Posted on 06/15/2002 12:03:13 PM PDT by FF578
One could argue that analyzing the national RNC database and making these observations public is a start towards doing something about it. Will the media give it coverage? Will the states, and Washington, take corrective measures once (or if enough) people make an issue out of it?
-PJ
Lets also not forget: "These state voters' lists are terrible", said an RNC spokesman". (TERRIBLE???? Try "illegal", woossy).
"The RNC has not found--or looked for--any partisan pattern". (Why not, you turkeys?).
"We're not engaged in any finger-pointing", said the RNC spokesman. (Why not, are your fingers broken or something?)
No wonder the GOP gets its clock cleaned in precinct after precinct across the fruited plain.
Leni
There's an election reform bill before the House right now.
Give me a minute -- I'll go get the Bill # for you.
6. H.R.3295 : A bill to require States and localities to meet uniform and nondiscriminatory election technology and administration requirements applicable to Federal elections, to establish grant programs to provide assistance to States and localities to met those requirements and to improve election technology and the administration of Federal elections, to establish the Election Administration Commission, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Ney, Robert W.- Latest Major Action: 5/16/2002 Resolving differences / Conference -- House actions. Latest Status: The Speaker appointed a conferee for consideration of the House bill and Senate amendments, and modifications committed to conference: Blunt.
Committees: House Administration; House Judiciary; House Science; House Government Reform; House Armed Services; Senate Rules and Administration
It's on this page.
LOL! Calm Down, Leni.
I don't know who that RNC spokescritter was, but it does not reflect the views of the average RNC foot soldier. Election Reform is a big, BIG thing, and there's a bill sponsored by Bob Ney (see above) that will do exactly what is suggested in the above article.
Now, if this can get past the senate, we're in business.
One of the biggest places to look is college towns and the home towns of the RAT students who will gladly double or triple vote.
A couple $5,000 fines would probably take some of the fun out of voter fraud.
It doesn't take throwing money at it, it takes local Republicans who know who lives in their voting precinct or district to act as poll watchers and challenge votes of the dirtbag RATs who defraud the voters every time.
If you want to do something about it, dial up your state's GOP website and contact your local county or city chair.
Oh, I get it now.
Since they were originally called "three fifths of all other Persons," they are now entitled to five thirds votes.
-PJ
Pat Buchanan gets 8,000 votes in Palm Beach County, more (and by a ridiculous margin) than any other county in the state. The infamous "butterfly ballot" is to blame but this doesn't hold water.
For those who don't recall the ballot's layout, Bush's name was on the left and pointed to hole #3. Gore's name was directly below it and pointed to hole #5. On the right was Buchanan, pointing to hole #4 while the Socialist candidate was directly below Pat's with hole #6. If one wanted to argue it was strictly confusion, one could also argue that half of the mistaken votes were meant for Bush since the hole existed halfway between the two names (thus making the point moot for Democrat claims of a wrong result).
If one wishes to believe, as the Democrats and the media do, that Buchanan got 8,000 votes because confused grannies pushed it when they meant to vote for Gore, it would stand to reason the Socialist candidate would have also received a few thousand votes. He didn't. He received less than 200.
Buchanan, himself, expressed surprise that he did so well in Palm Beach County (an "Amen Corner" perhaps?) so one could surmise this really wasn't a landslide of Brigadeers either.
So, how do you explain the vote totals?
As a community with many senior citizens and a Democrat-controlled local governemnt, vote fraud would be fairly easy. A clerk could merely gain access to the death certificates of the past few years and check them against those names still on the voter rolls. They would then assign some flunkie to include these voters in the vote totals with pre-prepared ballots voting for Al Gore and the rest of the party slate.
Only the flunkie accidentally poked the ballots with hole #4 (Buchanan) instead of hole #5 (Gore), an easy mistake to make given Gore's position on the left side of the ballot just below G. W. Bush (hole #3). The flunkie's superiors only learned of the error after it was too late to correct.
Now comes the smoking gun. In a post-election story in the Washington Post buried deep in the first section, a mention appears that the Democrat Party contacted a telemarketing company in Texas to call back Palm Beach voters who "may have been confused" about the butterfly ballot and to contact their election officials about re-casting their vote.
Even if one accepts the cover story that a few befuddled grannies called Congressman Wexler and expressed their concern (one wonders how they were able to dial the congressmen on their rotary phones when they couldn't correctly punch ballot holes with arrows clearly leading to the correct holes to punch), there's no way he could have enough pull with the *national* party apparatus so as to take people away from precious get-out-the-vote calls to other states in order to call back people who had allegedly already voted in sufficient numbers before the polls in Florida had closed. That is, unless the national party realized the fix was in and needed to create a cover story for the clearly irregular vote totals.
Even a football stadium filled with addled old bitties wouldn't be able to get the national party to move that fast (before any of the votes had even been counted!) unless the national party already knew what was really at stake.
It's obvious, then, that the Democrats hatched the fraud scheme and, when their plan went awry, took unusual steps to come up with an alternate story that could be accepted and manipulated by a pliant press corps. Imagine if the person who created and approved the butterfly ballot had not been a Democrat herself!
And it was this flunkie, whose hand was undoubtedly directed by God to screw up the best-laid plans of deceit and fraud, that accidentally gave the White House to George W. Bush! That's why the Democrats are so filled with hatred and disgust toward Bush. Imagine how you'd feel if you rigged an election and STILL lost!!
It doesn't matter if the general public hears it, just the Republicans who can be motivated to become active. This can only be done at the local level. It is the RATs doing the fraud, not the general public, and it's up to the GOPers to stop them.
All Republican FReepers should take this info and make sure it gets to your state, county and city Republican committees and their websites.
Mailings to primary GOP voters may net more potential poll workers, fraud detectors, phone workers etc.
The Republicans remain C-students in Electioneering 101 - Getting The Message Out. The media remains firmly in control of the Democrats
Absolutely...so do the colleges. But the RATs do not control the internet or the mail (well, maybe the mail.)
GOP FReepers......please copy/paste the pertinent information and in a professional manner, distribute it to concerned Republicans...especially those whom you know.
I read both papers assiduously and no further mention was ever made--of names, charges, indictments, arrests, trials, convictions, etc. I wrote several letters to editors asking what was the outcome and none of the letters was ever published--and no response of any sort was ever forthcoming.
Why am I not surprised?
--Boris
just for history's sake
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