Posted on 07/18/2002 2:52:51 PM PDT by commiefighter
Birds of a feather stick together.
Good question. In Crook County I see no effort by the Illinois Republican Attorney General, nor US Attorney, nor party, to address the problem. Voter rolls in Crook County are such a mess it is impossible to know what is fraud and what is incompetence.
Recently in the elections office of the Crook County Clerk, the receptionist had a voter's registration up on the screen and changed the birth date of the voter. The voter was not present. She did not know the voter. She had no birth certificate, drivers license or other official document as a basis on which to make the change. There was no request from anyone anywhere to change that birth date. She did it all on her own for who knows what reason.
A husband and wife may register at the same time, same place (both at the drivers license facility, or both on Motor Voter cards I give them and hand deliver, or both at the library or village or towhsip hall). One name pops up as registered. One doesn't. Of those that pop up somewhere, they might be on the poll list, but not in the binder; Or have a wallet card but not be on the poll list or binder. Every possible combination of inconsistency exists. There is no rhyme or reason; no pattern. It is chaos.
When voters move they put down their old address so they can be stricken from the old address as well as added for the new address. Only sometimes is the old stricken. Sometimes due to divorce, going to college, etc only one person at an old address changes to a new address. But sometimes the County Clerk strikes all names from the old address.
Some people who vote twice must vote at the old address to protect the patronage job of their mother-in-law. For them it is not worth getting their mother-in-law fired if she might end up moving in with them or becoming a financial burden, not to mention the family fights.
Often, as a favor to the person who moved out, and so that the voter doesn't lose work and make the long trip back to the old neighborhood, the precinct captain will cast the vote of the voter who moved out. This is just another friendly service that the precinct captain provides to keep harmony in that family
We must understand is that people bending rules have good intentions. No harm, no foul.
...which, BTW, effectively debunks every argument to RATS make about the '00 election being stolen. To be a RAT in this day and age, you need to be willing to look yerself in the mirror and lie to yer own damned face!!
FReegards...MUD
Somebody can surely answer that, but I think it's based on % of the vote...MUD
And that's just from felons. Add to it the post office shenanigans, lost vote boxes, military ballots, inner city multiple voting, Democrat thugs harassing Republican blacks, Democratic thugs harassing Haitian-Americans, media lies to keep western Floridians home, etc., and Bush probably won Florida by hundreds of thousands.
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