Election Fraud Uncovered by Patriotic Citizens … Who Promptly Get Sued
Talk about denial! A group of liberal activists is making the media rounds, assuring reporters and editors that election fraud is a fairy tale. Nothing serious, they assert, nothing to see here. Too bad for them that citizens in Houston, energized by the Tea Party movement, have formed a group called True the Vote. Their hard work has demonstrated that, in some parts of the country at least, our election system is still infested with problems.
True the Vote is composed entirely of volunteers — hundreds of them. They have pored over election records in Harris County, Texas, looking for signs of fraud. And they have found plenty. Indeed, their initial research into only a very small portion of the voter registration records has led them to ask the U.S. Justice Department’s Voting Section to conduct a federal investigation.
In a letter asking for an official inquiry, True the Vote discusses potential widespread forgery in voter application forms. For instance, it seems from the applications that someone suspiciously signs the letter “J” with a quirky “3” inside the loop. The “3” shows up in multiple signatures for different voters with the names Jenard, Jamark, Jamarcus, and Jones.
True the Vote reports that at least four noncitizens have been registered to vote in Harris County. The group provided Justice with the actual voter registration forms where applicants marked “NO” to the question: “Are you a U.S. Citizen?” The group also provided the voter registration numbers of these confessed noncitizens. Yes, astonishingly, Harris County registered them to vote anyway. They are now on the rolls and able to participate in the upcoming midterm elections.
The Help America Vote Act of 2002 was supposed to stop this from happening. But this federal legislation is only as good as the Justice Department’s willingness to enforce it. If Harris County is registering noncitizens, then it is violating numerous provisions of federal law, including those that prohibit the registration of foreigners to vote in federal elections.
True the Vote uncovered other types of fraud as well. The group forwarded to DOJ seven voter registration forms with applicant names different from the signature name. For example: Ta’mackayn Harrison’s application was signed by “Bra Kelly.” Jason King’s was signed by “Jemma Noel.” Yet Harris County inexplicably approved all of these applications. Jason King, aka Jemma Noel, is now on the voter rolls in Houston.
The citizens group also found multiple registrations for individual voters. For example, True the Vote provided the Justice Department government documents showing that at least four persons, including Jose Gomez and Victor Nickerson, had registered to vote multiple times successfully.
These problems were found by True the Vote in just a small sampling of the county’s voter registration list. How many other, similar problems would turn up in a comprehensive review? Don’t forget: every vote counts. Which also means that every legitimate vote cancelled out by a fraudulent vote should be a concern to anyone interested in fair elections and protecting the right to vote.
This sort of thing can happen only when election officials flout Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act, which requires them to clean up their voter registration lists. But this Department of Justice seems to have no interest in enforcing these laws. In testimony before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, DOJ whistleblowers Christopher Coates and J. Christian Adams revealed that Obama Justice Department political appointee Julie Fernandes instructed the Voting Section that no such cases were to be brought. That directive gives free rein to voter registration fraud. Bogus registrants can now cast a fraudulent vote with confidence that the election police are asleep.
For years, the far left has insisted that voter fraud really doesn’t exist, or at least that claims about it are overblown. In so doing, the left has willfully blinded itself to the truth. But the arrival of True the Vote is helping expose the lies of these election fraud deniers.
Its “Army of Davids” approach brings to bear hundreds of volunteers to spend hundreds of hours examining documents and searching for patterns, like the mysterious “3” that afflicts so many letter “J’s” in Houston, or finding vacant lots at the registered addresses of multiple voters. Moreover, it means hundreds will serve as election judges and poll watchers on election day. True the Vote is the election fraud denier’s worst nightmare, because the group is helping prove definitively that fraud is real and too often overlooked by election officials.
These people are courageous. No doubt they will be savagely vilified by the Leftist Obamamania media just like they did to Joe the Plumber. I suspect tht SEIU and their offshoots will have some of them beaten up, or even disappear under “mysterious circumstances”
I would caution that this posting sounds like a subtle troll threat. Pose as a sympathetic post, but slip in a physical threat. It is preposterous that there is really any threat, yet this poster posts the possibility. One can make threats a variety of ways. I think the poster has found one.
Many German Jews believed the threats were unreal. A few escaped in time, many others…not so much. It is comforting to embrace the belief that America is much more civilized than Germany was, and to believe “never again.”
Isn’t it.
To John and Polly:
I am a long-time poster here, and can assure I am not a troll. This post is in fact very consistent with many other posts I have had at PJM, in which I believe there is basically no limit to what the left will do to silence dissent from a growing and assertive Tea Party/Conservative moment, whether that be cheating, threats or even violence.
Just remember how the SEIU beat up black Tea Partier Ken Gladney. A story the MSM did not cover.
Just remember how Joe the Plumber was trashed by both Democratic officials and willing accomplices in the MSM, when confidential information about him was released — all for asking a simple question of Obama, who came up to Joe, not the other way around.
Just remember how the CBC and the MSM lied about racist taunts as Pelosi and the CBC went up the steps of the Capitol – disproved by Breitbart, yet the media still puts out these lies.
No John, I’m not a troll. I am just well read on the history of the left. They murdered more than 100 million people in less than 100 years. Do you think stealing an election or beating up some activists will bother them?
Bullshit.
The OP did not invent union violence and thuggery.
John: “It is preposterous that there is really any threat.” Have you forgotten the MO black man who was beaten by SEIU thugs because he had the temerity to be a Conservative? The liberal who bit off the finger of a man who voiced political beliefs with which the biter disagreed? There is a plethora of similar reports, will not bother to cite more such stories. Progressives have been known to be violent, so i must take issue with your comment; it was rude to accuse Eric of being a troll. The “democrats” are trying their best to steal seats, just as they did with Al Frankenstein, and as with AF, i fear they will succeed. We can only hope these law suits come before real judges, not political hacks.
SEIU might mean something in a foreign language, but it have very little meaning in Texas. Beating up people in Texas is also much more difficult than say San Fran, NYC or Boston because in Texas SEIU could be slang for shot dead.
Acutally, in San Francisco proper, it isn’t very easy to beat up someone. I was never so at ease walking the Tenderloin with my ex-wife, as when we had a lesbian couple or two walking behind us. Even after we divorced, I knew I had nothing to fear in those circumstances.
The other cities in the San Francisco Bay area are a totally different story.
We really should have been more worried about this, and much sooner. Prophylactic measures are needed, and too few of us have thought about them.
There will be no bloodless revolution.
so what happens now…
someone with leverage and power needs to step in and help the people , and this needs to happen all over America.
I hope PJM and FOX will follow through on all of this. It is important and the fraud would explain soooooooo much..
I have always suspected that THAT was the only possible way that Obama could have won the 2008 election. I have too much faith in my fellow Americans to believe that 52% of the electorate could have voted for that street hustler.
The only reason why Al Gore called for a recount in 2000 was because he had been reassured that so many fraudulent votes had been cast that he had good reason to be skeptical, perplexed and astonished that he had lost. In 2008, the Democrats cast EVEN MORE fraudulent votes to ensure that their candidate wouldn’t come up short again, hence, the fraudulent, supposedly high turn out for Obama.
Democrats are so slimy. Lying, cheating and stealing is a way of life for all of them.
Yes, the Left is cheating, lying, defrauding, and stealing 24/7. What you ought to do is to think about this story, and then wonder why people are still telling you that your remedy lies in the ballot box. You are betting your freedom on a coin-flip, and both sides of the coin are ‘heads’.
Because we owe it to the Republic to give voting one more chance. Violence is permissible only as an absolute last resort. Only after the government has declared war on us or has made it clear that fair elections are impossible will we take up arms to kill the tyrants.
It’s time to start thinking about what would constitute clear evidence that rebellion is the only way out.
We have a Justice Department that refuses to investigate violations of voters’ rights if the victims are white.
We have a State Department that kowtows to dictators and tyrants while giving our allies the cold shoulder.
We have a regulatory apparatus that believes it has plenipotentiary power over every aspect of American life.
We have Congressmen openly expressing contempt for the Constitution.
We have a Speaker of the House who claims that the “general welfare” clause in Article I Section 8 empowers Congress to legislate about whatever it pleases.
We have Senators incapable of forming a coherent sentence.
We have at least five Supreme Court Justices who disbelieve in private property.
We have at least two Supreme Court Justices who deny that individual Americans have a fundamental right to own weapons.
We have as a president an icon of condescending arrogance, who openly announced his goal of “fundamentally transforming America” so he can “spread the wealth around.”
And we have two major political parties, neither one of which appears at all unhappy with the status quo, but which get very exercised when one of their chosen ones loses a primary to an “outsider.”
Exactly what are we waiting for? Fiery letters in the sky?
We’re waiting for them to fire the first shot, or to engage in such flagrant election fraud or refusal to abide by the result that there can be no legitimate question that the people claiming to be the government are not the duly elected government. Only when the government makes war on its own people or those who claim power have no legal claim to it is rebellion justified.
How many elections must be stollen before we realize it isn’t working? Gore almost did it with the hanging chads. Obama certainly had lots of “help” winning ; and Al Frankin cheated right out in the open. So, what is it going to take? What will be “the last straw”? It seams if Republicans don’t win by 10- 15 points, they may not win at all. I live in Harris county and with reps like shelia jackson lee and al green you can count on voting irregularities
This Early Voting is leading us right into the hands of the Leftist.
The left believes the adage of their hero, Joe Stalin — it is not those who cast the votes who determine the election, it is those who count the votes.
The voting rights issue of our time. The tea party movement is the new civil rights movement.
You apparantly don’t understand what civil rights are if you think that a party that only appeals to a small minority of entitled elderly white Christian people is a civil rights movement.
Yea, as long as people of color stay on your plantation, they won’t get lynched.
Entitled? The women (and men) referred to are the ones who for decades got out of their beds and headed off to work to support their families; attending church on the weekends and donating/volunteering for charities of all sorts.
The “civil rights” (people) you seem to be defending are the ones who get out of bed and head for the kitchen to fetch the new boyfriend (and father of the next illegimate baby) a beer, then spend the weekend either shooting up drugs or the ‘hood. The only time they’ll enter a church is to ask for a handout to see them through the rest of the month. Oh yeah, they do that.
Here’s a thought: get off your duff and start feedin’ what yer breedin’? Not being forced through taxation to subsidize irresponsibility is a civil right too.
Yeah, elderly white people… like Condoleeza Rice, Joseph Cao, Bobby Jindal, J. C. Watts, Lynn Swann, Michael Steele, Nikki Haley…
I know you change your moniker often, perhaps it’s time you changed your shtick. I don’t even have to think hard to refute your talking points.
…..Ryan Frazier, Star Parker, Angela McGlowan, Allen West, Charles Lollar, Charles Djou, Van Tran…..
There is a direction crisis in your post. It is unclear which class is orchestrating or receptive, whichever the case may be, to an “appeal”: The Tea Party, and entitled elderly white Christian people, being the two classes. The classes cannot be the same, because then your logic would be circular. However, if we analyze both cases separately (giving the benefit of doubt that you didn’t accidentally use circular logic) we can figure which makes the most sense with or without your clarification. That is, Are you saying, The Tea Party is only actively appealing towards EEWCP, or are EEWCP the only people who are attracted to the Tea Party? Which do you mean? And please provide proof… because to me, both seem false.
“Don’t tell me words don’t matter.” – Barack Obama
Yep, them whitey’s be a big threat! If yu kant beet them, cheet em!
neither small nor all white. predominately white, sure; but we are the ones who will be brought down from our 65-90K incomes to “level the playing field and give some other people their chance”. I worked for my “chance”, worked damn hard. And I don’t feel like sitting still while all I’ve earned is distributed. Some americans have come to believe they can vote themselves money; and it’s true, you can vote yourself money. But only at the cost of democracy and eventualy, freedom.
Very well put, Steve. I had not thought about it that way but you are absolutely right.
One word: SLAPP.
The lawsuits against True the Vote sound like pretty classic “Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation,” a kind of attack on the constitutional right to petition the government for redress of grievances. I don’t know if Texas has an anti-SLAPP statute, but I’ll bet Liberty Institute is looking into it. Hit the bastards in their pocketbooks for abusing the courts and trying to intimidate True the Vote.
“The Obama Justice Department has demonstrated a shocking willingness to ignore laws protecting the security and integrity of elections. That should comes as no surprise given both the increasingly partisan approach to law enforcement undertaken by this Department under Eric Holder’s leadership, and the dogged determination of Holder’s ideological comrades who deny that voter fraud occurs, or that common sense measures like voter ID are needed.”
I hope that when the Republicans take back Congress one of the first things they do is bring Eric Holder up on charges. Between this and the Black Panter case, Holder has proven to be nothing more than a political hack rather than an Attorney General. Memo to Holder: You have to protect the rights of ALL Americans, not just the ones you like. The man should be forced out of office immediately to answer these serious charges.
Agreed. I can’t help but think that Eric Holder and all of the other DOJ officials and state election officials complicit in this have everything to gain (politically) and nothing to lose (personally) by rigging the election. We not only need to press charges, but those senior officials whose responsibility it is to ensure fair elections need to be locked up for decades if they fail to fulfill their obligation to the very best of their ability. They need some very strong incentives to ensure they do their jobs fairly and correctly. The very well-being of the nation relies on it.
Law suits have become the defacto method of choice to act as an injunction against further immediate action or disclosure, especially for the enemies with in.
You can count on there something being to this if a law suit has been filed.
Actually, I expect that the DoJ is actively investigating True the Vote for violation of Federal Law, and they have undoubtedly been told they had better find something, preferably before 2 November. THAT is what “Law Enforcement” in the US has become. Be sure to thank them appropriately for the OUTSTANDING job they have done!
okay..kidding right.
If phoney voter was registered as Satan & the address given as hell, they would be allowed to vote as long as the registration was for the demwits…
…. the Left insists voter fraud doesn’t exist … and in so insisting, the Left has willfully blinded itself to the truth ….
Rubbish.
In so insisting, the Left, that owns and operates the nation’s and every state’s and every county’s every election machine, machination, bureau, office and agency (by far the western world’s most corrupted) is only lying.
The only ones blinded to that truth are those Americans who blindly project only goodness and moral integrity and veracity and honesty on our “public servants.”
We, The People.
True the Vote has a donation link at their website, http://www.truethevote.org/
Fighting fraud costs money, and so does hiring lawyers.
Democrats willfully cheating? How could that be? If like I were you raised in Chicago, this situation would not surprise!
What an outstanding report. I have been following Pajamas Media reports for a couple of years, and have found meticulously researched stories. We should be concerned, especially after the ‘official’ investigation into the voter fraud that occurs with absentee ballots and the military. Could you do a report on that as well? It is high time the word got out that ‘discrimination’ and ‘bigotry’ exists, especially against the Armed Forces.
Once again, well done!
folks, this is exacly what our Founding Fathers were warning us about. there is a lot at stake this electon, our country. when you try to steal an election, you are committing a crime. neglecting to enforce the laws protecting us is a crime. fraud is a crime. the enabler of a crime is a criminal too; and, just like in the old Westerns, the top dog leading the rest will need to be rounded up in the end as well.
these pigs at the government trough will not go w/o a fight. if they won’t protect us and enforce the laws what good are they? i submit that they have every intention of stealing these elections. the undocumented, uncertified halfwit that leads them has no intention of protecting us by enforcing the laws equally. if anything, they will try, like here, to obfuscate the issues and do whatever they can to remain in power.
when this happens, it will be a ‘now or never’ moment for real Americans. what are you and just exactly when will you stand? the more you have to protect, the more who want it and the more expensive it is to defend. looks to me like we have let the villains/robbers in, and now we must protect what is ours, or be their servants. they openly show their hand. apathy is no longer an option. kypd
And the left continues its assault on American freedoms secure in the knowledge that the right values truth and honor too much to stoop to their unde4rhanded tactics. No different than the contrast in the condition of the National Mall following a leftist event versus a right event.
The far left are not ‘deniers’, they are simply conspirators, as is the Holder justice dept and the White House.
We know from EVERY poll that true lefties are a <20% minority, and Democrats don't all vote solid left (they certainly won't be doing that this time)… anywhere from 40 to 65% of this country self-identifies as 'conservative' in many polls…
In short, the only way Democrats can win the big elections that aren't concentrated in tiny gerrymandered districts is to CHEAT. LBJ taught us how. Al Franken was the beneficiary of the skills.
Democrats can always manufacture hundreds or even thousands of votes.
We, therefore, must beat them by TENS of thousands if we are to be confident in an outcome.
It is an impossibility in smaller districts with few residents.
They cheat, and win by cheating, and there is nothing we can do about it.
No wonder Stephen Broden said that a violent revolution couldn't be off the table. How long will good people simply sit down and endure this? It leads directly to Stalinism, to thought control, to the end of elections, to the gulag… they are well on that road… and they can ONLY be stopped by losing elections.. but they CHEAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is how the communist party controlled Soviet elections, and how it was done in every totalitarian state. And eventually, the secret police let you know they were looking at your votes and if you voted for the wrong guy there was a price to pay.
How long 'til we get that here? Remember Obama's call for a domestic police force, as well funded and equipped as the army? I do.
What an example the Democrat party is displaying for those countries our Service persons are protecting against voter fraud. We need our service members here in our own country to guard against the very persons that are behind this crime against the American population of voters
The Democrat Party has no standing to file this suit unless they are involved in the fraud.
And the question becomes, what do you do when the crooks have literally taken over your government? Especially when the crooks seem to be happy to employ the modes and methods of the Mafia.
I’ve always thought Republicans/conservatives (I know, not necessarily the same) are too civilized to compete in the animal world of the Democrats. I continue to believe there aren’t enough who are uncivilized enough to compete on the field with the New Black Panthers, SEIU, whatever ACORN now calls itself, and others, especially when they are protected by “The Law” (many of whom are just as uncivilized).
So the question remains, what do you do?
“I’ve always thought Republicans/conservatives (I know, not necessarily the same) are too civilized to compete in the animal world of the Democrats.”
You think the GOP, which ordered the CIA and the military to torture Iraqi civilians and children, and which played the banjo while New orleans drowned, is too “civilized” to compete with Democrats? How do you connect to the internet from the alternate universe you live in? You must have a powerful router.
I like to see documentation of your charge that “the GOP” … “ordered the CIA and the military to torture Iraqi civilians and children,” and it’s beyond humorous to blame New Orleans’ problem on Republicans. In a city and state run by Democrats for generations, none of them believed the predictions that their levees might fail unless reinforced, or if they did, they never saw the need to direct the billions of federal and state tax dollars sent to the state toward reinforcing those levees. The Democrats in charge of the city and the state were stupid, lazy, corrupt and partisan and refused the help offered by President Bush until it was too late.
Still, I’ve heard the term “union thugs” far more often than “Tea Party thugs,” and I’ve never heard of a Tea Party participant beating anyone up, as the SEIU thugs did to the black man participating in a Tea Party gathering. You, Pastor, are full of baloney.
Gee, what did Democratic New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin do while Katrina was heading his way? For all we know, he was perfecting his gumbo recipe, because he certainly wasn’t preparing the city he was elected to lead to face the hurricane.
What about Democratic Governor of Louisiana Kathleen Blanco? What did she do?
Those two people had the primary responsibility for preparing the state… that they didn’t and that the federal government had to step in is a mark of shame to anyone who understands the issue.
A leftist trolling the sites. If you can’t beat them, cheat them! Isn’t that the Alinsky way?
It just might come down to employing the second amendment!
the obama administration is taking it’s cues from Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and Chavez of Venezuela
welcome to africa
Venezuela, where Chavez runs things, is in South America, not Africa…..
As awful as various actions of the Obama Administration’s Department of Justice have been under Eric Holder’s management, there is evidence that similar practices have been SOP (standard operating procedure) for some time.
During the hub-bub over AG Alberto Gonzalez’ firing of US Attorneys during the Bush years, for example, one lawyer in private practice (who wished to remain anonymous for fear of retribution) revealed in blog posts a disturbing DoJ habit: When complaints of suspected voter fraud were received, the Justice Department routinely chose to ignore them — instead opting to investigate the whistle-blowers (for possible “vote suppression”).
That strikingly mirrors the current situation in Texas. And it reveals something of the mindset of entrenched careerists at DoJ: a leftist, Democrat-friendly approach to the performance of one’s duties. As many other federal agencies appear to be, DoJ seems infested with staffers and managers whose first loyalty is to political ideology (and, perhaps, to a particular party) rather than to the law — or even to the Constitution.
It was a problem that existed before Barack Obama was elected and Eric Holder was appointed. But it has been exacerbated since they each took office.
I just want to point out that True the Vote is a 501c(3) organization, and they accept online donations. No, I’m not a member, but I do approve of what they’re doing.
Why not deploy the National Guard as pollwatchers? Have them watch the ballot boxes and then convey them to wherever the votes are tallied. This way, boxes of votes that mysteriously show up at the last minute, but not under the control of a Guardsman, are immediately suspect.
When the DoJ did not prosecute the New Black Panthers for voter intimidation, it sent the message that this behavior would not be punished. That was a green light for voter intimidation and voter fraud.
I also think it would be reasonable to have the National Guard around the polling places.
This is an ignorant comment. The National Guard in each State is under the control of the Governor of that State. 36 of the Governors are Democrats.
You miss the fact that Democrats control the country, from top to bottom. They control the vast majority of legislatures. They are the vast majority of Secs of State. Same for AG positions. The police are all unionized, which support Dems. They have the WH and both Houses of Congress. Increasingly, they control the judiciary. They control the schools. They control the media.
The 2008 election was the end of our Republic. All the Republicans can do is vote no. Even then, the Dems will just “deem” something to have passed. (It didn’t pass, but we’ll just say it did.) The Constitution has no meaning in practice. See, if the folks who are charged with enforcing the rules are co-conspirators, then the law and the Constitution have no meaning.
The only way to re-establish our Republic is for enough people to turn out, not just to vote, but to be the Citizens who will enforce the laws at the polls. Bring your guns, because they will be needed. There will be no civilized discourse at the polls, when the other side will be trying to steal elections. Make sure lots of your friends are around with guns, too, because the cops will be called, and you with the gun, will be seen as the threat. You will have to be willing to use your guns. If you are willing to, then you may not have to.
The way to decide how to use limited numbers of National Guards might involve focussing on the most egregiously gerrymandered districts. Slate provides a slideshow of 20:
http://www.slate.com/id/2208216/slideshow/2208554/fs/0//entry/2208555/
Having found those with Republican governors, you would then prioritize them by population.
Why would Republican governors refrain from using every resource available to them? Victory is a ratchet.
About bringing guns, I leave that decision to each individual, but no one should neglect to bring a CAMERA. Most digital cameras can shoot about 10 minutes of good quality video. Ballots, not bullets while we still have any window of opportunity. Shooting video and posting to YouTube is a far more effective way to bring down the Leftist, statist narrative than shooting guns.
Such violence would play right into the MSM stereotype of violent, bigoted Tea Partiers. It is just the excuse they are itching for: you know they don’t like to waste any emergency.
From Wikipedia:
There are currently 26 Democrats, 23 Republicans, and 1 Independent holding the office of governor in the states, and 3 Democrats, 2 Republicans (one is also a member of the New Progressive Party), and 1 Covenant Party member as governor of United States Territories and mayor of Washington, D.C.
There are a record 37 governorships up for grabs this Nov. 2.
How many polling places will there be during this election? How many National Guardsmen are available to staff those polling places?
I suspect there aren’t enough National Guardsmen to put even one person at each and every polling place. If I’m right about that, then how will you choose which polling places get a Guardsman? That assuming one Guardsman per polling place is deemed sufficient. Given that the polls are open for a fairly long time on Election Day and that any Guardsman is going to need at least a break or two along the way, even if just to answer the call of nature, it might be advisable to have at least two Guardsmen at each polling place to prevent any malfeasance while the first one is using the restroom. If it is felt that more than one Guardsman is required at each polling place, then you reduce the number of polling places which can be staffed even further. Again, how will you decide which ones get Guardsmen? How will you protect polling places that don’t have Guardsmen? Those would appear to be ripe targets for malfeasance….
“how will you choose which polling places get a Guardsman?”
Priority goes to the places that have had problems in the past. For example, in Texas, the Houston area has had ballot counting issues. Ditto for a handful of counties in Washington state.
If the public (perhaps via the Tea Party) started raising the issue loudly enough, the governors (even the Democrat governors) might feel compelled to provide a position on why or why not to do it. Which gets them on record, if nothing else. Perhaps another nail in the coffin, especially if problems occur after the polls close.
I think Thomas Jefferson said it best “When injustice becomes law, then rebellion becomes duty”. If turning a blind eye to voter fraud is not injustice, please tell me what is. The DOJ has become nothing more then a political arm for the White House and justice for the American people is ill served by it today.
Jefferson also said, “Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.”
My all-time favorite Jefferson quote: “Where government fears the people, there is liberty. Where the people fear the government, there is tyranny.” Not coincidentally, the protagonist in V for Vendetta said essentially the same thing. Too bad the election isn’t on Nov. 5.
Sign me up!
“If the government proves incapable of protecting electoral integrity, the people can.”
Your very article proves that the people CAN’T.
Turning evidence over to the DOJ gets them slapped with investigations and counter suits.
It’s over, you know.
Keep your mouth shut. You are a subversive. You are helping the enemy.
The more I see of Obama’s “transformed America”, the angrier I get that we allowed these thugs into office.
Good luck to True the Vote and to Harris County, TX. And good luck to the rest of us. Don’t forget Stalin’s maxim, “It’s not the people who vote that count, it’s the people who count the votes”. I assure you the cheaters don’t forget.
Where are the names? Who is the Clerk in Harris county?
By what mechanism does this scrutiny come about? Can any group of ordinary citizens request samples of the voter roles? This needs to spread like wildfire all over the nation! We need a “recipe” for action.
True the Vote is writing the recipe. After this election, their model goes nationwide. Sign up. Stay tuned.
Voter lists and records are public information and can be looked at by anyone. You can also get copies of voter registration lists, however you will have to pay for copying them.
Look at “Colorado Model” and the Texas millionaire Mark Angle. Houston Votes was run by an SEIU official who also ran the Colorado voter registration. The groups you name above have not only sued TTV, they’ve sued the King Street Patriots, a large and very active Tea Party group that does a lot more than just hold rallies; TTV was their brainchild.
The local media is sandbagging the story, as usual, but if you want good local coverage, see Texas Watchdog.
“For years, the far left has insisted that voter fraud really doesn’t exist, or at least that claims about it are overblown. In so doing, the left has willfully blinded itself to the truth.”
No, they are flat-out LYING.
I distinctly remember a leftist who used to post frequently on political newsgroups to the effect that the REPUBLICANS had “stolen” the 2000 and 2004 elections through voting irregularities. He claimed that the Republican Party had a secret agreement with Diebold, who makes some significant proportion of the voting machines, to make those machines misreport their results in favour of the Republicans. He thought this plan was so ingenious that it guaranteed Republican victories for every future election. I never saw him posting after the 2008 election though, which was disappointing. I was hoping to ask him to explain how the Republicans had lost despite this supposedly foolproof plan of the Republicans…..
Countless numbers of black and brown skinned radicals believe they have a right to cheat. It is merely a matter of payback for past injustices. They feel entitled to break the law and are enraged that anyone might disagree. Dissenters are deemed racists and outright scumbags. And why should anyone be surprised? This is what has been implicitly, if not even explicitly taught at many of the top universities—especially by law professors.
White radicals don’t cheat? Why are you making this a racial issue when it doesn’t have to be? I know Obama & Co want to get race card mileage points out of it, but why help them? Justifying any means to get the end you want is a pan-racial political disorder.
How are you gentlemen !! All your vote are belong to us. You are on the way to destruction.
Investigation of the politicized Justice Dept. must be one of the first items on the new Republican House agenda.
“It’s not the people who vote that count, but the people who count the votes.” – Joe Stalin
The secretary of state is responsible in each state for the integrity of elections, which includes the voter rolls. It’s why pappa George Soros poured so much money into Secretary of State elections in those states which elect the Sect’y of State. It bought influence and winning candidates he supported.
Texas was not one of those states. The Sect’y of State in Texas is an appointed position. Esperanza ‘Hope’ Andrade(R) was appointed to that position in 2008 by Gov. Rick Perry(R).
Upon being sworn in, she announced, “As the chief elections officer of Texas, I will protect the integrity of elections as part of our democratic process — a process that Texans value and respect…”
Mrs. Andrade’s email is secretary@sos.state.tx.us
The website is http://www.sos.state.tx.us/index.html
The office phone is 512-463-5770
Citizens being sued for doing their civic duty? Lawyers are the new priesthood and they are the mercenaries of our wanna-be fascist masters.
Let Sect’y of State Andrade(R) know what you think.
I think the time has come to call hugo chavez to help holder investigate vote counting in texas. Wait a minute-perhaps he is already there!
Pretty sad that the only way the GOP can win these days is by trying to trick blacks and Latinos into thinking they are not eligible to vote. The GOP continues to die a slow and painful death, and this is just more proof.
It’s equally sad that someone apparently tricked those people who admitted that they were not citizens into believing they were eligible to vote. And since it’s the Democrats who are fighting this investigation, I tend to believe it’s the Democrats who tricked them.
It’s pretty sad that the only way the Dems can win these days is by trying to register non-citizens so they think they are eligible to vote. The DEMS continue to dig a deeper hole of desperation and this is just more proof. DUrrhh, Dur, Durrhh ,Durhhh.
Off your meds. again? Oops, sorry that’s a Democrat comment.
News flash:
Non-citizens aren’t eligible to vote in American elections.
I’m sure that your OfA handler either told you different, or didn’t mention it at all.
I think the Founding Fathers had it right. They knew how to keep the riffraff out of the polling place, back then only property owners had the right to vote. It was a good rule then and it would especially be a good rule now, it would prevent those who are sucking at the teat of welfare largess, and other government programs, from fulfilling Alex Tytler’s prophecy that reads in part; “A democracy can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure.”, likewise, government employees should not be able to vote on issues that determine the size of their paychecks. That’s called a conflict of interest.
Just thinkin’.
re: voter qualifications (dead or alive).
The solution is to insure that anything that can be decided by less than 50M+1 voters overriding the desires of 50M-1, is. We should disestablish the central (which is now so different it appears to many as a foreign) government for all-things-domestic. And insist that local jurisdictions on the order of 300,000 souls decide and take responsibility for these decisions. Connecting action with consequence will deal with most of this silliness, enabled by the freedom of the electorate to vote not only with their ballot, but with their feet. Then these communities (larger than most of the original states, and as productive as all but a few of the world’s largest companies, will compete with each other for the favor of the citizen and their enterprise. For needs larger than a community, they will form their own voluntary associations (like today’s interstate compacts). No different than big corporations downsizing headquarters’ staff in the 70s and 80s to compete with their smaller competitors who used information technology and networks to expose the frailties of the Carnegie and Sloan industrial-age command-and-control organizations.
It’s time for the conservatives to tell D.C. they expect the domestic agencies to go to these communities of 300,000 and ask, hat in hand, for support of their existing products and processes, and if/when they can’t raise the funding, go out of business. Those that survive will have turned from masters to employees and all these ills will be behind us. Ditto the federal entitlements. “I’m sorry, we failed, there’s nothing in the cash-box but transfer payments and IOUs against future generations. We’re bankrupt. Here’s all the federal property we own, we’re transferring title to you, the municipalities that contain them or reside nearby.”
The communities will then decide who votes, and voters-and-not can decide where they want to live.
Granted, this assumes we actually are willing to trust our citizens to do the right thing, and for competition between communities to correct all major ills.
Why do the voters not have to show proof of ID when voting?
Lets see now; only real property owners could vote. Real property is usually incumbered with property taxes. Could property taxes therefore be construed to be a poll tax? How would that fly in the courts?
Not a problem. Poll taxes are viewed unfavorably because they are a way of keeping the poor from being able to vote. Property owners have to pay the property taxes anyway. (shrug)
The 24th Amendment prohibits poll taxes only for federal elections. It would be interesting to see what the feds would do if a state imposed such a tax to vote at the state level and below. It wouldn’t be hard to issue distinctive registration cards for those who didn’t pay the tax, then give them ballots with the federal races removed.
An even better way to clean up the process would be to prohibit govt. employees or other beneficiaries from voting at that level of govt., as they are a built-in tax-and-spend constituency. IOW, federal employees and welfare recipients could not vote in federal elections, state employees/beneficiaries in statewide elections, etc. Again, registration cards could easily be changed to include restriction codes, just as driver’s licenses do now.
Also, the 23rd Amendment should be repealed, depriving the Democrats of 3 guaranteed electoral votes. Those who live in DC should be considered legal residents of their home states and be required to vote absentee in those states, the same as military personnel.
I look forward to the expansion of True the Vote to the Dallas area. The most important thing is to uncover and expose voter registration and election problems. Truth is an absolute defense.
Not sure how much of this is due to malice and how much is due to incompetence, but there is plenty of incompetence in government. Seems to me that this type of problem is concentrated in the dysfunctional urban areas where competence is in short supply. Good thing that only a minority of legislators represent districts of dysfunction, so it should be possible to pass state laws requiring photo ID, no 3rd party handling of voter registration forms and ballots, making absentee ballots provisional, requiring unique color/marking for provisional ballots, etc. to limit the damage.
Did people really think that the Left would play fair in 2010 when they went to the lengths they did in 08? I’m afraid that it is too late now to do anything about this,it is more than likely going on all over the country. The only thing we might be able to do is go to court and demand the election be postponed until EACH AND EVERY voters name is verified for legitimacy and also that they are US citizens.
“True the Vote”? Wow, that is one grammatical trainwreck. It sounds like they’re talking about a loveable character in a children’s story. How about “True the Talking Dog”?
Merriam Webster, 11th Ed.
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: to make level, square, balanced, or concentric : bring or restore to a desired mechanical accuracy or form
Ignoramus…
I bet he thinks plum is just a fruit and square is just a shape.
You imply that election judges have the power to prevent this kind of voter fraud. In Texas, they do not. As judge, if a 25 year old male comes in with a voter registration card that says he is a 75 year old female, I am not permitted to question the validity of the registration card. By definition, he is a ‘perfect’ voter, with the proper identification, and must be allowed to vote. The only thing I am permitted to do if I suspect fraudulent identification is to report it after the fact. My role in preventing voter fraud is to prevent voting for those without identification. Think a lock which keeps out the casual burglar, but not the professional.
In response to #42 Barbara, voters do have to show proof of identity. A voter registration card, among other things, is considered a valid identification for voting. So is a utility bill, and many other similar items. A voter only has to provide a photo ID if they did not provide sufficient identification details (SSN, driver’s license #) at registration time. It is up to the county elections office to properly vet voter registrations.
Bravo to True the Vote for keeping the counties honest, and write to your local state rep/senator to ask them to pass legislation requiring photo ID to vote.
The Texas Democratic Party should own up to their very own election fraud. Boyd Richie certified for ballot a candidate to be eligible for office as required by Texas state law, but when asked for documentation as proof of eligibility, he has no answer, which breaks another Texas state law regarding public records. Find out the details; http://jbjd.org/2010/01/26/remember-the-alamo/
This series of articles are fact based on research of the Texas state statutes (laws).
I read a great book once about LBJ’s massive cheating in his first Senatorial election. His most successful ploys were registering illegal voters, mostly Hispanic, and creating voters out of dead people. Limbaugh claimed that Obama wanted to be the new Roosevelt. Maybe, but he looks indeed like some combination of the young LBJ and socialist vote-stealers like Chavez etc.
This sort of corruption leads to bad things. In a variant of this, the Israeli Labor Party in the person of now-President Shimon Peres, made a deal with Yasir Arafat in ’92 – Arab Israeli mass votes for Labor, and a Palestinian state for Arafat and his ragtag terrorists. Another variation of this kind of behavior expressed itself in the NGO’s organized by now-Minister Itzhik Herzog for Ehud Barak in 1999. Apparently quite illegal, but since the Left is influential in Israel, no investigation. That also doubles back to the US Democratic Party since Bill Clinton, who reminds me of LBJ in some ways, helped organize the financing for Barak through his friend Marc Rich, and sent James Carville to Israel to help run Ehud’s campaign in ’99.
‘Democracy’ is often abused, and has been, and will be. Obama has taken things to a new level, using the Justice Dept, racial entitlement, and the ‘we got ours now, baby’ thinking taught in the universities (as a poster correctly wrote earlier). Obama is a disaster.
Of course the left insists voter fraud doesn’t exist. If not for election fraud and media bias, they’d never win an national election.
“Such overt investigative steps may chill legitimate voting activities.” Why would anyone who is legitimately registered and eligible to vote fear the overt investigation of voter fraud? This DOJ regulation is just a ruse to make sure that voter fraud does happen and I would bet anything it is a direct result of ACORN “lobbying” efforts.
This surprises you! Welcome to the Banana Republic of the US. Starring dictator Obama and Holder his enforcer! Why do we even have elections? Obama`s czars rule over us!
So basically the Democrat Base is illegal aliens, felons, fictional characters, ghosts and fraudsters. Nice to know. The fact that election integrity is such a partisan issue tells you everything you need to know about the Democrats’ respect for fair elections and democracy.
The hypocrisy and irony of liars: first the right wing media, PJM included of course, tried to mightily to blow up this inconsequencial incident involving some watchful Black Panthers outside of a polling station into a BFD; and then they turn around to eye-rollingly try to portray a right wing and actual, much more deliberate and systematic effort at voter intimidation *inside* the polling stations, “True the Vote,” as somehow being merely an effort to prevent voter fraud.
Right wingers have the morality of thieves and the intellect of 3 yr olds, as well as trying to turn a nice term like “citizen” into something meaning more like “nationalistic, bigoted nutcase.”
We have seen the proof about the new black panthers, voter intimation. Please show us this right wing voter intimation, you can not!
Why BC sorry a literary genius I am not, but an honest and simple man that knows that you have no proof to your voter intimidation accusation. BC you give me and the rest of the to much credit for our knowledge is far under that of a 3 year old. That is why we need you left wingers to show us how to live [yous are really smart you lefties]. At least I can prove who I am, your lefty leader can not. I will tell you I believe in following our Constitution, your leader can not say the same and has proven himself to be a socialist or communist. You are smarter than me so you make the call what Obama is politically. I know the 2 choices makes it difficult for you to decide which one Obama is, but your a lefty your smart. Hope you can read and decipher what I have written. Oh it is okay to come out of the cave us on the right will protect just like always!
To skip gainer: I had posted a more detailed reply contrasting the Black Panther situation to that of the “True the Vote” situation in Harris County, but it never appeared, as has been the case more and more often with my replies here. Take that as you want. I’m not going to bother redoing it since it was very time consuming and had a lot of links and references I would have to find again. But Google “Harris County intimidation” if you want to do your own research.
And for the “Black Panther” bit, I had the name of the guy with the camera, who was asked by the local Republican group to “monitor” polling stations in minority neighborhoods. The Black Panthers were there apparently due to some real voter intimidation shenanigans that happened in 2004 that occurred in minority Philly neighborhoods. But the bottom line is that none of the Philly voters filed any complaints about voter intimidation, just ones about long lines and broken machines. The Harris County voters, though, have filed multiple complaints about voter intimidation by the right wing “True the Vote” group.
BC again all I did is ask for real proof of voter intimidation in Harris Co. and all you can do is say, is the democrats have filed charges against a group called True the Vote. Which if you follow the money it will take you to ACORN and the democratic party!
‘it never appeared, as has been the case more and more often with my replies here.’
Maybe the moderator followed a couple of those links? Might have then decided to show a little pity by not clearing the comment and preventing you from beclowning yourself yet again.
To skip gainer: So when I said just to Google “Harris County intimidation,” all you got for results was “the democrats have filed charges against a group called True the Vote” — really? Liar.
The irony here is that for all the over the top accusations from right wingers and the GOP over voter intimidation by those Black Panthers in 2008, there was never any actual voter complaints about them. Which is not at all the case in Harris County.
There is no liar like a hypocritical liar.
BC, if you’re gonna try and use words of more than one syllable, like “inconsequential,” at least spell them right.
When voting rights are being eroded, and the military doesn’t get their ballots, there remains only one solution. A decisive, complete, total anhiliation at the voting booths. There is little to be said and much work to be done when, as in 1984, Reagan won 49 states.
It can be done again. We’ve got two years to prepare for it. It’s the only way; nuke the whole planet. Then we can really ‘drain the swamp’ as Pelosi so aptly put it.
They can vote early and often, but we’ll overcome them with sheer numbers. Remember; 49 states. We can probably even get Minnesota this time…
Van Jones and the Tea Party
Obama’s nominee for the position of Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Anthony K. Jones, withdrew his name from consideration last year after calling Republicans “a**holes” in a speech at Berkeley and then having his racist, radical past outed.
However, as vermin tend to do, he has again crawled out from under the woodwork. A walking, talking testimonial to the patent absurdity and overtly racist policy of affirmative action, the black “green czar” wannabe is in the news again.
This time around he denounced the Tea Party and its threat to all things Obamian with his characteristic lies and distortions. ”If you think things are bad now,” he bellowed, ”what will happen when the people who are screaming and yelling at these Tea Party events are actually in charge of your government, and in charge of your life, and in charge of your kids’ future? . . . I don’t think you want the Tea Party running your community, running your family, running your government. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=2042)
It looks to me that this situation could be the ‘crisis’ that the Obama Regime is aiding and abetting. They would just love to enact Marshall Law to calm this ‘crisis’.
The United States may see another civil war before this gang of incompetent felons is removed from Washington, D.C.
That would qualify as an act of war.
So sad that all you left thinkers. When asked for proof about a subject, you all just start name calling and never show any proof of what was asked of you to prove. Just name call and try to change the subject, and you can not back up your speaking points.
Anthony K. Jones was right.
But he didn’t know the whole of it – that Tea Baggers are marionettes of the Koch brothers who wish the country no good will.
Oh, and by the way .. a goodly number of you are racist to boot.
Sure I am a racist if you are a communist or socialist or Marxist (posing as a Democrat) I do in fact hate you because you are a subversive, and I took an oath when going into the United States military that I would oppose and fight against such ilk…I think I have never revoked my oath, wait I am sure I didn’t!
Please leave my country and go to Cuba or some other communist country!
Lefties would be experts on being marionettes… they’ve been having their strings pulled by Mr. Soros for years.
I live in a conservative area about 8 miles north of East Nashville Tennessee and I went to my early voting place yesterday at 12:58, there were already 100 people ahead of me and the parking lot filled not only in the polling place but also adjoining lots!
I experienced a long wait to vote which I did for all Republicans or if not identified then did not vote for them in certain races. The crowd was orderly and polite to one another. I was surprised that at the earliest time that you could early vote there was such a large crowd on the first day of the three days alloted for my community!
I guess that since I live in what would be a wealthy and highly conservative community that the democrats knew better than to attempt fraud. Oh yes you do have to have your voter registration and an Identification like a drivers license, or military id, or state issued id, a social security card and when you present your id they ask do you live at your address which I answered yes and there is no problem!