A Democratic non-profit group mailed out 5 million voter registration forms to get traditional voting blocs like single women and minorities to the polls in November.
Being good Democrats, they spared no expense and were quite thorough in their canvassing of potential voters.
The voter registration form arrived in the mail last month with some key information already filled in: Rosie Charlston’s name was complete, as was her Seattle address.
Problem is, Rosie was a black lab who died in 1998.
A group called the Voter Participation Center has touted the distribution of some 5 million registration forms in recent weeks, targeting Democratic-leaning voting blocs such as unmarried women, blacks, Latinos and young adults.
But residents and election administrators around the country also have reported a series of bizarre and questionable mailings addressed to animals, dead people, noncitizens and people already registered to vote.
Brenda Charlston wasn’t the only person to get documents for her pet: A Virginia man said similar documents arrived for his dead dog, Mozart, while a woman in the state got forms for her cat, Scampers.
“On a serious note, I think it’s tampering with our voting system,” Charlston said. “They’re fishing for votes: That’s how I view it.”
Every presidential election cycle brings with it a variety of registration drives targeting people who typically are underrepresented at the polls, and Republicans have long seized on sloppy or questionable registrations as a sign of potential fraud on the part of Democrats.
It’s an issue that is particularly sensitive this year. GOP political leaders have used fears of fraud to successfully push laws across the country that could make voting more difficult by requiring voters to show identification. Democrats have fought the laws, arguing that they can disenfranchise citizens, minorities in particular.
No, this is not some dastardly Democratic plot to plant bogus voter registrations all across the country to be used by party workers to vote more than once. First of all, they don’t need it. If they want to cheat by having someone vote 20 or 30 times on election day, they have local means with which to register fake voters. Then,”voting carousels” drive party workers (or union members) from precinct to precinct where they cast thousands of illegal votes (See Russian presidential election for how this works in practice.) As long as everyone keeps their mouths shut, no one will be any the wiser.
This is why the GOP has a cow every time a story like this surfaces (ACORN was very adept at this.) For every “Donald Duck” or “Dick Tracy” that is registered, there is a dead person or someone who has moved who is on the active voter rolls and whose identity can be used on election day. It is this kind of fraud that is impossible to stop unless the voter presents an ID proving who he or she is.
To believe it doesn’t happen — on both sides — is delusional. Voter fraud has been an American tradition since our founding and to think it suddenly disappeared with the modern era is not logical.
Mr. Moran – I do not believe that republicans are completely without blame in regard to voter fraud, but the only instances I am aware of are when a candidate falsely gives an address that is bogus to gain eligibility in a particular precinct or region for election. Can you provide an instance where republicans have ‘stuffed the box’ or registered illegals or deceased persons? Also, please tell me you have more than just ONE instance; ACORN itself is evidence enough of the widespread, commonplace fraud of the left, not to mention DOJ’s efforts to squash voter ID.
I can admit when I’m wrong, if it is proven that I am wrong, but we see it everywhere with democrat candidates, and then the old “well, they all do it….” When and where have republicans committed voter fraud?
At this stage of 2012′s voting cycle it’s just too late to implement lasting, corrective changes already occuring in “voting anomalies” across these USA.
DRE-Direct Recording Electronic voting terminals having along with it a Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT)would aid in auditing of many “flagged” votes. 7 states have legislated this procedure and some 14 other states have introduced legislation.
SKYTL, in Barcelona, Spain is a 3rd generation DRE, without VVPAT. This foreign company will tabulate US’s 2012 voter ballots in a foreign country. This is an affront to all Americans. God Save America.Amen. A Spanish company tabulating Americans votes – in a foreign country. What’s next?
Recent Texas decision allowing states access to federal data bases is another form of audit, allowing for accurate cross-referencing of those “dubious” ballots cast.
I think that all of these electronic voting machines should be required to take a snapshot of your fingerprints (or at least a single thumb print). This would give us a definitive way to trace voter fraud back to specific votes.
Poor Ricky you think those names are on the voters rolls. How pathetic. Anyone can sign any name to a registration form – heck Mitt is claiming while he was sole stock holder, CEO, Chairman, and controlling individual at Bain his signature didn’t count – the key is are you on the voter rolls and then when Mickey Mouse shows up will he be able to vote.
Show that – It is minuscule that voters who show up at the polls are committing voter fraud. I find it offensive that so many people died protecting people right to vote and Republicans are so callous about abusing those rights. I guess it’s in the genes of conservatives as throughout history they have tried to keep citizens from voting. Aren’t you glad you are just like them?
Wow, that was lame even for a liberal from Boston. When and where “throughout history” have Republicans tried to keep citizens from voting?
In Australia, there’s no voter ID required, but your name is crossed off a list. You will be fined if you vote at more than one polling place, but there’s nothing stopping you from doing it. If you don’t want the fine, you can just use the name of the bloke at work whom you don’t like, and get him fined for voting 30 times.
I’ve not heard that this is a common practice, but the law is unable to prevent such a corruption of the voting process.
I lost my wallet the morning of the last presidental election day in 2008. When I went to vote the poll worker asked my name and when she found it there was an “R” next to my name. She asked my for ID, when I told her I lost my wallet that morning I was turned away. Dead people and animals aren’t the only way the left cheats. California has no voter ID law, if we did i’d be more then happy to show ID, if I hadn’t lost my wallet.
When I think of places famous for election fraud through the years–Cook Co., Dade Co., Texas, Orleans Parrish, East St. Louis, Arkansas–I see a lot of “D’s” but no “R’s.”
Mr. Moran – I asked you to provide instance(s) where republicans have ‘stuffed the box’ or registered illegal or deceased persons to vote in an election after you charged in your article that both sides participate in such illegal and unethical behavior…..Can you provide such proof, Mr. Moran?
There is overwhelming evidence to support such a charge against democrats as ACORN is the standard bearer for political theft and socialist demagoguery. But, I ask you again Mr. Moran, where is the proof that republicans have participated in such behavior? Can you not provide said proof?
Mr. Moran – Either you cannot produce the evidence to support your accusation that “both sides” commit voter fraud , except of course according to those “delusional” conservatives, because you lack journalistic integrity or because you have a lot of liberal friends and do not want to be banned from the dinner parties. You would be mildly surprised, I think, to discover that most Americans already believe there is massive voter fraud occurring on the left – massive. I would be mildly surprised if you chose to expose it.