A year ago, as I drove to Houston for the first national True the Vote summit, I had a lot on my mind. Andrew Breitbart was coming in to give the closing speech, and I was introducing him. How do you introduce someone who is equal parts tornado and Tasmanian devil? He really doesn’t need much of an intro, just set him up and watch him go.
This year’s summit is different. No intro to worry about. No Breitbart speech to bring down the house, unfortunately. No new shenanigans and game-changing exposes to hear about. But he’s here all the same.
Volunteers from 32 states have gathered to bring integrity back to what has become a corrupted election process. We have heard story after story today and last night — ACORN’s $30 million Project Vote effort in 2008; several jurisdictions across several states have more names on their voter rolls than there are eligible voting adults in their area. Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch directly warned that the Obama administration’s Department of Justice is working hand in hand with former ACORN lawyers who have pled guilty in voter fraud cases, on this year’s election strategy. He connected the Obama stealth amnesty for illegal aliens with this voter drive and the administration’s overt opposition to commonsense voter ID laws that have already proven to be no obstacle whatsoever to legitimate voters into a terrifying probability: that the Obama administration is preparing to steal this fall’s election.
John Fund is on the stage now. Fund has done more than any other reporter to discover, document, and expose voter fraud. But he isn’t here to crow, but to thank the activists in the room. They work for free, because they care about election integrity, at their own personal expense and often in the face of a hostile media. But they protect our votes. Fund rightly said that he could not exist without the activists’ efforts. Election is a core civil rights isue, Fund said, and he’s right: In a country built on the premise that we choose our own leaders, clean elections are fundamental to securing our freedoms. Fund noted that support for voter ID and election security is so strong among minority groups because they’re the most frequent victims of stolen votes. Research done when I was at the Republican Party of Texas backs him up on that: Fraud is worst in Texas in the Rio Grande Valley, where the local Democrats rig primaries and elections year after year after year, often stealing elections for white candidates at the expense of Hispanic candidates.
The people in this room get that. That’s why they’ve come here at their own expense. This is room full of good people putting themselves on the line to fight voter fraud and keep our country free.
Breitbart is here.
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God Bless Them.
This is where it’s at, people. These bastards will stop at nothing. Right now, I’d like to see what Romney will do, once elected, to start a RICO investigation of the entire Democrat Party.
Few people realize that the Democrats have been stealing elections since the Founding. They used the judiciary to enhance slavery against the will of the people (sound familiar?). Grant himself said that the straw that broke the Camel’s back was when a stacked, manipulated Congress, aided by the Supreme Court, passed the law REQUIRING northern citizens to aid slave catchers whenever called upon to do so.
People had grown complacent about slavery, because they never saw it for themselves, but forcing them to do something they thought reprehensible was the bridge too far.
Being a businessman, I’ve been the slave of the overweening government my whole life, with its capricious rulings and absurd requirements that somehow, no matter what went wrong (or even might go wrong, someday), it was my fault, and I must pay, whether or not there was anything to pay with (keep in mind that they never forgive my debts, but take whatever I’ve got to simply give away to their supporters. Whatever government really should be doing would amount to much less than half of the Federal and State budgets). They beat me with a rubber truncheon, so they can pay someone else not to work at all, excepting, of course, Election Day, when they’re very busy.
In this sorry time, Goths and Vandals are no longer the threat. It’s government, in all its forms, that one should be afraid of. They use your money to pay people to ruin you, unless you’re one of them. The Mafia was never as arrogant and nasty as our government is today.
Welcome to my nightmare. Now you’re all in my boat. Better get a paddle. You might want to keep that paddle handy, especially Election Day. To fight back.
Breitbart Lives!
Bravo to the good folks who are trying to prevent voter fraud. There are many ways to steal an election. The easiest way is to control the vote count. How do we prevent fraud at that level? Who does the counting? How do we know it is a true count?
If the Dems want the unregistered and unidentified to vote why don’t we just take their picture at the polling place let them vote provisionally then when it is subsequently determined that the voter is qualified to vote count the vote otherwise that vote is discarded?
Implement District Voting. If flipping a state with fraud in blue districts only nets them two electoral votes rather than twenty, it may not be worth their time, and even if it is, the payoff is still far less. Let them run up the score in Chicago and Philadelphia; we’ll win the rural districts and take most of the electors.
This is a very good idea, nay it is an excellent idea, count each district by itself, giving that one elctoral vote to the candidate winning that district. Then we’ll really begin to see how voters in this country think. What bliss this would create in our system. I wonder why no-one has ever thought of this before, no wait I do know why, it’s harder to cheat and it’s just way to simple to do.
watching the way attempts to true the vote are attacked by the marxists is all an intelligent, honest citizen needs to see, to get an idea of the limits these people will stoop to as they try to retain control of our government. it is truly scary.
what puzzles me about it is how little the so called conservative congresscritters seem to care about potential voter fraud. why would someone running in an election not want to know?
this is America, still. one would think we could at least have some legitimate, verifiable honesty in our public actions, like elections. too much to ask of gun runners i guess.
I want to emphasize what Preston here has said–overall, the election system is either corrupt or open to corruption, definitely in theory, possibly in practice. And I want to state that after a certain point, if the establishment refuses to allow the system to be fixed despite repeated efforts to do so, with no justification for the rejection other than some nebulous fears about disenfranchisement, while ignoring the near-certainty that non-American citizens are voting in elections, all the while demanding that the people cheerfully and willingly obey whatever set of micro-rules and regulations that the winners of those elections may choose to implement–well, in that case it would then be my opinion that the particular situation would most certainly probably fall into Jefferson’s “long train of abuses and usurpations” rider, and people would be quite right in asking some very hard and tough questions about what they were going to do about the situation. We have to have a election system of unquestioned integrity or there will not be a Republic. Period. It’s not an option.
Therefore, the Democrats need to understand this clearly. Voter ID is *going* to happen. Come hell or high water. Or both. All that is left to for them to determine is the price they wish to pay in losing.
I want to add one more thing, and the implication should be clear, which is what I intend, so that the implication will not occur.
It is my belief that one of the motivating factors in 1861 that caused the North to immediately put aside all internal Northern Democrat vs. Whig/Republican differences and fight once Fort Sumter had been fired upon is that the South had done a lot of bullying, politics-wise, in the decade before 1860. I’ll mention the Fugitive Slave Law and the caning of Sumner as examples. And then the Republicans won an election and the South decided that the rules had to change. And then they decided they could treat the North with contempt and open fire on the flag, because they were just a superior being to whom Northern rules did not apply.
Four years later, as Sherman and Grant were finishing their path of destruction, with true prosperity not to return that part of the nation until a hundred years later, the South learned in full the folly of their arrogance. The pre-April, 1861 North was trying to play within both the rules of what they thought was right, as well as the overall rules themselves. They were willing to abide by outcomes of fair elections. The South chose to play another game, one that said they would play by the game as long as it went their way, and then wouldn’t–all the while being in a numerically-inferior position. And eventually they reaped the whirlwind for their stupidity. It should be an object lesson in what a faction not stronger than the other ought not to do in a Republic.
And so I point it out.
As an addendum-I will point out that a President complaining about possibilities of Supreme Court justices overturning laws he supports while having a platform plank essentially supporting the Court’s most controversial overturning and while suing the state of Arizona to achieve the same for a law he does not support is precisely what I am saying would be better if it did not happen–having those kinds of people in power, because they either simply cannot understand the hate and discontent they generate with such lack of integrity and “heads you lose, tails I win” double-standards, or simply don’t care.
Please forgive this post for being A)long and B)not immediately concerned with vote fraud, but I have been inspired by Buzzsawmonkey and his (her?) delightful Buzz Ballads. And as March 1, 2012 is now my personal February 3, 1959, I beg your indulgence in leaving this here, in Andrew Breitbart’s honor:
Not a long time ago
I can still remember how the media
Used to make me mad.
I thought, “Were I in other shoes
I’d challenge how they spin the news
To always make our point of view look bad.”
But then online we felt a quaking
A revolution in the making
Defiance raised to fine art
Its master: Andrew Breitbart.
He sent the liars into flight
Old Media fled like bugs from light
But soon our new day plunged to night
When Andrew ceased his fight.
So bye-bye, fearless Internet guy
One so clever that he never had to stoop to a lie
Dispelled despair, taught us all how to try
Alas, it was too early to die
When he was summoned by the Most High.
Our hero gladly welcomed help
To gather any Leftist scalp
The truth had found its champion this time.
So Andrew utilized the wiles
Of James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles
To prove that ACORN perpetrated crime.
Disguised as crooks with foul proposal,
Found ACORN quite at their disposal:
“Of course we’ll help you, honey,
House slaves with public money!”
The tapes were let out one by one,
And that’s how ACORN was undone,
And that’s how Andrew had his fun
Until he ceased his fight.
So bye-bye, mighty Internet guy,
One so clever that he never had to stoop to a lie
Dispelled despair, taught us all how to try
Alas, it was too early to die
When he was summoned by the Most High.
So where was Andrew next to go
To strike another righteous blow?
Then he received a stroke of luck:
Anthony Weiner of New York,
A Congressman (and Leftist dork),
Sent far and wide a photo of his schmuck.
At first he swore, “It’s Breitbart’s doing!”
Absurdist scandal then ensuing,
Before a watching nation
Came Andrew’s vindication.
From heading to emoticon,
He rose, he led, the war was on…
All of a sudden, he was gone
With you to carry on.
So bye-bye, cherished Internet guy
One so clever that he never had to stoop to a lie
Dispelled despair, taught us all how to try
Then he was summoned by the Most High!
Why haven’t the activists filed suit against Obama 2012 for deliberately allowing donation fraud by disabling all standard protections against credit card fraud and donation limits on their website?
And may our candidate this time not be intimidated by the ideology of riot, as John McCain last time refused to challenge ballot fraud in Philadelphia for fear of mass disturbances. The one part of me that backed Gore in his challenge in Florida in 2000 was not because I wanted him to win but that he represented a lot of people who did. Well, I want to win, too, and I want candidates with guts enough to do what they have to do to win. (Of course, Gore lost, but just sayin’)
And may our candidate this time not be intimidated by the “ideology of riot” into not challenging voter fraud when it’s suspected, as McCain was in 2000 when he did not challenge ballot box stuffing for the “good of the country.” Yeah. Well what good have we gotten out of this hollow psychopathic excuse for a president? I hope this time, if there’s suspicion of fraud, Romney challenges everywhere.
That’s not hope. That’s wishful thinking.
On a related note, Breitbart’s coroner dies from suspected arsenic poison.
http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2012/04/29/andrew-breitbarts-coroner-dead-from-suspected-poisoning/
The Deal with Jack Hunter: Goodbye to Conservatism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TS4KCaoAGM
Mitt Romney vs Barack Obama First Debate Preview!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lUs17azUFs
Not for nothing, but about 70% of our population is made up of women & blacks. Both are gatherer’s, who really love to get things given them. Women through their very biology and blacks through a combination of biology and choice. In short, the days of our Republic are over for sure! No? we’ll talk again this coming November!
If that were true our Republic would’ve ended long ago.
I was there Saturday. My in-laws experienced first hand rigged voting machines in North Carolina, where their votes repeatedly came out contrary to what they were in-putting. When they called it to the presiding judge’s attention, they were given paper ballots, but the machines were not taken out of service. Most of us probably remember Nevada in 2010.
There needs to be a groundswell movement to revoke SEIU contracts to work on voting machines in states where that applies. I have heard that pressuring Governors and Secretaries of State is the route to go. Is this Judicial Watch’s line of country?