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Republicans lose appeal on poll-watching tactics
The Republican National Committee on Thursday lost a bid to dissolve a decades-old legal agreement with the Democratic National Committee over the GOP's use of improper election tactics.
The agreement dates to 1982, when the Republican National Committee settled a lawsuit brought by the Democratic National Committee accusing the GOP of trying to intimidate minority voters. Under the agreement, the Republican National Committee must obtain court approval before implementing certain poll-monitoring activities in minority precincts.
Glad to hear this. Voter fraud is how Bush got in and I suspect a lot of people don't want a repeat of that fiasco.
Republicans lose appeal on poll-watching tactics
The Republican National Committee on Thursday lost a bid to dissolve a decades-old legal agreement with the Democratic National Committee over the GOP's use of improper election tactics.
The agreement dates to 1982, when the Republican National Committee settled a lawsuit brought by the Democratic National Committee accusing the GOP of trying to intimidate minority voters. Under the agreement, the Republican National Committee must obtain court approval before implementing certain poll-monitoring activities in minority precincts.
From the link, it seems that the Republicans wanted to be certain that a voter was who he said he was....
...as in photo ID.
Is that the argument?
If so, why would you be opposed to same?
Republicans lose appeal on poll-watching tactics
The Republican National Committee on Thursday lost a bid to dissolve a decades-old legal agreement with the Democratic National Committee over the GOP's use of improper election tactics.
The agreement dates to 1982, when the Republican National Committee settled a lawsuit brought by the Democratic National Committee accusing the GOP of trying to intimidate minority voters. Under the agreement, the Republican National Committee must obtain court approval before implementing certain poll-monitoring activities in minority precincts.
Voting fraud is non existant. The GOP doesn't see the forest through the trees. If they are really worried about a problem with voting it is that only about 38% of the registered voters vote at all. Their energy would be better spent giving the voting public something worth voting for and thereby tapping into the vast majority of Americans that don't give a fuck.
"Voting fraud is non existant."
"While NAACP President Benjamin Jealous lashed out at new state laws requiring photo ID for voting, an NAACP executive sits in prison, sentenced for carrying out a massive voter fraud scheme.
In a story ignored by the national media, in April a Tunica County, Miss., jury convicted NAACP official Lessadolla Sowers on 10 counts of fraudulently casting absentee ballots. Sowers is identified on an NAACP website as a member of the Tunica County NAACP Executive Committee.
Sowers received a five-year prison term for each of the 10 counts, but Circuit Court Judge Charles Webster permitted Sowers to serve those terms concurrently, according to the Tunica Times, the only media outlet to cover the sentencing.
This crime cuts against the fabric of our free society, Judge Webster said.
Sowers was found guilty of voting in the names of Carrie Collins, Walter Howard, Sheena Shelton, Alberta Pickett, Draper Cotton and Eddie Davis. She was also convicted of voting in the names of four dead persons: James L. Young, Dora Price, Dorothy Harris, and David Ross.
Read more: Mississippi NAACP | Voter Fraud | Prison | The Daily Caller
I have plenty more if you need 'em, Hugs...
Ten counts? Ten fraudulent votes? AND he got five years per vote? Obviously the guy is an idiot. He got more time than if he robbed a bank. So tell me in this election what was the margin of victory? Less than ten votes? Who the fuck is going to risk five years of prison for one fraudulent vote? To tell you the truth this is the only factual case I've ever heard of.
An electronic voting machine can flip THOUSANDS of votes easily. And no one has ever gone to jail for it.
1. You said 'Voting fraud is non existant,' didn't you?
2. Plenty more listed in the thread.
3. The number is not the significant factor.....
...any fraud affects elections.
Some more than others:
In 1997, South Dakota Democrat John McIntyre led Republican Hal Wick 4,195-4,191 for the second seat in Legislative District 12 on election night. A subsequent recount showed Wick the winner at 4,192-4,191. The State Supreme Court, however, ruled that one ballot counted for Wick was invalid due to an overvote. This left the race a tie. After hearing argument from both sides, the State Legislature voted to seat Wick 46-20.
In 1948, Lyndon B. Johnson, our 36th president, became a U.S. senator by a ONE vote margin?
In 1948, if Thomas E. Dewey had gotten ONE vote more per precinct in Ohio and California, the presidential election would have been thrown to the U.S. House of Representatives, where Dewey enjoyed more support than his rival -- incumbent Harry S. Truman? In fact, Dewey was expected to win the general election by a landslide, so most Republicans stayed home. Only 51.5 percent of the electorate voted in 1948, and Truman defeated Dewey.
In the 1960 presidential election, ONE additional vote per precinct in Illinois, Missouri, New Jersey and Texas would have denied John F. Kennedy the presidency and put Richard M. Nixon in office eight years earlier.
In recent years, the outcomes of many state and congressional races have been reversed as recounts have shifted a handful of votes from one candidate to another.
One Vote Can Make a Difference - Government Relations - NCRA
4.That's the finding of an 18-month study conducted by Minnesota Majority, a conservative watchdog group, which found that at least 341 convicted felons in largely Democratic Minneapolis-St. Paul voted illegally in the 2008 Senate race between Franken, a Democrat, and his Republican opponent, then-incumbent Sen. Norm Coleman.
The report said that in Hennepin County, which in includes Minneapolis, 899 suspected felons had been matched on the county's voting records, and the review showed 289 voters were conclusively matched to felon records. The report says only three people in the county have been charged with voter fraud so far.
The final recount vote in the race, determined six months after Election Day, showed Franken beat Coleman by 312 votes -- fewer votes than the number of felons whose illegal ballots were counted, according to Minnesota Majority's newly released study, which matched publicly available conviction lists with voting records.
Felons Voting Illegally May Have Put Franken Over The Top In Minnesota, Study Finds | Fox News
5. And, how about in principle....for voter fraud?
