Are We About to See Another Stolen Presidential Election?

[blackhawk]

Are there any elections that Democrats have legitimately lost?

 

[LockeJaw]

Are there any elections that Democrats have legitimately lost?

Not recently it seems.

 

[Political Junky]

Florida is breaking federal elections laws by purging voters rolls with 90 days of an election.

The election is more than 90 days away, you stupid dipstick.

So it's OK to purge the voter rolls now, huh?

 

[bripat9643]

Florida is breaking federal elections laws by purging voters rolls with 90 days of an election.

The election is more than 90 days away, you stupid dipstick.

So it's OK to purge the voter rolls now, huh?

It's always OK to purge the voter rolls of illegal aliens, convicted felons and dead people. Why wouldn't it be?

 

[Political Junky]

The election is more than 90 days away, you stupid dipstick.

So it's OK to purge the voter rolls now, huh?

It's always OK to purge the voter rolls of illegal aliens, convicted felons and dead people. Why wouldn't it be?

And how many have been convicted of voter fraud in recent years?

 

[bripat9643]

So it's OK to purge the voter rolls now, huh?

It's always OK to purge the voter rolls of illegal aliens, convicted felons and dead people. Why wouldn't it be?

And how many have been convicted of voter fraud in recent years?

How many dead people have been convicted of voter fraud? How do you convict a dead person of anything?

 

[Political Junky]

It's always OK to purge the voter rolls of illegal aliens, convicted felons and dead people. Why wouldn't it be?

And how many have been convicted of voter fraud in recent years?

How many dead people have been convicted of voter fraud? How do you convict a dead person of anything?

 

[Political Junky]

And how many have been convicted of voter fraud in recent years?

How many dead people have been convicted of voter fraud? How do you convict a dead person of anything?

Indiana Secretary of State Convicted of Voter Fraud | ThinkProgress

Though President Ronald Reagan called the right to vote the “crown jewel of American liberties,” many Republicans around the country have begun demanding increased voting restrictions in the name of fighting “voter fraud.” Though actual cases of voting fraud are so rare that a voter is much more likely to be struck by lightning than to commit fraud at the polls, one Republican official in Indiana has proved that lightning can strike himself.
Yesterday, a jury found Indiana Secretary of State Charlie White (R) guilty on six felony counts of voter fraud, theft, and perjury. The conviction cost White his job, though he plans to ask the judge to reduce the charges to misdemeanors and hopes to perhaps regain the position.
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Now it's your turn.

 

[tjvh]

So it's OK to purge the voter rolls now, huh?

It's always OK to purge the voter rolls of illegal aliens, convicted felons and dead people. Why wouldn't it be?

And how many have been convicted of voter fraud in recent years?

Does it matter if they aren't supposed to be on the rolls in the first place? Only if you are FOR election fraud it does.

 

[Political Junky]

It's always OK to purge the voter rolls of illegal aliens, convicted felons and dead people. Why wouldn't it be?

And how many have been convicted of voter fraud in recent years?

Does it matter if they aren't supposed to be on the rolls in the first place? Only if you are FOR election fraud it does.

No one can give me an example of someone convicted of voter fraud.
I gave one, the Indiana Republican Secretary of State.

 

[Lakhota]

A major probe by the Justice Department between 2002 and 2007 failed to prosecute a single person for going to the polls and impersonating an eligible voter, which the anti-fraud laws are supposedly designed to stop. Out of the 300 million votes cast in that period, federal prosecutors convicted only 86 people for voter fraud – and many of the cases involved immigrants and former felons who were simply unaware of their ineligibility. A much-hyped investigation in Wisconsin, meanwhile, led to the prosecution of only .0007 percent of the local electorate for alleged voter fraud. "Our democracy is under siege from an enemy so small it could be hiding anywhere," joked Stephen Colbert. A 2007 report by the Brennan Center for Justice, a leading advocate for voting rights at the New York University School of Law, quantified the problem in stark terms. "It is more likely that an individual will be struck by lightning," the report calculated, "than that he will impersonate another voter at the polls."

More: The ‘Voter Fraud’ Fraud

 

[tjvh]

And how many have been convicted of voter fraud in recent years?

Does it matter if they aren't supposed to be on the rolls in the first place? Only if you are FOR election fraud it does.

No one can give me an example of someone convicted of voter fraud.
I gave one, the Indiana Republican Secretary of State.

No examples? 4 Indiana Dems charged with election fraud in 2008 presidential race | Fox News OR: Officials Plead Guilty in New York Voter Fraud Case | Fox News

 

[Lakhota]

Fox News just makes shit up.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

By Heather Digby Parton

From the time I started blogging about a decade ago I've been writing somewhat frantically about the GOP efforts to suppress the vote. This should not be surprising since I started writing online in the aftermath of the most dubious election result in history: the infamous Bush v. Gore.

Vote suppression has been with us for centuries, of course. Jim Crow was built on it. Very famous and important Americans have participated in it, including former Chief Justice William Rehnquist. But according to a 2004 report by the Center for Voting Rights it wasn't until the Jesse Jackson campaign in the 1980s that the Republicans began to organize nationally:

Democratic activist Donna Brazile, a Jackson worker and Albert Gore's campaign manager in 2000, said "There were all sorts of groups out there doing voter registration. Some time after the '86 election, massive purging started taking place. It was a wicked practice that took place all over the country, especially in the deep South. Democrats retook the Senate in 1986, and [Republican] groups went on a rampage on the premise they were cleaning up the rolls. The campaign then was targeted toward African-Americans." As in the past, Republicans justified the purges in the name of preventing the unregistered from voting. But Democrats charged vote suppression.​

They formed a group called the Republican National Lawyers Association for the purpose of manipulating the voting laws in all 50 states to the benefit of the party. Of course, they said it was for the purpose of stopping "voter fraud" but since there was and is no evidence of voter fraud, vote suppression was the obvious intent. They learned the ins and outs of all local and state voting rules and figured out how to use them for their own electoral advantage. And with the help of other conservative groups like ALEC, they set about making it harder to register and harder to vote. They really made their bones in the 2000 recount, when the call went out the morning after the election for their lawyers to descend on Florida. The rest is history. Well, it's deja vu all over again. Here's Ari Berman:

Back in 2000, 12,000 eligible voters—a number twenty-two times larger than George W. Bush's 537 vote triumph over Al Gore—were wrongly identified as convicted felons and purged from the voting rolls in Florida, according to the Brennan Center for Justice. African Americans, who favored Gore over Bush by 86 points, accounted for 11 percent of the state's electorate but 41 percent of those purged. Jeb Bush attempted a repeat performance in 2004 to help his brother win reelection but was forced to back off in the face of a public outcry.

Yet with another close election looming, Florida Republicans have returned to their voter-scrubbing ways. The latest purge comes on the heels of a trio of new voting restrictions passed by Florida Republicans last year, disenfranchising 100,000 previously eligible ex-felons who'd been granted the right to vote under GOP Governor Charlie Crist in 2008; shutting down non-partisan voter registration drives; and cutting back on early voting. The measures, the effect of which will be to depress Democratic turnout in November, are similar to voting curbs passed by Republicans in more than a dozen states, on the bogus pretext of combating "voter fraud" but with the very deliberate goal of shaping the electorate to the GOP's advantage before a single vote has been cast.​

The whole story is shocking in its brazenness.

More: Are We About to See Another Stolen Presidential Election? | Mother Jones

Things are worse than I thought, the hacks are abandoning ship.

I predict years of conspiracy theory threads about how Romney stole the election by trashing the economy and deliberately working with businesses to make things worse, or something else equally convoluted.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

The closet thing to a stolen election I know of is the 1960 one between Kennedy and Nixon as for the 2000 election that myth has been debunked many times.

You forgot the 2008 Democratic Primary.

Proof Positive: Documentary: Obama Stole the Nomination?

 

[tjvh]

Fox News just makes shit up.

And those people in those links do not exist? Nonsense. You just refuse to accept FACTS.

 

[Lakhota]

Fox News just makes shit up.

And those people in those links do not exist? Nonsense. You just refuse to accept FACTS.

That is hilarious coming from a wingnut. Thanks for making my day...

 

[tjvh]

Fox News just makes shit up.

And those people in those links do not exist? Nonsense. You just refuse to accept FACTS.

That is hilarious coming from a wingnut. Thanks for making my day...

If proving "you" wrong makes "your" day, I'm happy to oblige,

 

[tjvh]

Fox News just makes shit up.

Again try this: In Texas, evidence of voter fraud abounds

 

[Lakhota]

Fox News just makes shit up.

Again try this: In Texas, evidence of voter fraud abounds

Everything abounds in Texas, including innocent people sent to death.