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The contradictions in this article are a riot. "Voter Rights" groups claim the Philly voters are disenfranchised but are furiously trying to stop election monitors from being present.

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.

1 posted on 10/30/2006 9:11:07 PM PST by Tamzee
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To: Tamzee

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.


2 posted on 10/30/2006 9:15:39 PM PST by scrabblehack
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Jimmy Carter is shown here arriving in PA with one of his ace vote counters:

(actually, it's Carter arriving at 3-mile Island in 1979.)

3 posted on 10/30/2006 9:18:23 PM PST by oblomov (Join the FR Folding@Home Team (#36120) keyword: folding@home)
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In a report released today, the American Center for Voting Rights Legislative Fund ("ACVR Legislative Fund") identifies Philadelphia as the number one election fraud "hot spot" in America.

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.

link

4 posted on 10/30/2006 9:19:00 PM PST by perfect stranger
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To: Tamzee
Specifically, it charges that the city hasn't adequately recruited and trained bilingual poll workers, failed to provide sufficient election-related materials in Spanish, and prohibited Hispanic voters with limited English from choosing someone to help them inside the voting booth, which law permits.

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.

6 posted on 10/30/2006 9:31:07 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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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.


7 posted on 10/30/2006 9:35:19 PM PST by pawdoggie
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Philadelphia Opposes U.S. Observers at Polls

The irony of this rings loudly



"Proclaim Liberty throughout all the land
unto all the inhabitants thereof"
8 posted on 10/30/2006 9:36:53 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life)
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US observers should stay in their own country and leave Philadelphia alone.


9 posted on 10/30/2006 9:37:53 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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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.


10 posted on 10/30/2006 9:38:25 PM PST by SCHROLL (Liberalism isn't a political philosophy - it's a mental illness)
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If they don't speak and read english, isn't that a RED FLAG that they shouldn't vote???


11 posted on 10/30/2006 9:46:57 PM PST by rbosque
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When Philly precincts have reported over 100% of registered voters have voted, you can only draw one conclusion.

Contrast that statistic with that only 36% of the electorate have voted over the last three non-presidential cycles - the national average.

14 posted on 10/30/2006 9:57:51 PM PST by Red Steel
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LOL!!!!

Only 103% voter turnout?

Must be the d@mned racists!


18 posted on 10/30/2006 10:21:43 PM PST by JamesWilson
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Yeah, and the Dems said the Diebold machines were rigged. I spent a couple or more hours researching that one the other day, got my post censored by our local paper. It was tough to find good info about it, website after website parroting the party line. I did get a little redundant, hadn't slept the night before worrying about a family problem. Rough bunch here locally. Guy called me an idiot and loser for claiming that atheistic communists slaughtered millions, said he was an Independent. It was hard to find proof on the web. I don't want to post much more about it on the board in case google picks it up.

I know Republicans aren't lily white all the time, but nobody ever calls the Dems on vote fraud, like here we have this little obscure article, doubt it ever hits the mainstream press. Things are really getting vicious.

It was eerie. They were mocking Bush for his statement about how gloomy it would be if the Dems gain majority in Congress when he said that terrorists were spreading from, it's late, can't remember. I said he didn't go far enough, talked about Europe, the bus burnings in Paris, nothing in the local papers about that, posted a prediction that one week they wouldn't bother to empty the busses. The next day I saw the article on BBC about the woman being burned, didn't realize how severely, and posted about that, terrible what happened to her, read elsewhere that she is burned on 70% of her body and was a French citizen? from Senegal? (another thread here). That one made it through the censors. Even lunatics can sometimes read the writing on the wall.

23 posted on 10/30/2006 10:47:18 PM PST by Aliska
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This could be very good. I have seen races turn with just talk of "federal agents" at polls. The problem for the rat becomes getting individual "voters" to commit voter fraud for the little bit of bribe money they can receive. It becomes too risky to possibly face federal trouble for a few dollars or a bottle of cheap wine.
36 posted on 10/31/2006 4:14:37 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (DON'T BELIEVE PESSIMISM: FEELINGS ARE FOR LOVE SONGS. FACTS ARE FOR PREDICTING WHO WINS IN NOV)
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To: Tamzee

There should be FBI agents stationed at every polling booth in this Town. The Democrats steal thousands of votes in Philadelphia in every election.


39 posted on 10/31/2006 8:50:35 AM PST by Courdeleon02
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With the election fast approaching, the city has been struggling to implement new federal rules on handicapped access, as well as a new state law requiring dozens of city polling places to be moved (they can no longer be inside bars or elected officials' homes, for instance).

In elected officials' homes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It goes without saying that if those election officials were Republicans the screams to be heard from the left would be deafening.

41 posted on 11/01/2006 4:59:41 PM PST by torchthemummy (Nov. 7: Bush Derangement Syndrome II - Taking It To The Next Level)
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