Posted on 11/04/2010 9:54:25 AM PDT by darth
I was the Republican Alternate Judge in a Democrat-majority precinct in Texas on 11/2/10. Got caught up at work, so I now have time to report what I learned:
1. We need more volunteers to serve as Judges, Alternate Judges, and Poll Watchers! I was the only set of Republican eyes there to keep the Democrats from doing illegal acts, and I could not observe everything happening in the polling place at all times. I worked non-stop from 6 AM until after 10 PM when the last voter in line finished voting. BTW, I worked at the Sign In Desk because that's where you can stop most of the fraud. I checked every date of birth against the age of the voter, checked to insure that the address on the Voter Registration Card (VRC) and Texas driver's license (TDL) matched, and enforced the Statement of Residence Affidavit for everyone who had moved out of the precinct. I am happy to report that we turned away every scam artist who tried to vote without ID or a VRC.
2. This was a very mixed precinct of lower middle class voters. Only about 10% were white. The minorities were about one third African American, one third Latino, and one third Vietnamese. I was surprised at the massive number of Vietnamese who had valid Voter Registration Cards and driver's licenses yet could not speak English.
3. There was a major opportunity for voter COERCION. There was only ONE Democrat Clerk who spoke Vietnamese. He "assisted" almost every Vietnamese voter and I saw him pointing to the ESlate screen as he "helped" them vote. Without a Vietnamese speaking Poll Watcher this kind of abuse will continue. We MUST recruit Poll Watchers who can speak Spanish and Vietnamese.
4. For those who become Presiding Judges, be careful about who you recruit to be clerks. The Democrat Judge had only hired one Clerk who actually worked. For example, the Clerk from the New Black Panther Party got sick after two hours and left. I think the meth that he took to wake up at 5 AM upset his stomach. He did not work at all; he seemed kind of dazed.
BTW, the one good Democrat Clerk was outstanding. She was very sharp and enforced every rule perfectly. Maybe I will try to recruit her to our party.
5. Good News! A large number of Latino voters who spoke little English asked for assistance in how to use the machine because "I want to vote a straight Republican ticket." The lousy economy has affected Latinos, and we need to work at peeling off as many of these voters from the Democrat Party as possible.
6. One old vote fraud scam is still around. On Election Day, some dims go from one Polling Place to the next trying to vote multiple times. Some of the Democrat Clerks are so dippy or crooked that they simply write the name of the scam artist into the Poll Book and let the scam artist vote. We could catch some of these scam artists if I had a Freeper outside that I could signal when I turn the guy away (most of our perps seemed to be transvestites).
If I could walk to the door and discreetly signal to a Freeper, they could follow the scam artist to the next Polling Place and get some long distance video. At our precinct, you could shoot long distance video through the window to easily prove that the scam artist DID vote. BTW, better enforcement, e.g., having more Republican Alternate Judges, and Poll Watchers has definitely decreased the incidence of multiple voting.
7. There is still an opportnunity to vote multiple times by maintaining multiple Voter Registration Cards. We need the photo ID law passed.
8. The 2012 Campaign starts TODAY!! We need to get the Voter Rolls and start contacting every voter. We need to insure that every Republican has a valid Voter Registration Card with an up-to-date address. We sent dozens of voters back to the precinct where they used to live. In this state on Election Day, you can ONLY vote in the precinct where you are registered. We enforced that!
In 2012 we should set a goal of getting EVERY Republican to the Polls for Early Voting. I voted early and it took about two minutes because there was no line. On 11/2 we had voters waiting FOUR HOURS IN LINE. The dims ground game sucked. Many dims got disgusted and left.
After we update the Republican Voter Roll we need to get started identifying Democrat voters and figure out which ones don't actually exist. We need to understand the various demographics of Democrats so we can target our appeal to each group. For example, Latino Catholic voters will vote Republican based on the abortion issue if they are approached the right way.
On Election Day it would be helpful for a Card Pusher to be out front with a sign, "Don't Know Your Precinct? See Me First!". The Voter Roll for each precinct can be downloaded from the County and merged into an Excel file. We could search through a million voters to find anyone. While the Card Pusher is helping the voters, he can recite his elevator speech on why they should vote Republican or for his candidate.
A Republican Card Pusher could work the long lines late in the day with cookies, koolaid (how appropriate), coffee, etc. and win a few hearts/minds. For example, I have gotten a positive response from every Democrat when I ask, "We have observed over one trillion dollars in fraud on Wall Street and where are the indictments? What is wrong with the Obama Administration that they don't enforce the laws?".
In summary: WE CAN WIN THE GROUND GAME WITH GOTV. We need to work steadily for the next two years.
It was a grueling, yet very satisfying 20 hour day. Send fresh horses!
AAARRRGGHH. I misspelled “Election” in the title. Need more coffee.
Good work and good post!
Thank you for all your hard work, darth. You are appreciated more than you know.
So much for intel, lol! Spill chekk iz yer freind ;^)
Thanks for workin the polls and makin sure we git a fair elecshun!
Just kidding.
Let me make sure I understand—dosen’t the Constitution allow transvestites to vote twice?
;-)
Let’s place the vote registrants photo on the VRC, that would help on the ID issue.
Well, aftur the “electin” they can git on to the “governin.”
Photo plus thumbprint?
Thank you for your patriotic work and thank you for that great report.
Excellent work.
Thanks.
Spell Czech is knot yore friend.
I assigned one person to sit at the entrance just as the people were coming through the door to make sure they were at the right polling place and to answer any questions. It made a big difference in the overall operation and freed me up to put out the other fires, so to speak.
A brief report from the land of Lidfertonia.(20 miles north of A_SHEVILLE, NC)
Caddis the younger has a sister-in-law down in North Carolina.
She and her husband found the voting machine they used always seemed to mark the ballot of an ALINSKI candidate located above the name they wished to vote for. To get the vote they wanted required them to press the exact center of the so-called button on the touch screen. They each had to press the vote button seven times to get their candidate’s vote marked. Neither saw a republican in the polling place.
The long time political boss there croaked this past summer but even dead he still seems to be able to cook the outcome in favor of the RAT BUSTARDS favor.
Seems that group has stolen the early votes of two early vote locations. They just didn’t add those votes to the votes on election day.
So much for human rights in the land of PERDUE/HAGAN.
Caddis the Elder
Not to worry. I'm from the South. We did some "electin'" in these parts on Tuesday.. :)
I've heard all the G's we drop in the South turn up as R's in New England.
Seems to me if the registered voter rolls are an on-line database, when they check in at one polling place, they are checked into the database as voting, which would then show up at every other polling place where they tried to vote again. Sort of an electronic version of the blue ink on the thumb.
Maybe not trivial to put in place, but certainly doable.
My wife did similar work at a polling place. She speaks Spanish, French, Italian and some Arabic, and only let it be known that she spoke Spanish when some hanky-panky was about to occur. She feels sure that certain illegals were turned away before they reached the desk, simply because she could question the voter in Spanish. Let me tell you, she arrived home exhausted — but happy that she had made a difference.
The 38 Early Voting Polls are connected electronically. The 850 precincts in our county on Election Day are not.
Good idea, though.
The biggest hole for fraud is VRCs for non-existent people. See my previous posts to see how these are created.
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