Posted on 10/27/2004 6:17:17 PM PDT by tibor2000
New questions in South Carolina after an audit by the State Election Commission uncovers 28,000 imaginary voter registrations.
What's the question?
No sources...fuzzy math
When you get your ass kicked in SC they won't be imaginary anymore, now will they?
John Kerry will be our imaginary president and fight nonexistent terrorists with our invisible army.
Why didn't you point out that the link you used is to a Democrat site? Where's the BARF ALERT?
Get this crap out of here!!!
The sources are the news articles.
The Republicans claimed 40,000 new registrations
They lied by at least 28,000
The answer is:
photo i.d.
Odd.
I'll believe this with more data.
(CBB: Have you heard anything about this in your neckof the woods?)
What is the official response of the State Election Commission to these allegations? Sources please?
All it says is the Republicans claimed to have registered 40,000 new voters but achieved only 12,000. That doesn't mean the Repubs registered a single "phantom voter." It only means, accepting facts and assumptions on this site, that the Repubs overstated their achievements by 28,000.
No, I hadn't heard anything about this. Nor should I. These are Democrats. They are lying. And that's the name of that tune.
P.S. If you haven't visited the thread below, please click that and let me know what you think.
Congressman Billybob
There was no "audit", there was only a press release by the SCEC. The only thing "imaginary" is the claim from the SC Democratic party that you linked too! I would have thought you were a troll, if I had not searched some of your prior posts.
Fact- the SC Dem party claim is bogus - here is why. The AP article was based on a press release from SCEC:
Voter Registration, Absentee Voting Increase For November Election
It shows for 2004 general election there are 2,315,462 registered voters, and states that in 2000 general election there were 2,266,200 registered voters (49,262 "new" registered voters). However in the 2002 general election (the LAST election), there were only 2,047,368 registered voters:
http://www.state.sc.us/cgi-bin/scsec/vhist?election=vhgen02&countykey=ALL®vot=REG&demo=ALL
So since the last general election in 2002, there are now 268,094 more ("new") registered voters.
The article your Democrat source linked to Voters flock to sign up in S.C." even has the subheading "S.C. registrations up more than 300,000 over last two years" if you bother to click their link! Yet the Demogags refers only to the AP article based on the SCEC press release which compared registration to 2000, not the last (2002) election. That is why there is a difference. Youdr SC Dems are either intentionally deceiving or they cant even read the newspapers they link to. Or maybe they just cannot do math.
Not me!
***1 posted on 10/27/2004 9:17:17 PM EDT by tibor2000***
Yes sir, the headline leads on to believe the SC Dems are claiming that the GOP is making fraudulant registrations, which they do not even claim in their "story." And even their story is an outright falsehood, see my post above.
tibor2000, get over here and explain why you posted this tripe!
Respect your elders. I registered a whole 20 days before you. ;^)
What shocks me is that, apparently, one has to state their race and ethnicity when registering to vote in SC.
How would they KNOW the racial breakdown of new registrants, otherwise?
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