IF HILLARY WINS, EXPECT EITHER HOMICIDES OR SUICIDES IN OR FROM THE GOP.
A CLINTON WIN WOULD DEFINITELY MAKE BOEHNER AND CHENEY GO POSTAL, I THINK.
AND, YET AGAIN, TO KEEP THAT FROM HAPPENING, THE GRAND OLD PARTY FOLKS ARE DIGGING IN AND DIGGING UP EVERY TRICK IN THE BOOK TO KEEP WOULD-BE HILLARY VOTERS AWAY FROM THE POLLS.
EVEN SOME DEMOCRATS ARE HELPING OUT THIS TIME AROUND.
AFTER ALL, WE JUST CAN'T HAVE A WOMAN PRESIDENT!
SHE MAY GO MENOPAUSAL ON US!
AS YOU CAN TELL FROM MANY PREVIOUS BLOGS, I HAVE NO "PARTY AFFILIATION" AND LOATHE BOTH JUST ABOUT EQUALLY, OR DID UNTIL DADDY BUSH WAS ELECTED, AND THEN JUNIOR.
BUT I AM BY NO MEANS A FAN OF MRS. CLINTON.
I AM DEVOTED TO EQUALITY WHEN IT COMES TO WHO GETS TO VOTE.
I THINK EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD BE AUTOMATICALLY REGISTERED TO VOTE THE DAY THEY TURN 18.
IT WOULD BE EASY TO ACCOMPLISH AND FAR CHEAPER THAN OUR CURRENT SYSTEM, AND IT WOULD END, ONCE AND FOR ALL ALL THE "BS" ABOUT VOTING RIGHTS AND THE MYTHICAL "VOTER FRAUD"... <INSERT NIGHTMARISH ORGAN MUSIC>.
LET'S CALL IT WHAT IT IS...ELECTION FRAUD...BECAUSE THE FRAUD COMES ABOUT ON THE DAY OF ELECTION, OR, IN THE CASE OF ABSENTEE BALLOTS, SOONER THAN THAT, BUT NOT BY THE VOTERS...BY THOSE CHARGED WITH REGISTERING AND COUNTING THE VOTES.
"VOTER FRAUD"...IT'S A BIT LIKE UNICORNS AND EASTER BUNNIES, BUT FAR MORE ANNOYING TO ANY LOGICAL PERSON WHO HAS THE ABILITY TO READ AND DO A FEW SHORT MINUTES OF RESEARCH.
NOW, IF OUR ELITIST OLD FOUNDING FATHERS HAD NOT BEEN CONVINCED THAT THE "AVERAGE CITIZEN" WAS TOO STUPID TO VOTE AND SO CREATED THAT ABOMINATION WE CALL THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE, POPULAR VOTE WOULD END THE SHIFTY LEGALITIES THAT CAN PUT THE LOSER IN OFFICE.
CASE IN POINT...
In 2000, George W. Bush was declared the winner of the general election for President of the United States, and became the 43rd president, but he did NOT win the popular vote
Al Gore holds that distinction, garnering about 540,000 more votes than Bush did.
However, Bush won the electoral vote, 271 to 266.
It wasn't the first time, won't be the last, because of two words:
ELECTORAL COLLEGE.
THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE THAT THUMBS ITS NOSE AT THE WILL, AND THE VOTES, OF WE, THE PEOPLE.
In 1824, John Quincy Adams was elected president despite not winning either the popular vote or the electoral vote.
Andrew Jackson was the winner in both categories. Jackson received 38,000 more popular votes than Adams, and beat him in the electoral vote 99 to 84.
Despite his victories, Jackson didn’t reach the majority 131 votes needed in the Electoral College to be declared president.
In fact, neither candidate did.
The decision went to the House of Representatives, which voted Adams into the White House.
In 1876, Rutherford B. Hayes won the election (by a margin of one electoral vote), but he lost the popular vote by more than 250,000 ballots to Samuel J. Tilden.
In 1888, Benjamin Harrison received 233 electoral votes to Grover Cleveland’s 168, winning the presidency.
But Harrison lost the popular vote by more than 90,000 votes.
AHHHH, THE BEAUTY OF THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE AND THE GREAT GAME OF "WHO GETS TO BE PREZ".
CONTRARY TO WHAT THOSE 'FOUNDERS' THOUGHT, AMERICANS ARE NOT TOO STUPID TO VOTE, BUT THEY FACE SO MANY HURDLES TO GET TO VOTE THAT MANY JUST GIVE UP, AND SO, OVER TIME, THE NUMBERS OF VOTERS HAS SIMPLY DECLINED.
WHY BOTHER?
POPULAR VOTE DOESN'T COUNT ANYWAY AND THERE ARE TOO MANY HOOPS TO JUMP THROUGH TO (A) GET REGISTERED AND PROVE YOU'RE QUALIFIED TO VOTE, AND (B) GO TO THE POLLS ON A WORKDAY, STAND IN LINE, PROVE AGAIN YOU AREN'T THERE TO DEFRAUD THE SYSTEM, AND THEN WONDER IF THOSE DAMNED MACHINES EVEN MARKED YOUR VOTE, OR MARKED IT INCORRECTLY.
[REMEMBER THOSE "HANGING CHADS"?]
TOTAL VOTER TURNOUT FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS HAS NOT EXCEEDED 65% SINCE 1900.
IT HAS BEEN 115 YEARS SINCE MORE THAN HALF OF QUALIFIED AMERICAN VOTERS WENT TO THE POLLS IN ANY PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
1896 WAS THE LAST TIME 85% OF ELIGIBLE AMERICANS CAST A VOTE IN A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
LOOK, ANYBODY CAN FIND THE STATISTICS ON THIS "VOTER FRAUD" CRAP, JUST LOOK FOR IT!
IT ISN'T DEEPLY HIDDEN, NOR HARD TO LOCATE, AND 15 MINUTES, TOPS, SHOULD PROVIDE ANYONE WITH THE FACTS, WHETHER YOU NEED THEM FROM THE GOVERNMENT, "WATCHDOG GROUPS", YOUR FAVORITE NEWS MEDIA, OR INDEPENDENT SOURCES, EVEN THOSE OUTSIDE AMERICA...THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE...IF THE TRUTH IS REALLY WHAT YOU WANT.
YES, YES, THERE IS "ELECTION FRAUD"...BY THOSE WHO SCREAM LOUDEST ABOUT VOTER FRAUD, NOT BY VOTERS THEMSELVES!
VOTER FRAUD IS ALMOST ALWAYS CARRIED OUT, WHAT LITTLE THERE IS, BY THOSE 'HANDLING' VOTES... BY REGISTRATION AND POLLING OFFICIALS, BY PEOPLE 'BEHIND THE SCENES' ON ELECTION DAY.
COMPARED TO ACTUAL VOTERS WHO HAVE BEEN PROSECUTED FOR FRAUD, THESE OFFICIALS' AND POLL WORKERS HAVE BEEN CAUGHT AND FACED CHARGES FAR MORE OFTEN THAN VOTERS HAVE!
A VOTER I.D. CARD WILL NEVER, EVER CHANGE THAT!
WHAT'S RAMPANT IS VOTER REGISTRATION "GLITCHES", THOUSANDS OF THEM!
THESE GLITCHES SHOULD BE, COULD BE, CAUGHT BY THOSE ACCEPTING VOTER REGISTRATIONS, BUT HOW TEMPTING IS IT, WHEN A REGISTRATION OFFICIAL OF ONE PARTY CAN TOSS OUT THE REGISTRATIONS OF THOSE LISTING PREFERENCE FOR THE OPPOSING PARTY, YES?
WHEN IT COMES TO LIGHT, BINGO!
SCREAM VOTER FRAUD!
More than one third of the problems reported to Election Protection in 2008 were a result of our antiquated voter registration system [NOT VOTER FRAUD!].
LESS THAN 1/100th OF 1% OF VOTERS IN THE PAST MANY DECADES HAVE BEEN CONVICTED OF VOTER FRAUD! THAT IS A GOVERNMENT STATISTIC.
The New Yorker reported that experts agree that actual incidents of in-person voter fraud -- the ONLY type of voter fraud that strict voter ID laws can prevent -- are "virtually non-existent," and fears of voter fraud have been largely invented as a way to "excite the base." [The New Yorker, 10/29/12]
SCREAM VOTER FRAUD!
More than one third of the problems reported to Election Protection in 2008 were a result of our antiquated voter registration system [NOT VOTER FRAUD!].
LESS THAN 1/100th OF 1% OF VOTERS IN THE PAST MANY DECADES HAVE BEEN CONVICTED OF VOTER FRAUD! THAT IS A GOVERNMENT STATISTIC.
The New Yorker reported that experts agree that actual incidents of in-person voter fraud -- the ONLY type of voter fraud that strict voter ID laws can prevent -- are "virtually non-existent," and fears of voter fraud have been largely invented as a way to "excite the base." [The New Yorker, 10/29/12]
Brennan Center For Justice: Allegations Of Widespread Voter Fraud "Simply Do Not Pan Out." The New York University School of Law's Brennan Center has repeatedly explained that in-person voter fraud is not a justification for strict voter ID laws, because voter impersonation is "more rare than getting struck by lightning," and allegations of widespread fraud typically "amount to a great deal of smoke without much fire" and "simply do not pan out." [Brennan Center For Justice, 2007]
Loyola University Professor: Only 31 Out Of 1 Billion Ballots Subject To In-Person Voter Fraud. Loyola University Law School professor Justin Levitt, who investigated "any specific, credible allegation" of voter impersonation fraud, found a total of "about 31 different incidents" since 2000 of in-person voter fraud out of over 1 billion ballots cast. [The Washington Post, 8/6/14]
"The Discovery Of Potentially Ineligible Voters Is Proof That The Voter Verification System Works"
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus declared that WISCONSIN is "absolutely riddled with voter fraud." In fact, the state's voter fraud rate was 0.0002 percent—just 7 votes.In 2008, John McCain said fraudulent registrations collected by ACORN were "one of the greatest frauds in voter history in this country, maybe destroying the fabric of democracy."
The Congressional Research Service found no proof that anyone improperly registered by ACORN tried to vote. 2008, BUSH WAS STILL IN OFFICE!
109 OUT OF 10,000 'SUSPECTS'
North Carolina Investigated Citizenship Of Flagged Voters And Is Implementing Formal "Challenge Process" To Prevent Ineligible Voters From Casting Ballots. The North Carolina Board of Elections conducted an investigation to verify the eligibility of 10,000 registered voters who had been flagged as having "questionable citizenship status" using Department of Homeland Security and N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles data.
The investigation identified 109 DACA recipients who were "on the voter rolls, but have not voted in any prior election," and is implementing a formal challenge process that will allow election officials to insure illegal voting doesn't occur. [North Carolina State Board of Elections, 10/24/14]
The investigation identified 109 DACA recipients who were "on the voter rolls, but have not voted in any prior election," and is implementing a formal challenge process that will allow election officials to insure illegal voting doesn't occur. [North Carolina State Board of Elections, 10/24/14]
THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE, AND HERE'S WHY:
DHS: DACA Does Not Grant Citizenship, A Requirement For Voting.
Undocumented immigrants who received DACA status were not granted citizenship nor any right to vote. As the Department of Homeland Security states:
Georgia's secretary of state's office found that only 51 out of 85,000 submitted voter applications, or 0.06 percent, had problems. [Media Matters, 9/19/14]
[T]he current [Virginia electoral] board has discovered 17 individuals who voted in both Fairfax County. Virginia and Montgomery County, Maryland, in the 2012 election.
17 in two states.
Wow!
Now that's rampant, right?
- Voting while ineligible: 18
- Voting multiple times: 5
- Registration fraud: 3
Between 2000 and 2010, there were:
649 million votes cast in general elections
47,000 UFO sightings
441 Americans killed by lightning
13 credible cases of in-person voter impersonation
NO MATTER WHAT THE GOP HAS SAID, IT HAS NEVER, NEVER PROVEN THAT VOTER FRAUD IS "RAMPANT" BECAUSE IT IS NOT RAMPANT BY ANY MEANS, BUT THAT HASN'T STOPPED THEM FROM TRYING, OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN TO PROVE THE MYTH AND USE IT TO SCARE THE MASSES INTO A HYSTERICAL FRENZY.
ALL THEY HAVE TO DO IS SEND OUT A FEW EMAILS OR DO A FEW TV ADS THAT CLAIM VOTER FRAUD AND THE SHEEPLE GO BAT-GUANO INSANE TO STOP IT, WITHOUT BOTHERING TO FACT-CHECK A WORD OF IT.
AFTER ALL, IT WAS ROMNEY'S LEAD TEAM THAT LITERALLY CURSED FACT-CHECKING, REMEMBER?
FACTS SHOWED AMERICANS HOW SERIOUSLY THAT BUNCH WAS LYING, TIME AND TIME AGAIN.
Out of the 197 million votes cast for federal candidates between 2002 and 2005, only 40 voters were indicted for voter fraud, according to a Department of Justice study outlined during a 2006 Congressional hearing.
Only 26 of those cases, or about .00000013%of the votes cast, resulted in convictions or guilty pleas.
DO YOU SEE THOSE DATES?
2002 THROUGH 2005...BUSH YEARS!
THEY HAD TO ADMIT IT THEN, RIGHT, THAT VOTER FRAUD IS A MYTH?
WRONG!
THEY SIMPLY SENT OUT MORE EMAILS AND DID A FEW MORE ADS.
IT'S LIKE A MENTAL ILLNESS.
IN 10 LONG YEARS, TEXAS, WHO SCREAMED VOTER FRAUD LOUDLY LAST ELECTION, HAS CONVICTED A GRAND TOTAL OF 51 PEOPLE OF VOTER FRAUD, AND ONLY 4 OF THOSE WERE IMPERSONATING A VOTER.
51 CONVICTIONS IN 10 YEARS? AND ONLY 4 THAT A VOTER I.D. CARD WOULD HAVE PREVENTED?
THAT HAS NOT STOPPED TEXAS FROM TRYING TO KEEP PEOPLE AWAY FROM THE POLLS!
While defending its precedent-setting photo ID law before the Supreme Court, INDIANA was unable to cite a single instance of voter impersonation in its entire history.
A two-year investigation by Iowa's Republican secretary of state found evidence of 117 possible fraudulent votes BUT led to just six - 6 - criminal convictions.
A 10-year 'death audit' in North Carolina turned up a grand total of 50 instances in which a vote may have been attributed to a deceased person, most likely due to errors made by precinct workers.
[SEE: http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/04/02/3753199/nc-election-officials-identify.html ]
"In 95 percent of so-called 'cemetery voting' alleged in the 2010 midterm election in South Carolina, human error accounts for nearly all of what the state's highest law enforcement official had informed the U.S. Department of Justice was fraud."
[SEE: The Politics of Voter Fraud, by Lorraine Minnite]
'They Just Do Not Vote Like They Used To: A Methodology to Empirically Assess Election Fraud', by M.V. Hood III of the University of Georgia and William Gillespie of Kennesaw State University.
"After examining approximately 2.1 million votes cast during the 2006 general election in Georgia, we find NO evidence that election fraud was committed under the auspices of deceased registrants."
NO, DEAD PEOPLE DID NOT VOTE IN GEORGIA, SO IF YOU FELL FOR THAT ONE, YOU WERE FOOLED AGAIN!
[http://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/facpubs/2165/]
AN Arizona State University study analyzed 2,068 alleged fraud cases from 2000 to 2012 and found a total of 10 cases of alleged voter impersonation.
10 CASES IN 12 LONG YEARS!
They found that "while fraud has occurred, the rate is infinitesimal, and in-person voter impersonation on Election Day, which prompted 37 state legislatures to enact or consider tough voter ID laws, is virtually non-existent."
IN FLORIDA, GETTING ATTACKED BY A SHARK HAPPENS MORE OFTEN THAN VOTER FRAUD!
http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2012/mar/02/aclu-florida/shark-attacks-are-more-common-voter-fraud-florida/
FLORIDA
|
2008
|
2009
|
2010
|
2011
|
Total
|
Sharks attacks
|
28
|
19
|
14*
|
11
|
72
|
Voter fraud cases
|
16
|
9
|
10
|
14
|
49
|
The fraud list does NOT count ONLY convictions.
So even some of these cases could be proven unfounded.
In support of a voter ID law, KANSAS Secretary of State (and the legal brains behind a slew of anti-immigration laws) Kris Kobach cited 221 incidents of voter fraud in the state between 1997 and 2010.
Yet those cases produced just 7 convictions—none related to impersonating other voters.
The New York Times examined five years of Justice Department records and turned up only 26 TOTAL convictions of fraud by individual voters.
BUT MANY WERE RULED "MISTAKES", NOT INTENTIONAL FRAUD!
"Many of those charged by the Justice Department appear to have mistakenly filled out registration forms or misunderstood eligibility rules."
SURPRISED?
YOU SHOULDN'T BE AND WOULDN'T BE IF YOU FACT-CHECKED FOR 15 MINUTES AND STOPPED BLINDLY ACCEPTING WHAT EITHER PARTY SAYS.
SUCH STATISTICS ARE PUBLICLY AVAILABLE ON EVERY STATE'S WEBSITE, IN PUBLIC RECORDS THAT LIST VOTER TURNOUT AND PROBLEMS INCURRED IN ANY ELECTION YEAR.
A THIRD-GRADE CHILD CAN FIND THOSE STATS, SO WHY DOES EITHER POLITICAL PARTY LIE ABOUT THEM?
VOTER FRAUD...IT'S A CRIME THAT JUST DOES NOT PAY, SO DAMNED FEW EVEN ATTEMPT IT!
"The point here is that people just don't do that [TRY TO COMMIT VOTER FRAUD]," Lorraine Minnite, an associate professor of public policy at Rutgers University-Camden, said of committing voter fraud. "It just doesn't make sense."
Minnite said there is little to no motivation for voters to attempt to impersonate someone else at the polls or for non-citizens to try and cast a ballot, a right reserved only for citizens.
The price for that one vote is up to 5 years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000 for citizens and would mean deportation for immigrants."
OREGON HAS HAD "VOTE BY MAIL" FOR 2 DECADES, AND WITHOUT FACING LEGAL PROCEEDINGS TO CHECK TO SEE IF EVERYONE DOTTED EVERY 'i' AND CROSSED EVERY 'T'.
OREGON HAS NEVER COUNTED "HANGING CHADS".
ABOUT 85%, ON AVERAGE, OF OREGONIANS ACTUALLY VOTE...ISN'T THAT AN AMAZINGLY HIGH PERCENTAGE?
WHAT IF ALL STATES COULD SAY THAT?
WHO WOULDN'T WANT ALL THEIR QUALIFIED VOTERS TO GO VOTE?
WHO INDEED!
As of 2006, more than 65 million Americans of voting age - roughly one third of the eligible population - were unregistered:
Young Voters:
57% of eligible 18-24 year olds were unregistered
Minority Voters:
51% of eligible Asians were unregistered
46% of eligible Hispanics were unregistered
39% of eligible African Americans were unregistered
Less Educated Voters:
53% of voters with no high school diploma were unregistered
38% of voters with a high school diploma were unregistered
Low Income Voters:
49% of voters who earn less than $10,000 per year were unregistered
[http://www.lawyerscommittee.org/issues?id=0005]
DO YOU SEE THE PATTERN?
DO YOU "GET IT" AS TO WHY THE GOP WAS AND IS TODAY IN AN ABSOLUTE FRENZY, CRAZY TO STOP THESE PEOPLE FROM VOTING?
MOST OF THOSE GROUPS, SAYS THE GOP, TEND TO VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS OR INDEPENDENTS, NOT FOR REPUBLICANS.
THE GOP HAS MADE IT CRYSTAL CLEAR FOR DECADES THAT THEY NEVER WANT THESE PEOPLE TO VOTE...YET THEY WONDER WHY THEY DON'T VOTE GOP??? States with Election Day registration have 7 to 12 percent greater turnout than states without.
Last year, 5 states introduced bills that eliminate Election Day registration.
In 2008, more than 1/3 of voters cast ballots before Election Day.
In 2011, 5 states passed bills to restrict early voting.
Last year, 12 states introduced laws requiring birth certificates or other proof of citizenship to vote.Only 48 percent of women have a birth certificate with their current legal name on it.
"There is overwhelming governmental, scholarly and legal consensus that voter fraud is vanishingly RARE, and in fact non-existent at the levels imagined by voter ID proponents within the GOP. "
AUTOMATIC REGISTRATION
THERE IS A NICE OUTLINE FOR AUTOMATIC REGISTRATION WHICH YOU CAN READ HERE:
http://www.newamerica.net/files/Automatic%20Voter%20Registration.pdf
Voter registration could be automatic!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/04/08/voter-registration-could-be-automatic/
April 8, 2013
<<There’s absolutely no good reason for such proposals not to be adopted — and not just state-by-state, either.
There’s no good reason for the burden of voter registration to be on the voter, instead of on the government.
Indeed, the United States is unusual in making it hard by requiring a two-step process for eligible voters — that is, registering and then voting.
Most world democracies have automatic registration. >>
PERISH THE THOUGHT, RIGHT?
OH, THE HORROR IF THOSE 65 MILLION UNREGISTERED VOTERS WERE REGISTERED AND DID GO VOTE!
YES, THERE IS ELECTION FRAUD, AND, SURPRISINGLY, 'SALON', WHICH I AM NOT FOND OF AT ALL, NAILED IT...
Nov 27, 2012
"Twelve years after the startling disarray of the 2000 election, in too many states dismally bad election administration has become the expected course.
Hours-long lines, malfunctioning voting machines, and hopelessly confusing ballots are the headlines potential voters see.
How can we expect that busy citizens will not be deterred from voting by the thought of such barriers?
Every botched election and new barrier to voting causes even more citizens to completely disengage from their own governance."
IT'S THE VOTERS WHO ARE BEING DEFRAUDED!
THE BOTTOM LINE...EACH "PARTY" IS MORE CONCERNED WITH VOTES FOR THEIR PARTY THAN THEY ARE WITH SEEING AMERICANS HAVE AN EASY TIME OF EXERCISING THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO VOTE.
IT'S NOT ABOUT CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS, IT'S NOT ABOUT THE ABILITY OF ALL AMERICANS TO VOTE, IT'S JUST ABOUT THE WIN ...THE WIN...AND SCREW EVERYTHING ELSE.
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