember, Franken won by only 312 votes. News media in Minnesota contacted many of the felons and they admitted they were proud of their votes for Franken. Not a one voted for Norm Coleman. But it’s worse. Al Franken was the 60th vote to pass Obamacare over a filibuster. Because of voter fraud, Obamacare passed.
3. Myth: Paper ballots are the safest. Paper ballots actually facilitate voter fraud. Electronic voting machines cannot be hacked from outer space. The machines are not connected and manipulated by the Illuminati. The worst form of elections are paper ballots because they are subject to human interpretation. When paper ballots are counted, partisans on each side get to interpret stray marks the way they want to. Xs stray from boxes, and — magically — votes move. Electronic machine counting is the best way to eliminate voter fraud. The single best election system is the optical scan ballot where you make selections inside ovals and the paper is fed through an electronic counting scanner. People who waste time on electronic voting machines are overlooking the many other ways the system is manipulated.
Wendy Rosen, Democrat
4. Fact: Eric Holder’s Justice Department is facilitating voter fraud. It isn’t hard to find the ways Eric Holder’s radical version of law enforcement is facilitating voter fraud. That’s the central story of Crimes Against the Republic. For starters, multiple individuals have been caught voting more than once in a federal election. This is a federal felony. The response from the Justice Department? Crickets. Take Wendy Rosen (pictured above). She was a Democrat running for Congress. We have reached the Alice in Wonderland moment where a Democrat can pen an editorial admitting she violated federal election law and no federal charges ensue.
Her excuse for committing a federal felony? Because election integrity laws make it hard for the poor and blacks to vote. She actually says this. Maybe Eric Holder isn’t prosecuting Wendy Rosen because 1) Rosen is a Democrat and 2) she is mimicking Holder’s own talking points. Such are the lawless ways of the Obama age — felons get a pass as long as they are allies of the president, sort of like the New Black Panthers in Philadelphia. This is the stuff that makes Americans furious, and the Democrats best beware of the whirlwind they may reap. Many more examples of Holder facilitating voter fraud are in Crimes Against the Republic.
5. Myth: Just electing Republicans will end voter fraud. Voter fraud is a non-partisan issue. Both Republicans and Democrats have been found guilty, though Democrats seem to outnumber Republicans by significant amounts. Voter fraud is particularly common in Democrat primaries where Democrats use it against other Democrats. That’s why the Democrat-run Rhode Island legislature passed a voter ID law. Moreover, Republicans sometimes lack a spine to address the institutional and structural issues which open the door to voter fraud. No-excuse absentee voting, one of the most fertile areas of voter fraud, is one example. In other places, like Colorado, some Republicans are actually collaborators with the beneficiaries of fraud. Colorado election clerks Pam Anderson and Sheila Reiner were but two.
I like it. Good read.
He's not from Lino Lakes nor does he live there. (That's pretty red territory)
The Democrat vote is highly concentrated in dense urban areas often dominated by Dem political machines. Often there are few, sometimes practically no Republicans living in many inner city precincts and there is no or little bipartisan oversight of the polling places thus affording the Dems of unlimited opportunities for cheating and fraud.
Add to the mix, the Dems have always had a superior ground game, at least as far back as I can remember. It helps when your party has it disposal a vast army of PAID union members to help get out the vote on election day, whereas the GOP has to rely primarily on volunteers to help with its GOTV efforts.
Moreover, many of the big blue states have lax or no voter ID enforcement which of course can lead the way to illegals voting in our elections. I live in CA, a state with millions of illegals, but when you go to vote here, no one ever bothers to check your ID.
Do y’all remember when the television technicians union was having an acrimonious contract negotiation with ABC and one of their guys released election results a couple of days before the election took place?
I used to think this, too. Then I started doing some homework.
In my homestate in 2012, tens of thousands of people were found to be double-registered in other states (not all states were checked, as well, IIRC. Who knows what a 50-state check would find?). Of these, hundreds had double-voted.
Now, are some of these people such committed supporters of BO that they're voting in NC, then driving to (say) Illinois to illegally cast a second vote for him? Sure, there's always one in every crowd.
But what's a whole lot more likely is that this person is not getting removed promptly from the voter rolls, and is getting their "double vote" cast *for* them, by corrupt precinct officials.
With that scenario, 10's of thousands of votes generated are pretty easy to come up with. 'Tisn't something I like to think about, but it surely is a valid explanation, and one worth further investigating.
Articles (like this one) poo-pooing the idea, surely aren't helping.
I read that as referring to a prison at Lino Lakes.
I give you Philadelphia...... Not a single vote for Romney.
Doesn’t matter what the rest of the state voted (including Pittsburg). Just the Dem machine in Philadelphia is enough. And they always, ALWAYS report last.
‘Nuff said. And I am sure the same model duplicated/copied elsewhere.
Pittsburgh
The author’s faith in electronic voting machines is astounding.
It appears sarcasm/parody are wasted on you.
The references to Lino Lakes, and Faribault, are referring to state prisons.
That is untrue of the City of Philadelphia.
But it is true for select (inner city) precincts in Philadelphia, and Cleveland, and many larger cities.
And I’d dare anyone to go into those particular precincts and find a Romney voter.
... or taking advantage of early/absentee ballotting, where the real or fake person votes in precinct A, and the same person votes absentee in precinct B.
There was some move afoot a few years ago to move to single-day primaries, or at least consolidating presidential primaries to a shorter window. Earlier voting would mitigate that as a solution.
Why can't I just cast all my votes now for the next 20 years... WAAAHHH!
If voter fraud is a myth why is it the democrats don’t want to allow photo ID?.
0b0l0 couldn't fill a concert hall with a concert playing. Myth had packed stadiums! Plenty of Ohio precincts came in over 100%? No fraud?
“Senator Al Franken (D-Lino Lakes)”
That means that he represents Lino Lakes (a correctional facility in MN.). No, he does not live in Lino Lakes, but many of his voters did - which is what the story refers to - felons voting and universally voting for Franken.
Electronic ‘votes’ cannot be verified like a paper trail.
Solution to the rest is simple: ALL States hold the same voting day (with limited mail-in/etc., to be tallied/considered if needed). Make it damn near impossible to State-hop.
Unfortunately, even when voting fraud IS found, it’s a slap on the wrist and done.
Electronic voting machines cannot be hacked from outer space. From outer space, really?? per a friend who is a computer software developer and all around geek and a liberal democrat, e voting machines are not secure and do get hacked from here on earth as do the vote counting machines.
got it.
The “Felons for Franken” campaign.
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