‘Voter Fraud Watch’ — Uncle Pajamas Wants You!
2. Registration fraud. In many places, political organizations are submitting large numbers of registrations. Often they are duplicates, meaning someone gets registered multiple times. They are often deficient, and do not include information such as Social Security numbers or DL numbers. If they are registered without these numbers, as many often are, there is no assurance that these are real people. In states without voter ID, they will be able to vote as ghost voters.
3. And, of course, dead voters.
We would also be interested in instances of behavior that, while not strictly illegal, arguably stretch ethical limits for voting in a democracy. Again, this would be irrespective of political party or ideology.
WE NEED YOU AND YOUR SUGGESTIONS
The methods for uploading these election day reports are still evolving, but will be publicized on PJ Media and PJTV shortly. Our producer/editor Bryan Preston is preparing an instructional video on “best techniques” for shooting and uploading video in the field with Flipcams, iPhones, Blackberrys and other cellular phones. He will also be producing a test video from an actual polling place in his home state of Texas, where the polls open for early voting a couple of weeks in advance of election day on November 2.
But none of these methods and techniques are helpful without you. We need your participation in the project in the form of suggestions now (please leave them in the comments section below) and in the field on election day. In all areas you are allowed to bring a camera to the polls and photograph outside. In some you are allowed to photograph inside. Again, this is a matter of state law.
In any case, if you would like to join us in this project, and we hope you do, contact us at pollwatch@pjtv.com. Please indicate your area of the country and level of video and/or camera expertise. We are aware that other organizations have taken an interest in voting matters this election and would be pleased to cooperate with them as well.
We look forward to more dialogue on this topic in the very near future. Don’t forget to leave your suggestions.
#2 and 3 — registration fraud and dead voters — are obviously important given the indifference of the Obama administration to these problems. I’d like to know how we can investigate these.
Maryland is going to have massive voter fraud thank’s to the Blue States sanctuary laws.Huge influx of illegals have moved into Maryland since Arizona enacted their state immigration laws.They have been aided by Casa Maryland(given $4 million last year by the Md.Governor )to register to vote. How can the state sponsored illegal vote be contested??? Pitchforks & brick-bats ???
The only way to combat the top-down fraud is documentation. Photos and written statements of events and witness statements will do a lot to give enforcement measures a chance. When and if enforcement is allowed, of course.
The secret ballot is a voter’s right, not a Pol’s.
Voters can make their choice public, say at a website
run by PJMedia; If the on-line exit polling is
targeted at areas expected to have a lot of fraud,
and voters angry about it, the results could show
the fraud, and deligitimize the results, even if
the local Pols can prevent a legal challenge,
recount, and upset.
Community organizing is a euphemism for voter fraud. One should expect a lot of community organizing to be going on election day. So, if there are incriminating photos and videos, what’s to stop this crooked administration from giving itself a pass the way it does for all its other crimes?
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visit the clerk office volunteer for poll watch
let emknow we are watching
In my experience, the best way is to become a poll worker. It’s likely too late for this election, but 2012 is coming before you know it. Check with your local precinct about how.
Another way is to volunteer with the local party/ canidate to work as an offical poll watcher. This is likely to involve official training and credentials with the local elections supervisor, so the earlier the better. My home precinct only allowed access to credentialed poll watchers- but they had pretty much full access (voting booths excepted). However, they were also not allowed to talk to any voters or poll workers (saving the supervisor).
Finally, make sure you know the posted rules, and follow them. Some precincts do not allow cameras, for instance. We should follow the law in this matter.
I have volunteered to be a Poll Challenger. This will give
me the opportunity to watch the voting process up close.
It also gives me the opportunity to challenge with reason
votes being cast and unethical poll workers. To make sure
provisional ballots are not put thru the voting machine.
Each of us has an opportunity and duty to see fair and honest elections.
Time for tennis shoes on the ground.
I have volunteered to be a Poll Challenger. This will give
me the opportunity to watch the voting process up close.
It also gives me the opportunity to challenge with reason
votes being cast and unethical poll workers. To make sure
provisional ballots are not put thru the voting machine.
Each of us has an opportunity and duty to see fair and honest elections.
Time for tennis shoes on the ground.
Mr. Blue has the right idea. Become a poll worker in 2012. Infiltrate, infiltrate, infiltrate. It is passing strange to think anyone with a camera could walk into a polling place, fling open the drawn curtains of a voting booth the minute an “elderly” voter asks for assistance, barge in and press the record button on the FlipVideo. What right would we have to be the third party in the booth? Only by becoming poll workers ourselves could we get the real story on how nefarious poll workers pull their dirty tricks on Election Days. That’s the year to do this. But I wish PJM the best of luck in catching the culprits of 2010.
I sent out many emails asking people to step up and sign up to be officers of election. Conservatives still don’t get it. Our mostly Republican county doesn’t have all the spots filled. Progressives I’m sure love to fill in where we fall short.
Eliminate mail-in voting except for those with doctor’s excuses. There seems to be room for “funny business” when ballots are handed over to so-called friends to deliver. In home environments, there might be voters who are told what to write on the mail-in ballots. There is no privacy or security outside the polling place. Between the voter and the ballot box, anything can happen when the ballot is not in a controlled environment. For example, it is troubling that almost half of California’s ballots are mail-in ballots. On mail-ins, it is not possible to definitively know that the person for whom the ballot was intended was the person who actually voted. There is potential for coercion in the home. The precinct offers a controlled environment for voting.
reddog@5 said –
Eliminate mail-in voting except for those with doctor’s excuses. There seems to be room for “funny business” when ballots are handed over to so-called friends to deliver. In home environments, there might be voters who are told what to write on the mail-in ballots. There is no privacy or security outside the polling place. Between the voter and the ballot box, anything can happen when the ballot is not in a controlled environment. For example, it is troubling that almost half of California’s ballots are mail-in ballots.
Unfortunately Washington state is even worst. All but one of the counties is mail-in ONLY! We have had cases in King County (Peoples Commune of Seattle) in 2000, 2002, 2004, and 2006 where union goons and/or ACORN goons have gone to many folks’ homes on Election Day to pick up ballots that had not been mailed yet. I’m sure that if they were not known Democrats, many of those ballots were trashed or destroyed.
Oregon too. We are a mail-in-only state. No big allegations of fraud so far. But certainly the opportunity is there.
reddog raises a good point – What about the possibility of fraud in districts where there are no polling places? Here in Seattle all ballots are by mail only. There doesn’t appear to be anything we can do about this. Any suggestions?
Call your County Clerk for the process. You may be able to
volunteer to watch the processing of the envelopes.
With Democratic hacks like ACORN and SEIU out there, to name a few, this is a very real problem. That’s why in some states, like Illinois, a Republican candidate has to usually win by 4% if he or she is to overcome all of the Democratic voter fraud. It is all well and good to look out for voter fraud on election day (not that the Federal Government will do anything about it, as in the Black Panther’s Case), but the best way to slam these people down is to just flood the polls with Republican voters. Make this election a clear mandate AGAINST Obama in terms that not even thugs from SEIU or ACORN can stop. It may be the only way of actually winning in a heavy union state. So let’s do it and make it happen.
Only 4%??? Here in Cook county, I wouldn’t be sure if the margin of 10% would be enough to win.
They are already stealing the military vote in New York and the DOJ is seemingly complicit in the theft. NY is stalling on their absentee ballots. That’s 50,000 votes right there. I suspect it is happening around the country. While we look where the fraud has been, they are already miles ahead of us in newer, harder to police tactics.
Like a political game of duck hunter.
I’ve been a pollworker for my county for 20 or more years. The Registrar of Voters is always looking for volunteers and is training them even the day before the election. If we see anything “hinky” we know how to report it and/or deal with it at the polling place.
Our major frustration in the field is not being allowed to ask for a valid ID (thank you ACLU) except for a new voter and no feedback on the problem resolutions. If there’s serious voter fraud its generally at a higher level than a local precinct and the voters/activists involved have been indoctrinated long before anyone gets to the polling place.
Voter fraud is rarely reported to the general public. No statistics of invalid/rejected votes or court actions are readily available. The RoV is ultimately responsible to validate election reults within 30 days.
BTW – ever wonder how the cliche “Vote Your Job” came to be.
This is all well and good but how do we force the Feds and States to enforce the laws governing elections? We already been told that Dept of Justice will not enforce voting laws for white’s. The states attnys general will not enforce the federal law to remove the dead from the eligible voters lists. The list of malfeasance goes on and on. I hope you have a “next step” plan so we can utilize the evidence we collect.
Not to scare anyone off, people should be aware of the DOJ’s handling of the New Black Panther case. This could embolden them to not just threaten violence.
“Finally, make sure you know the posted rules, and follow them. Some precincts do not allow cameras, for instance. We should follow the law in this matter.”
In Maryland, you can volunteer with a political party, or a specific candidate and get training and credentials to be a poll watcher.
Voter “assistance,” in Maryland, anyone that “assists” a voter is DOCUMENTED by the poll workers. Even if it is another poll worker of the opposite or third party. Example, I am a card carrying, registered Republican, I can assist registered Democrats and third parties, I cannot assist another Republican.
Also, many counties in Maryland are still short on Poll Workers (Baltimore City, Prince Georges County and Montgomery County especially), CALL YOUR LOCAL ELECTION BOARD to volunteer. You must be a legal resident and eligible to vote to work the polls.
And lastly – PLEASE NO CAMERAS, NO CELL PHONES INSIDE the polling area (where the voting machines are set-up). I’m a poll worker and I will ask you to shut it off and put it away, you don’t. I will call the police.
Check the parking lots, take all the footage you want of people outside, if it looks like there are people keeping others from voting, record it, call the cops and please let the poll workers know about it so we can report it.
Sandra:
I have heavy experience in data mining of computer databases, and would love to analyze voter rolls after the election, to look for phony, multiple and illegal registrations and trace them if possible to actual votes cast. (I realize that I can’t tie them to who they voted for, but if I can identify who registered them, i.e., ACORN/SEIU or some other Democratic front group, that would probably be enough). There are very simple ways using as common a tool as Microsoft Excel to match names and addresses between huge files as long as they are available in electronic format.
However, I know nothing about the actual process, like who I should contact in local government to get voter registration rolls, and where to get lists of who voted. Can you give me any tips? How would I go about verifying if military ballots have been cast and counted? Is any of this public information easily obtained or must I jump through Freedom of Information Act hoops to get it?
I suspect that there won’t be a lot of outright physical voter intimidation a la Black Panthers this year because of all the publicity, articles like this one, and the heightened awareness of Democrat chicanery. But I don’t think that the biggest danger is at the actual polling places this year, it’s in the Motor Voter registration process and rampant absentee balloting, where it won’t make any difference how many boots we have on the ground at the polling stations.
The real problem will be ballot boxes stuffed before the election, crates of votes mysteriously and conveniently found in Democratic trunks in recounts, vote totals larger than the entire population in key districts, votes by hundreds of people listing the same vacant lot as their address on their registrations, and absentee ballots made out in advance in the names of fake, illegal, and dead voters.
Using Excel for data mining? Hmmmm.
What are you mining, one precinct.
I only used Excel to illustrate that it is not that difficult to do useful data-mining of large databases. There are other applications that are even more sophisticated.
I was in corporate accounting for decades at huge companies and used a standard but powerful Excel feature know as “Pivot Tables” and other stand alone query programs to produce reports from multiple databases written in other computer languages without even getting the IT department involved.
“Pivot Tables” allow Excel to be linked up to huge multiple databases consisting of tens of million of records with hundreds of fields in each record, and return specific information summarized by any field, in any level of detail you want, sorted in every way possible. Its beauty is that it doesn’t have to import the entire database to manipulate the results. And if you don’t get the results you need with the first pass, you just readjust how you are sorting and/or summarizing, click “Enter” and instantaneously get a new sort/summary.
For example, in 2008, there were many Obama campaign donors with phony names like “Doodad Pro” and “Good Will” that made dozens of small contributions that added up to many times the legal limits. There were millions in donations from other countries. Using Pivot Tables you can get a get a huge database summarized by country, then “drill down” into those subtotals to get more totals by city, drill down further to get it by individual, etc. And drilling down is done by just clicking on a field in the Excel summary.
As an example of how this could be used in this case, I could link common fields in two huge files, say Voter Registrations and Voting Rolls, and return a summary that would give a count of how many people voted using the same address on their registration, and then for anything suspicious, drill down into those addresses one at a time to get to the names of the individuals who used that address. From there you might have to go to the hardcopy to see who actually submitted the registrations forms, but it allows you to zero in on problem cases that have been identified in advance by the data-mining.
Oh, and incidentally, I was a flat out expert at data-mining.
In a previous life (when I was on active duty) one of the many jobs I had was database management, large, even huge (billions of records, each record having been one a key-punched card). since retirement, to help fund my higher education, I did “data mining.”
You’re correct, for the majority of precincts and most counties, you CAN set up a reasonably good process with just using off the shelf software like ACCESS rather than EXCEL. For a few cities, I’d go with ORACLE. Use the real database management application, not spreadsheets (they get too cumbersome quickly) And really no need for proprietary stuff either.
Security for tabulation of ballots? Easiest ever, NO CONNECTIVITY TO THE INTERNET. A simple stand-alone, data storage server. You can have a couple “work stations” and those are that only things HARD CONNECTED to the server. Then simply “load” the PCMCIA cards from the voting machines. The actual HARD CARDS, not a line (USB/Firefly/etc) connection. Even a OCR scanner for written ballots (absentee and approved provisional) can save the results to a PCMCIA card for uploading and tabulation.
Want to be part of the PROCESS? Apply for a job at the Election Board in your vicinity. In some areas, techie types are adored! Note, it may take “years” to get to a position to really stop any fraud. It took years for the Progressives and Socialists to infiltrate the Democrat Party, and to then work to get into positions on the Election Boards and in the Secretary of State Offices.
I guess this is a joke. But what exactly does an observer look for to prevent fraudulent voting??
In some environs, an accredited member of the press will be allowed unhindered access to the polling place (with the obvious exceptions).
PJTV can help in this method by providing official press credentials to volunteers.
Call your Secretary of State and DEMAND to know if their absentee ballots were mailed to military personnel BY SEPTEMBER 18 as they were directed to do BY LAW.
Enough! No more unlawful voters while those dying to protect our freedom are scoffed at and disenfranchised by DEMOCRATS and LIBERALS. Save America – help soldiers vote.
Oct. 11 is a National Holiday. Call on Tuesday.
In an electronic age, voting related fraud is done mostly electronically: in the electronic storage, sending/receiving (transfer) and electronic total vote counting processes. Example: voting station A has x numbers of votes for Party Y, whereas this x is changed to w in the transmission and/or tallying phase.
The State Election Commissions, where potentially these electronic related processes take place, should be monitored – not so much the voting booth.
It can’t get done in time for this election but maybe it is time to look into
the dieing the finger blue thing they do in Iraq!?! I know this wouldn’t take
care of absentee ballots, but it could be a start. Too many ways to cheat here.
Elections are another good example of something the government doesn’t do very well.
Yet some folks think the government can run your health care better than you. why
don’t peoiple notice this?
Acting as a poll watcher is precisely what I’d like to do.
But, courtesy of the Democratic Party of King County, WA, there’s no chance to act. They have locked up the polls and ended the days of the community turning out to vote.
It is all mail ballots now. Allowing the dominant Democrats ever more opportunities to ensure that the electorate votes correctly, on the Stalinist principle that it’s not the voters, but the vote counters who decide ‘elections’.
So I’ll do what I can as a ballot-counter-watcher, but between the mailing-out of ballots, and the electronic totals of the votes, there are uncountable numbers of opportunities to tinker and bully and fudge and abolish ballots, wholly unseen by human eyes.
Give us back our community ceremonies, you bastards.
I believe it was Stalin who said that it doesn’t matter who people vote for, it is who counts the ballots that determines the election. The only way to control this type of fraud is to have loyal insiders where the counting and storage of ballots takes place.
In WA, in 2004, Christine Gregoire was defeated for Governor until several recounts, when ballots mysteriously kept being “found” until she won. Her campaign person did the same thing for Al Franken in MN in 2008, making him a Senator. It may seem futile to combat this stuff, especially when the defrauding Party is in control, but the pattern will eventually be corrected. I’d guess his next assignment will be in NV, to make sure Harry Reid wins.
I just read the “Uncle Pajamas Wants You” article. While I can’t participate (I am going to be out of town on election day and will vote absentee), your article raised an issue that you should probably address.
I like to reassure myself by saying that if it isn’t close, they can’t cheat us out of a victory, but unfortunately there are some races that we need to win that probably will be close. With its behavior in the Black Panther voter intimidation case, the Obama administration has signaled its indifference to voter fraud and intimidation (at least of the blue-on-red variety). I have little doubt that Democrat secretaries of state will follow the feds’ lead, as well. Finally, the MSM are in the tank for the Democrats. With this in mind, what should be done with clear evidence of voting irregularities? Except in states with GOP SOS’s, the authorities will have no interest in the evidence, and the MSM won’t allow evidence of Democrat criminality to be broadcast. The only remaining recourse would be the courts, but that has the downside of appearing to be a sore loser (think Al Gore).
So what should be done with evidence of fraud?
I would request if there are a million uncounted votes left and there are close races that Secretary of State office not be allowed to go into two weeks of conclave counting with a “We’ll get back to ya!”
I hope everyone who thinks they will “help” in this effort will at least take the time to read their relevant state statutes governing who can and can’t watch or observe at the polls. Sometimes, you can’t volunteer as an individual; you have to go through a county party committee. And in many -maybe most- cases, you certainly can’t just show up, unannounced, and state your intention to observe or otherwise challenge the counting or casting of votes.
I also hope you will take a minute to get educated about what systems are actually being used and how tallies are transmitted. Don’t assume it’s all via modem or Internet, and don’t assume that every county clerk is “in on the fix.” In some states, electronic transmission of result is still illegal. In other words, before you go out there trying to be a big hero-save-the-day for-voting-Americans-guy … please read up first and don’t show your a** first chance you get. mmm-kay?
I live in “The People’s Republic of Washington State” where all ballots are absentee, which is kind of not so funny when my state asked for and was granted a waiver on military absentee ballots because they claimed they couldn’t count them in time…truly disgusting and pathetic. Washington State is also the home of Democrat vote fraud (particularly in the Seattle region) as seen in the 2004 gubernatorial election. I’ve really no idea of how to counter this at this time other than to support a ballot initiative where you would actually have to prove your eligibility by showing up at a poll with I.D. in hand and ensuring that the polls are fairly staffed. I’d love to be able to watch for fraud, but this Democrat controlled state has seen to it that I cannot. If anyone has any ideas, I’d like to hear them.
Forrest: see comment #41.
Cheers
“The voter doesn’t get to vote, but instead the assistor votes for them.”
I used to volunteer as a poll worker and saw this happen frequently than you’d think. I saw “assistors” show senile or medicated elderly folks where to mark their ballots. And the most despicable cases, assistors helping mentally handicapped folks vote. This didn’t appear to be an organized effort, just as case of despicable relatives trying to help their favorite candidates.
I suspect it is far more organized than people thinks as I’ve seen it in three states now.
When I lived in Chicago the Cook County Board of Elections had an official routine of going out to all the nursing homes the week before the election. I wonder how many other cities do this? The Board employees were supposed to have both Democrat and Republican election judges with them, but it was Cook County. If the Republican committeeman couldn’t provide a real Republican judge, they’d swear in a Democrat as the Republican judges for the day. If this practice exists in your area, volunteer to be an election judge or poll watcher.
Two, guess what union represents a lot of workers at nursing homes and centers for the developmentally disabled? SEIU. My senile mother, a lifelong Republican and staunchly prolife Catholic had moved into an Alzheimers center in Minnesota. By that stage she was highly suggestible by authority figures. Someone registered her at her new address and helped her vote in 2008 and it wasn’t any relative. You have no idea how mad I am at the idea that my mother, a huge admirer of Norm Coleman, probably cast a ballot for Al Franken.
Then there was my neighbor with an adult son who was developmentally disabled. She and her husband were at loggerheads with the staff at the downstate Illinois facility where their son lived because the employees routinely “assisted” all the residents on election day. They were private pay and let it beknown that should their son vote again, they’d consider moving him to a different facility.
Finally, where I now live in rural North Carolina, county employees will round up the senior citizens and drive them to the polls on election day using the county owned vans that are part of the senior lunch program. The senior citizens get a whole spiel on why they need to continue to reelect the local Democrats on the drive to the polling place. The year they put in the touch screen voting machines there was widespread “assistance” with the unfamilar technology as some of these poor, rural super elderly voters had never even seen a cash station. The local Republicans will complain and the practice of using the county vans may stop for one election, but then it starts up again. Even without using county vans, county employees systematically call on seniors to offer them a lift to the polls. A friend who usually helps his own mother to the polls when he finishes up work for the day was beaten to the punch by a county employee the last two elections. Both times she changed her mind about who to vote for because of electioneering during the ride to the polls. I told my friend to take advantage of early voting this year. Use a long lunch and take Mom to vote as soon as early voting begins.
Reasons I have signed up for absentee ballots:
1. Small children racing and whooping around the voting booths, and when a complaint is lodged with the people running the voting place, I’m told that, “most people bring a cheat sheet so they don’t *have* to concentrate or think.” That it’s perfectly OK for other people to bring their small children and let them run amok before, during and after the parental voting process.
2. Voting place is “in the hood”. By this I mean, it’s a community recreation area frequented by illegal latin-looking men. Many of them, all evidently unemployed since they hang out by the front door 24/7. If I walk to vote, I’ll be mugged. If I drive and leave my car, it’ll be mugged / disappeared.
I know that there’s a possibility of funny business with absentee balloting, but prefer it personally and think that we should do more to stamp out the funny business. Either than or ban small children from the actual area where the voting booths are set up, and deport unemployed latin-looking men who congregate in front of a voting place.
(BTW, a co-worker was not able to vote several elections ago, because when he showed up he was told he had already voted. As far as I know, nothing was ever done to follow up on this, and I don’t know what *could* be done if someone has hijacked your ballot and is using it before you can.)
POLL STATION REPORTING AT END OF DAY
I’m sick of reading articles about how the number of voters couldn’t be matched to ballots cast at many polling sites.
This isn’t rocket science. NO BALLOTS SHOULD LEAVE THE SITE b/4 discrepancies are identified and corrected. If the on-site workers can’t do it, send in someone with better math or accounting skills. But NEVER let those ballots out of your sight until the poll records are reconciled.
Every locality has such rules and procedures for closing out the polling place. It’s inexcusable that we so often find out months later—usually in a recount—that the polling place had “more ballots than signed-in voters”.
I will be out of town election day. I sent an absentee ballot request to the LA County Registrar-Recorder. The Post Office delivered the card to my home address written on the back of the card instead of the Registrar’s office printed on the front with the stamp. When I went to the local Post Office to request that it be delivered correctly, the Post Office employee recommended that I apply for the absentee ballot online instead of using the Post Office.
I know I have already posted this in the past, but I think it’s useful to repeat it:
if you observe ANY form of intimidation (or worse of course) at YOUR polling station, CALL THE POLICE AND PRESS CHARGES. Anyone trying to intimidate the voters is actually committing a felony AND is violating the civil rights of the voters, we are talking of very serious charges.
DO not ever even think to confront the thugs, CALL the Police.
Clearly state your name when you call, in this way the Police report will say that you called for help, as the victim. This begins the process in the proper way.
The Citizens can actually compel the DoJ to do its job, or at least push strongly in that direction, and so they can allow honest Congressmen to raise hell against the thugs AND THEIR PROTECTORS.
AND LET THE POLL WORKERS KNOW… in some areas they cannot leave the polling room to go “outside” and look. But they have the “magic” phone numbers to get an immediate police response. At least in my county in Maryland we do.
While this seems like a worthwhile endeavor none of the actions suggested by Roger would prevent the shenanigans pulled during the stealing of the governorship from Dino Rossi in 2004 by the thieving democrats in Seattle. By any measure there certainly were irregularities in the suddenly ‘found’ new votes – these were all were mail-in ballots. No explanation was ever given for how and why those ballots were lost – or found. Funny thing was they favored Queen Chissy nearly almost 4:1 – more heavily than the average for her in solid democrat stronghold Seattle.
Strange isn’t it?
Remember Chris Coates’ recent testimony in the Holder/Black Panther fiasco, i.e., some 8 states have refused to undertake (no pun intended) the requirement under the voting act of clearing out their voter rolls of names of dead people.
Coates specifically mentioned Robin Carnahan and Missouri in his testimony.
I have the impression that a lot of invisible “voter fraud” is already built in.
The Almighty Democrats
can invent death panels to kill the living
and
can make the dead alive again, and able to vote
Now THAT’s BIG government !!!
That would explain alot to Missouri voters. When Jean Carnahan beat Jim Talent for the senate seat. He was beat by the same 100,000 votes that Claire McCaskill beat him by.
Missouri voters have “short-sheeted” by both of these Dems. Now Robin Carnahan is running for the senate seat….hummm. Claire McC won’t even talk to Missouri voters. We sent a delegation to DC to talk to her about the health care bill and she locked them out of her office.
Most states don’t allow pictures or video inside polling stations. warn watchers to check their state.
Most major fraud is sub rosa, but look for busses arriving at polling stations. Especially in same day states like Wisconsin. Actually in Wisconsin, it would be better to station groups of drivers on both major interstates (US90 and US94) to follow Acorn busses to multiple polling stations in Milwaukee and Madison.
Video of Illinois busses driving to Wisconsin Polling stations and the whole bus getting off and going in to vote in multiple places would finally give the “proof” that legislators have reguired to consider voter ID laws.
Roger,
If you prove too much fraud, and threaten Democratic control of Congress, don’t be surprised if PJM is suddenly shut down, and you jailed, for “inciting hatred” or “hate speech”.
Just remember, life in LA will not prepare you for the Aleutian Islands.
Roger, I WISH the public was privy to Congress, Senate’s telephone calls, texts, etc.,.. it is OUR money they’re paying-to-play/destroy credibility of others, covering scandals, exploiting scandals, using illegal means for their coffers and then cry foul if they suspect opposition flirting with the very same idea… ‘Calgon take me away’!
The WSJ has a great article regarding pols abusing their power (oxymoron I know) and encourage investuagtions for very dubious reasons..
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703735804575536370151720874.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_opinion
Quote of Stalin is important here.
“It’s not who votes but who counts the votes that counts.”
It is an inside job.
Get inside the Democrats to find out how, when, who and where.
Cell Phone Camera them.
Record them.
Bust them.
Slightly off topic BUT… Chuck Schumer is outraged, outraged I tell you!! What… he’s trying to channel Claude Rains???
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/10/11/2010-10-11_board_of_elections_gaff_may_nullify_new_york_soldiers_overseas_absentee_ballots.html
What a tool… this is SOP for Dems and elections… disenfranchise (yes, their favorite word) the actual men and women whose sacrifice gives us all the opportunity to vote. Schumer deserves a special place in hell for his faked outrage.
Roger,
Washington State unfortunately is a hotbed of voter fraud. One thing that needs to be happening now is ensuring that the military get their ballots. There should be “troops on the ground” (so to speak) checking into this as ballots drop in the mail this week. Military personnel need to be contacted to make sure each and every one has received a ballot.
The military vote could help balance out whatever other vote fraud that is certainly going on to help elect Patty Murray. Dino Rossi is the difference on who controls the Senate–a very important race.
All of the above, particularly geokstr.
The Dems are beyond fear; They are panicked,
and may well add more votes than they can hide;
Even if they have control of the local government
sufficient to steal the election, if the statistics
show that is what they did, they lose more than one
seat in Congress, they lose legitimacy.
Can you keep this on the top of the front page for easy refenence?
I’ll take video and still photo’s, but, keeping this in a prominent place would help a lot.
One of the main characteristics, or indicators if you wish, of Third (and Second) World Countries is/was their degree of electoral fraud.
Well, either this is no longer confined to these settings; or, most likely, the Third World has arrived here and its increased incidence is another political (in this case) indicator (along with economic and demographic ones) that the United States of America ARE now (as opposed to “are becoming”) formally a Third World country.
“There is an app for that.”
Oh well, maybe not yet. How about if PJM commissions a software developer to create an iPhone/Android app to make it easy to monitor voting places? Use iPhone’s GPS to mark the voting location, its clock to mark the time, its camera to take picture/video, its Wifi/3G to send the data to a server which is updated in real time, etc.. Give the user the ability to make comments and you are good to go. All at the touch of the screen.
Re: Washington State mail-in voting. Is it possible to do the following?
1) identify neighbourhoods that are susceptible to votes being taken by Union members and supposedly posted on behalf of the voters;
2) in each neighbourhood survey a sample list of voters and ask them if they gave their envelope and marked ballot to a third party;
3) at the voting station where their vote should have been posted, verify that votes were actually recorded for each name on the sample list.
For example, if in a sample list of 100 voters from one neighbourhood who all confirm that they gave their ballot to a third party to post only 85 were recorded at the polling station a specific question could now be asked and an enquiry made about 15 votes that are known to be missing. It wouldn’t matter or be asked of any voter who they cast their vote for. The only question would be “did their vote get recorded?”
Wouldn’t this be direct evidence of vote tampering? It would be rock solid if the missing voters would sign a affidavit confirming that they did mark a ballot and they did give it to a known third party. That way the suspected fraud could be tied to a specific organization and maybe to a specific person.
I’m not sure what access the public have to voting records. If the polling station can be “captured” by partisans and the voting record hidden or altered this idea wouldn’t work.
The same idea of following samples of named voters would also apply to polling stations where people cast a vote in person. This wouldn’t touch the type of voting fraud where Mickey Mouse or Napoleon are listed as voters, but it would catch vote tampering if the sample were large enough. If within a neighbourhood, the sample of voters was a properly random sample, then standard statistical and probability math could be used to calculate the probability of an observed regularity happening purely by chance.
It seems to me that applying some standard sampling theory and sampling techniques could uncover some types of vote tampering in an objective and defensible manner. Sampling is a practical business which calls on several skills: defining the population to be sampled; determining how to collect data and what measurement methods to use; organizing field work; and the proper application of sampling theory to produce unbiased estimates of (in this case) vote tampering.
It could be done.
That should be “… calculate the probability of an observed IRREGULARITY happening purely by chance.”
Everyone should read up on their own state’s election laws. In addition to the basics listed in this article, each state might have its own peculiarities with how it handles voting rights and responsibilities, particularly in regards to absentee ballots. Know what’s correct in your area so that you can easily spot any funny business.
Sharing from another blog in reference to Harry Reid’s
choices for greatest living American.
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I first heard this on the great conservative radio station WLS Chicago 890 AM from the great American Mark Levin.
I was on my 30 minute commute from work, and after my initial chuckle,
I’m thinking WOW!! I wonder if Ted and Robert are voting straight Democrat ticket this November. Further down the road I’m wondering if their dead relatives will also be voting straight Democrat ticket. Then OMG I’m wondering if MY dead relatives will also be voting straight Democrat. UGH!!
NOT chuckling much at this point in my travel…….
As an after thought I am now wondering if YOUR dead relatives will also be
voting straight Democrat this November !!!!!?????
There are a lot of good ideas here for documenting voter fraud, and I’m sure some fraud will be found. Should the Republicans/conservatives take control of the Congress, they need to be pressured to act on this matter. The Congress provides oversight of the DoJ, and is supposed to be ensuring that the attorney general’s malfeasance is exposed and corrected. With Democrat control of all branches of government though, they are colluding to bypass all of these checks and balances. People might also want to check whether their state governments provide oversight on the states’ attorney generals.
How do you stop voter fraud? I read about many examples and Minnesota is probably the master at it. Just being a poll watcher doesn’t seem like it will help. I feel sorry for the people of Washington state. They are truly up ___ creek without a paddle. I have friends willing to take the day off on Tuesday, what do we do?
In a recent interview dimwit leftist Gore Vidal made a prediction, that the US is headed towards a “dictatorship,” see:
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/cultural-capital/2010/10/cameron-barack-obama-vidal
and although he didn’t explicitly say it, he implied that he expects it to come from the right.
Well, the author with the superinflated ego may be onto something here, although he might have his fears (a coup from the right) expressing his real hopes (a coup from the left) – which is precisely the subject of this article about “electoral fraud.”
Keep an eye out for copycats of the Philly intimidation case.
I would like to see a permanent Pajamas Media Resources page with this article and its comments as the first entry.
Editing the article to integrate the comments might be nice, but I would rather see an unedited article with its comments soon more than a cleaned-up page that is delayed or not created because of the extra editing required to make it ‘perfect.’
I am an election judge in Texas.
It is a violation of the Texas Election Code to use any audio or video recording device in a poll. This includes your cell phone.
You subject yourself to arrest.
Arrest for Civil Disobedience is a
small price to pay for Freedom.
P.S. How many people do you plan to arrest,
where are you going to put them all, and
how do you plan to defend against a well-
funded Class-Action lawsuit challenging
the legality/Constitutionality of your
actions ?
Maybe it is time to “organize.” Those who are trained and
credentialed Poll Challengers/Watchers follow their training.
Others can maintain vigilance outside, team up to make shifts,
with cameras ready.
None of us want to have #50 tired dog locking us up.
Do not wear any political buttons, tee shirts within a
feet of doors of polling place.
Less than twenty years ago, even cities like Chicago did an actual door to door canvass before each election. There is no reason private citizens cannot reinstitute the practice. The list of registed voters for each precinct is usually available from the county. If enough average citizens acted as old time precinct captains, compiled all the errors and then complained to politicians and the media about the sorry state of voter registration rolls, something might get done.
The process isn’t that hard. You take the sheet for your own precinct or another area you are familar with, say your parent’s precinct. You then walk/drive the precinct just as precinct captains used to do, checking actual addresses against what is on the sheet. Obvious things are people still registered at razed or abandoned houses. So are people you know moved away/died and who are still on the rolls. Make a list of questions. In most neighborhoods it isn’t likely that two different married couples probably aren’t sharing a small single family home or four adults a one bedroom apartment. If there are apartments, count the mailboxes or buzzers to determine the number of units or talk to the caretaker. The regular mailman is another source of information. In a large building ask the doorman. If it’s slow period, he may even look at the list and tell you who had moved away.
One thing vote fraud investigators watched for are far more people registered at one address than appear to actually live there. A dozen adults probably aren’t legitimately registered at a single 2 bedroom bungalow. Sometimes these are ghost voters, the product of groups like ACORN paying workers so much per new registration. Other times they may be adult children still registered at their parent’s home long after they moved out on their own. Both situations have been used by the bad guys for absentee ballot fraud.
Walking the precinct will also pay dividends on election day. Say it is a jurisdiction like Minnesota, where a person can vote on election day if someone from that precinct vouches that they live there. A poll watcher who knows every building in the precinct is in a better position to challenge the social butterfly who walks in with a half dozen new roommates. Or maybe someone was removed from the rolls by mistake. If you know the area you know how plausible the explanation is. A dozen people saying their names were all erroneously removed from the rolls in a single precinct during a mail canvass because only the names actually on the lease were on the mailbox is plausible in a high rent area near a large urban university. It’s a bit fishy in a stable middle income community.
In all the above examples, the people being challenged are usually allowed to vote, but those ballots are segregated as provisional upon the resolution of the challenge and are not included in the original count.
The admission of a provisional ballot is supposed to require additional evidence that the voter is entitled to vote from that precinct. That is a far different procedure than a recount, which only confirms the arithmatic.
Many posters have mentioned the Washington state recount shenanigans during the race for Governor. This is nothing new in Washington, in 1991 the Dems pulled the same stunt in the “closest legislative race in state history”. Same scenario, ballots were “found” in car trunks and other places. How strange, they all happened to be Democrat votes.
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/keyword/evan-jones
And; 5 ballots “found”
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/12/us/discovery-of-5-ballots-puts-election-in-doubt.html
Greetings, Fellow Americans !
It’s that time again, and we still haven’t found vindication from the voter fraud of the last 2 elections… Unlikely we ever will, considering the dead can still vote in several states. Acorn still organizing and same day voter registration ballots (no id needed) are still being accepted. How many “Living” voters (residents) still not matching up to how many votes are being cast (hello Minnesota). And Illegal Immagrants “Still” getting state id’s in numerous states, makes it a challenge , yes…
But we’re energized and watching astutely. Please do all you can to note “Fair Elections” this and every time from now till the end of time ! Hard work ? How hard do you think our “Founding Fathers” had to work to set it up ? We just have to maintain it. Everyone here has shown their interest, now lets spread the word to everyone we interact with on and near election day… We may not get 100 seats (that’s thinking big) but going for it is what this “American State Of Mind” is all about… Thank You, Fellow Americans ! For being a part of ensuring our Fair Elections Process !!!
So, I’m going to ask the same question I always ask when you wingnuts start in on the phoney “voter fraud” crusade you launch to try to suppress minority voting: can anyone provide me any proof of even a single improper ballot being cast as a result of these bull-pucky stories you keep inventing?
Come one, one ballot. You should be able to produce one stinking ballot to back up all of these charges.
But, once again, you won’t be able to. Because this whole thing is made up out of whole cloth by dishonest hacks who want to steal elections by preventing poor people and minorities from voting.
It is NOT too late to sign up to be a poll watcher/ election judge. Anyone can sign up to do it through any candidate who’s name is on the ballot. At least in Maryland. Get in touch with a candidate’s campaign like Andy Harris or Bob Ehrlich, and take he class on poll watching, or let the progressives continue to steal elections with the dead, the illegal, and the absentee.
Our Republic needs you!
Joe, the ballots have been found, and the decision is made to allow because those in the Board of Elections have been at times crooked, or they are lost, or shredded, or there is no ballot as many use ELECTRONIC voting.
PS- Which branch of acorn are you?
We live in Pasadena California. My son, who is turning 20 this Wednesday, has registered to vote on 3 separate occasions. The first time was a year and a half ago at a voter registration table outside Best Buy in Pasadena. The second time was at the DMV about a year ago, and the third time at his University, Cal Poly Pomona. In spite of these three separate registrations, he still shows as not registered in our polling district. He is trying to register Republican. Although I have no proof of any fraud, I find it highly suspicious that he is trying to register Republican in highly Democratic majority places and somehow all three of his registrations have been mysteriously “lost”. What should he do next?
I voted by mail 14 times. Each time I voted a straight Republican ticket. Do you consider this to be voter fraud, or just the result of an effective Republican get-out-the-vote campaign?
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