Posted on 10/30/2006 9:11:04 PM PST by Tamzee
Lots more detail in this article than the one posted a few days ago.... there is a hearing this Friday to determine the federal monitor issue.
Would observers be allowed to watch the whole process, or would they be limited to ensuring resources for Spanish speakers to vote?
I'm referring to those precincts where they get 100+% turnout.
(actually, it's Carter arriving at 3-mile Island in 1979.)
The report, "Vote Fraud, Intimidation & Suppression In The 2004 Presidential Election," is the most comprehensive and authoritative review of the facts surrounding allegations of vote fraud, intimidation and suppression made during the 2004 presidential election. The report lists the top five election fraud "hot spots" in the country based on its findings and the cities' documented history of fraud and intimidation. ACVR Legislative Fund calls for immediate attention to these areas.
Exactly, perfect stranger... thanks for the link to an excellent report on this problem.
IMHO, federal election monitors on site will go a long way to preventing a lot of this fraud and intimidation. I have friends who went to Philly to volunteer as GOP poll watchers and said they were completely ineffective, couldn't pay attention to the voters as the harassment was out of control...
I knew a guy who was an EMT in NYC and he said that when he arrived on the scene of an accident, the Hispanics would be telling him everything that happened in English. The minute a cop car showed up, it was No hablo Engles and they would require an interpreter.
He never believed that Hispanics were not fluent enough in English because he saw so much faking it.
My grandparents came over heere from *the old country* without knowing English and they learned it. What a novel concept.
That being said, the only issue here is that they don't want someone to find out about all the voter fraud going on. Otherwise, the dems would lose.
I think it's deliciously ironic that two things the Democrats profess to love: "multi-culturalism" and "bi-lingualism" may bring some Federal heat to bear on the electoral shennanigans in Philthy Philly. The GOP official cited in the article should learn to keep his yap shut.
US observers should stay in their own country and leave Philadelphia alone.
If they're gonna piss and moan about observers, triple the amount you're sending. They'll be needed. While they're at it, Detroit, Milwaukee, and St Louis shouldn't be left off the list either.
If they don't speak and read english, isn't that a RED FLAG that they shouldn't vote???
Agreed. Philly was where our precious right to vote was born.... and is now being slaughtered.
Contrast that statistic with that only 36% of the electorate have voted over the last three non-presidential cycles - the national average.
The old scam is that they are given paper facsimile ballots that are marked with the candidates and propositions they are to vote for. They bring these into the booth with them as a guide. Either that or someone else votes in their place using their voter registration card or just their name.
They do the same thing here in California, and I suspect, everywhere. I say that if you can't speak, read, write, and comprehend English, then you CAN'T VOTE! No other place on the planet panders the way we do! Just say NO!
LOL!!!!
Only 103% voter turnout?
Must be the d@mned racists!
Also include Kansas City to your list, due to the fact that St. Louis and Kansas City could become war zones because of Missouri's "embryotic vs. adult" stem cell amendment. (Amendment #2)
I've never seen any hard data on that... but I do know that Philly is one of the only counties in the state that still has not adopted the SURE system (Statewide Uniform Registry of Electors) which is supposed to help purge voters off rolls that shouldn't be there...
I've also asked the director of our local election board how deceased voters are removed and they said that each local election board does it themselves from Dept of Health lists... and if the local board is run by a partisan or corrupt jerk and doesn't do it, you are pretty much out of luck as far as forcing them to do it.
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