Posted on 10/14/2008 2:20:14 PM PDT by TiberiusClaudius
1. End voter registration six months before an election, then verify all registrants and purge all entries that cannot be verified, prior to the election.
2. End early and absentee voting except for eligible voters that are out of the country.
3. Require ID of voters to cast a vote and the purple finger after the vote has been cast.
4. Have counters at each polling place keeping track of how many voted. Compare the number of total voters through at the time of poll closing to the number of ballots coming from said polling place. If the numbers don't match, you know something fishy is going on at that polling place.
It would appear to me that we have a simple solution to ending fraud by ACORN and other such entities. Make it legal for any person to hand out as many voter registration cards as he or she cares, but only allow the person handing out registration cards to deliver one registration card per day to the registrar of voters. My reasoning is that if a person cannot be bothered to take his card to the registrar or to mail that card in an envelope with a 42-cent stamp on it, that person really has no business being registered to vote...or probably already is but wants to vote a second or a third time.
Maybe instead of the purple, use day glo yellow or red.
Back in 2004 I was the media rep for Chillicothe Ohio. Chillicothe was THE bellwether town for Ohio. Everyone knew that as Ohio went so went the presidency. Both campaigns agreed that as Chillicothe went so went Ohio.
Chillicothe was inundated with media from all over the world. And as the Bush campaign rep I was assigned to deal with them.
But about 4 weeks before the election I got a call from the Bush Headquarters in Columbus. They wanted me to go to the next county (Pike County)and get a list of all the new voters registered by ACORN. There were over a thouand of them. The Columbus office of the Bush campaign had a local attorney go with me to make sure they gave me the list.
There were a thousand fake names registered to vote in Pike County. All over the state the number exceeded 250 thousand fake names that had been registered to vote.
Rove was quite concerned that they would send in people to go to each of these precincts and vote the fake names.
On the night before the election several thousand lawyers were flown in to Ohio. They were sent to each precinct that had fake registrations to contest if anyone tried to vote those names.
Each of these lawyers had cell phone and if they called the assigned number Federal Marshall’s were to be dispatched immediately to the polling place to charge the person trying to vote the fake name. The lawyers did not have to say a word... just push the button to make the call. If the number rang, marshalls were on the way.
On election Day I got a call about noon from Bush headquarters in Columbus. As of noon not a single one of the fake names had been voted. The next call came at 5:00PM not a single person had tried to vote a single one of those 250 thousand fake names.
Late on election night with Bush in the lead and few votes still out, Kerry still refused to concede. He claimed that there were 250 thousand Ohio votes that had somehow not been counted.
The next morning Kerry called all 88 Ohio boards of elections and was told that his missing 250 thousand voters were all fake. It was then that Kerry gave up.
The question in my mind is what as ACORN trying to accomplish. They were hiring people and paying them 10 dollars for every person they registered. And to find a valid person to register takes about 4 hours. They would be making $2.50 an hour. Few would work for such wages. But by filling in fake names some ACORN employees were turning in a 100 fake registration forms every day letting them make $1,000.00 dollars a day.
Now ACORN is paying them 8 dollars an hour but they have to meet a quota to keep their job. And the only way to make the quota is to turn in fake names.
It is hard to escape the conclusion that ACORN is just ripping off the Obama and the Democratic party. Maybe by adding lots of fake Democrats to the voter lists they figure they can make the polls look better for Obama.
It is hard to see an upside for the Democrats and Obama. They must have known after 2004 that they were going to be exposed quickly.
All I know is that someone or some entity paid ACORN over 3 million dollars in 2004 to register 250 thousand fake names that did not vote in 2004.
The funny thing is Kerry must have believed they were legit. And since Bush only registered 80 thousand new voters Kerry was sure he had Ohio in the bag. The problem for Kerry was that Bush’s registrations were all valid and voted and Kerry’s were all fake and didn’t vote.
I have often wondered if when the thousands of lawyers showed up at the precincts ready to call federal marshalls, an attempt to vote those illegal names was called off.
Kerry thought they voted. But they did not.
“I agree 110%. And a positive photo ID to be shown at each and every polling place on election day.”
A lot of these so-called “civil rights” groups think that showing a valid photo ID is racist.
Ha ha I like that one.
Team Empty Suit = Obama. They paid ACORN $800,000 to do registetration drives. ACORN gets a big chuck of federal dollars also.
“No workie. Can’t see it on darker skin tones.”
Actually, it would work. The darkest people still have white palms of the hands and soles of the feet. The ink would show on the fingerprint side of the finger.
So, does McCain have thousands of lawyers scheduled to go to the battleground states to "suppress" the fake votes?
“What would the women complain about?”
That it may stain their Bichon Frise as it sits in their lap while driving from the polling place.
Really important BTTT.
I read that the reason they go for registrations is because they will provide a commensurate number of ballots to the number of registrations. Thousands of fake registrations means thousands of unused ballots sitting around, which the leftist thugs just fill in.
They’re getting away with that garbage all over the country. You can’t buy a fohty wi’out ID, why would you be able to vote?
This is has just got to be a crime, a felony, multiple felonies. Where are the prosecutions of ACORN and Obama Hussein???
My personal opinion?
You need to show up with Valid IDs, (driver’s license, birth certificate, social security number, and last year’s tax return, showing that you did pay taxes!)
If you can’t provide 3 out of the four, you don’t get to vote, period.
and, enough with this absentee voting crap! You ought to care enough to get to your local polling place. If you have surgery that day, tough cookies!
“I heard today that after the polls close and there are unused registrations, the libs vote for them behind closed doors.”
I think something happened in Maryland some years back when Ellen Saurbrey (sp) lost to the Dhim. When last I heard she was up by 6000 votes and by the next morning she had lost by 6000 votes which miraculously appeared from Baltimore City.
Of course it was all legit even though they had proof that people were registered from vacant lots and derelict buildings and cemeteries.
There shouldn’t be any freakin’ registration drives. You wanna vote, get your ass down the BOE hall and do it in person.
ACORN claims they registered 1.3 million new voters. I think they registered 130,000 new voters ten times!
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