Posted on 08/10/2007 12:13:13 PM PDT by SJackson
DES MOINES, Iowa -- This weekend's Republican straw poll is being challenged by a national group that is threatening legal action over the voting machines that the Republican Party of Iowa is using.
A supporter of candidate Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, who is not connected to the campaign, made the legal threat, Des Moines television station KCCI reported.
The Iowa GOP said the straw poll is fraud-proof.
At a Creston restaurant, Paul greeted people Wednesday and hoped some of them would vote for him at the Ames straw poll.
"It's pretty important and if we do well, we'll certainly send a strong signal, but I have no idea how well I'll do," Paul said. "We're doing our very best," Paul said.
Paul campaign staffers acknowledge asking Iowa Republican leaders to count paper ballots in the straw poll as well as using voting machines.
They said the Diebold machines to be used have been decertified in other states.
On a Des Moines radio show, the leader of a group called Voterfraud.org., who is also a Paul supporter, threatened to file a lawsuit over the machines.
Paul said he doesn't know anything about a possible lawsuit and would not want one if it's frivolous.
"Everyone wants an honest election," Paul said. "So if there's a question, this is the time the question should be asked."
In a statement, the Republican Party of Iowa said the straw poll will be fraud-proof, honest and secure.
Everyone must provide a photo identification and will be issued credentials. They will also have to dip their thumbs in purple ink to indicate that they have voted.
Political analyst Dennis Goldford doesn't see how the GOP could be sued over the straw poll.
He said that technically there is no real election going on and that the straw poll is a measure of sentiment.
Paul said the candidates are allowed one poll watcher and he thinks that will help verify the results.
The Republican Party said the Story County auditor will provide the voting machines, which have been used in official elections.
A representative for Mitt Romney's campaign said they believe the results will be fair.
Per the Des Moines regester which can't be posted here, the suit also attack the $35 fee as an unconstitutional poll tax, and was filed by 5 Paul supporters, 2 unregistered voters, 2 independents and 1 Democrat.
Bring in the clowns, oops, they're Republicans.
Looks like the Diebold nutbars have joined the 9-11 nutbars in backing Ron Paul.
Looks like one of your Diebold conspiracy buddies from LP is from Iowa...:^)
A letter has been issued by the following individuals regarding the use of Diebold voting machines in the Iowa primaries:
http://www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=46721
Jim Condit Jr.
Citizens for a Fair Vote Count; votefraud@fuse.net
Jim Palmisano
National Ron Paul Supporters Meetup
Missouri Coordinator: Restore the Republic
Missouri Coordinator: We the People Congress
The letter reads as follows:
Everything we are all doing is going to be brought to NAUGHT if the Diebold computers - being used to ‘count’ the votes at the Iowa Straw Poll - are used to STEAL the Straw Poll Election.
YES - despite a study from computer scientists at the University of California paid for by the Secretary of State of California - publicized in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times LAST SATURDAY (July 28, 2007) - the Iowa GOP is STILL planning to use the easily rigged Diebold computers to “count” the vote at the Straw poll!
You see, the study showed that the Diebold computers were easily hacked, easily rigged, — and totally unreliable for conducting elections. And this is old news, several authoritative studies have already shown this from MIT, Cal Tech, Princeton University, and numerous other sources.
Search “Diebold Princeton University” on YOUTUBE - and you can see a 9 minute demonstration. Add “FOX News” to the search - and there is another 3 minute demonstration by these scientists on FOX News.
Citizens for a Fair Vote Count and allies are conducting a verification EXIT POLL at the Ames Straw Poll. We’re asking all Ron Paul people who vote in the Ames Straw Poll in the official election on the easily rigged Diebold Machines - to cast a second “ballot” in our exit poll. IF WE COME UP with 5000 Ron Paul exit poll ballots - the Iowa GOP better not say he only got 2000 votes! Get the point?
WE NEED YOU! Did you see the movie BRAVEHEART??? We need the Highlanders to come down to the “battle” at Ames, Iowa on August 11, 2007 - by the hundreds - and the thousands. We need about 200 volunteers to work with our verification “exit poll” on the day of August 11 -— sign up at the election reform meetup, which is at this address:
http://electionreform.meetup.com/165/
We need 30 or 40 people donating an average of $100 to help us pay for the ballots, t-shirts, headquarters, banners, tables, chairs, etc. to make sure that Ron Paul’s vote is not stolen! Even $5 will help! Please email your contributions to paypal at:
action@networkamerica.org - you can also find the donate button at the above election reform meetup address.We can confront the computer votefraud issue at Ames, Iowa in a big way!
Millions of our fellow Americans have fought and bled and died over the past 200 years for our freedoms -— let’s not let Diebold and the Iowa GOP spit on their sacrifice in Ames by conducting yet another SECRET VOTE “COUNT.” Let all of us HONOR the sacrifice of all our fallen soldiers over 200 years by ENSURING AN OPEN AND HONEST VOTE COUNT.
For more info, go to this web page for two stories:
http://www.votefraud.org/ron_paul_stop_the_votefraud_page.htm
- one tells what happened at the Ames Straw Poll in 1995. One (A House without Doors) tells about the proven vote fraud against Pat Buchanan in the 1996 Iowa Presidential Caucuses, and how it was done. See you in Ames? (Letter slightly edited.)
This is a private poll. They cannot be this stupid, can they?
I guess they can.
I think Paul is more of a liberal than a republican. These people are nuts! The straw poll is for all intents and purposes a fund raiser, granted there is a vote but it is basically a private event open to everyone who agrees to participate. By agreeing to participate you are agreeing to the rules as they are now stfu or go home!
Great. Now the Paulites are gonna show up in Ames with blue face paint.
You can’t make this stuff up.
The more of this crap I see the more I hate the Paulites.
Yup, HATE! There is no point in mincing words.
Looks like the Paulies cannot stuff the machines like they do online polls.
What made you think that the 9/11 truthernuts were separate from the Diebold nutbars in the first place?
They're Paul supporters, need you ask?
Paulestinian the day after the straw poll: "The fact that Ron Paul didn't get any votes means the fix was in! Everyone wanted him in, but those neocon fascists at Diebold conspired against Ron!"
Y’all got to see this one to believe it.
maybe Paul should have Hugo Chavez come up to certify the count.
Bwahahahaha!
My tagline says it all.
As you note from the letter in post 4, Diebold stole the election from Pat Buchanan in 1996, first time I’ve heard that, we all know they stole Ohio in 2004, they probably supplied a vote counting machine to the Supreme Court in 2000. Diebold is running the country. And all this time I thought it was Halliburton.
PJ -- ever consider DUFUing the Paulistinians? They're as moonbatty as DUmmies these days.
Or have Jimmah Carter come to Ames as an observer.
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