A Modest Suggestion for the American Election
This would be one way of checking what the Washington Times described as “widespread opportunities for mischief.” The attorney general, who refused to prosecute the New Black Panthers for polling booth intimidation, argues that widespread voter fraud “does not really exist” and that measures to strengthen election integrity are “unnecessary.” But as we all know, or should know, spurious voting practices are ubiquitous and it is Holder’s own party that stands to gain from such malfeasances. True, an international team of scrupulous observers would not have policing powers and the mainstream media would certainly not publicize its efforts and probable findings. Nonetheless, given the current political environment in the U.S., it might at least cause some embarrassment among less prominent office seekers not entirely devoid of conscience, prompting them to reconsider their allegiances.
As Foreign Affairs, the publishing arm of the Council on Foreign Relations, contends, “when governments do not play by the rules, observers can reduce fraud that would otherwise occur and condemn governments for election manipulation. … At the same time, they pressure governments — either through direct meetings or public condemnation — to update voter registers, support domestic observers, ensure that ballot materials are delivered throughout the country, and adopt technologies that make blatant election fraud harder.” A pious hope, perhaps, but worth a try.
The journal also points out that “the international monitoring of elections has become so common that refusing to invite foreign observers is seen as a signal that a regime has something to hide.” The present administration and the Democratic Party definitely have something to hide and they are palpably not playing by the rules, thus compromising the legitimacy of the upcoming elections.
Time to call in the observers.
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Note to the reader: When I first began writing this piece, I had intended to develop a somewhat facetious argument, a kind of satire on the hijinks of the Democratic Party. But as I progressed, I soon realized that my proposal to mobilize a team of election observers could justifiably be taken seriously. The American political scene oscillates between vaudeville and tragedy. The vaudeville inheres in the outrageous antics of the political left, as if we were witnessing something out of the Theater of the Absurd or the Commedia dell’Arte; the tragedy resides in the spectacle of a great democracy coming to resemble in its electoral affairs the modus operandi of a decadent, venal, and unprincipled third-world polity. As a result, I remain uncertain of my intentions. Am I joking, or am I in deadly earnest? Am I writing tongue in cheek or watching a tragedy unfold? Is inviting a group of international monitors to sentinel the election a mere caprice or is it actually validated by the circumstances?
One thing is undeniable: the Democratic thespians are putting on a risible but disgraceful and ultimately menacing performance. That the governing administration of a bellwether liberal nation should strenuously oppose fair voting practices and cry “racist” to intimidate those who advance a clear and sensible proposition is almost beyond belief. Perhaps in order to avert tragedy, we must acknowledge that caricature and burlesque have no place in the electoral life of a country. A properly conducted election furnishes the opportunity to hoot the farceurs off the stage.
“The present administration and the Democratic Party have much to answer for.” Yes they do and, I wouldn’t want to be in their shoes come judgment day.
Yes, they do have much to answer for. They’ll have their hands in their pockets, staring at their shoes, on judgment day.
I doubt that the presence of observers from other nations would make a practical difference in the amount of vote fraud detected, but I would be fascinated by the Democrats’ reaction to the suggestion that their machinations have made such observers a desirable presence at America’s polling places!
I’d like to especially see their reaction if the suggestion is made that to observers should be placed in such places as New York, Chicago, Detroit and any other bastion of democrat mischief that has a history of the dead voting early and often.
I suspect most electoral fraud is on “the other side” of the ballot box. This is where the absentee ballots from the “recently dead” come from. As the voting registeration lists are not updated that frequently, it isn’t that difficult for additional ballots to be slipped into the process sometime between the actual voting process and the counting of the ballots later on. Then of course with electronic voting there are all sorts of opportunities for someone to write a malware program that will “flip” random votes from one party to the other. So while the Voter Picture Id system appears impressive, I suspect the effect so far as prevent electoral fraud will be much less than expected.
I seem to recall reading reports that foreign observers, including some Canadians, monitored the 2004 federal election in the United States. Here’s one citation to prove it: http://www.truthinvoting.org/fairelectionreport.pdf. The document I cited confirms that these observers were in place to prevent a repeat of the 2000 federal election. As far as I know, they didn’t report any major improprieties, although that didn’t stop some Democrats from insisting that the 2004 election was “stolen”, just as the 2000 election was.
Which puts even more pressure on us to win this election by at least four points. Anything other than that and the results will be challenged in the courts, just like they were in 2000 with Al Gore.
We not only have to win in November, but we have to defeat Obama so badly that even with all the Democratic cheating it will be obvious that Obama lost. The Wisconsin vote is a great example of that. You just know that with all the unions pushing for a Scott Walker loss in Wisconsin, there must have been A LOT of cheating going on. But when Walker won by something like 7% of the vote, the unions and the Democrats couldn’t say a word. That’s what we’re going to have to do in November to beat Obama. And, given how angry people are out there, just as angry as they were back in 2010 (maybe more so now that Obamacare was upheld by the Supreme Court), WE CAN WIN. Get out and vote and make it happen.
But when Walker won by something like 7% of the vote, the unions and the Democrats couldn’t say a word. That’s what we’re going to have to do in November to beat Obama.
There were, reportedly, armies of union/democrat lawyers standing by to mess with the Wisconsin vote, too.
But the margin of win rendered them inert, inoperable.
As is mentioned below, Obama reportedly has a large cadre of lawyers standing by for the November “selection”, so a large margin of victory for the republicans is important.
Yes the Democratic, soi-disant, Party has much to answer for. But the Party could have had little effect without the brownshirts in all civic institutions menacing with loss of livlihood or sending to Coventry/Siberia any who voiced reservation, question or objection to their plans and the measures used for fundamental transformation of America.
Transformation engineered in earnest by insinuating their troops into pivotal position in all civic institutions, principally education, media/entertainment AND government “silently and unknown in the night”.
In earnest since 1960. The first presidential election after 1957 triumphalist launch of Sputnik. With the 24/7/365 wizard’s wand of TV in their hands to effect the election with notorious tainted vote count Cook County, Chicago. The first shot across the bow for their cold civil war in the USA. To become first kingmaker and then kingbreaker (Watergate). After a short recess forward with Clinton as clone of the last of the first Kennedy “Dynasty”. That Kennedy could not be chanced even to their captive audience when egregious character defects became widely known. And now Obama in lieu of H. Clinton as their triumphalist icon, their “New Kennedy” to close the circle begun in 1960 in Chicago. All these “leaders” wearing the colours and flying the standard of this “Democratic” Party.
But hark, what light through yonder window breaks? It is technology and the internet is the sun. The lamp for citizens to find their way in the dark by exercise of their RIGHTS among which First Amendment rights to free speech and opinion.
Long abrogated by legacy media with their virtual lock on information transmission. Departures from “acceptable to these “democrat/liberals” except for pet populations exempted by them, punished with the full fist of the law.. While government “representatives of the people” who each – ALL political parties and factions – looked on indulgently. Despite oaths to “uphold and defend the Constitution”.
The Constitution of the USA In which INDIVIDUALs’ Rights including the RIGHT to free speech, opinion and conscience among sundry others are protected by this fundamental law of the land. On which ALL other laws in the Federation and the Several States of the USA are justified. Justified on that fundamental law, NOT on political party expediency.
This USA in ethos, principle and custom a Country of Law, Not A Country of Lawyers. BY which LAW the powers of government over the individual citizen are LIMITED, NOT absolute.
That internet now lighting the dark corners of corruption and self-serving in the government, the media, entertainment and educational institutions AND THE LAW. The life and future of this USA is now as never before in the hands of the citizens. There can no longer be the plea “we didn’t know”.
In order to make this work there has to be some organization, planing, and execution. If there are dead people voting, then there has to be an alive person entering a polling place and pretending to be one of the dead. Alternatively some group of Democrats are colluding some place manufacturing ballots, who all vote Democrat, and the resultant ballots are put into the vote counting process. Has anyone actually discovered evidence supporting this conjecture?
Has anyone uncovered a paper trail for Mafia interests in Las Vegas?
Sorry to break the news to you, but we ran the Mob out of Vegas in the ’80s. It’s all corporate now.
I should amend my previous comment. It’s all SEIU now. I apologize.
Just for an example, an investigation by the Milwaukee Police Department reported that in the 2004 presidential election there were over 4500 more votes than voters registered. Evidence suggests that election officials with ties to ACORN were responsible.
A quick search turned up similar issues in Ohio and Minnesota. Supposedly spoiled ballots were duplicated then both copies were put back into the count. Absentee ballots have always proved tempting since no physical presence is required. Anyone can submit an absentee vote for a deceased voter with the right information.
“Has anyone actually discovered evidence supporting this conjecture?”
Florida, in 2000. Stacks of ballots had been “punched” through the Gore hole — turning ballots with no preference into Gore votes, leaving Gore votes as valid, and turning Bush votes into uncounted over-votes.
Washington State — 2000? 2002? governor’s race. Counts from heavily Democrat areas were “delayed” and repeatedly “updated” until the number of votes was enough to overcome the Republican candidate’s lead.
Evidence by counter — in Wisconsin, Republican areas have in just the last couple of years gotten in the habit of holding their counts back until Milwaukee and Madison have reported. This leaves the machines in those cities guessing how many votes they have to manufacture. Arguably, the Republican areas COULD be manufacturing votes themselves, but despite the frothing rage of the left after the supreme court special election, they couldn’t dig up any evidence.
Minnesota, vote counting irregularities, razor thin “selection” of moron Stuart Smalley, aka Al Franken, as US Senator,
Isn’t obama training 1000′s of attorneys for just this thing? Of course they are being trained to allow anyone who comes in the voting booth to vote. I don’t live in a swing state, but I think the repubs have to do the same especially in swing states.
“Israel would make an ideal contributor to the procedure were it not the innocent victim of a worldwide campaign of slander and disinformation.”
All the more reason to invite them.
Absolutely.
The Serbs should be invited too, and for precisely the same reason.
During the Bush v. Gore disputed election, I saw a newspaper cartoon showing some Serbs exiting from an airliner. The caption said: “Serbian election observers arrive.”
Problem is, the US has been doing all it can to interfere in the political scene in Serbia, with the goal being the eventual disappearance of Serbs as an identifiable people. And all because the Clintons needed to appease the Saudis and to distract everyone from their innumerable scandals at home.
In the Minneapolis/St.Paul area, I was required to show ID five times from June 8 to June 20:
J.C. Penney
Kohl’s
Doctor’s office (they even made a copy of my ID)
Liquor store (I am 64 years old)
Wal-Mart
How do these minorities operate in daily life without an ID? The liberal argument that obtaining an ID is unfair to them is insulting to rational people. How stupid do they think we are?
And then there’s the FACT that BH Obama was not ever required to produce ANY certified document attesting to his time and PLACE of birth identifying him as qualified to be President of this USA. That identificaton hangs fire to this day. We have only Obama’s and his supporters word. If the DNC did require such documentation they didn’t tell or show anyone.
The Obama troops immediately rise to attack when the questions about proof of birth/date/place /citizenship are asked. The questioners are racists, extreme right-wingers, lunatics etc.
Not an insignificant remission given the law in this country requires a specific citizenship for eligibility for President. This refusal to produce on request documentation of identity cannot be oversight. One of the first of Obama’s acts as Chief Executive of the USA was to SEAL from public review ALL documents of his provenance, i.e. identity, under Executive Order.
We have been entertained recently with his fictions in by his worshippers much acclaimed autobiography. Why then so little interest in requiring official identity papers of BH Obama via usual legal supports as certified by acknowledged lawful agencies? Admittedly the door to crucial earth shattering Constitutional Crisis, but what is the alternative? If not for the President to show legality, who then? All this in the USA in which “no man is above the law”.
That Obama has been reluctant to public examination of identifying documents, even to spending millions of dollars to keep the documents secreted is bizarre. That he has been allowed to do so witout outrage and outcry from the citizens is unworthy of any responsibile American.
A series of events that go to the heart of the USA of principle, ethics and law. A series of events that done by you and me would lead to officials examining every dotted i and crossed t in every document ever presented to anybody for anything. Yet the pre-eminent law officer of the land is permitted this mockery of the law. Without outrage, effective protest or effective opposition.
The documents advanced, only after long stonewalling, by the White House purporting to be Obama’s birth certificate have been examined by competent, disinterested, legally accreditied experts in document authentication and adjudged to be forgeries. Forgery is a criminal act. A petty criminal act. This under the auspices of BH Obama’s White House. Obama, a man essentially unknown, as the most powerful political officer in the world?
Doesn’t this worry anyone?
Actually the DNC had different wording on their form. Democratic Nominating Committee (DNC) language does NOT include language stating Obama is Qualified while the Republican Nominating Committee (RNC) document DOES. This shows a direct difference establishing that the DNC knew that Obama was not qualified.
The proper legal text used on the DNC Party “Official Certification of Nomination” document reads as follows;
“THIS IS TO CERTIFY that at the National Convention of the Democrat Party of the United States of America, held in Denver, Colorado on August 25 though 28, 2008, the following were duly nominated as candidates of said Party for President and Vice President of the United States respectively and that the following candidates for President and Vice President of the United States are legally qualified to serve under the provisions of the United States Constitution.”
This is the legal certification text on the DNC certified nomination document used for the DNC ticket:
“THIS IS TO CERTIFY that at the National Convention of the Democrat Party of the United States of America, held in Denver, Colorado on August 25 though 28, 2008, the following were duly nominated as candidates of said Party for President and Vice President of the United States respectively.”
The reference to Obama’s constitutional eligibility is missing. It had been removed from the document sent to the states.
The bogus version is in the Election Commission files of all fifty state Election Commission offices, and state DNC headquarters, complete with date stamps, matching signatures, even the same Notary of Public authentication.
The DNC drafted, signed and notarized TWO slightly different versions of their Official Certification of Nomination documents, not one.
One of those documents had complete legal language, and one of them was missing the text concerning the constitutional eligibility of Barack Hussein Obama.
The version which is absent any certification of constitutional standing for the office of President is the version that was filed with every state in the country, and the one used by the DNC to elect Barack Obama President.”
Canada Free Press (CFP) broke a story showing that Nancy Pelosi and Alice Travers Germond , as representatives of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), had signed one Certificate of Nomination for Obama and Biden that was sent to 49 states, and another that was sent only to Hawaii. Only the certificate sent to Hawaii included a statement that Obama and Biden were Constitutionally qualified to serve as President and Vice-President.
Currently President’s lawyers have filed a motion insisting that the voters have the ultimate power to decide if a person is eligible to hold office, not the US Constitution.
In one of the more bizarre arguments made on behalf of President Obama, his lawyers filed a motion in the Arizona eligibility court case asking that all challenges by the LLF be dismissed. The President’s lawyers argue that it is not the jurisdiction of the courts or the US Constitution to decide who can and can’t hold the office of President. Instead, President Obama’s attorneys insist the voters on election day have the final legal say.
In their attempt to serve papers on Democratic state organizations in Tennessee that vouched for Barack Obama’s legal ability to hold the office of US President, Van Irions and the LLF stumbled across a Democratic Party shell organization. The group calls itself the National Democratic Party USA.
Another issue in the legal battle in Arizona is the Democratic Party’s right to represent on Barack Obama’s candidate filings that he is eligible to serve as President. Admittedly, no Party officials or state government has ever verified Barack Obama’s eligibility to hold the office of President. And the DNC is arguing that preventing them from printing the words confirming Obama’s eligibility would be a violation of their First Amendment right to freedom of speech.
Van Irions, the LLF lead attorney counters, “We responded that the First Amendment does not grant the Democratic Party a right to commit fraud.”
They don’t think we’re stupid.
They realize that we are perfectly well aware that the Democrats steal every election they can. They just think that we are too cowardly or too apathetic to stick our necks out to demand effective voter identification.
And they are correct. There is no more America or Constitutional Republic.
The obvious reason that Obama, Holder, and the Democratic Party oppose proof of citizenship and voter ID, he writes, is that “vote fraud is a central Democrat strategy for ‘winning’ elections.”…“The Obama administration’s refusal to recognize the fundamental importance of an honest count only strengthens the growing notion that it seeks advantage, not justice.”
Hard to put that more succinctly.
Am I writing tongue in cheek or watching a tragedy unfold?
You’re watching a tragedy unfold.
I suggest a “voting card” similar to a credit card, which has to be verified
yearly on one’s birthday. If, when punched in at the polling place, there is
any question of it’s authenticity, no vote. If Master Card, Visa etc.. can get
it right, perhaps even our government might be able to.
But, absolutely, ID of some sort is necessary. The only naysayers will be those who cheat.
A national biometric, tamper-proof ID card would solve lots of problems in this country. I’ve never understood why conservatives object to such. I agree we’ll all entitled to privacy, but when one ventures into the public realm, he is not entitled to anonymity.
I fear Mr. Solway is correct. And I cannot help but feel shame for what has happened to our counry.
DS: “That the governing administration of a bellwether liberal nation should strenuously oppose fair voting practices…is almost beyond belief.”
“It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.” Joseph Stalin
RICO, RICO, RICO.
The Dems have been operating as an organized criminal enterprise forever. The Mafia never did this much damage to this country and its Constitution. Bribery, theft, extortion, money laundering…all coordinated and approved by the central committee.
That’s what RICO was made for.
november 2012 is it.
Freedom or call it what you will; fascism, totalitarianism, communism, marxism, statism, thugism, cronyism…it sure won’t be freedom.
Of course, when we stave it off, it will only be the first step. Romney will immdiately begin subverting the victory.
So he will have to be the next to go.
Excellent expose of corruption. And, it goes well beyond elections.
For far too long we have tolerated and winked at voter fraud. What is clearer every day is the blight on democracy when elections are stolen; we see the consequences now of past cheating.
Those committing voter fraud should be prosecuted, and we need to re-vamp laws so the punishment is severe; no short stay in a country-club facility; rather hard time at hard labor. Put ‘em out on a chain gang in stripes with their names on their backs.
The tough part may come after the next election if Conservatives win; the investigation of the present administration. Usually once officials leave office, their mis-deeds are forgotten, we cannot allow that to happen, but must go after the corruption.
One more idea to defend our democracy, executive clemency must end for those convicted of political corruption and election fraud. No more ‘get out of jail free” card. No more quid pro quo for dishonesty.
Use the National Guard. Have them control the ballot boxes akin to the two-man concept used for control of nuclear weapons: two people keeping eyes on the ballot boxes at all times (this means having enough Guardsmen at each polling place to rotate duty). When the ballots are collected and transported for counting, have the Guard convey them. Any ballots that arrive for counting and are not under Guard control, are deemed invalid.
There are no ballet boxes. It is done with software on a machine that has been proven to be easily tampered with. Then they are sent out of our country to be counted (a Spanish company known as Scytl – ran by ex Goldman-Sachs employees).
Bev Harris of blackboxvoting.org has studied voting systems in the United States extensively. According to her, the combination of SOE Software and Scytl is going to make it much more difficult for observers to independently verify the integrity of the voting results in many jurisdictions.
… yet another problem inherent with the software, according to critics. Elections and vote fraud expert Bev Harris of Black Box Voting says that the uniform system SCYTL now uses makes it nearly impossible to check for accuracy, given that it does not mandate a paper trail of votes. There is no proof, no written record, no documentation.
With the merging of SOE and SCYTL, that doesn’t work (when SCYTL’s voting system is used). When there are two truly independent sources of information, the public can perform its own “audit” by matching one number against the other.
These two independent sources, however, will now be merged into one single source: an Internet voting system controlled by SCYTL, with a results reporting system also controlled by SCYTL.
The American advocacy group Project Vote has concluded that SCYTL’s internet voting system is vulnerable to attack from the outside AND the inside, a situation which could result in ‘…an election that does not accurately reflect the will of the voters…’
In Broward County FL, the results reported by Scytl-owned SOE Software in 2008 showed an entire candidate, who was winning, disappear into vapor in the middle of the count, and in Hillsborough County FL and Dallas County TX, votes that had been reported began to disappear.
… those election returns are routed to individual, company servers, where the people who run them “…get ‘first look’ at results and the ability to immediately and privately examine vote details throughout the USA.” In short, “this redirects results …to a centralized privately held server which is not just for Ohio, but national; not just USA-based, but global.”
But although SKYTL’s self-proclaimed reputation for security had won the company the Congressionally approved task of handling internet voting for American citizens and members of the military overseas, upon opening the system for use in the District of Columbia, the University of Michigan fight song “The Victors” was suddenly heard after the casting of each ballot. The system had been hacked by U of M computer teachers and students in response to a challenge by SKYTL that anyone who wished to do so, might try!
In 2010, Washington, D.C.’s new electronic voting system installed by SCYTL was hacked. And during the South Carolina Republican Primary this year there were numerous reports of irregularities associated with the company’s electronic system.
An internationally-headquartered company, SCYTL, is now taking over online U.S. voting systems.
Former Goldman veterans own and control Scytl. Scytl is owned and controlled by a venture capital firm, Balderton, a venture capital firm that is run by Goldman Sachs veterans Tim Bunting and Mark Evans.
Scytl is in a unique position to not only control and tabulate the votes of U.S elections (in a foreign country, separate from U.S. law and oversight), but also control e-polls as well. And all of the control is backed by Goldman Sachs veterans.
Project Vote noted that in 2008, the Florida Department of State commissioned a review of SCYTL’s remote voting software and concluded, in part, that:
. The system is vulnerable to attack from insiders.
· In a worst case scenario, the software could lead to (1) voters being unable to cast votes; (2) an election that does not accurately reflect the will of the voters; and (3) possible disclosure of confidential information, such as the votes cast by individual voters.
. The system may be subject to attacks that could compromise the integrity of the votes cast.
The safest way for us to make sure that OUR votes get counted, and counted correctly is to go low tech. Put larger writing so all who vote can read it, with large boxes to be marked by hand in ink. Vote in private, count in public where all voters can watch, while it is videotaped.
That’s how all Canadian elections are done. Voters get a card in the mail advising them of their polling booth. They present that to vote. New residents must prove address and eligibility. Names are crossed off lists. The paper votes are marked by pencil and put into the ballot box by the Elections Canada-trained volunteer. Votes are counted in public with scrutineers from all parties present. There is no chance of fraud.
Where I live, they still use paper ballots. You fill in the box next to the name (or yes/no in referenda), then take it to a machine that scans and tabulates the results. But the ballots are kept for a while; in case there’s a challenge, they can always go back to the paper ballots.
So in some places, you still need to keep an eye on the ballot boxes.
Observers are very American vide the voting rights act.
The Obamaphones have contempt for the process, they see it as oppression and have not loyalty to it. If the majority ever realizes that, then they are going to be in serious trouble, perhaps to the level of physical threat.
When I was a Hopkins, in the 1960s, huge parts of the student body bought into it completely: for that reason I know it as it is, and resent its lies.
When will others see it too and looking beyond the pseudo-religious words to the idolatrous core.
Let foreign organizations and governments send in poll watchers? Vote verifiers? Election observers? And from which paragon of electoral virtue shall we obtain such people? Zimbabwe? South Africa? Liberia? Libya? Russia? France? Greece? Oh, wait; let’s ask the United Nations to send one its corrupt bureaucrats or fifty of them to observe our elections. There is not one single foreign government or NGO that does not wish the United States would Balkanize into a stew of fighting factions and regional splinter states. Not one that does not wish the U.S. all the ills that can befall a modern technological nation whose populace is busy killing each other rather that generating electricity and clean water. Have you lost your mind?
Ike, it would have been decent to read what Mr. Solway wrote before you insulted his mental stability.
He names a small number of possible countries, excluding every one that you list, and he specifically rejects Zimbabwe. Then he writes, “The United Nations, of course, should be avoided like the proverbial plague.”
You just made a fool of yourself.
You are assuming that the monitors are HONEST and not on the Obama or SOROS side or being PAID by them.
At this point in time I don’t trust anybody or any politician or even ALL the members of the Supreme Court the ACA health bill was “blessed.”
Sorry thats just the way it is after “O” has taken over the country.