Voter Fraud and Democracy: How Damaging Is DOJ’s Failure to Enforce Voting Law?
The duplicate registration problem is most acute in places like St. Louis where metro areas overlap state lines. Voters tend to move across state lines and end up registered in more than one state, as Campbell was. Other places where this has become a serious list maintenance problem are in the DeSoto County Mississippi/Memphis area, Cincinnati/Kentucky, and perhaps worst of all, between New York and Florida, where overtaxed New Yorkers tend to flee.
One solution to curb double voting would be for states to cooperate in sharing voter lists and thereby detect people illegally registered in more than one jurisdiction. In problem spots like DeSoto/Memphis, the DOJ could obtain voter lists and do their own checking as part of a Section 8 investigation. Of course, that won’t happen as long as open institutional hostility to enforcing Section 8 exists.
Those who claim voter fraud is not pervasive enough to waste precious resources for Section 8 enforcement need only look to Tennessee for a sample of what is happening all around the nation.
Anne Enochs, a 69-year-old art teacher from Memphis, was arrested last month for voting twice. She offered an excuse as improbable as Mr. Campbell’s — it was an accident. Memphis has seen a stack of double voting and felon voting indictments just in the last few weeks.
In Tennessee it is illegal for felons to be on the voter rolls. Despite the serious problems with ineligible felons on the rolls in Tennessee, don’t expect the DOJ to initiate a Section 8 investigation to fix the problem. After all, the DOJ is all about “increasing turnout, not blocking access,” according to Fernandes.
A four-hour drive east of Memphis takes you to Hickman County. A convicted felon there is not only on the voter rolls, he is sitting on the Hickman County Council. Commissioner James Hassell even uses his moonshining conviction in his campaign — proudly posting signs that have been “paid for by the Moonshiners.” How unserious must Tennessee be about voter list integrity for a convicted felon to incorporate his conviction into an election campaign?
How many more examples will it take for the DOJ to take Section 8 seriously and clean up voter rolls of felons, dead people, and ineligible voters? If every example of list maintenance problems were presented to this DOJ, and there are many, I doubt they would act to enforce Section 8 even then.
Just in the last month there have been indictments, convictions, or investigations of voter fraud in: Atlantic City, New Jersey; Troy, New York; Canton, Mississippi; Brooks County, Georgia; Independence, Louisiana; Dillon County, South Carolina; Adair County, Oklahoma; Muncie, Indiana; and most notably, Minnesota, where there have been dozens of felon voting indictments arising out of the closely contested 2008 elections. Voter fraud is decidedly more common than unicorns.
Does voter fraud regularly affect who wins election? Outside of a few examples, I do not believe that it does, but integrity of the electoral process is perhaps more important than who wins and loses an election. Lawlessness in elections corrodes the entire democratic process. This lawlessness ranges from Tarrell Campbell’s decision to drive to St. Louis to vote again, through to Julie Fernandes’ edict that she has decided to nullify a federal statute designed to require integrity in voter rolls.
There are more victims of this lawlessness. When Tarrell Campbell cast a second vote for president in St. Louis, that meant some law-abiding citizen’s legitimate vote somewhere else in Missouri was effectively cancelled. And when felons proudly campaign for office on their felony convictions when they shouldn’t even be on the voter rolls, the rule of law is seriously diminished.
It is false to claim, as some do, that voter fraud doesn’t occur very often. I monitor incidents of election fraud, and there are many, many examples. Yet academics and government officials profess otherwise, and their priorities reflect this willful ignorance. On the other hand, those who wish to see greater attention devoted to voter fraud would do well to abandon the canard that most elections are decided by fraud, and instead fight for the integrity of the democratic process. The truth is that voter fraud occurs frequently, and it determines who wins elections infrequently.
Will future Tarrell Campbells exploit the DOJ’s hostility toward vigorous enforcement of Section 8 and lawlessly game the system in the 2010 and 2012 elections? You don’t need three advanced degrees to figure that one out.
Legalize multiple and felon voting– Democrats can use the numbers!
Why legalize it, it is so incredibly pervasive now it is incredible. I say jail the DOJ!Let him take responsibility for the fraud.
Many states had many non-eligible voters,in The 2008 election, signed up by Acorn and other political groups. It would be laughable, if it weren’t so damn serious. The right to cast a vote is precious right, and to have anyone corrupt the process should be fined and go to jail. The Acorn group, was charged with voter fraud in approximately 14 states. Its now 2010, and no one has paid for their despicable crime,while the media ignores it. We now hear that Julie Fernandez of the US Dept. of Justice is stating that checking the voter rolls for felons, deceased or ineligible voters is too time consuming and unnecessary. What the Law says does not seem to matter to the Justice Dept. Of the USA !! What is that! On TV today, it was reported that one female US Justice dept.attorney for voting, told a group that if it is too much work for towns and cities, to send absentee ballots to our troops overseas, the Town Hall or the voting official, can apply for a waiver. This is a total travesty! Our military men and women, deserve better treatment for their fight to keep America safe,and to think this statement came from our Federal Government, should make everyone’s hair stand on end. The Constitution and US laws don’t seem to matter to people who should know better! We were once a country of laws, what has happened to us?
The felon vote apparently is what won al franken his senate seat.
Mr Adams,
Thank you so much both for bringing the handling of the Philadelphia intimidation case to light and for giving much needed perspective on the issue of voter fraud. So much emphasis has been placed on the right to vote in recent times, and too little thought has been given to the accompanying responsibilties. Our ability to choose our leaders and representatives has been achieved by the sacrifices of those who went before us, often at a horrendous cost. We dishonor those people and our heritage when we sell our votes for walking around money, when the able-bodied can’t bother registering to vote at election offices but require armies of registration workers to visit them on park benches, and when citizens for whom English is not a first language are unwilling to study an English sample ballot before entering the voting booth. Somehow the idea has spread that it is the sole responsibilty of government to make sure our voices are heard and that no effort should be required of us. That attitude devalues both our institutions and individual citizens. In the end, ensuring the integrity of our elections shows respect for citizens and recognizes all as equal before the law.
Once again, thank you.
“A convicted felon there is not only on the voter rolls, he is sitting on the Hickman County Council. ”
If he didn’t vote twive what’s your problem?
Jury and voter nullification is fine by me.
“ATF sounds like a convenience store”, is not just about the “Firearms”. The feds have no more business collecting excise taxes on alcohol than they do any other substance–general expenses should be paid for by general taxes.
Grrr.
twive != twice
But yes, Holder should be removed from office, and so should the next DOJ head, until they show they agree preserving the validity of our elections is worthy task.
It has been suggested that our Miami Democratic Snow Birds here in FL double vote regularly in NY and in FL elections using “mail-in” ballots. They split their residency by having a house in the name of one spouse in one state and the other home in the other spouses name. This gives them two votes each, but also two homestead exemptions. Nice gig if you can afford two homes. Not so nice for tax and non-fraudulent voting purposes. This should be investigated.
And on which political party does most voter fruad exist? I venture to say Dems.
And on which political party is there nary a word said about the fraud? I venture to say the GOP.
You would think someone on our side would have a Rep. Weiner moment and just unload in Congress, but nope. Our pols are more emasculated than the Dems.
The next two elections will be fraught with fraud. In fact so much fraud that the Obama administration may see it as a crisis and suspend the 2012 elections.
Lets have Al (the felon’s choice) Franken head an investigation into voter fraud.
There are plenty of unemployed Acorn folk he could use to investigate and would be creating jobs as well.
Justasimplepatriot. nothing like putting the fox in charge of the henhouse huh? then give him a bunch of wolves to help assure a good job of gathering more votes for the democrats,
The concept of residency should be made far stricter for college students. Dorms should not count as residences, and at least a full-year lease on an apartment should be required for voting in the state (and municipality) in which one attends school.
What a patriot you are, J. Christian Adams. Thank you for getting involved and shining the light of truth on this corrupt, lawless, unjust Justice Department.
Voter fraud tells us all how truly weak those who condone this are. They demonstrate how hollow and infirm their positions are; they have to cheat to be elected.
To my fellow Americans, the way to render voter fraud ineffective is massive turnout of legimate voters. Get involved in elections and go vote. There are so many more of us than there are of them. You want to save your country, the place to do it is at ballot boxes all across this great nation. VOTE!
Christian:
I WAS TOTALLY UNAWARE OF ALL THIS VOTER FRAUD. I am LIVID. I OFTEN thought if my vote was ALWAYS counted because I have voted by mail for the past 3 Presidential votes.
AND, Christian, growing up in Europe, and my parents ALWAYS voted by mail, maybe my dad’s vote never counted, and he was a life-long Military Soldier.
PLEASE, honey, put yourself back on Fox and bring out MORE of this illegal stuff. MY HEART IS BROKEN. This is MY America.
Christian: I BEG OF YOU, FIND A WAY TO “FORCE” HOLDER OUT…NOBODY UNDERSTANDS “WHY” HOLDER IS ALLOWED TO BE SILENT!!!!
Anyone who is shocked about how vast the level of voter fraud AND VOTE DENIAL in this country has been living under a rock.
The last 3 (at least) national elections in Wisconsin have had our part of the national votes determined by vote fraud – mostly in Milwaukee. The elections commissioner for the 2004 election had just gotten out of jail for a vote fraud campaign where she was caught passing out cigarettes for votes to the indigent (ever heard of the “butts for bums voting” incident?).
A lot of the testing for ACORN’s vote changing campaign was done in Milwaukee.
In 2004, John Kerry won the Wisconsin ballot for President. There were over 7,000 provable cases of vote fraud in the election that (as far as I know) were still held up by legal shenanigans when Obama took office.
You can imagine what has happened since then. In every election hundreds of dead people voted. Dozens more seniors and others who are in vegetative states or otherwise too severely handicapped to be able to comprehend what a a ballot is – voted. Thousands voted from addresses that don’t exist (public buildings, parks, the rivers, the lake, between lots) or in situations where hundreds of people “live” at the same small house. Buses with licenses from all over the country arrived at polls filled with voters with lists and sample ballots in hand. Boxes of absentee ballots show up at the last minute at polling stations that haven’t been properly handled.
There is one group the Demoncraps DON’T care about voting – the military.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3827/is_200012/ai_n8917945/
Even worse, Obama’s Justice Department also had stated that they feel no desire whatsoever to see to it that the folks whose votes should count most of all – active duty military serving overseas – should be given any consideration at all for any effort to be made that their votes get to them and are counted on time for any election.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/28/exclusive-doj-stalls-voter-registration-law-military/
As they dont’ really care if we have anything that approaches a free society, I think it is safe to assume that the Obama administration is both looking forward to and feverishly working for the day when they don’t even have to deal with pesky peasants having any say in who holds their slave chains.
RACIST!
As someone else has stated: BULLY!
You are an idiot!
What about the recent news that at least 341 convicted felons voted in the recent contested Minnesota Senatorial race, which the courts ruled comedian Al Franken won by 312 votes?
I think that as Stalin supposedly said, “It is not who votes that counts, it is who counts the votes that counts”
That was Mr.Daily
Enough instances in fraudulent voter registrations, absentee ballot abuse and outright voter fraud as described in this article have surfaced in recent years to make me believe that up to 5% of the Democrat vote in some venues is fraudulent. That’s just a guess, but they seem to agree with me because the Democrat Party fights every effort to strengthen voting security, for example, requiring ids at the polling places and similar controls to ensure that only registered voters can pull the lever.
The political parties shouldn’t be faulted for seeking what advantage they can get under the law, but condoning fraud and refusing to help close the loop holes in the system that make it possible is an assault on every legitimate voters basic franchise rights and is reprehensible.
I live in a solidly Democratic state and, in 2004 and 2008, I knew many people who changed their voter registrations so they could vote in battleground states. That may not be as serious as voting twice, but it was calculated voter fraud and in every case it was committed by a highly educated person who thought getting a Democrat in the White House was an important enough goal that democracy could and should be undermined to accomplish it.
I still believe the old adage that they can’t steal it if it’s not close, but there are many many people (mostly Democrats) who are trying to hard to steal everything they can.
The reason is this: to conservatives, democracy is a positive good, an end in itself. Even if we don’t like the outcome, we still support the process that achieved it. To liberals, democracy is merely a tool. It may be their preferred tool, their tool of first resort, but it is only a tool. If democracy does not get them what they want, then there are other tools.
I can assure you that we in Tennessee give the liquor laws the full respect they *deserve*.
Heh!
All we need is the federal government maintaining voter lists. It will be as bad as the no fly list. If someone in another state has the same name as you neither of you will be allowed to vote and both of you will be put in jail.
What actually happens is that both people end up filing a provisional ballot so that the right to vote is preserved while allowing fraud to be detected. The solution is well understood and long in place.
Still, the most important person in the election process is the Secretary of State. They decide whose votes count. That is why the dems. had a big secret push to elect their own SoS countrywide. Who even knows who is running for that position in most elections?
Nothing like ACORN loading busses to cross state lines for country fairs????
That is easily fixed by shooting out the tires!
Also videos of buses arriving and leaving polling places are a great way to put and end to this, all chartered buses must carry a list of passengers and point of departure and point of departure, threaten such companies that participate with accessory to voter fraud on a massive scale will lend to less such events happening!
One question – does Julie Fernandez still have a job? If so, Congress must demand answers, or her hide.
This ghoulish and sudden obsession with voting rights, after thirty years of Republican voter suppression, is much funnier than it will be effective in ginning up race-based hostility. It reminds me of that spate of robberies a few years back in Los Angeles, where near-naked women knocked on the homes of wealthy men and strip-teased them while they fleeced them blind. Flattering the need for victimization amongst disempowered white bigots isn’t going to get you very far, however; just an unelectable wingnut Republican President who seems to the rest of the country, understandably, to be a direct result of electing a black president.
Silly me, all these years of hearing “one man, one vote” from Democrats led me to believe that that was their actual policy. Now we find out that it’s “one Democrat, two or three votes”. And what’s the response to this disclosure? “RAACISST!” Sorry — that accusation has become a new Godwin’s Law. You lose the thread.
Gouda’s Cheese,
When bouncing your comment against polling, current opinion and factual history, several things are immediately apparent.
You don’t have a grip on reality. Even your strawmen are weak reaches pulled out of thin air.
You’re still gripped by the idea that pointing at Obama’s skin color will continue to insulate him against criticism of his and his administration’s venality and incompetence. The electorate is thoroughly sick of being manipulated by progressive race baiting. They wised up and are no longer listening.
You believe that the liberal media still controls the narrative and will deliver the goods again. They can’t. They can only preach to the choir. The rest of the congregation knows damn well they aren’t dis-empowered white bigots and aren’t going to accept the label.
My Lords, Ladies, and Gentlemen:
Please, do not feed the troll.
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” –Martin Luther King, Jr.
MLK’s elequoent discription of the liberal mind. Ignore reality. How many states is ACORN under indightment for Voter Fraud? How many white panthers have been convicted of voter intimidation then not punished because they’re white? What happened in Washington State Governor and Minnisota Senate (Stuart Smalley) where democrat controlled voting boards recounted votes and applied different rules to different districts until the dem won. Can you give one example of “30 years of Reblblican voter suppression” that’s not Soros funded propoganda posted at the KOS?
Didn’t Lenin and Rich (from Minnesota) say and I paraphrase, “It is not who votes that counts, it is who counts the votes that counts.” I read that 63,000 new voter registrations submitted in Minnesota for the 2008 election cycle had the voter registration cards mailed and returned because the address did not exist. Is ACORN criminally liable for signing up the voter, is the voter who lied on the form violating the law or is the speeding ticket I got on I-90 outside of St. Paul make me a violator of the law? I’m conflicted, should I not pay the speeding ticket and astronomical court cost or should I register to vote under an assumed name?
Wish you would have provided some sort of guesstimated numbers so we could evaluate your statement “While election results aren’t usually affected, voter fraud is common”.
To make that statement, you must have some sort of numbers in your head.
Not sure whether the article included the voter fraud of a fraudster filling out absentee ballots for registered voters who are not aware that a vote is being cast, i.e. people in nursing homes, people still registered in a district that have moved, dead people, etc. In Democrat districts, that percentage of the vote is probably greater than 1%.
WJ – I included 12 specific examples arising out of only the last few weeks. That’s more than a “guestimate”; thats a data point. If you expand the Minnesota indictmets, you then can add dozens to that data point because there are dozens of indictments there. That takes you up to about 36-40 instances in just the last month. Is that what you are looking for?? In my view data work a bit more than “guesstimates.”
Christian
they are not alone they are getting help from the office of the inspector general please look at the following call from the doj and then to the oig and you tell me if they are being truthfull or lieing through their teeth.
Actual call to the department of justice and the office of the inspector general.
The department of justice called me back on July 22 2010 and said
Operator: hi this is the civil division of the department of justice returning your phone call.
Brian: yes
Operator: so you are speaking of Robert mossy of the criminal division
Brian: I am
Operator: The civil rights division
Brian: Uh huh
Operator: ok so he is the section chief so his boss would be or his I guess his boss would be the assistant attorney general
Brian would be who I am sorry
Operator: it would be the assistant attorney general which is Thomas e Perez
Brian: yes you see I have tried Mr. Perez’s office and to report Mr. mossy for not doing his job and nobody seems to want to tell me how to get a file in front of Mr. Perez
Operator: alright if you would like to report misconduct or fraud by a department of justice employee then you would submit that complaint to the office of the inspector general and they investigate those complaints against the doj employees
Brian: I see
Operator: so if you like you could do that
Brian: I have been reading on the internet about Mr. Adams comments of them not prosecuting cases the department of justice and it was Mr. Perez making those comments so I would like to get this file in front of him and the response that I have received from the department of justice as evidence e that they are not and I want charges filed against these folks for not doing their job.
Operator: alrighty then the inspector’s generals would be the office that handles that sort of thing
Brian ok
Operator: Would you like the contact information for the oig?
Brian: I have already sent them a copy of the file I will have to send them a copy of the response letter but do you have their phone number?
Operator: there a couple I can give you one is the hotline number and the other is the office number which would you like?
Brian: let me have the office number would you.
Operator: 202-514-3435
Brian: ok thank you
Operator: You’re welcome
I then hang up and call the office of the inspector general at 202-514-3435
Operator: inspector general’s office
Brian: hi yes mam I need to speak to someone about a case I have sent in
Operator: ok let me transfer you to investigations that’s the office that takes the incoming complaints ok
Brian: thank you
Operator: office of the inspector general.
Brian yes mam can I speak to one of the inspectors please or investigators I mean.
Operator: is this regarding a complaint
Brian: Yes it is
Purdue: Purdue
Brian: I am sorry who is this
Mr. Purdue: this is Purdue who is this
Brian: my name is Brian long
Purdue: hey Brian did you call here before I think I have talked to you before.
Brian: I believe I have
Purdue: what’s goin on today?
Brian: well a it seems Mr. Harrell and Mr. mossy down at the department of justice sent me a letter that didn’t address any of the concerns that I had sent them
Purdue: I don’t know who they are.
Brian: they work in the civil rights division in criminal section
Purdue: ah civil rights there over in the Patrick Henry building
Brian: right and they addressed absolutely none of the things and wouldn’t they sent me Mr. Harrell faxed me a letter and on the cover sheet it said that I hadn’t been sent a copy of this in the mail as it wasn’t finalized yet.
Purdue: oh boy
Brian: yeh
Purdue: are you going back to them?
Brian: that’s been over a month ago I sent a response to Mr. Harrell’s letter um
Purdue: did you get a response?
Brian: nothing yet they have blocked my phone calls its it’s a joke
Purdue: huh
Brian: when I try to call from my regular cell phone
Purdue: how about online did you try going online do they have a complaint a link or anything
Brian: no no I haven’t tried online
Purdue: you might want to take a look there that might be another avenue see if you get a response there
Brian: I don’t mean sound short with you but I haven’t spoken with my children for two years now because of trying to expose this stuff. And I am getting very frustrated with this whole process now I have gone through every legal avenue you folks are the next step
Purdue: what do you mean you folks?
Brian: I’m sorry
Purdue: what do you mean you folks?
Brian: the office of the inspector general is the next step.
Purdue: ok uh and what’s the issue were dealing with
Brian: we are dealing with the department of justice refusing to prosecute a case. I’ve given
Purdue: when you say the department of justice are you referring to a specific us attorney’s office
Brian: I am speaking about the civil rights division the criminal section
Purdue: civil rights division yeh um well you know they have a mission a statement and I don’t have any jurisdiction in telling them what they can open on and what they shouldn’t open on
Brian: well that’s fine but you are the ones who investigate fraud or abuse of power by them right?
Purdue: well no no we don’t that’s not quite accurate there um we we investigate waste fraud and abuse ah involving or within the department of justice
Brian: and that’s what this is abuse
Purdue: well tell me what the abuse is
Brian: the abuse is I gave them two other cases that were exactly the same as mine and they did not address any of the concerns that I asked them to address instead they tried to put it back off on my divorce and it has nothing to with the divorce
Purdue: ok um hey look I honestly we this agency doesn’t have jurisdiction in telling the civil rights division or the criminal division what they should open on or not we don’t
Brian: but you do investigate abuse by them correct
Purude: not by them if there was a supervisor in that agency abusing a lower echelon employee we would investigate that.
Brian: I see but if there abusing their power and discriminating against me you wouldn’t investigate that?
Purdue: no and actually if your being discriminated against um
Brian: well that was Mr. Adams claims that they discriminate against white people well
Purdue: I don’t know Mr. Adams I am sorry
Brian: he used to work for that voter fraud department or voting department or whatever I want to file a claim against them and have you folks investigate them can you do that?
Purdue: nope I can’t cause it’s not it doesn’t fall within our jurisdiction or our threshold
Brian: well Mr. Purdue this is all part of a whistleblowers case and I want you to know I am recording this call and these calls are going to be made public.
Purdue: then I am going to tell you to stop recording cause I am not giving you permission
Brian: I don’t need your permission
Purdue; and if you continue to record against my wishes then uh we will be in touch
Brian: well file the charges it’s covered under the whistleblowers act as protected documents so do what you need to do
Purdue: your mistaken there wel see you later.
Brian: I’m sorry
Purdue: your mistaken we’l see you later.
Eric Holder and his leftist minions in the the Justice Department are CRIMINALS. The unfortunate situation is that these corrupt bureaucrats will be in office until 2012 and there is no way to remove them.
Of course, when the Republicans take back the House in November they can open up investigations of their criminal activities at the Justice Department. Their activities definitely fall under the RICO statutes.
Special prosecutors are called for.
Vote fraud may rarely affect the outcome of an election, but it has certainly affected the outcomes of at least two major office elections I can think of. One is the race for the office of governor in Washington State in 2004 where Dino Rossi lost to Christine Gregoire after coming in first on the first count. The subsequent recounts kept “finding” more uncounted votes, the cast majority of which were mysteriously for Gregoire the democrat. Stefan Sharkansky (sp?) was able to show that there were several thousand fraudulent ballots cast.
The other case is much more recent, the race for senator in Minnesota where once again, incumbent republican Norm Coleman narrowly won on the initial count but subsequent recounts in which “forgotten” ballots turned up in the trunk of a poll worker’s car etc, put Al Franken over the top. It came out last week that there were several hundred ballots cast by convicted felons who are ineligible to vote in Hennepin County alone, reversing the victory margin. If Franked had any honor or integrity (a highly doubtful proposition) he would resign the senate seat he now occupies in light of this finding and allow the governor of Minnesota to appoint a successor, who should be the man the election was stolen from, Norm Coleman.
If it’s so hard to detect, then how did the Campbell and Enochs get discovered. Campbell voted across a state line. Not sure about Enochs (if it was in the same ward/district then maybe it can be found when/if they audit their rolls of on site votes vs absentee ballots). I doubt even someone dumb enough waste his time for 3 useless MS’s (and no PhDs? Talk about a Peter Principled kinda guy!) would brag about it.
That’s a missing (and potentially interesting) part of this story. People clearly know how to find fraud. I suspect they didn’t catch these two by profiling “Snow Birds” or other potential monkey-shiners.
As long as the attorney general’s office is a political appointee, these problems with selective enforcement of the law of the land will continue. My continued suggestion is that the AG be an elected official, even if it requires an amendment. As long as the sheriff is beholding to the mayor, the mayor has a get out of jail pass and the foxes will guard the hen house. Voter fraud is epidemic and big business.
That’s why it’s so important for the American electorate to vote for a qualified, fully-vetted candidate. What President in the history of our great nation failed to produce his original birth certificate to prove his eligibility? I don’t think President Obama was born in Kenya, I think he was born here. But why wouldn’t he just put the issue to bed by releasing it? Why no university transcripts? What is this man trying to hide and why did the media help him hide it? If he’d been a Republican, we’d know everything about the man and even know a few trumped up lies, to boot. I hope voters learn what a monumental mistake they made electing a man with no experience and a largely hidden past.
It has been said before but I will state it again for the record! OBAMA = One Big A$$ Mistake America!
Christian, you obviously are not from Chicago.
1)Vote early, vote often …is imprinted on the cornerstone at City Hall. Nobody alive has witnessed a Republican as mayor…or any other important political position there.
2)Halloween is celebrated in other cities on November 1st, to pass out candy to kids on All Saints Day. In Chicago, it’s celebrated on the first day of November to make sure that all those in the cemeteries are awakened from their eternal slumber to vote and pass out political “candy” to Democrats.
You may not have yet been born when JFK was the beneficiary of Chicago voting practices. Can it turn an election? It can turn decades of elections…if allowed to be “institutionalized” and infused permanently until the populace shrugs and says “You can’t fight City Hall”.
It starts as an ACORN and grows into a jungle of corruption and graft. Moreover, when the “watchdogs” become part of conspiracy…when the media joins in the corruption and distorts the facts, buries the stories, propagandizes and “fronts” for the corruption…the electorate is helpless to fight back. It can’t get honest facts, it will never get honest governance.
Does it impact elections? Each and every day. People won’t come out to vote. They don’t believe in the system. Don’t believe their voices will be heard and they know that the “reporting” is a sham.
Christian, right is right,wrong is wrong, fair is fair. Julie Fernandes believes in “redistributing” justice. So does Holder. Until we understand the full impact of this mentality, we will never, ever…be able to reconcile the two thought processes.
I feel horribly for Coates. However, I think any man or woman of honor should resign if they are being asked to “redistribute” fairness, such that it results in a dimunition of our system of justice. If they are being asked to cover up, shroud, conceal, and abet the conspiracy to deprive a certain class of unprotected Americans…from whom justice is being taken…in order to “redistribute” it elsewhere. No man or woman of consciencs should stand by in silence or passive acquiescence to such a bastardization of our nation’s laws. If we are to self-govern this land of ours, we need to be able to rely on the men and women of honor to stand and be counted…when those who choose to betray that mandate or charter… involve them, by asking them to stand by and witness …or leave. It’s a horrible situation and I don’t envy them the dilemma.
thank you Mr. Adams for having the courage to stand by principals.
..maybe the cases of this type of fraud are not that numerous in the past to change elections.
BUT the telegraphing by the Holder crooks will definitely increase the crime of multiple voting.
..personally I think it is a bigger problem than it is made out to be.
The double voting by individuals registered in two places, the voting by felons not permitted to vote, even the busloads of ACORN voters going from polling place to polling place, the voting of nursing home residents and those in custodial care who have no idea what voting is or that their keepers are voting for them, is a drop in the bucket compared to the Secretaries of State Project sponsored and paid for by Soros et.al., who count the votes, determine which voters will be registered and which votes will be counted, and who make certain that boxes of “uncounted” votes keep turning up until the the desired outcome is achieved, i.e., Franken in MN, is the real fraud in our elections. Unless a Republican wins by at least 5% in a state who has one of Mr. Soros’ Secretaries of State, there will be recount after recount, and of course some corrupt court rulings from Soros owned Judges, until the Democrat is declared the winner. Our voting system has been stolen from us by Soros and the other evil doers who intend to bring this country to its knees.
In Philadelphia if I, a white voter, voted 3X I would still be disenfranchised with all the black voter fraud, yet all the MSM spouts is how they and their lawless judges are concerned about black (African American) voters being disenfranchised which is a blatant lie!
Blacks and their union thugs are destroying our electoral system.
I have never seen this question addressed:
“How many of the fraudulant voter registrations made by ACORN are recorded as actually voting?”
Neither side wants to address this.
In the elections in Afghanistan and Iraq, voters were asked to put their thumbs in ink to signify that they had voted. OK, that should be the law in the US, too. It won’t prevent illegal aliens from voting once, but it will at least prevent people from voting multiple times under assumed names.
Unless, of course, Democrats would like to argue that the voting standards set in Afghanistan and Iraq are too high for the United States.
And while we’re at it, I’d like the Democrats to explain why they refuse to protect the absentee votes of military personell serving abroad.
I agree that inking the fingers of those who have voted would be a very good idea in the US. Dems would oppose it on health grounds, however. They would assert that many people are sensitive to chemicals, and that an allergic reaction might occur. They would also complain that dipping a finger in a pot of ink used by others is a way to spread MRSA. Need I go on?
Appreciative of this excellent article. All who have commented as well.
Clearly the next Presidential election has a great chance of being steeped in fraud and abuse. Amnesty for the Illegal will be an enormous driver for the Democrats.
I’ve been at voting units in black neighborhoods in Philadelphia for the past thirty years and let me tell you, these left wing white wussie liberals would crap their pants if they saw these black militants screaming with their bullhorns and yelling racial slurs about whitey at the polls. These hell holes are not even policed. They are voter fraud factories. Try getting Bill Bennett or Rush Limbaugh to help you on this travesty.
This is who Barack and Michelle Obama are – racist black Marxists. Get it through your thick heads. They are black thugs that hate white people. Do they always treat blacks great? No. Not when it it is not in their best interest. They have no redeemable qualities. They are scum. Look at Michelle’s last attempt to fleece Americans in need with her trip to Spain.
I never want to here from their them nor their kids once they are disposed. God only knows what evil has been pounded into their children’s heads.
Every instance of voter fraud by the Dems from 1961 forward has been a dry run for the 2010 mid-terms and the 2012s. There will be so much fraud and electoral abuse that the Dear Leader may suspend the results and let things stand. It will be a crisis-don’t cha know…
I have no doubt that the acquiesence and cowardness of the GOP and the 40% of disaffected voters have led to this point in our nation’s history. If the fraud and results are allowed to stand, as of January 2013 we will not live in America anymore.
There will only be two ways to take back America.
Felons running for office and felons voting are two separate issues that your article conflates.
If there is no law prohibiting a convicted felon from running for office then there is no use complaining when a felon gets elected. If the majority want to vote for a rum-runner then that is who will be elected. The only way this will change is if a law is passed, preferably by public referendum, that prohibits convicted felons from running for office.
That being said, I agree that voter fraud is a serious issue and one that the Dems are keen to avoid solving because they depend upon it so heavily. It isn’t surprising that Obama’s apparatchik refuses to enforce the law. That is how his regime operates. In Obama’s America the rule of law has been replaced with rule by leftist radicals.
Here in Arizona a person has to show state issued photo ID when they go to vote. When this law was passed, the left sued claiming that it would somehow exclude poorer citizens from voting, an accusation as bizarre and irrational as it was untrue.
The real reason they opposed this law was because it prevented voter fraud. It prevented dem operatives from voting under the names of dead people. It prevented illegal aliens from voting. It helped to ensure the integrity and validity of the electoral process. So naturally the left was totally opposed to it. Luckily for the citizens of Arizona, our state isn’t dominated by the left.
Actually it IS illegal for a felon to run for office. A qualification for running for office is to be on the voter rolls. To be on the voter rolls, one cannot be a felon in TN.
You need to read the laws, Mr. Adams. Convicted felons in TN CAN have their voting rights restored. A simple Google search might prevent your making a fool of yourself.
Same in Minnesota. Those who claimed “convicted felons” illegally voted did not bother to read the LAW.
Most voter fraud is due to SNOWBIRDS.
Voter fraud has been a problem in Tennessee since the days of Boss Crump, who controlled the whole state from Memphis from the 20s to the late 40s. Well, to be more accurate, it was probably a problem well before then, but Crump turned it into a ruthlessly efficient machine. At his height, he was able to pick winners and losers in BOTH parties in our state.
In Memphis at least, not much has changed. In Crump’s day, the fraud was designed to protect and expand the privilege of the white Democrat ruling class; today, it is designed to protect and expand the privilege of the black Democrat ruling class.
If you don’t think voter fraud is real, MOVE TO WASHINGTON STATE!!!! Election after election I’ve watched ballots counted, recounted and recounted until someone someplace in King County finds a whole bunch of ballots in a box left in a closet……OF COURSE THEY ALL WERE VOTES FOR THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES AND CAUSES. Shhhhh! Voter fraud, the Democrats’ best friend. If they can’t buy it they will make it up. Require photo ID for every voter and make sure they only vote once!
Every state needs leaders to proactively fight voter fraud! Is Georgia’s former Sec of State Handel the one?
Karen Handel Happy-Happy Hour Endorsement http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LytSuD4tm2c
” Nobody alive has witnessed a Republican as mayor…or any other important political position there. ”
Chicago has now, in fact, been under single party rule for six years longer than the former Soviet Union.
“There are more victims of this lawlessness. When Tarrell Campbell cast a second vote for president in St. Louis, that meant some law-abiding citizen’s legitimate vote somewhere else in Missouri was effectively cancelled.”
Spot on, Christian. That is the crux of the matter. Voter fraud, such as double voting, simply steals someone else’s vote — rendering it nugatory.
I would argue that there is certainly no more important right we have than the right to vote. There may arguably be rights as important, but I can think of none that are more important. How then, can the Justice Department not pursue such voting rights cases?
Following the United States Senate election in Minnesota (back in 2008) I followed with considerable interest the drama which, as we all know, played out there.
Two factors really stood out for me.
One was a seeming unwillingness by the participants acting on behalf of the Coleman campaign, in steadfastly refusing to look into obvious problems in the manner in which the vote was taken. The other was the quite obvious partisanship on the part of the Secretary of State, Mark Richie and his staff in presiding over that recount.
In Minnesota, it is so ridiculously easy to register and vote on election day itself that I believe some level of fraud is a component in nearly every voting precinct in the state. One primary, contributory factor in the recording those high turnout levels, is that liberal system of same day registration, by virtue of which just ONE previously registered voter, may personally vouch for the “residency” of several brand new voters on election day in his or her precinct, without any of those new voters having to supply any proof or documentation whatsoever showing that they actually lives in that precinct! One voter’s word alone suffices!
Thus, if any previously registered voter (he/she could have been newly registered as recently as three weeks previously) comes in and says, “Yes, this person lives on my street (or in my apartment building)” or words to that effect, the election officials are required by law to immediately hand the otherwise undocumented person a ballot, right then and there!
And, coupled with the fact that any challenger is BY LAW required to swear under oath that any challenge he or she may make is based on personal knowledge of the violation, there is simply no meaningful basis on which to challenge anyone who could be openly committing election fraud on election day in Minnesota!
Their elections, in fact, are so suffused with that pride in the high turnout levels, that — after looking closely at the numbers myself — it seems that regardless of party affiliation, Minnesotans are prepared to willingly suspend disbelief and to embrace an election result — even one that shows obvious signs of being riven throughout with fraudulent voting — rather than being willing to work to ensure the common interest in ensuring that the outcome is instead a legitimate statement of the electorate. Contrast that with Wisconsin, which went after the problem when they discovered the amount of fraud in “same day” registration.
Take the City of Duluth, MN, for example, in the heavily Democratic St. Louis County. On election day morning in 2008, it boasted an approximately 93% eligible voter registration, given the estimated population of the city (est. 84,397) with a corresponding estimate of the number of eligible — 18 years old or older — voters (65,832). As of 7 am on election morning when the doors opened, 61,074 people were registered to vote in the City of Duluth.
Naturally, some of them had passed away, some people had moved away, and so on. But the number registered as of 7 am when the polls opened up was extremely high, by any standard — including comparably sized cities within Minnesota. (Duluth is the 4th largest City.)
Yet, during the day on November 4, 2008, an additional 10,833 people came in and “registered” to vote in Duluth. All of those new voters were handed a ballot and actually voted that day! That represented an increase of 16.5% in the number of registered voters in Duluth.
How is that possible? How meaningful could any attempt have been to “check” the validity of any of those same-day registrants?
Now, the total number of those who actually voted that day in Duluth was significantly lower, as many of the previously registered voters did not turn out. But the actual turnout percentage (79%) was significantly higher than in other cities.
Or, take tiny Proctor, a suburban town outside of Duluth, est. population of only 2,819. It is located just outside Duluth, also in St. Louis County. Using a 22% figure, approximately 2,200 of it’s residents were of voting age that day. Proctor already had 1929 registered voters on the roles as of the early morning of Election Day, 2008. And according to the filings they made with the county — and the county thereafter passed on to the State — tiny Proctor also registered 414 brand new voters during the day on Tuesday, raising the number of residents who are registered to vote there to 2,343, thus exceeding by 6.5%, the total number of residents eligible to vote!
At the time, I actually called the clerk in Proctor and asked him how that was possible. He was a nice gentleman, and he took my call. But he had no explanation, and he said that he too had noticed that the numbers were odd.
Considering those 414 new voters (all of whom were immediately handed a ballot and voted) and the number of previously registered voters who showed up, Proctor had a whopping 83% turnout.
There were similar odd-looking anomalies in several towns all over St. Louis County — and elsewhere in the State. Thousands of new voters, all coming in, registering and voting on election day, with no capacity to check them at all.
For me, the bottom line is, how many votes were stolen from people that day?
Campbell voted for McCain and Obama, just to clear things up!
Why does the right always start screaming about voter fraud before every election? Adams admits that voter fraud is a very minor problem (even comparing it to unicorns), yet you’d think that elections were being stolen left and right in this nation, reading the comments here. Maybe that’s the whole idea. Create some phony hysteria for another purpose. ‘”Voter fraud is not my concern,” Adams said. “My concern is compliance.”‘ Compliance? The rarity of real voter fraud would indicate that compliance is doing pretty well, thank you. What’s the real reason?
I never said voter fraud wasn’t common. Indeed, I say the opposite. What is say is uncommon are election results which changed because of fraud. It is critical to understand the distinction. There is a difference between the two. The left screams there is no voter fraud – they are wrong. There were multiple guilty pleas in just the last few weeks. It reminds me of the flat-Earth crowd. But I don’t think election RESULTS are affected by it. None of this has to do with Section 8 of NVRA. for NVRA neither requires fraud nor election results affected by fraud, to be enforced. Compliance is a stand alone issue. Whether a state complies with Section 8 has absolutely zero to do with fraud. Simply put, fraud or elections changed by fraud are not conditions precedent to bringing a Section 8 case.
Wasn’t there voter fraud in Ohio in the 2004 Presidential election?
TRUE-the-VOTE – A Governor’s duty invoked
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DRAFT EXECUTIVE ORDER FOR/BY THE GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA – RE: Conduct of the Election on Nov. 2nd 2010
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In accord with the Governor of Virginia’s duty’s pursuant to the Constitutions and duly authorized laws of the United States and the Commonwealth of Virginia,
The Governor of Virginia Robert McDonnell, in obedience to the explicit oath bound duties established in :
“Article VI Section 7.” . . .” The Governor shall take care that the laws be faithfully
executed. The Governor shall be commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the
Commonwealth and shall have power to embody such forces to repel invasion,
suppress insurrection, and enforce the execution of the laws.”
Makes and will enforce as need be, this executive order pursuant of:
“Article I Section 2. People the source of power. That all power is vested in, and
consequently derived from, the people, that magistrates are their trustees and
servants, and at all times amenable to them.”;
“Article I Section 6. Section 6. Free elections; consent of governed. That all elections
ought to be free; and that all men, having sufficient evidence of permanent common
interest with, and attachment to, the community, have the right of suffrage, and
cannot be taxed, or deprived of, or damaged in, their property for public uses,
without their own consent, or that of their representatives duly elected, or bound by
any law to which they have not, in like manner, assented for the public good.”;
“Article II Section 1. Qualifications of voters.”;
And
The Code of Virginia § 24.2-611. Regarding Elections
THEREFORE the Governor hereby orders that the Virginia Board of Elections will this day, or as soon as may be,
instructions to the local electoral boards, every officers of election in every precinct of Virginia
that they are to be diligent in securing the legitimacy of the election on November 2nd 2010 by:
Specifically fulfilling the requirement of § 24.2-611 that they “assure that the records of the election are accurate’
1) ‘by requiring that every person who to votes be positively identified as a voter registered in that precinct
a) by either photo ID or
b) by their identity is vouched for in written record by another of the precincts Voter’s having photo ID
2) secure that the voter only votes once by
a) marking the roll record of that precinct voter as having voted (as has been traditional)
b) and additionally offering the voter the opportunity to both 1) show others that they have voted and 2) to secure the legitimacy of the vote against the risk of voters voting in more than one precinct by that voter boldly marking their right thumb with ink, If the voter chooses not to ink their thumb the voter’s role record is so marked to aid in cross precinct audits of the registration for individual having multiple ID’s and registrations.
As much as timely possible the ink will be 1) neatly offered on a pad, 2) antiseptic yet of non-toxic non-allergenic composition, 3) purple in color and composed with florescent pigments, and 4) makes a mark that is suitably durable.
3) By gathering or confirming the voter’s current residence address
4) By gathering or confirming the voter’s citizenship, place of birth, parent citizenship and naturalization (as need be)
5) By a) publishing this Executive Order in the precinct’s local newspaper and b) displaying this Executive Order prominently upon the entrance of the polling place so that those who might be considering voting fraud crimes might think better.
In the publishing of this executive order the precinct election officials will declare any staffing need that they have and ask that civic-minded precinct residents and members of civic or political organizations contact them in that regard.
The Election officers shall daily report, up their proper chain of authority, what progress they have made in fulfilling this executive order since their last report so that the Governor will know what additional measures are require to fulfill his duty in a timely fashion.
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Please critique.
Please modify to meet the particulars of your state and publish your draft at the following address as it may fit other states better than this Va.Draft.
TRUE-the-VOTE – A Governor’s duty invoked at http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=219797573582&topic=15426
VOTE FRAUD is REAL. at http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=219797573582&topic=15425
The sad thing about this is that our government continues to turn a blind eye towards this type of behavior. Voter fraud will continue and they’ll find more clever ways to disguise it.
20/20 just had a report on the lack of effort to address the voter fraud problem before the ’12 elections. Sounds like both sides play off of this.