If 2+2=4, when does S+E+I+U=RICO?


OR, IS EVERYTHING STILL THE SIX DEGREES OF KEVIN BACON?

Isn’t it amazing that, whenever there is some sort of controversy involving voter registration fraud, or other election shenanigans, somewhere lurking in the shadows is the Purple Hand of the SEIU? Of course, it could be merely a coincidence…if one believes in coincidences.  Or, it could be something bigger, and much more nefarious.

Over the past several weeks, we’ve been cataloging some of the “coincidences” leading up to next week’s mid-term elections. Here’s the recap:

Now, let us cover what has happened over the last week:

Again, this could all be purely coincidental.  Then again, maybe it’s not.

Given that there are only several days left before November 2nd, at some point (and that point may be coming very soon), there should be an official inquiry as to whether all of these incidences are a coordinated endeavor to undermine America’s election processes nationwide…or just the six degrees of Kevin Bacon run amok.

If it indeed appears to be a coordinated effort (as opposed to the six degrees of Kevin Bacon), then some U.S. Attorney somewhere may wish to explore if the RICO statutes may be applied to voter registration fraud.

Somehow, if the SEIU is involved and coordinating efforts (which, again, we cannot say one way or another) and RICO were to apply, we cannot believe that Mary Kay Henry would take the rap for something that may have been Andy Stern’s creation.

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Looks, smells, sounds, and feels like

Deskpilot (Diary) Wednesday, October 27th at 7:13AM EDT (link)

SEIU and unions in general have their hands all over this voter corruption process. Suffice to say this leaves a bad tast in my mouth.
If they spent as much time and energy in high quality candidates (oxymoronic, I know) then maybe they won’t stink as bad.
My pledge is to avois union based operations as much as possible. I will call hotels if i’m travelling. If they are union, they don’t get my business. Grocery, same. I’ll go for the mom & pop store, I’m even buying BP gas to help them get through the Gulf Mess, cause $#it happens and I want them stuffing it Obamas face.

If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you can still read it in English, You’re Welcome
Deskpilot, AM(H)1 (AW), USN (Ret)

We need to be careful of absolutes. SEIU is bad, but

davesinsanantonio (Diary) Thursday, October 28th at 6:08AM EDT (link)

BP was one of Obama’s biggest contributors. So, why help them out?

Re BP

gdpitzer Thursday, October 28th at 10:42AM EDT (link)

Thanks for reminding me! I have been planning on getting a BC Gas Credit Card for my upcoming road trip.

On my last road trip, I used BP gas almost all the time. I am getting ready for my 11 cross country trip.

Yea, I know BP made mistakes, but we all are only human. A lot of people voted for Obama, too.

 
 
 

It is limited consolation that the much maligned

cactusjack Wednesday, October 27th at 7:29AM EDT (link)

(by the libs)Electoral College, in Presidential elections, works to confine such blatant felony fraud, inside the boundaries of the state. It can’t slop over to the other 49, each one is its own battleground.

State-by-state winner-take-all makes it easy for fraud to change elections

mvymvy Wednesday, October 27th at 2:10PM EDT (link)

In fact, the current system magnifies the incentive for fraud and mischief in presidential elections in closely divided battleground states because all of a state’s electoral votes are awarded to the candidate who receives a bare plurality of the votes in each state.
Under the current system, the national outcome can be affected by mischief in one of the closely divided battleground states.

The only election that is beyond the scope of a state are presidential elections

JSobieski (Diary) Wednesday, October 27th at 2:42PM EDT (link)

so I presume that presidential elections are what you are talking about.

It is far better to compartmentalize fraud within the boundaries of a state than it would be to deal with fraud in the context of an at-large popular vote.

Any professional in the fraud detection/prevention business will tell you that pushing down to smaller distinct units of activity makes fraud detection and prevention easier.

For the purposes of fraud detection, it might make more sense to divy up electoral votes using some other means (county, Congressional district, etc) but you have to remember that States have a special and prominent role in our Constitutional framework.

Did you know that China has been losing manufacturing jobs since 1995? For the specific data, see Table 1 in the following link: http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2005/07/art2full.pdf

 

A popular presidential election would be just as easy to change.

davesinsanantonio (Diary) Thursday, October 28th at 6:12AM EDT (link)

In some ways easier. All that would be needed would be to stuff the ballot boxes in the most populated cities. And, the Left surely would!

Do the math

mvymvy Thursday, October 28th at 5:59PM EDT (link)

The population of the top five cities (New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston and Philadelphia) is only 6% of the population of the United States and the population of the top 50 cities (going as obscurely far down in name recognition as Arlington, TX) is only 19% of the population of the United States.

Do the math---its easier to create 1 million fraudulent votes when the applicable populations have more than a million people

JSobieski (Diary) Thursday, October 28th at 11:42PM EDT (link)

You have no real world experience in addressing fraud and it shows.

Why do people intent on carrying out health care reimbursement fraud do so through medicare rather than medicaid or private insurance? The pool of legitimate claims is larger.

Smart fraud is about taking a large number and jacking it up 10%.

A popular vote + illegal immigrant problem = HUGE PROBLEMS

Did you know that China has been losing manufacturing jobs since 1995? For the specific data, see Table 1 in the following link: http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2005/07/art2full.pdf

 
 

537 vs. 537,000

mvymvy Thursday, October 28th at 6:06PM EDT (link)

It only took 537 votes in one state in 2000 to win the election for Bush, despite Gore’s lead of 537,179 national popular votes.

“To steal the closest popular-vote election in American history, you’d have to steal more than a hundred thousand votes . . .To steal the closest electoral-vote election in American history, you’d have to steal around 500 votes, all in one state. . . .

For a national popular vote election to be as easy to switch as 2000, it would have to be two hundred times closer than the 1960 election—and, in popular-vote terms, forty times closer than 2000 itself.

Which, I ask you, is an easier mark for vote-stealers, the status quo or N.P.V.[National Popular Vote]? Which offers thieves a better shot at success for a smaller effort?”

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/hendrikhertzberg/2010/08/jason-cabel-roe-npv.html

It's a constitutional republic for a reason...

rbdwiggins (Diary) Thursday, October 28th at 11:23PM EDT (link)

The electoral college ensures that the Executive represents the broadest cross-section of the Republic, not just its population centers.

To use your example:

2000County Map

Total counties won: Bush 2,439 – Gore 674

Square mile of counties won: Bush 2,432,603 – Gore 577,029

Population of counties won: Bush 148,000,000 – Gore 133,000,000

The net result of enacting a national popular vote would be the transformation of our Republic into a social democracy, and they have an abysmal survival record.

If ballot integrity is the ultimate goal: Require that all votes for federal office shall be cast in person on election day at the voter’s duly designated polling-place, that no absentee ballot request for federal office shall be granted except for extreme circumstance and US citizens serving abroad including US military personnel, and that no vote for federal office shall be cast without proof of US citizenship.

“Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so.” – Ronald Reagan

 

You would be right IF you had a time machine that could tell you in which states to commit fraud

JSobieski (Diary) Thursday, October 28th at 11:37PM EDT (link)

First, in many Presidential elections, there isn’t a state anywhere near as close as Florida was in 2000. No matter what system you have, the incentive for fraud goes up when things are razer close.

To truly incentive well-directed fraud, you would

(1) have to be part of the election apparatus in the right state. This isn’t something you can sign up for at 8pm on election night. A person interested in fraud has to pick a state IN ADVANCE

(2) The chosen state would have to be close for the fraud to work. Again, this involves picking a state IN ADANCE.

In a truly popular election, the fraud perps would set up shop in NYC or LA, and just churn out extra votes. That is far easier to setting up a fraud operation IN ADVANCE in the right state.

Did you know that China has been losing manufacturing jobs since 1995? For the specific data, see Table 1 in the following link: http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2005/07/art2full.pdf

 
 
 
 
 

Corruption

coralchristie Wednesday, October 27th at 8:18AM EDT (link)

Over a year ago I wondered why the Democrats were not more worried about all the massive legislation they were enacting against the will of the people. I could only surmise that there would be massive voter fraud or sometime soon there might be a “crisis” that would suspend our voting privileges and cause the present Congress or President to take complete control of the country. A few years ago I would have rejected such thoughts outright. It scares me that such things are plausible now.
The Electoral College process is now compromised by some states’ legislation that negates the check that they put on things like voter fraud.
Power corrupts…absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Now Comes Fraud in Broad Daylight

gdpitzer Wednesday, October 27th at 8:41AM EDT (link)

I too worried about how calm the Democrats were about burning their Bridges. There was a day long ago, that the opposition would condemn people trying to help by commission of fraud. Not any more.

They openly stole races before

realskinny (Diary) Wednesday, October 27th at 1:23PM EDT (link)

and got away with it. Races in WA, MN and IN were stolen in the past when evidence of fraud was overwhelming. Absolutely nothing was done. They stole the 1960 Presidential election and tried to steal the 2000 race. Again, nothing was done. Their violent resistance to photo ID and push for mail-in and absentee balloting have only one object—election fraud. The Dems have paid no price whatever for this treason—and treason it is, for to corrupt the election process is to strike at the foundation of self-government.

The Democrats have succeeded in giving us a banana republic economy and now they are giving us banana republic elections to go with them.

best analysis yet

mdd1956 Thursday, October 28th at 10:27AM EDT (link)

realskinny, you have the real skinny on this.

 
 
 
 

I've been howling about this for some time LUR,

mbecker908 (Diary) Wednesday, October 27th at 9:38AM EDT (link)

this is a fantastic diary. Unfortunately it’s been front-paged so it’ll be off the radar before the end of the day.

I’d like to see a group of Republican AGs, at the state level, go after these guys for RICO. Get two or three states pursuing active cases, with attendant publicity and maybe a US Attorney will jump into the mix. Bottom line though, we can’t wait for the DoJ, because they won’t act, even with the possibility of a Republican House and Rep. Issa holding hearings on a variety of DoJ related matters.

The States have to act. Arizona will have a new Republican AG, Tom Horne, in a week. We need to find a way to coordinate this issue with him and any other Republican AGs who we can interest in dealing with voter fraud even before they’re sworn in so the serious investigative work can begin on day one.

Change

The Fed DoJ go after voter fraud?

acat (Diary) Wednesday, October 27th at 9:52AM EDT (link)

Only if it’s a Repub stealin’ votes in a Dem district….

Mew

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This is more 'for the record' in that...

LaborUnionReport (Diary) Wednesday, October 27th at 3:50PM EDT (link)

it will be added to and updated.

Over the next six days, we’re bound to see a LOT more stories coming out…

Like this one:

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

Perhaps an ongoing and open thread…? ;)

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As you say,

Adrian Wednesday, October 27th at 9:40AM EDT (link)

some US Attorney, somewhere, MIGHT, want to start investigating. But, since that attorney ultimately works for B. Hussein Obama’s Chief Vote Fraud Executive Eric Holder, well, maybe not.

I trying hard not to be a pessimist, but I think a lot of the close races are going to be lost due to to massive fraud. And I’ll bet my house that the fraud will go unreported, uninvestigated and unpunished.

 

Obviously, it's now critically important

Locked and Loaded (Diary) Wednesday, October 27th at 11:36AM EDT (link)

that a state driver’s license or photo ID ascertain citizenship. In the same way licenses in OK differentiate persons under 21, the license of a non-citizen should be different, freely telling potential employers and election officials the status of the bearer.

That a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit (including Sandra Day O’Connor, no less) would hand down this decision right before such a momentous election stinks to high heaven, especially when considering the requirement has been in place since 2004.

The new House needs to put the preservation of fair elections on the front burner, and let nothing else happen until voter fraud is dealt with.

How’s this for irony? I’d love to wear purple at the next election. No, not a shirt – on my finger!

No GM, GE, or any GSE for me.

Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?
Matthew 20:15 NIV

Drivers license ID should be a MINIMUM requirement

izoneguy (Diary) Wednesday, October 27th at 11:49AM EDT (link)

to vote.

Anyone could walk in with a voter registration card.

They would just have to be the correct gender. How does anyone know if that person holding the voter ID card is that person?

If WalMart wants to see my ID while using a Credit Card (which is a good idea, because my card has been compromised more than once) then people voting should have no qualms about showing a drivers license to vote.

This is a big issue that the new Congress should address once and for all. If the Congress can rush through flawed legislation before reading it then they should have no problem passing a law that would be one sentence long that protects the voting process.

Those who had once simpered: “I don’t want to destroy the rich, I only want to seize a little of their surplus to help the poor, just a little, they’ll never miss it!” – then, later, had snapped: “The tycoons can stand being squeezed; they’ve amassed enough to last them for three generations” – then, later, had yelled: “Why should the people suffer while businessmen have reserves to last a year?” – now were screaming: “Why should we starve while some people have reserves to last a week?” – Atlas Shrugged

Separate Identification from voting...

acat (Diary) Wednesday, October 27th at 2:49PM EDT (link)

What I mean is, require valid photo ID to enter the polling place. Not to receive a ballot, not to cast a ballot, just to enter the room.

Surely, there can be no reasonable objection to that, right?

Once you’re in the room, the voter ID card gets you the ballot, you cast it, etc. etc. Nothing links your ID to your vote, but it does put the minimum requirement of making fake IDs on voting.

Mew

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they don't even have to be the "correct gender"

rorschach256 Thursday, October 28th at 10:33AM EDT (link)

if someone walks in to my polling location with a valid voter ID card, even if the name on the card is Shaun O’Donnell, and the person standing in front of me is an apparent female of hispanic or asian descent I have to allow them to vote as Shaun O’Donnell because I have no way of knowing whether the person is “transgendered” and got their name by marriage. I cannot legally ask for photo ID. I’ve worked out a means of legally gaming the system however. I ask, “Do you have your drivers liscence or Voter ID?” that way they start out reaching for the TXDL instead of their voter ID card, even though I asked for it too. more often than not, I’ll get a TXDL with a photo on it.

 
 

Meg Whitman's maid is why photo IDs are unreliable...

LaborUnionReport (Diary) Wednesday, October 27th at 9:01PM EDT (link)

With today’s technology, it would not be difficult to do SS # matches for voter IDs.

“I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.” Thomas Paine December 23, 1776

In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.-Ayn Rand

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What can activists do?

earlgrey (Diary) Wednesday, October 27th at 11:52AM EDT (link)

After reading about what is going on in NV, I signed up to be a poll watcher. There are no close races in my county, but I;d like to learn more about this.

There is a “voter fraud app” available from American Majority Action. It is designed to track in real time where incidents of voter fraud are being reported.

But what can we do beyond that?

that app is illegal in most states

rorschach256 Thursday, October 28th at 10:27AM EDT (link)

In Texas, as in most states, use of a cell phone or audio or video recording devices is illegal in a polling location.

 
 

Voting machine techs in Clark Co. Nevada are SEIU

Wine Country Dog (Diary) Wednesday, October 27th at 11:54AM EDT (link)

and there are several reports that Harry Reid is pre-selected on the voting screens there. Without even investigating the problem, the Clark County Registrar of Voters says there is no fraud. Worse yet, there is no audit trail so how does the voter know if the vote is recorded properly? A paper receipt does no good if there is a recount. In a close race like this one, a shift of a few hundred votes could keep that smarmy smile pasted on Reid’s face.

Things that make you go hmmm?

Change we can step in!
woof!

his son is in charge of the voting machines

rorschach256 Thursday, October 28th at 10:28AM EDT (link)

and the Election techs are members of SEIU, this does not bode well

 
 

The SCOTUS has already upheld photo ID.

realskinny (Diary) Wednesday, October 27th at 1:07PM EDT (link)

The contempt these communist lawyers in robes show for the law cannot be overstated. This will almost certainly be overturned on appeal.

 

The next step should be a high-tech

proudmarinemom (Diary) Wednesday, October 27th at 1:41PM EDT (link)

solution to this problem.

There will always be selfish, dishonest people who put their own interests ahead of their country’s best interests. There are also people who can be given the incentive to invent ways to stop them.

Federal funding for new technology to prevent voter fraud shold be a huge priority for the new Congress. Somewhere in America, there is a Tesla, an Edison, a Dyson — someone who would be interested in developing low-cost iris scanners or fingerprint readers or high-speed DNA analyzers, whatever.

Make the money available and the R & D will follow.

proudmarinemom- Are you really willing to give up all those freedoms?

Scope (Diary) Wednesday, October 27th at 7:32PM EDT (link)

and give your very personal info to the government. I’m sure there are many many other ways to insure voter integrity than having your whole person information trackable by the government. I will give up voting before I become number 65,379 of the federal tracking system.

If you remember, the “voter ID card” program was widely rejected by the majority.

What freedoms?

rbdwiggins (Diary) Wednesday, October 27th at 9:36PM EDT (link)

Every member of the US military gives up his/her fingerprint, blood-type and dna for the privilege of protecting the right to vote.

Is the integrity of the ballot not worth the same sacrifice from the American voter?

Besides, you’re already citizen number xxx-xx-xxxx.

“Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so.” – Ronald Reagan

exactly

proudmarinemom (Diary) Wednesday, October 27th at 9:55PM EDT (link)

I will agree to a full body scan if I have to, in order to ensure that the SEIU is emasculated in their efforts to interfere in the fair electoral process.

(Disclaimer: I apologize for the visuals and I must concede that the SEIU has no discernable male appendage the removal of which would constitute “emasculation.”)

There's nothing more important...

rbdwiggins (Diary) Wednesday, October 27th at 10:56PM EDT (link)

nor capable of ensuring the survival of the Republic than an informed electorate and faith in the legitimacy of the election process.

It’s adaptive, yet self-correcting… The Republic, and the electorate.

“Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so.” – Ronald Reagan

 
 
 
 

The tech is already there...

LaborUnionReport (Diary) Wednesday, October 27th at 9:02PM EDT (link)

Use the same tech that employers now are using to verify employment eligibility.

“I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.” Thomas Paine December 23, 1776

In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.-Ayn Rand

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This time they are pulling out all the stops with voter fraud.

kyle8 (Diary) Wednesday, October 27th at 2:25PM EDT (link)

When the Republicans get into power the FIRST thing they ought to do is introduce legislation that tightens up the way votes are counted and that provides for a reasonable way to ensure that voters are actual citizens and are actually alive.

Then dare the administration to veto it.

“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle

State laws control - nt

Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Wednesday, October 27th at 11:40PM EDT (link)

Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com and Charlotte Observer columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson

well they really don't Mike

kyle8 (Diary) Thursday, October 28th at 5:56AM EDT (link)

The voting rights act is one of the big reasons we have so much voter fraud.

“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle

Most states will voluntarily follow the feds

mdd1956 Thursday, October 28th at 10:34AM EDT (link)

on this one.

Also, every congressional committee aught to have a voter fraud component.
Investigate, de-fund suspicious activity, de-fund the tit for tat earmarks and say why etc.

This congress NEEDS to be the anti-corruption congress.

And it starts with voter fraud.

 

Well, ok, but states register people and conduct elections and

Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Thursday, October 28th at 8:15PM EDT (link)

do the prosecutions of voter fraud. The overwhelming majority. Are you saying that a change in federal law would and/or more federal prosecutions by the FBI would be helpful? I thought the voting rights law was more about race issues?

Could you be more specific? Because I suspect that the Dems have been massive in the fraud area for over a century.

I just think that the we will always have to be vigilant on fraud due to human nature. One of the issues that makes me cynical is the fact that so many said that paper ballots made fraud easier and then after electronic ballots arrived they want a paper trail!

Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com and Charlotte Observer columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson

 

One thing that I think protects us from too much voter fraud is that to pull it off on a massive

Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Thursday, October 28th at 8:17PM EDT (link)

scale requires the participation of so many conspirators, and that if only a few talk, it reveals the conspiracy.

Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com and Charlotte Observer columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson

 
 
 
 

It will become RICO

anotherindyfilmguy (Diary) Wednesday, October 27th at 3:37PM EDT (link)

When the TEA Party folks are in charge. That is what the left is actually scared to death of.

Razz Etc!
“Best Poker book written ever!!!” – Author’s unbiased opinion…

We can't wait that long... nt

mbecker908 (Diary) Wednesday, October 27th at 7:14PM EDT (link)
 
 

Remember...

Alyssa Kaeding (Diary) Wednesday, October 27th at 7:33PM EDT (link)

…felons for Franken in Minnesota! Or, votes “found” in the backseat of cars. Unfortunately, my own Minnesota has led the charge on voter fraud a few too many times. The governor race here is still fairly close and I will not be a bit surprised if the new club that mysteriously votes only for Dems is “felons for Dayton.” He already has the overwhelming support of all the local unions. A group in Minnesota, “Minnesota Majority” was founded to help train volunteers to watch for potential voter fraud. Michelle Malkin applauded this effort and what is the liberal response? They called her a “fascist.” Goes to show how much liberals actually admire voter integrity.

 

Dems have been stealing

cam1 Thursday, October 28th at 7:13AM EDT (link)

elections for years and years, and they’re good at it. Look no farther than alfranken. We have a very capable opponent on the left who will do anything to win.

We have to energized by their dirtiness.

 

SEIU caught illegally electioneering in houston

rorschach256 Thursday, October 28th at 10:25AM EDT (link)

http://www.texasgopvote.com/2010-elections/texas-elections/questionable-conduct-democrat-activists-seiu-continue-ripley-house-houston-voter-001981

 

Flawless

belcatar (Diary) Thursday, October 28th at 8:37PM EDT (link)

We should just use the same machines they used during the 2008 elections. I never heard one peep about any of those machines malfunctioning.

After all, Obama won, so they couldn’t have been broken. I think we should blame Bush.