Posted on 10/23/2004 4:11:36 PM PDT by truthandlife
Believing that Democrats are poised to engage in massive vote fraud in key battleground states, the Republican Party is planning to deploy thousands of monitors to challenge questionable voters.
In a page one story in the New York Times Saturday, the paper said the Republican party in Ohio alone has identified about 35,000 new voters who they believe to be fraudulent or questionable.
The Republicans claimed that 35,000 new voters were sent a mailed notice confirming the registration. The party said in every case the U.S. Post Office returned the notice as "undeliverable."
In the Democratic bastion of Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) alone, Republicans discovered more than 14,000 questionable registrations.
To combat the possibility of massive vote fraud the Republicans plan on deploying thousands of operatives to challenge questionable new voters on election day.
The Times quoted Ohio officials as saying the Republican effort is one of the largest they have ever seen.
But the Republican Party's moves are defensive. The Times has reported that Ohio Democrats have out registered Republicans by a ratio of 5 to 1.
Democrat 527 groups have reportedly been spending between $150 million to $300 million this year on voter registration and turn out efforts.
Apparently those monies have helped create a wave of fraudulent registration programs.
For example, in Ohio election officials are reviewing the voter registration of Jive Turkey Sr., who was among 1,284 suspicious applications that Cuyahoga County, Ohio, election officials will turn over to prosecutors to investigate for potential fraud.
Last week, officials in Defiance County, Ohio, questioned the voter registration applications of Dick Tracy, Mary Poppins and Michael Jordan.
The police said the man who created these registrations claimed he was paid in crack cocaine for his registration efforts by a representative of the NAACP.
The GOPs watchdog plan has local voting officials in Ohio ramping up for unprecedented disruptions in the voting process and others crying racial foul because the Republicans have targeted areas with high numbers of minority voters.
But Robert Bennett, the state GOP chairman, says the demographic issues are moot. "I'm not going to play this game of suppression and intimidation," he said. "Voter fraud is voter fraud, no matter where it occurs."
Democratic Party operatives insist, however, that the GOP effort is nothing short of class warfare. "Their whole goal is to try to lessen the voter rank and file," Jimmy Dimora, head of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party, told the Plain Dealer.
Widespread Fraud
The Republicans are facing an increasingly ominous situation. They could actually win the election, but en up having it stolen during the ballot process.
Anecdotal and empirical evidence suggests the vote fraud is teetering on massive proportions, including reports:
# In Fla., election officials founds 46,000 state residents also registered to vote in New York. The overwhelming number of double registrations were Democratic.
# The Orlando Sentinel examined voting records from Florida, Georgia and North Carolina. The found that in more than 68,000 cases voters with the same names and dates of birth were registered in two states.
But Ohio may the most critical swing state. President Bush won the state by just 30,000 votes in 2000, and both candidates believe they must win there to take the White House.
Republicans and Democrats have formally filed lists of challengers across the state who will patrol the polls on Election Day. These designated representatives may challenge individual voters -- as well as watch each other.
What they will be canvassing for: a voter who is not a resident of the precinct or who is not a citizen or 18 years-old.
Adding to the mix are so-called provisional ballots given to voters who show up at the wrong polling place. Even at this late hour, how these ballots will be issued and counted remains an undecided issue. A legal wrangle between Ohio Democrats and Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, a Republican, is now before a federal appeals court.
One election official told the Cincinnati Enquirer that in his opinion Ohio has never seen what's about to happen.
On January 16, the Congress will elect the president and vice-president after unparalleled Dem voter fraud turns the election into chaos.
makes me feel alittle better that the republicans are on top of it
It's about damn time
I'm not going to play this game of suppression and intimidation," he said. "Voter fraud is voter fraud, no matter where it occurs."
You gotta just love this guy!
I'm not going to play this game of suppression and intimidation," he said. "Voter fraud is voter fraud, no matter where it occurs."
You gotta just love this guy!
How this voter registration nonsense got started is beyond me. People should be required to report to the government registration office in person. This nonsense of having George Soros hiring tens of thousands of teenagers and the chronically unemployed to march around with clipboards, figuring out new and novel ways to manufacture registered voters is an open invitation to fraud.
Just as long as they actually DO something about it instead of just making "plans."
democrats are going to screw around and start another civil war...
It got started by ~40 solid years of one-party Democratic rule of Congress.
No they won't. If they win through fraud and intimidation, the GOP will sit around and grumble about it, but do absolutely nothing to fight back.

You can register a million but with aprropriate poll monitoring only people who actually show up will cast ballots.
99% of those 14,000 aren't going to be showing up.
"democrats are going to screw around and start another civil war..."
Hey, I'm ready. If it has to be, it has to be. And we'll win that one, too.
I wouldn't bet on that, if I were you. This is life and death we're talking about...and if the Dems steal the election through voter fraud, there will be HELL to pay. Trust me.
Vote with ID and SS Card. No Registration Required and little latitude for fraud.
What if the dims know which ones are fake? I've seen Election Judges and their clerks in dim-controlled precincts cast a ballot and sign for every voter who did no show up.
I have a different take on all this. First, of course the DemonRats are going to lie, cheat, and steal. That is what their party represents, but, truth be known, we have had a Republican Congress and a Republican President and they have done nothing in the last 4 years to avoid the likely potential for massive voter fraud.
Where have they been? Why haven't they taken serious steps to overhaul the system? The very least they could have done would have been to require that every single voter provide some form of photo id before registering and voting!
And if he's not allowed to vote 35 times then he'll be "disenfranchised" no doubt!
I work with our local county chairman of the Republican party. She has been fighting voter fraud here for about 30 or 40 years. She will disqualify a voter or ballot if it is in error, even if it is for HER. When she was running for office she had to disqualify a ballot that was for her. But there were errors. She constantly checks the Obits in the paper to make sure that no dead people "vote".
DISFRANCHISED 35 TIMES.
Yeah, you, me and six other people are gonna RISE UP and take this republic back from tyranny.
The water is almost boiling and the frog still thinks it's in a sauna...
/cynicism /cynicism /cynicism
Damn, it's not working
Thats not good either cos non-citizens can get SS cards too
Jesse owns a home in Ohio - no?
Its not like the GOP doesn't know exactly what precincts are suspect.
In 2002 in South Florida Republicans fielded 600 poll watchers. Dems screamed foul, but it worked out very well. I was one.
Can you prove this...or gather evidence this year?
"Believing that Democrats are poised to engage in massive vote fraud in key battleground states, the Republican Party is planning to deploy thousands of monitors to challenge questionable voters. "
GOOD!
Has anyone considered that the voter fraud might be between the 527s and their felon employees?
The fact that they hired anyone that breathed and paid them by the number of registration forms, of course they soon caught on to the fact that they could "make up voters" and get paid more.
These made up voters aren't going to vote.
The only thing that worries me is acorn trowing away republican registration forms of real voters.
I have proof from a dim precinct in Texas (1996 election; I have copies of the official Voter Log where they signed in). Almost every signature is in the same handwriting. The FBI developed a keen interest until the Clinton Admin called them off and there was an attempt on the life of the Republican investigator who tipped them off.
You are correct and they the Dems don't care if they show up. They just want to make sure they have people on the voter role so that if (for example) 15,000 people are registered to vote in a precinct then at the end of the night when the DNC does their exit polling they know exactly how many votes they need to start punching and stuffing at the end of the night. As long as 15,000 are voting then everything seems legit.
This needs to go back to the old fashioned way of going to the Supervisor of Elections office in your county/city/parish, filling out the paperwork and taking the oath.
Why hasn't some brave soul in Congress done that already?
I've just come from my class for being a poll watcher in Boulder Co. CO and I can tell you it is an absolute certainty that the Repubs are on top of this and taking it very seriously.
NOOOOOOOOOOO funny business is going down in my precinct on my watch. Even though Bush has no hope of winning Boulder CO. Only got about 35% last time around.
"The only thing that worries me is acorn trowing away republican registration forms of real voters."
In CO, if a person registered to vote during a voters drive, at a supermarket, etc, and they go to the polls to find out that their name does not appear, the election judge may, if the person meets specific criteria, do an emergency registration. The person will at least be given a provisional ballot.
It is one thing to register invalid voters and then determine whether or not they voted. It is indeed a tragedy where citizens would stoop so low as to vote in two states. I can see a few, but 46000, seems a lot to me.
If the registrations are with fake names, of dead, and ficticous, then those bodies would have to turn up to actually vote. That is where they get caught, unless the polling station folks are in a conspiracy to let everyone vote, as many times as they desire.
In some of the black polling places, in Philadelphia, St Louis, Detroit etc., Poll watcher are intimidated and in fact beat up.
Once ballots are cast, there is no way to tell who voted for who as the ballots have no names.
Ballot stuffing usually occurs with recounts. That is where we must hold the line.
Would you like to add a literacy test or poll tax to that order Sir?
They couldn't pass any meaningful legislation because the Rinos voted with the Democrats to stop any kind of voter ID because they were afraid they would be called BAD names. Rinos would rather be kicked out of office than have somebody say something bad about them. They ended up working together on the only thing they could pass - a gob of taxpayer $ spent for voting equipment to replace stuff that has worked fine for years and the "provisional" ballot crap that only leads to more potential for fraud.
It is one thing to register invalid voters and then determine whether or not they voted. It is indeed a tragedy where citizens would stoop so low as to vote in two states. I can see a few, but 46000, seems a lot to me.
The only other explanation that I can come up with besides DIM cheating for this kind of thing would be a scenario like this:
Recently retired people move from NY to Fla (hey, it happens), and register to vote in Florida without calling their County Election office in NY and letting them know they can remove their name from the rolls.
But 46,000 sounds like a large number. How often do counties purge their registration lists?
We still need to worry about the fakes Soros illegally put on the voter rolls.
Fox's brilliant legal analyst, Judge Andrew Napolitano, presented this frightening scenario that hundreds upon hundreds of thousands are illegally registered by the Soros groups, and are primed to vote for Kerry.
Judge AN said the scheme works like this: people are registered in several names, then on election day individuals will be given lists and told in what precincts to vote, and in what name, so that one person could end up voting several times. Multiply that by hundreds of thousands (ugh).
In some precincts they had 98% voter registration which is patently impossible. The proliferation of false ID's is also a problem.
Dims have been trying to setup voters in advance by claiming legitimate questions raised about illegal voters is Republican harassment.
As FReeper Grampadave postulated: Voter fraud must be made one of the most severe crimes in America. Those who commit it go to jail. Those, who organize the voter fraud, lose their homes, savings and double the jail time.
Those who supposedly worked to insure a proper vote such as election officials if involved in voter fraud get the penalties above and maybe those listed below. Those who financed and controlled the organizers, are tried for treason and suffer the appropriate penalties.
Any illegal is put in jail for 3 years, his/her family is deported immediately. After the jail sentence, they are deported. No one in the family can ever come back to the states after deportation.
Undermining US elections----and democracy----deserves no less than this.
Simple. Mandatory 1 year in jail for submitting a fraudulent vote, mandatory that sentences are CONSECUTIVE, so the political operatives who submit dozens of fake votes go away forever.
Thank you most kindly for your civil service.
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