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Elections leader wants probe of more than 900 dead voters
Aiken Standard ^ | 1-12-12 | Jim Davenport

Posted on 01/13/2012 6:15:07 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic

COLUMBIA -- State officials are calling for an investigation after records determined that more than 900 people listed as deceased also have recently voted, calling into question the integrity of the state's election system as South Carolina's first-in-the-South GOP presidential primary just 10 days away.

What's unclear from the analysis released Wednesday to a House Judiciary Committee panel from the state Department of Motor Vehicles is whether voter fraud was committed by people assuming the identities of the deceased or if poor record keeping has resulted in South Carolina residents being classified as deceased.

Kevin Shwedo, director of the Department of Motor Vehicles, did not have answers, saying that would be up to investigators. He based his testimony before lawmakers on state Election Commission records that included when people last voted and matched that with death records.

The panel took no action on his report.

"If you have voted after you are dead, there is a good, strong possibility that you did something illegal," he said to reporters after speaking to the panel. "At that point in time, it comes out of my hands and goes into legal hands. ... It's not my job to explain that."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: corruption; deaddemsvoting; deadvoters; democratcorruption; democrats; democratvoterfraud; electionfraud; elections; fraud; sc; voter; voterfraud; voting
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To: Coffee... Black... No Sugar

I figured that such a study would be as taboo as
“what is the correllation between childhood/adolescent sexual abuse and later self-identification as ‘homosexual’”.


21 posted on 01/13/2012 6:43:32 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: Jack Hydrazine
I can’t wait to see Pirates Of The Caribbean 5: Dead Man’s Ballot Box

awesome! The plotline "the dead can only rest once all their ballots are counted"

and somehow it's for the children and it is Bush's fault that they remain "undead" and disenfranchised.

22 posted on 01/13/2012 6:46:14 AM PST by NativeSon
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To: l8pilot; 2A Patriot; 2nd amendment mama; 4everontheRight; 77Jimmy; A Strict Constructionist; ...
South Carolina
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Hey Holder:

THIS

is why we need Voter ID in South Carolina.

Any questions?


23 posted on 01/13/2012 6:52:37 AM PST by upchuck (Let's have the Revolution NOW before we get dumbed down to the point that we can't.)
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To: Coffee... Black... No Sugar

I get it. “Recent polls” of the “dead”. I hoped, for a minute that you were serious. But how hard could it be to discover and report the party affiliation of the dead voters? Wouldn’t that be worth some of the RNC’s money to fund a study to determine which way voter fraud leans? Common sense will give you the answer but I’d still like to see it verified.


24 posted on 01/13/2012 6:56:51 AM PST by meepsch
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Wait. Don't tell me. Let me guess.

They voted Democrat?

25 posted on 01/13/2012 7:00:10 AM PST by Savage Beast (Only a powerful intellect and internal moral compass can resist the incessant barrage of propaganda.)
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To: Harley

How about you lose your right to ever vote again and can never be within 500 ft of a polling place, politician or political office?


26 posted on 01/13/2012 7:02:11 AM PST by liberalh8ter (I don't like what the world has become....)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I don’t think the problem comes from the dead voting. In fact, if someone *is* dead, and comes in to a polling place, I think I would be inclined to let the corpse vote. (Do you really want to stop someone *so* determined to cast a ballot that they would rise from their grave to do so?)

No, my objection is to having someone else vote a proxy for a dead person. We shouldn’t be investingating the dead that voted — we should be investigating the living that voted for the dead.


27 posted on 01/13/2012 7:06:14 AM PST by No Truce With Kings (Ten years on FreeRepublic and counting.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

South Carolina must be the winter home of dead people from Chicago..


28 posted on 01/13/2012 7:09:17 AM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
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To: afraidfortherepublic; All
--"If you have voted after you are dead, there is a good, strong possibility that you did something illegal," he said to reporters after speaking to the panel. ... --

--seems to me that if you have "voted after you are dead" , somebody else has done something illegal---

29 posted on 01/13/2012 7:11:49 AM PST by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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To: Harley

I would make it a felony and incarcerate them through the next 3 national elections (6 years - the length of a Senators term).


30 posted on 01/13/2012 7:12:04 AM PST by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“Disenfranchising” DEAD PEOPLE who can’t speak up for themselves!”


They’re being “life-ist”!


31 posted on 01/13/2012 7:15:02 AM PST by Atlas Sneezed (Author of BullionBible.com - Makes You a Precious Metal Expert, Guaranteed.)
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To: Coffee... Black... No Sugar

And, since Clinton beat Bush, political statistics and polling are meant to influence and not measure public opinion.


32 posted on 01/13/2012 7:16:00 AM PST by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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To: No Truce With Kings

So, in reality, Democrats DO believe in resurection and life after death.


33 posted on 01/13/2012 7:18:02 AM PST by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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To: meepsch
But how hard could it be to discover and report the party affiliation of the dead voters?

Maybe we ought to go into cemetaries and place "I plan to vote Democrat in 2012" wreaths on all of the markers.

34 posted on 01/13/2012 7:21:48 AM PST by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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To: DBrow

Unless you are in a George Romero movie, I think that it is impossible to commit a crime if you are dead.


35 posted on 01/13/2012 7:24:49 AM PST by fhayek
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To: OrioleFan
Maybe we ought to go into cemetaries and place "I plan to vote Democrat in 2012" wreaths on all of the markers.

I forgot to add, it would be easy to get a list of names of people who died in 2011/12 - just go to the library and scan the obits - they usually tell you where the interrment is. Better yet, most of the newspapers and funeral homes put the obits online; that's where the Democrats get the names of potential "swing" voters.

36 posted on 01/13/2012 7:26:12 AM PST by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

“probe of more than 900 dead voters”

eeewwwwww!


37 posted on 01/13/2012 7:26:28 AM PST by Grunthor (I am a conservative, neither half of the one party represents my views.)
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To: Travis McGee
The ‘Rats just want what is best for us.

We are just too stupid to understand their beautiful motives.


If their intentions are good, thet justifies anything they do. And they'll be happy to tell you that!
38 posted on 01/13/2012 7:29:14 AM PST by Peet (Cogito ergo dubito.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Looks like the democrats are right. Voter ID might keep the dead people minority from voting.


39 posted on 01/13/2012 7:31:47 AM PST by MulberryDraw (Anyone see the democrat budget yet?)
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To: JPG
EDITORIAL: Scandal at Justice: Enabling vote fraud ... epidemic of dead voters

..top Justice Department official Julie Fernandes had openly refused to enforce laws that require states to remove ineligible names -dead people, felons, people who have moved -from voter rolls.

“We have no interest in enforcing this provision of the law,” Ms. Fernandes reportedly told a roomful of employees of the department’s Voting Section in November. “It has nothing to do with increasing turnout, and we are just not going to do it.”

40 posted on 01/13/2012 7:32:18 AM PST by opentalk
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