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This is How the Democrats Will Try to Steal the Election

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  October 27th, 2010 at 05:00 AM  | 

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The old saw is that Republicans try to suppress elections and Democrats try to steal them. We are certainly seeing what appears to be the Democrats trying to steal the election in close races this year.

We now know that the SEIU is in charge of the voting machines in Las Vegas where Harry Reid’s name is coming pre-checked.

But buried in the news is this curious story.

An Illinois county election official is telling the ABC 7 I-Team that thousands — potentially hundreds of thousands — of voters who are expecting a ballot sent to them by mail may be disenfranchised.
Chicagoan Rosia Carter is one of 404,000 registered Illinois voters who recently received vote-by-mail requests that were sent by the Illinois Democratic Coordinated Campaign.

“By the time I filled it out and sent it in, my vote would not get counted,” Carter said.

She and others called the I-Team when they noticed the return address is not their local election official but instead a PO box for the organization.

This sounds very innocent, but we know precisely how this will work out. The Democrats, who screwed it up to begin with, will run to a Democrat on the federal bench and beg to have these ballots cast.

“We can’t disenfranchise anyone (except the military),” the Democrats will cry. So the judge will ignore the law and ignore that it was the Democrats’ own fault. And the judge will allow the 400,000 additional votes to come in.

Once the barrier for ballot acceptance is lowered for these people, the barrier for ballot acceptance for other reasons will also be lowered.

And once the Republicans object, the story will not be about ballot integrity. The story will be about Republicans denying people the right to vote.

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  • itdiehard

    because they voted for the wrong candidate.

  • Ausonius

    People have been speculating about what might cause a second Civil War in America.

    If it should ever be revealed to enough Americans just how corrupt certain areas are, and that no legal measures would fix the problem, I could understand the “armed pick-up trucks” doing something about it. :)

    In the short run, given that money talks and causes people to talk, perhaps a reward could be established for any SEIU member involved in such fraud to come forward – with definitive proof – and expose this hijacking of the voting process.

  • Ausonius

    People have been speculating about what might cause a second Civil War in America.

    If it should ever be revealed to enough Americans just how corrupt certain areas are, and that no legal measures would fix the problem, I could understand the “armed pick-up trucks” doing something about it. :)

    In the short run, given that money talks and causes people to talk, perhaps a reward could be established for any SEIU member involved in such fraud to come forward – with definitive proof – and expose this hijacking of the voting process.

  • acat

    They just come with less brother-on-brother bloodshed these days.

    I’m hoping that if we can publicize and keep attention on the issue – some of the large-scale fraud this year may enable real election reform – election reform that affects Dem districts – over the next couple years.

    Of course, we first have to win! Get out the vote, report anything that smells even remotely fishy!

    Mew

  • The_Rebel

    where you would expect it:

    http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/news_details/article/28/2010/october/27/residents-cry-foul-over-ballots.html

  • http://908StraightSt.wordpress.com/ mbecker908

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  • smitch61

    As bad as the economy is, the unemployment EXTREMELY high, the health care debacle, stimulus, czars, foreign policy ineptness, and a whole host of other issues.. It is very surprising that the GOP is not further ahead than they are. Should not be this close to even have to consider the thought of stealing an election. The democrat party has absolutely nothing to run on, and yet, they have controlled the argument.

  • Warrior

    much of the media. Control the media, control the message…

  • drbob1988

    “2nd civil war”, he said it, millions of us are thinking it. We are Americans and we are passionate about our freedom. We are reasonable people for the most part, but when that fails who knows what will happen.
    My money is on “change”.

  • msctex

    . . .or at least co-Priority One, after undoing Socialized Medicine, must be a reformation of the voting system, no matter the cost.

    The best way to look at it is that this, along with undoing Obamacare, will make them scream the loudest. Our priorities can and should follow this standard: whatever they want us to do least, whatever will make them scream loudest and longest, should be highest on the agenda.

    An argument can easily be made that a truly functional and accurate voting system, with laws harshly criminalizing its abuse, will be the end of the Democratic/Progressive movement. And they know it. So make them try and explain why accurate voting could be a bad thing.

  • zipbags

    Yeah…Not as much as if it were a Repub trying to cheat.

    On that same note. My local CBS news last night showed the Paul supporter stepping on that Moveon protestor. But, what they failed to mention is that later that evening a Conway supporter stepped on a womans foot who was wearing a cast.

  • http://www.gmsplace.com/ civil_truth

    We’re seeing a similar plot exposed in PA-08 with tracking to the D candidates office.

    We know that SEIU is in a national effort to conduct fraud.

    We know that the Democrats like to use the same playbook in multiple areas due to the top-down structure of their effort.

    Therefore, this playbook must be in use in all sorts of competitive races.

    So be be vigilant. PA-08 can’t be the only other place this is going on.

  • Common_Cents

    Maybe they’ll make it convenient to fill out my ballot too.

  • http://www.800cart.com Ron Robinson

    I’ve been haunting these spaces bringing attention from time to time regarding Colbert’s campaign in a D+14 district (CA Cd29). Honestly, I would not publish the periodic appeals I do for campaign funding here unless I were aware that we we doing substantially the same thing for ‘best practice’ reasons, using ‘best practice’ methods. I would not ask for your contributions here unless I knew we are using our funding wisely in operations and we do engage in a similar practice on the Republican side – in many, many campaigns.

    Let me explain.

    We know from past election metrics that people on Permanent Absentee Voting (PAV) have the highest turnout of all: 75%.. That is why PROCINCT will indicate a PAV voter if the data is available: you don’t need to call that home or knock on that door and you save that labor for the next voter, getting more GOTV bang for your buck. That’s why all parties engage in this activity. Every party’s ultimate goal is to get ALL their voters on PAV.

    So every ‘best practices’ campaign is encouraging folks to sign up for PAV.

    Now if you have been in some meetings with some really smart people as I have, here is how your campaign will do it:

    First, you print your campaign piece with the PAV enrollment form attached. If you are smart, you will do it as a mail merge from the voter registration file you got from the county, and for each recipient, you have filled in their name, address, etc in the PAV for for them, so all they have to do is sign it and drop it in the mail. This does two things: first, it makes it easier for the voter so it’s more likely they will enroll in PAV, second, since the form is printed using data that came from the voter registration file, it’s accurate and can be matched with a real voter registration record more quickly (and fewer rejects because I don’t remember if I registered with or without my middle name, thereby avoiding a reject because the middle name doesn’t match if I fill the form out by hand from memory. In our mailing, we got permission from the registrar to print a yellow ‘hotliner’ area where the signature and date are required so the voter can complete the form quickly.

    And yes, we paid the return postage and had the forms mailed to us. This again is a standard practice, done by both sides, for a very important reason: when the PAV enrollment comes back to us, we wand the unique bar code on each form.. That voter is now marked in our database as a PAV voter and we do not need to contact them again for GOTV efforts. Our GOTV efforts can now be directed to folks who are much less likely to vote.

    In LA county, we have 36 hours to get the form over to the registrar after we have scanned it. We never failed once to do this – we had volunteers set aside just for this daily task, and the entire staff handling these forms was told that they are handling a sacred vote – each one is a citizen’s franchise and highly valuable and sacred. They got the message.

    Because I had to make the drive myself a few times with anywhere from 60 to 3200 forms, I can tell you that you don’t want to be the one designated to make that drive from Pasadena to Norwalk in mid-day traffic. But we did it every day anyway.

    So what happens with the voter who lets the mailer sit around for ‘a few’ days and finally fills it out, say today? They need to be given a mailing deadline in the text of the mailer and be told they they need to go to the polls to vote if they mail the return piece after a given date, based on the local deadlines your registrar publishes.

    So how to detect fraud in these operations? I would be wary, as Erick notes, of thousands of applications turned in at once, from the same source, right before the filing deadline, especially if they are hand-written. Operations that do not turn in forms every day, but hold them and turn them all in at the last minute should also be suspect, because their goal may be not to protect the franchise but corrupt it. Operations that establish a history of turning in forms every day may be a little less suspect

    What scares me more than anything else are the videos I saw (I will find them again and post them again) of ‘pre loaded’ voting machines going to locations that are not polling locations. Preventing this requires a careful and close audit of clerk operations (yes, auditing delivery manifests against polling locations). In most counties, this is done by low-ranking (read union) workers and we have a big vulnerability there,

  • http://pocketchangeproductions.net/ anotherindyfilmguy

    Barring of course the current administration’s so called DOJ investigating and prosecuting the fraud and stuff like they should…

    I feel reasonably assured that the O’stration will target some races for investigation etc…

    For those harping on a “[insert preferred number] civil war” we have been in one for a long time now – as a whole we’re not showing that we’re ticked off enough to take it up into the level of using moderate to sever violence to settle the issue yet.

    An “unexpected landslide for Democrats” in the face of all signs to the contrary coupled with the stories of rampant fraud might do it for some.

    Suspending elections “until all the investigations are complete” as a naked power grab though could be a different story about raising folks reaction levels… I’d be truly surprised if they O was really that arrogant or stupid though.

  • dmccracken

    So far at any rate. I wonder if state governments that are more conservative in nature (like Texas) could or would expose these shenanigans and force an investigation. It would be a long shot, since if it is under Holder it won’t go anywhere, but if enough states push it….

  • tomfran

    When governments reach this level of corruption, is there anything short of a bloody revolution that can reign it in

  • disgustedinnc

    As drbob said (12:10pm on the 27th), we are reasonable. That’s the problem: if Conservatives and Tea Party candidates don’t win big, we will have reason to be confident that it is because the dems have stolen the election via the most massive voter fraud in American history. These are not small numbers being quoted. We’re in trouble, but the dems don’t have the brains to see that they are in trouble if they accomplish this theft. If you push a reasonable person until he or she is standing on the edge of a deep abyss, it is only reasonable to expect that reasonable person to push back in whatever way, to whatever degree it takes to save his or her life from your felonious assault. But we’ve been reasonable so long they can’t believe that there is a line they must not cross, or we’ll stop them cold.