How do people take this Trump guy seriously? Dogs and cats voting?! Do people really believe him when he spews this nonesense?
Here is a very objective article showing Trumps exact quote if you missed it.
President Brain Worms is on his bullshit again. During a weird press conference today, he — again! — went on for a while talking about mail-in ballots being sent to…
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Dogs and Cats and illegals and dead are all getting ballots already--------------------and voting. Sorry its true.
Well, if it's true, then you should have no problem providing links that support your claim. Only thing I've seen so far is that a cat received a voter registration form, which is a long way from being a ballot. Do you have a link that says a dog or cat has received a ballot? I'm guessing not, as all the ones I've seen have said it was a voter registration form. And, you can't get a ballot unless you have filled out and were screened on a voter registration form that resulted in you getting a voter ID.
You mean like this? From Huff and Puff March 2012...
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Voter registration fraud is no laughing matter. That is, unless you’re registering a dog.
Thomas Tolbert, an Albuquerque man, received the registration card for his dog when he passed a voter registration booth on the University of New Mexico campus a few weeks ago,
according to KOB.com. Upon seeing the booth, he decided to see how easy it might be to register Buddy to vote.
It wasn’t very hard to pull off. Tolbert, a Republican, was able to register the dog as a Democrat.
“They should verify,”
he told KOB. “Somebody should have verified this information and somebody should have come out and took a look at exactly who it was. But I made up a birth date, and I made up a social security number and I had a voter registration card in my hand for Buddy two weeks later.”
Beyond having a laugh, Tolbert had hoped to expose how easy it may be to falsely register to vote.
According to the Albuquerque Journal, County Clerk Maggie Toulouse Oliver didn’t find much humor in the situation. “I would warn those individuals who think this type of activity is a joke or a ‘gotcha’ that, regardless of their intentions, they have broken the law and will therefore have to be subject to due process of law,” she said in a statement.
And, it appears Tolbert is no exception to the rules.
According to the Smoking Gun, a county sheriff’s spokesperson signaled an investigation into the fraudulent registration is underway. The outcome of the probe being conducted by the office’s Criminal Investigation Division remains to be seen."
Or this one from the Californian...
A retired veteran found himself on the wrong side of the law after an attempt at what he called whistleblowing blew up in his face.
Pacific Grove resident Richard Davis, 68, was so perturbed by national reports of voter fraud that he now stands accused of committing voter fraud himself after registering his underage golden retrievers and his deceased father to vote.
"I was trying to do my patriotic duty and just bring awareness," said Davis.
Although registering the dogs didn't bring the authorities down on him -- though he called and told them exactly what he was doing -- registering his father did. He was slapped with a felony by the Monterey County District Attorney's Office for filing a fictitious voter card.
Or this one from Washington post 2012-------
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A group that tries to get “historically underrepresented groups” to the polls has targeted some particularly unlikely voters: dogs and dead Virginians.
Early-afternoon voters at Popes Head Precinct in Fairfax in August 2011. Election officer Dave Mitchell, right, shows the Courtney family how to use the voting machine. (Tracy A Woodward/The Washington Post)
The mailings have revived talk of
voter fraud in Virginia, a crucial swing state where President Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney are
deadlocked in a recent poll. And it has prompted the Romney campaign to call for a criminal investigation.
“This presents a very significant risk to the proper administration of the upcoming general election,” Kathryn Biber, the campaign’s general counsel, said in a letter sent Tuesday to Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II (R) and the State Board of Elections.
The center said it used a commercial mailing list to target unregistered voters, and that it never meant to send forms to anyone ineligible to vote. It said the errant mailings, first reported by the Richmond Times-Dispatch, represent just a fraction of the nearly 200,000 it sent out across Virginia.
“The state forms are official applications, they are not registration cards,” the center said in a written statement issued Wednesday. “Furthermore, they were approved by the State Board of Elections before we sent them out and are the same applications that anyone can access at a local government office or on the Internet. Our process is legal and working.15,000 Virginians have submitted these registration applications and been added to the rolls by government officials - a start at whittling down the state’s 2 million unregistered [voters].”
But for some, the mailings have reignited fears that Virginia is vulnerable to voter fraud, a claim that was bitterly debated in the General Assembly this year. Citing concerns about the integrity of elections, the GOP-controlled
General Assembly closed a loophole that had allowed voters to cast ballots without showing identification. Democrats charged that the
voter ID law, while more moderate than those Republicans have recently pushed in other states, was intended to make it harder for minorities and other Democratic-leaning groups to vote.
State Sen. Thomas Garrett (R-Louisa), a Louisa County prosecutor who successfully tried two felons who registered to vote in 2009, said one of the two registered after receiving a form by mail from the Voter Participation Center.
“Clearly they haven’t gotten the message,” Garrett said.
Page Gardner, the center’s president, said the center was only trying to encourage eligible voters to exercise their franchise. She said the group tries to make its mailing list “as perfect as possible.”
“We have nothing to do with that issue, voter fraud. We send people applications to fill out in the mail,” Gardner said. “It’s up to them to fill out the form and obey all the state laws and federal laws.”
The dead can wind up on a mailing list because it is compiled from things such as magazine subscriptions, which often are not updated with a new name when a spouse dies. Some people have subscriptions in the names of their pets for reasons that Gardner, who described herself as “a non-pet owner,” said she did not understand.
The focus on the errant mailings is a “man-bites-dog story” in Gardner’s view, one that she says misses the bigger picture — that nearly 2 million eligible Virginians are not registered to vote.
“It’s fun to write about Mozart and other pets getting these voter registration applications,” Gardner said, referring to a dead dog who was sent a form from her group. “[But] at some point, we have to look at ourselves and say, ‘Really, what’s the story here?’ ”
People are able to register their dogs to vote all over----just think what they can do with actual people?