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EDITORIAL: The art of stealing elections
The Washington Times ^ | 12-15-13 | Editorial Board

Posted on 12/16/2013 3:09:26 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic

Stealing elections is an old game politicians play. Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th president, got to the U.S. Senate in 1948 by “winning” the closest race in Texas history by a margin of 87 votes out of more than a million cast. An election judge in tiny Alice, Texas, said he counted more than 200 names on the voting roll for Box 13 that were written in alphabetic succession in the same hand, same color of ink. When a federal court subpoenaed Box 13, it was discovered to be “lost.” LBJ took his seat in the Senate. Voting machines were supposed to put an end to such election-night chicanery, but Earl Long, the colorful governor of Louisiana, where fraud is the national sport, boasted that “I can make a voting machine play ‘Home on the Range’ all night long.”

Evidence of such fraud repeats itself on Monday in Virginia when election officials begin the thankless task of recounting the more than 2.2 million ballots cast in the Nov. 5 state attorney general’s race, where just 165 votes separate the two candidates.

The fishiest results were posted in Fairfax County, where enough provisional ballots conveniently appeared to give state Sen. Mark R. Herring, the Democrat, an edge over state Sen. Mark D. Obenshain of Harrisonburg, the Republican. “They kept finding ballots,” a highly placed Republican source says. Mr. Herring was finally declared the winner by .007 of 1 percent of the vote in the final tally, making it the closest statewide race in Virginia history.

Republicans nearly always get the sticky end of the wicket. In 2008, Al Franken, the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in Minnesota, trailed his Republican opponent by 215 votes out of 2.9 million cast.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: democrats; fairfaxcounty; franken; fraud; herring; lbj; obenshain; rossi; va2013
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To: central_va
A veteran’s vote should count 10x the normal citizen vote.

Kerry and McCain are veterans. You sure you want to espouse that view?

21 posted on 12/16/2013 4:45:24 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

The Democrats make their money stealing from the public treasury. They HAVE to win. There are two nations within our borders. There is The United States of America and there is Democratland. Elections aren’t about two people with differing points of view on how to get the most efficient and effective use out of the hard-earned taxpayer dollars. Elections are about which nation rules within our borders. We are not fellow citizens to the Democrats. We are enemies to be subjugated.


22 posted on 12/16/2013 4:53:04 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Vote fraud will never be fixed until the Republicans are seen to be benefiting from it.
23 posted on 12/16/2013 4:53:45 AM PST by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes everything)
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To: The Working Man

“I had a neighbor who advocated the death penalty for vote fraud. He claimed that it was a crime equivalent to capital murder and treason. I wasn’t sure at the time but now after a couple of decades I find that I agree with him.”

I agree also. Nothing, including the usual definitions of treason, undermines the system more effectively.


24 posted on 12/16/2013 5:20:18 AM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Another aspect of the fraudulent WA state governor election was analysis of the election showed precincts with more votes than registered voters. They found people who said they did not vote, but King County said they did. Also turned up voters registered to businesses they were not affiliated with in any way, and people registered at PO boxes (some with dozens of people to the same PO box). They also "found" boxes of ballots at convenient times.

The Democrats believe anyone and everyone should be allowed to vote, we just throw all of those votes in a pile without any kind of verification and then we simply declare the Democrat the winner.

When has a Republican ever "won" one of these close elections?

25 posted on 12/16/2013 5:44:42 AM PST by SW6906 (6 things you can't have too much of: sex, money, firewood, horsepower, guns and ammunition.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic; Perdogg

Virginia Ping!


26 posted on 12/16/2013 5:56:02 AM PST by HokieMom (Pacepa : Can the U.S. afford a president who can't recognize anti-Americanism?)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Just ask Minnesota Democrats how to steal an election. They are experts at it.


27 posted on 12/16/2013 6:55:52 AM PST by Gumdrop
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Why must we keep repeating this?

Election Fraud is not a problem.


Nope not a problem.

28 posted on 12/16/2013 11:37:01 AM PST by itsahoot (It is not so much that history repeats, but that human nature does not change.)
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To: SW6906
When has a Republican ever "won" one of these close elections?

Don't remember GW and Florida?

29 posted on 12/16/2013 11:43:17 AM PST by itsahoot (It is not so much that history repeats, but that human nature does not change.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

What about bot voting(not exactly sure how that operates; but think it is a computer program used to include in regular voting fake votes). I think you can rent or buy a machine. Is this how the libs are stealing votes?


30 posted on 12/16/2013 12:41:15 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

As I’ve said on FR many times, the Soros SoS project failed and most of the tossup states (Virginia included) have (had) Republican gov and Republican Sec of State.

We only got our “side” to blame.


31 posted on 12/16/2013 12:44:58 PM PST by nascarnation (Wish everyone see a "Gay Kwanzaa")
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