"How to Steal an Election"

myself ^ | July 1, 2004 | myself

[Michael.SF.]

"How to Steal an Election" was the title of a column written by a lawyer for the democrats who had participated in numerous thefts of elections, usually smaller local ones. I have been searching for this, but to no avail. It was probably publushed in 2000, but my searches have been fruitless.

Does any Freeper out there hav a link or a copy?

Thanks in advance.

[Michael.SF.]

Classify this as preparing ammo for the coming fight.

[Michael.SF.]

publushed = published.

Please excuse the typo.

[EggsAckley]

Try Google. I did, and got a lot of possible hits.

[So Cal Rocket]

Election Theft 101


by Dr. James Hirsen


NewsMax.com - Nov. 10, 2000



Election thievery is easy. Anyone can become an expert, so why not aim high? Go after the top office in the land. All you have to do is follow a few, simple, time-tested rules. Soon you'll find yourself able to compete with the best of the looters.



Step 1: Demand a recount.


This can be accomplished with little effort, particularly when an election is close. In fact, a recount is automatic under some state laws. Make sure, though, that you get your people to manufacture votes during the recount.

Just in case you are unable to produce enough new votes, be ready with an alternate plan. One shrewd option might be to demand a hand recount, even before the results of the first recount are completed.



Step 2: Send out your assistants to dig up as much dirt as possible.


When you're first starting out, it's best if you have some people with prior experience in the art of election plundering. When you can't get the most highly sought after individuals in the field like, for instance, the former mayor of Chicago, Richard J. Daley, you might consider hiring one of his relatives.



In the event a recount doesn't quite go your way, there is nothing like a good fishing expedition to provide choice material with which to question the results. It's highly advisable to solicit victims, maybe some senior citizens who have had difficulty with the arduous task of punching the correct holes in a paper ballot. But a word of caution. It's important to appear to have your emissaries initiate any action.



Step 3: Create as many questions, controversies and doubts as possible, while you yourself remain above the fray.


The effective election swindler will deal in quantity rather than quality. The worth of the claim is far less important than its propaganda value. The goal is to instill a sufficient degree of uncertainty so the assertion can be made that the election was unfair.



It also helps to frequently remind yourself of this adage: "If I throw enough dung at the wall, some of it will stick." Some useful accusations that can be hurled include the following: that the form of the ballot was misleading; that voters were confused during the process; that some ballots are missing entirely; or that voting machines were faulty. Try to generate outcry for that all important second or third recount.



Step 4: Direct your surrogates to assemble, finance and prepare an army of lawyers in order to move the election into the courts.


Use of the courts to delay or actually change the result of an election is one of the finest backup plans. It will work especially well if you can enlist the help of a partisan federal circuit judge. If a biased federal judge is not available, go to state court. Whatever you do, do not let yourself be distracted by talk of a
constitutional crisis.



Step 5: Play good cop, bad cop. Be sure to make speeches that are filled with noble platitudes. At the same time, continue plotting your ballot larceny behind the scenes. Send out substitutes to all of the media outlets so you can begin the process of conditioning the public. (See Step 8 entitled "Spin and propagandize.")



Step 6: Play the race card.


Identify some minority victims. Then ask a celebrity minority leader, say someone like Jesse Jackson, to organize a number of demonstrations. If you want a real edge, elicit the help of minority members of Congress to stir up the community and make the general populace feel uncomfortable.



Step 7: Bring in the Feds.


With a little luck, you'll have an Attorney General who can step in and provide some additional weight. The presence of this figure should strike fear in the hearts of young and old alike. In addition, the entrance of a law enforcement official may even provide cover when critics emerge.



Step 8: Spin and propagandize to sway public opinion.


Finally, you need to undermine the legitimacy of the outcome. For example, in the case where an electoral vote decides the presidency without an accompanying popular vote, question the relevance of antiquated procedures for current times. Completely ignore any talk of the rule of law or reference to respect for the Constitution. If
anyone attempts to bring up the truth thing, act indignant. Change the subject. Never forget that the goal is to win at whatever cost necessary.



Beware of those who hold up the example of Richard Nixon's timely concession in 1960 or those who express concern over the uncertainty of the financial markets, the image of the U.S. on the world stage or the time it normally takes for a smooth transition of power. After all, this is war.



And here's the cardinal rule of election theft: Never ever listen to those who try to tell you that it's in the best interest of the country to concede in a gracious manner. No, the only way to steal an election in style is to keep your focus on you. Now go out and seize those votes!








(Note from Dave: If all of the above fails -- bomb an aspirin factory in the Middle East an maybe everyone will forget that there was an election)

[1066AD]

I remember reading (about) it. Did a quick Google, the first link looks familiar:
http://www.mcsm.org/demssteal.html
http://www.govsux.com/steal_an_election.htm

[hedgetrimmer]

How some elections are stolen!

[KeyLargo]

In Crook County, Illinois the politicans have written the book on vote fraud many years ago. The Chicago Teachers Union President election recently shows you that vote fraud will always be business as usual in Crook County, Illinois.


www.suntimes.com
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-ctu01.html

Teachers union opponents dig in
July 1, 2004

BY KATE N. GROSSMAN AND ROSALIND ROSSI Staff Reporters

Come daybreak today, we're in for an old-fashioned showdown at the Chicago Teachers Union offices at the Merchandise Mart.

Deborah Lynch was scheduled to hand over power to newly elected President Marilyn Stewart today, but late Tuesday, a union committee threw out the election results.

With no firm date for a re-election, both women say they're in charge. They met Wednesday evening but couldn't reach a resolution.

"President Lynch and the other officers in the CTU, as the last duly appointed officers of the union, will remain in office," Kathrin Koenig, the CTU general counsel, said at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Koenig said she expected Stewart's team to stay home, but Stewart's spokeswoman said she was sorely mistaken. "We have every intention of taking office tomorrow at 9 a.m," Rose Maria Genova said about 9:15 p.m.

"We are the duly elected officers, and we will take office," Stewart said in a statement.

Earlier Wednesday, a building engineer changed the CTU office locks at Lynch's request. She said she did it because members of Stewart's caucus came in uninvited this week to hand out pink slips to as many as 15 employees.

There is only one way to summarize what has happened, explained Paul Green of Roosevelt University: "It's classic Chicago hard-nosed politics," the director of the school of policy studies said. CTU officials say they are working on a new election date but the summer vacation poses logistical problems. The uncertainty comes just days after Mayor Daley announced a plan to create 100 new schools, potentially displacing thousands of teachers and opening charter or contract schools that won't have to adhere to the union contract.

The brouhaha began late Tuesday when a CTU canvassing committee charged with resolving election disputes tossed out the results of the June 11 vote, citing "significant ballot discrepancies and evidence of fraud."

CTU officials say this includes about 600 ballots sent out but never returned and about 30 signatures on ballots that did not match signatures on record. There also were more than 100 teachers who were absent but voted -- not illegal but an indicator that raised a red flag.

Teachers also complained about having to sign an unofficial ballot sheet. One said she voted a day before the election, Koenig said. She said these facts -- some of which emerged during a review by the outside agency that oversaw the election -- concerned them so they were forwarded to the union's canvassing committee.

Three committee members voted to throw out the results, one abstained, and one voted against, said Judy Dever, an independent committee member appointed by Stewart. The committee includes two Lynch caucus members, three "independents" appointed by Lynch and two Stewart appointees, Koenig said. One Stewart appointee was absent, and the chair didn't vote, Koenig said.

Dever says the "fraud" amounts to next to nothing. To make her point, she quoted an official with the American Arbitration Association, the group that certified the election.

He told the committee the missing ballots wouldn't have tipped the balance in Lynch's favor because half would have likely gone to each candidate. The electorate was nearly evenly divided, with Stewart defeating Lynch by just 566 votes.

The fraud amounts to just 30 votes with questionable signatures, Dever said.

"I just feel these four people totally overreacted," Dever said. "I call it sour grapes and poor losers."

Lynch defended her actions.

"Our canvassing committee is the constitutional body charged with resolving discrepancies, and they're alleging very, very serious charges here, and our interest here, as it has always been, is union democracy and fair elections," Lynch said. "That's what this is about."

Her supporters quickly came to her defense.

"I think there probably was a lot of fraud there and a lot of hanky panky going on," said Sharonese Biles, a union delegate and teacher. She said ballots at her school weren't picked up in the primary election and that made her question the whole process. Stewart was later elected in a run-off election June 11.

"I'll feel better if it's fair and square with a new election."

In a statement, American Arbitration Association officials said the challenges to the election are not related to the elements they were responsible for. CTU officials oversaw registration, distribution of ballots and the sealing of ballot boxes. The association was responsible for receiving ballot boxes and tabulating results.

Union dissenter says Lynch 'shopped' for a new runoff

BY ROSALIND ROSSI Education Reporter



After losing a close runoff election for Chicago Teachers Union president, Deborah Lynch and her forces armed themselves for hardball.

They sent out e-mails asking for examples of voting irregularities and called in a handwriting expert who had helped knock a Milwaukee Democrat off a primary ballot for Wisconsin governor two years ago, insiders say.

Then they turned over their work to the union's canvassing committee.

After sitting around a 15-foot-long table for seven hours, committee members this week voted 3-1, with one abstention, to hold another election.

The lone dissenter on that vote, Judy Dever, told the Chicago Sun-Times on Wednesday that a June 21 e-mail to union members amounted to "shopping for complaints,'' although Lynch spokesman Jay Rehak said it was prompted by other complaints the union had received.

In addition, Dever said, Lynch forces had sampled 96 schools, or one-sixteenth of the system, and found that about 30 votes in 16 of those schools had been cast by people who were absent and whose voting-day signatures did not match others on record for them.

The signature evidence the committee considered was based on an affidavit by Bonnie Schwid, whose handwriting work helped knock Wisconsin state Sen. Gary George off the gubernatorial primary ballot in 2002. But committee members never got to see the signatures in question, Dever said.

She said Lynch forces conceded they never asked the absent teachers if they actually voted.

In about 13 schools in question, Dever said, only one ballot each was at issue. But Schwid's work, and what to do with it, consumed about five hours of Tuesday's seven-hour meeting, she said.

Also at issue were 616 "unaccounted for'' votes, which an American Arbitration Association expert dismissed by phone as an inconsequential number, and 569 "missing ballots'' from 115 schools, Dever said. The association expert said the missing ballots, if split in half, would not have turned the election, Dever said.

An arbitration association spokesman refused to confirm or deny Dever's account, and Lynch forces did not return calls for comment on it. Dever said the committee "overreacted" to 30 votes.

"Who are we to send thousands of members back to the polls on this kind of information?'' Dever said. "It's a disgusting situation.''

[So Cal Rocket]

CHICAGO RULES OF ELECTION FRAUD

The Frumious Bandersnatch has obtained the following memorandum from the Chicago political machine:

HOW TO STEAL AN ELECTION

VOTE EARLY AND VOTE OFTEN: Our election get-out-the-vote effort was pioneered by Mayor Richard Daley in 1960 when he stole the election from Richard Nixon.


1.CEMETARY VOTERS: Read the obituaries every day. One must keep track of everyone who dies, so that they can be registered in the appropriate cemetary precinct. We have voters in the Mt. Olive Cemetary who have been voting for 100 years. Relatives will often assist as keeping the dead voter on the rolls also keeps the Social Security checks coming in. If you know of someone who used to live in Chicago and who died, they are still eligible to vote.

2. HOMELESS VOTERS: Register the homeless at the Cook County Courthouse instead of General Delivery. All they have to do is hang out at the courthouse one day a year to claim residency. Then round them up and give them free cigarettes to vote. We used to give them bottles of wine, but they couldn't remember to vote our way.

3. NURSING HOME VOTERS: Early (or absentee) voting has greatly expanded our capabilities of increasing the turnout. Take bags full of early ballots to nursing homes, and get everyone in the home to vote...especially the Alzheimer's cases.

4.COLLEGE STUDENTS: College kids like to screw the system, and they'll vote more than once just for the sheer pleasure of it, especially kids at Catholic universities.

5. VOTERS WHO HAVE MOVED. Voters who have moved often can vote in the precinct where they used to live, and then in their new precinct. They will not be on the rolls in the new precinct, so they'll vote a "Questioned Ballot". Not to worry. When the ballot is questioned after the election, we will have our political hacks permit the votes to be counted.

6. VOTERS PASSING THROUGH O'HARE: Many votes can be obtained by soliciting voter registration at our airports. They are legally residents of Chicago, at least for a few minutes.

7. MOTOR VOTERS: Take license plate numbers of out-of-state cars passing through on the freeways, run them through DMV to get their addresses, and automatically reguister them in Chicago. Then vote them. They won't know, since they actually live in Wyoming.

8. ILLEGAL ALIENS: Some of our most reliable voters are the thousands of illegal aliens we have in the city. In exchange for not telling INS where they live or work, one can get a solid block of votes.

9. NEWBORNS: Our children are more and more precocious, so we register them at birth. Maternity wards are some of our best precincts.

10. RECOUNT THE VOTES: In the unlikely event our candidates don't win the first count, then demand a recount. Fill the recount room with loyal supporters, and tow away the cars belonging to the enemy. If you can't win a recount, then you are not a Chicago Democrat.

[Publius]

Collusion: The Day Before the 2000 Election

[Yosemitest]

Please take a look at VOTESCAM: The Stealing of America.

Also available on the internet by scaning down a little to the links
VOTESCAM, THE STEALING OF AMERICA by JAMES M. COLLIER and KENNETH E COLLIER, text of the whole book.

[stoney]

Save for later.

[tophat9000]

I do remember this it came out some month BEFORE the great Florida recount and I believe was written by a Dem operative in the Bay Area and went in to great detail on punch card/chad style ballots and how to manipulate a recount

Also if your preparing ammo to debate a Dem Florida recount you might also want to gather some of the articles that were posted here on statistical analysis of a recount and what you should expect to recover… the jist of this was if a precincts total good ballot count was 50/50 or 60/40 you should expect the recover ballot to break the same way and not the very high disproportioned “recovery” of “Gore votes” in Dem controlled recounts

[WilliamofCarmichael]

RE: "the coming fight"

If the Mau-Mauing tactics fail there's always the old reliable death and destruction ploy. But next time, Democrats, make sure you don't have a canidate who stops it

From David Frums Diary, NOV. 19, 2002: GORE SPEAKS, based upon an ABC interview. The words are by Karenna Gore.

She's talking about her conversation with her father, "We have to do what's best for the country, and it is not good for the country to have this kind of divisiveness. And he was on the phone, really calling off the dogs. There were people who wanted to fan the ... the flames of the racial issue and have real unrest. And he was on the phone asking them not to, because of what was best for the country not because of what was best for him politically. And that's really who he is. [end]

Where are the race riots I wondered at the time. The left knows that the media will go after Bush to stop the violence and answer the "will of the people." Gore would be the President. Mr. Gore stopped it. Will Hillary Kerry?

[Michael.SF.]

Try Google. I did, and got a lot of possible hits.

I also went to google, numerous times. I also found the hits. I tried at least 15-20 of them and none proved to be the specific article I was searching for.

Your response is appreciated.

[EggsAckley]

Ugh. Sorry. I'll do a little searching too. I vaguely remember this article, and it would be good to post it here.

[Michael.SF.]

I do remember this it came out some month BEFORE the great Florida recount and I believe was written by a Dem operative in the Bay Area and went in to great detail on punch card/chad style ballots and how to manipulate a recount

Yes, that is the article. What separated it from all others was the fact that it was a Democrat, explaining how they had stolen elections in the past (again, mostly minor state or local offices). After the Florida fiasco, i dug the article out and passed it on to some friends. Now I do not have a copy of it.

[Michael.SF.]

Thanks to all of you for your help and suggestions. Lots of good info to read and ponder.

[CyberAnt]

Just keep in mind that "demanding a recount" is usually governed by election laws. Unless a candidate meets that criteria, "demanding" probably wouldn't work.

[1066AD]

I found I had this bookmarked although I was looking for the list of islamic attacks against US since 1990 +/-

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a12dc02503b.htm