FReepers Against Voter Fraud - (Thread 2)

November 29, 2002 | sweetliberty

[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)

LINK TO THREAD 1

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)

An election scam

The Democrats Lost Ugly

Ghost Precincts

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

Damn Dirty Democrats

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 Vote Fraud Archives

The Nagging Problem of Election Fraud

More Is Better?

Democrats want to drop vote fraud plan, Bond says (Election "Reform")

Double Votes in 2000 Election

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

Testimony of Dr. Larry J. Sabato, Director University of Virgina Center for Governmental Studies Before The Committee on Rules and Administration United States Senate

The Motor Voter Act and Voter Fraud

Congress to establish voter-fraud task force: Nationwide investigation will 'put people in jail

How Democrats Steal Elections

Can we trust the vote count anywhere? In any race? In any election?

The Greenwood Position (Peggy Noonan)

Stalin-Like Contests

Voter Fraud Again!

Knock and Drag: Ryan Lizza reveals how Dems. got out the black vote

Voter Fraud! It Doesn’t Get Any More Blatant Than This !

American Apartheid

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WE KNOW THESE STATES HAVE PROBLEMS -

ALABAMA -

Vote Fraud Alleged in 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

Voter Fraud in Arkansas

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 -

DUPLICATE VOTERS

FLORIDA -

Voters Accused of Double-Voting Attempt

Florida Saga Continues- Broward County "Finds" 104,000 Votes, Oliphant, "Only A Small Problem"

Voter fraud that's legal

Fears of Massive Illegal Ballots in Fla. - Again!

State attorney probes ballots

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

The Dimples Prove Fraud

"Explicit statistical evidence of massive ballot tampering in Palm Beach, Fl"

Democrats: Party Without a Conscience

Broward County Can't Count!!!

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

Unstatesmanlike Conduct

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 -

Landrieu Redux ~ WSJ. '97

Two convicted of voter fraud get probation

They're Stealing the Election

Citizens For A Better America

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!

More Dem Fraud

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 -

The Oglala Sioux's Senator

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

South Dakota Suspicions

Dead Men Voting

Arrest Expected in Voter Fraud Investigation

The New Democrat Plantation: A FR Roundup of Vote Fraud In South Dakota (Multiple Links)

Absentee forms found burned

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

FBI

American Conservative Union

Eagle Forum

Eagle Forum of Arkansas

The Heritage Foundation

ACLJ

Fox News

Drudge Report

Rush Limbaugh

Hugh Hewitt

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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

Arkansas Election Code

Arkansas Election Faqs

State Requirements For Voter ID

Texas Pollwatcher's Guide

Vote Fraud and Election Issues (Lots of Links)

Limitations On Lawyers

Reporting Unlicensed Lawyers

2002 Florida Statutes

Florida Voter Fraud Issues

Proposition 52 Dealing With Voter Fraud in California

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GENERAL REFERENCE

List of U.S. Counties

National Association of Counties

Online Newspapers

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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 County
Hale County

ARKANSAS -

Clark County
Jefferson County
Phillips County
Pulaski County

CALIFORNIA-

Fresno County
Kern County

Conneticut -

New Haven County

FLORIDA -

Broward County
Duvall County
Lake County
Miami-Dade County
Orange County
Osceola County
Palm Beach County
Seminole County
Volusia County

INDIANA -

Marion County

LOUISIANA-

East Baton Rouge Parish
Orleans Parish

MAINE -

Cumberland County
Lincoln County

MARYLAND -

Baltimore County
Montgomery County
Prince 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 County
Codington County
Dewey County
Minnehaha County
Pennington County
Shannon County
Ziebach County

TEXAS -

Harris County
Hidalgo County

WISCONSIN -

Kenosha County
Milwaukee County
Washington County
Waukesha 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.

[MeekOneGOP]

Where's my cup of java?

heh heh !! I've been out all day and playin' Ketchup now. CarlsbadCaveman has STRICT orders to present you with a fresh cup upon your arisal in Da Moanin' !!

Have a cup while you FReep !

[sweetliberty]

Why thank you. Don't mind if I do.

[MeekOneGOP]

[RottiBiz]

Outstanding job, sweetliberty!

Remarkable body of work. Bookmarked for reference.

Thanks for the ping, MnM.

[mlmr]

Weyrich picked it up!!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/799344/posts?page=1

[sweetliberty]

That's great. Thanks for posting. This is exactly the kind of thing we need to work on. If this is out there in the public eye and more media sources pick up on in nationally, it will be hard to continue to ignore it and harder for the Rats to pull off.

[PetroniDE]

Please add me to any PING lists regarding this topic. Thanks.

[sweetliberty]

Thought y'all would want to see the after FReep report from Saundra Duffy.

One-Woman FReep of Nicole Parra (Voter Fraud in CA State Assembly Race)

GREAT JOB!!!

[Landru]

That Saundra Duffy's one hell of a woman.

This nation's in desperate need of a few million people with such courage & conviction.
A few million more just like her would be a real nice start, alright.

Since that ain't gonna happen anytime soon?

...it'd be wise to appreciate the one we have, now.

[ST.LOUIE1]

Thanks, sweet!

SD's reports are always lively and entertaining.

She's special!

[TheLion]

Thanks for the ping. I told Saundra she was a one person freeping army!

[TheLion]

Didn't realize it was you that had posted this link. I just responded to your comment on that thread. Thanks for the link.

[TheLion]

You may want to check out votefraud.org as a possible source. It looks pretty good and I didn't see it above.

http://www.votefraud.org/home.html

[TheLion]

This was an interesting read:

I especially liked the part where Cantrell basically admits committing vote fraud, but called it an "innocent get out the vote" effort.



Voter fraud more difficult now, but boards of election must stay vigilant against it

By Asheville Citizen-Times
POSTED: Nov. 9, 2002 7:45 p.m.

In the bad old days, in some Western North Carolina counties it was not uncommon for people to return from the grave to cast a ballot or two. For the most part, that's a thing of the past.

For one thing, boards of election get death certificates, check them against their voter lists and remove the names of the deceased so no one can appropriate their identity. These days there's also a statewide voter database that allows boards to remove duplicate names when, for example, voters move from one county to another and register in a new location.

Modern procedures and data management systems have cut down on voter fraud considerably.

"It's tough to do now," says Marvin Hollifield, assistant director of the Buncombe County Board of Elections. "It's gonna come up on somebody's screen somewhere."

Still, reports that more than 30 absentee ballots were mailed to a post office box held by the brother of Madison County Clerk of Court Tim Cantrell, a Democrat, and another 20 were mailed to another Madison County resident, raise the specter of those bad old days. Federal agents are investigating to determine whether there was an attempt to commit voter fraud.

Republican Party workers checking the absentee ballot list caught the fact that an unusual number of ballots were mailed to the two post office boxes, according to Tracy Bridges, a spokesperson for the Madison County Republican Party. It's a felony under North Carolina election law for anyone to deliver an absentee ballot to a voter or return it to the county board of elections other than that voter, a near relative or a legal guardian.

About 40 of the absentee ballots mailed to the two addresses had been completed and returned.

Elections Board members had compared the signatures on voter registration cards and absentee ballot request forms against the required signatures on the ballot envelopes and found no problems, according to Mark Cody, chairman of the Madison County Board of Elections. Cody said he was confident that the intended voters filled out their own ballots.

Nonetheless, the board wisely chose to withhold 33 disputed ballots.

"We couldn't determine who actually handled those ballots. They need to be handled by the voter," Cody said.

Exactly. There are good reasons why it's illegal to deliver an absentee ballot to anyone other than the voter or a near relative. In fact, it's a serious felony. Besides the potential for outright fraud in the form of appropriating someone else's identity, there's also the possibility of coercion or bribery. Even if all the signatures match, if ballots were delivered to a third party, there's no way of knowing whether that third party offered the voter some kind of payoff or threatened the voter in some way.

Cantrell, who lost his bid for re-election to his Republican opponent, C. William Briggs, by 162 votes Tuesday, says the ballots were delivered to his brother as part of an innocent "get out the vote" effort. Election board chairman Cody says he believes those involved simply didn't know it was illegal to send ballots to an unrelated third party. He said he believes the voters chose to have their ballots mailed to the two addresses.

That may be so. But the fact that it happened is troubling nonetheless. In the first place, ignorance of the law is no excuse. It's the responsibility of those who work on behalf of candidates and of candidates themselves to find out what's legal and what's not.

Of greater concern is the fact that absentee voters can choose to have their ballots sent anywhere in the world, so there's no easy way for elections officials to catch the fact that a large number of them are going to a single address controlled by one person.

In fact, there might even be a legitimate reason for that to happen. For instance, a church group traveling abroad might ask to have all their ballots sent to a church secretary who could forward them to their next stop.

One thing is certain, the best defense against voter fraud is a strong offense. Boards of election need to be on the lookout for this sort of thing and to make sure an investigation takes place if questions arise.

Modern technology helps greatly in reducing the opportunities for fraud, but vigilance and aggressive prosecution are still critical deterrents.


http://cgi.citizen-times.com/cgi-bin/story/editorial/23309

[TheLion]

This is worth a read:

WEST TEXAS (MRT) - The United States Attorney and Federal Bureau of Investigation officials are collaborating efforts to insure the integrity of the voting process.

While the polls are open, both offices will have phone lines available for citizens to utilize in case they suspect election fraud.

"Election fraud dilutes the worth of votes honestly cast. It also corrupts the essence of our representative form of government. As a crime against both the individual and the government, it will be dealt with promptly and aggressively," said U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton.

Sutton said the phone lines are set up as a safeguard to promote "fair and honest" ballot casting.

Though there have been complaints from concerned voters in the past, there has been no need to implement an investigation on voter fraud, said Bill Vanderland, FBI senior supervisor resident agent.

Election crimes include voter bribery, voter intimidation and ballot forgery, said Sutton.

Preying on the elderly and the socially disadvantaged for "the purpose of subjugating their electoral will" is a federal offense, Sutton said.

Attorney General John Ashcroft announced the nationwide Department of Justice Voting Integrity Initiative Oct. 8 to protect voter rights and prosecute election crime. Sutton has appointed Assistant U.S. Attorney Ray Jahn as district election officer.

To report suspected voter fraud, call the U.S. Attorney's office at 686-4110 or the FBI at 570-0255.

http://www.mywesttexas.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=5949989&BRD=2288&PAG=461&dept_id=475621&rfi=6

[TheLion]

DA opens voter fraud probe in southern Nevada Assembly race

Associated Press

11/14/2002 03:40 pm

Clark County authorities have opened a voter fraud investigation based on complaints that voters listed vacant buildings or the homes of others as residential addresses on registration forms.

District Attorney Stewart Bell said his office was investigating a complaint and evidence submitted by state Assemblyman Bob Beers, R-Las Vegas, after Republican Assembly candidate Francis Allen lost a close race on Nov. 5.

Beers alleged that 21 voters listed incorrect addresses on voter-registration forms, but said the discrepancies wouldn't have changed Democratic nominee Marcus Conklin's 134-vote margin of victory.

"The point of this isn't turning this election over, but whether the law makes it too easy for fraudulent voting to take place,"Beers said told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Bell said the investigation could take a few days or a couple of weeks, and said it might help eliminate ineligible voters from registration rolls.

The district attorney said voters may have changed residences between the time they registered to vote and Election Day, but said that intentionally voting outside their precinct or using someone else's mail-in ballot can be a gross misdemeanor.

Bell said he doubted federal laws were broken, and said the FBI and postal inspectors weren't involved in the Clark County probe. The FBI is involved in an ongoing investigation of voter fraud in Nye County.

Three of the voters cited in the Clark County complaint listed as their mailing address a Las Vegas bar owned by Gary Horrocks, a politically active motorcycle enthusiast and a Republican Assembly candidate. He finished behind Allen and candidate Earlene Forsythe in the September GOP primary.

Horrocks said he helped some of his customers and association members register to vote, and said he has a pile of blank voter-registration forms and voter guides available at his bar. He said the association's registration efforts were legal.

Clark County Registrar of Voters Larry Lomax said seven absentee ballots were sent to Horrocks'bar for both the primary and general elections. Five were filled out and returned for the primary, and three were returned for the general election.

"There was nothing out of the ordinary that we found,"Lomax said.

The FBI has declined comment about Nye County investigation since agents on Oct. 21 seized voter rolls and records from Nye County offices in Tonopah.

Days earlier, a Nye County District Court judge in Pahrump scratched almost 5 percent of the county's 18,667 registered voters from the voter rolls, saying they were either dead or didn't live where they said they did.


http://www.rgj.com/news/stories/html/2002/11/14/28109.php?sp1=&sp2=&sp3=

[TheLion]

Here's a recent one on Alabama.



Recount Law Advocated As Part Of Election Law Changes
Certified Votes Show Riley Wins By 3,120

POSTED: 5:31 p.m. CST November 20, 2002

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- State officials met Wednesday to complete the official tally from the Nov. 5 election, but that's not the last word because Democrats and Republicans hope the disputed election will prompt a complete review of Alabama's election laws.

"The voters want to see the system reformed. I think they are right. It ought to be reformed," Republican Attorney General Bill Pryor said.

Pryor joined Republican Secretary of State Jim Bennett and Ted Hosp, legal adviser to Democratic Gov. Don Siegelman, to sign the official canvass of the statewide returns from the election Nov. 5.


The results showed Republican Bob Riley with 672,225 votes and Siegelman with 669,105, a difference of 3,120. Libertarian John Sophocleus got 23,272 votes and write-in candidates got 2,451.

That was not the closest race. For secretary of state, Democrat Nancy Worley polled 632,852 and Republican Dave Thomas received 630,863, a difference of 1,989. Libertarian Mark Bodenhausen trailed with 25,386, and write-in candidates received 1,179.

Pryor said his office had received some complaints about potential criminal wrongdoing in the election, but none of it would be big enough to affect the outcome of any close races.

Pryor, who was re-elected, and Bennett, who is retiring, said they hope the close races and the dispute over the governor's race will prompt the Legislature to rewrite Alabama's election laws, which they described as a patchwork that sometimes doesn't fit together well.

"I think we need a comprehensive reform of the Alabama election code. It ought to include a fair, efficient, uniform recount in every close election," Pryor said.

Siegelman tried to get a county-by-county recount in the governor's race, but he didn't succeed after Pryor issued an opinion saying that sealed ballots could be opened for only limited reasons, and Siegelman's recount request was not one of them.

Pryor declined to specify what he would like to see in recount legislation because he said it must be designed in a bipartisan effort or it will never win legislative approval.

Bennett said a comprehensive rewrite of Alabama's election laws ought to include issues that have been discussed for years, such as requiring voters to show identification at the polls, restricting money transfer between political action committees, and cracking down on campaign ads that contain lies.

Pryor and Bennett aren't the only ones talking about studying election laws.

Worley, who will become the state's chief election official in January, said a "top to bottom" review is needed.

State Democratic Party Chairman Redding Pitt said Siegelman's efforts to get a recount show that Alabama needs a simple, clear recount law.

Riley spokesman David Azbell said the new governor will make election laws a priority, and he will support a recount law if it is part of a comprehensive election package and it includes safeguards against voter fraud when the sealed ballots are opened.

"Alabama has a long and storied history of voter fraud," Azbell said.

In Riley's "Plan for Change" platform, he advocates many things that should be in an election law package, including passing a voter ID law, requiring voters casting absentee ballots to include the last four digits from their Social Security number as a safeguard against fraud, increasing the penalties for voter fraud, and having poll workers from both political parties at each polling site.


http://www.nbc13.com/news/1798001/detail.html

[TheLion]

Some Pa. News:

Election-fraud bill requires ID for first-time voters

Wednesday, November 27, 2002

The Associated Press

HARRISBURG -- First-time voters who register by mail would have to show identification at polling places as part of a fraud-fighting measure passed by the state House today and sent on to the governor.

The provision, part of a bill containing election-code changes, was approved 190-7 in the House and 48-1 in the Senate.

A spokesman for Gov. Mark S. Schweiker said he was reviewing the bill.

The bill would allow voters to show one of several forms of ID, including a driver's license, U.S. passport, current bank statement or a paycheck, to prove their authenticity at the polls.

The bill, which received bipartisan support, would enact the recommendations of county elections officials and the Department of State, the state agency that oversees elections. It also would put into effect requirements of the federal Help America Vote Act that President Bush signed last month.

Among other things, the bill would allow high-school students who are at least 17 years old to fill vacancies in certain election-day jobs under the supervision of a local judge of elections and increase the maximum allowable compensation for those jobs to as much as $200.

"The substance of this legislation will be to upgrade our election system to make it more accessible to the individual voter and more workable from the point of view of the election official," said Sen. Jeffrey Piccola, R-Dauphin, who spoke in favor of the legislation.


http://www.post-gazette.com/breaking/20021127webbillp8.asp

[nicmarlo]

Thought you'd be interested in the e-mail response re RNC. (I just now checked my e-mail, it was sent on the 27th....):

Thank you for contacting the Republican National Committee. Unfortunately, much "Official RNC Information" is proprietary and is not available to the general public. However, if you call my department, we will be happy to accommodate you as best as we can. Our phone number is [redacted]. My name is [redacted], and I will be working late tonight, as well as Saturday and Sunday. Feel free to call.

P.S. By the way, I tried to call you twice, but the line was busy.

{It was busy cuz I was FReeping, oops. I'll try to call this person tomorrow.)

[Budge]

Some very good finds there, Lion! I will add them to my archives after (ugh) work today.