Posted on 10/14/2014 2:56:15 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
The United States has a long history of voter fraud that has been documented by historians and journalists. Such fraud can make the difference in a close election, and we have many elections – particularly at the local and state level – that are decided by a very small number of votes. Every American citizen who is eligible should be able to vote, but it is equally important that every citizen’s vote not be diluted or stolen through fraud, especially fraud that could change the outcome of an election. Election integrity is fundamental to securing free and fair elections, which are the key to preserving our democracy. Is your vote in the upcoming election safe? What steps have been taken by election officials to ensure the integrity of the voting and election process? How accurate are our voter registration rolls? What are the responsibilities of state versus federal officials when it comes to protecting the franchise? What problems can we expect?
(Excerpt) Read more at heritage.org ...
The guest speakers were Kris Kobain, Kansas Secretary of State, Scott Gessler, Colorado Secretary of State, and Catherine Engelbrecht, founder of True the Vote. All three are very much dedicated to the task of reducing fraud and cheating at the polls, which is crucial to retain some semblance of a legitimate republican form of government. But in the Age of Obama and Holder, standing up for election integrity creates almost inevitable friction with the left.
The forum was chaired by Hans Von Spakovsky, an attorney and author well known for his work in this area and currently a Heritage fellow.
One subject noted to be lacking from today's discussion was the issue of fraudulent VOTE COUNTING, which reared its ugly head in the last presidential election, notably in Pennsylvania and Ohio.
“The Republican Party made an agreement 30 years ago with the Democrat Party NOT to ensure voting integrity and NOT to pursue suspected vote fraud.
This all goes back to a lawsuit 31 years ago, in 1981. The following is compiled from an account on The Judicial View, a legal website specializing in court decision research and alerts, and from “Democratic National Committee v Republican National Committee,” Case No. 09-4615.”
http://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2012/11/why-gop-wont-challenge-vote-fraud.html
It isn't that difficult to discover when the totals are tallied-- any of over votes (total votes for any one office greater than the total number of people who votes), huge result variances from the precinct's history and the like point to possible corruption.
I'm an election judge for our precinct. The head of our election bureau makes it very clear that we will be held accountable if these type of things happen in our precinct.
Many precincts (including ours) have a difficult time fully staffing for elections, believe it or not. Conservatives would be wise to volunteer for these duties as a good, balanced election board is the first line of defense.
Yes, I was aware of that. But that agreement was only signed onto by the Republican National Committee. It does not preclude individual or groups of other Republican elected or appointed officials, like these two Secretaries of State at today's conference, from doing their own thing.
Thanks.
I feel a bit better.
Here's something optimistic I hadn't known about until today's conference: there's an interstate voter registration cross-check program participated in currently by twenty some-odd states. The purpose is to detect and remove (from all but one state) registrants who are registered in multiple states. Since voting in the same federal election in multiple states is a federal crime, the cross-check program, at least theoretically, can be used to apprehend such offenders. It can also discourage others who may be thinking of voting in multiple states from doing so. Apparently, the interstate registration cross-check program was the brainchild of Kansas SOS Kris Kobain.
fifty states would be better Buy I will take what we can get.
Thanks
Voter registration crosscheck (Through 2013)
http://www.nased.org/NASED_Winter_2013_PP_Presentations/KANSAS.pdf
In today's presentation at Heritage, Kansas SOS Kobain discussed the crosscheck program and made no indication that it had expired in 2013, contrary to what you imply. He showed the audience a map of the participating states, and all that he said indicated that the program and agreement was currently in effect.
I didn’t imply that it had expired. I simply stated that it showed where it is through 2013.
Yes, in 2012 in Ohio there were several counties in which the total number of votes cast for president exceeded the numbers of registered voters there. And that in a year where votes cast nationally were reported to be DOWN from the previous presidential election, something that occurred previously only in 1864 (with the Confederate states not voting) and 1944 (with WWII raging and something like 15 million in military service).
But even more indicative of cheating than that, there were whole precincts in Cleveland and in Philadelphia where Romney was reported to have ZERO votes! ZERO! That is statistically as likely as snow on July 4 in Honolulu; even in predominantly black precincts, there are going to be a few anti-Obama voters. Regardless of what you may think of Romney as a presidential candidate, it's obvious that he was robbed, and his voters in those precincts were in effect disenfranchised. (Yet not a word that I know of out of the Romney campaign on that.)
Fraudulent VOTE COUNTING would come to a near immediate halt if counties refused to add chronically corrupt precincts and states refused to add chronically corrupt counties to their respective totals.
That's an interesting proposal, but it has the downside of disenfranchising many honest and legitimate voters in those precincts. Perhaps better than that is to have a bipartisan state election commission handle the counting and reporting of votes in the "chronically corrupt" counties and precincts, but even then, how would you define "chronically corrupt"? I suppose it's like pornography: you know it when you see it.
My apologies for the misunderstanding.
Now to get Texas on board.
This should be one of a GOP President’s top priorities for the DOJ. Clean up the voting system.
We need to make this an issue in state elections. I’ve never heard of it until now. Plus, we should add a bounty for catching someone committing vote fraud and the penalties should be fierce.
Well, certainly the penalties should be tougher than they generally are now, and the percentage of cases prosecuted should be higher. This kind of policy should act as a deterrent for others inclined to do the same thing.
It’s a start but has a long way to go. Still can’t get over the 99-100% votes for hussein and nothing being done about those who bragged about voting several times with full knowlege of the officials.
YEA!!
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