October 20, 2004
Ohio voter fraud
Absolutely none of this should surprise you, if you've been paying half a wit of attention to the run-up to the election over the last several weeks.
Thousands of voter registration cards are being returned to county election boards across the state of Ohio, as the new registrants are either missing or simply nonexistant.
State GOP records, confirmed by Williams, show that through Oct. 4, Hamilton County mailed 63,403 cards to new registrants, and 4,152 were returned - a rate of 6.6 percent.The number was third-highest in the state behind Cuyahoga County's 14,461 and Franklin's 6,917, according to GOP records. In Butler County, 255 cards mailed to new voters were returned, while 24 were returned in Warren County, according to GOP records. Clermont County numbers were not available.
Tim Burke, chairman of the Hamilton County Democratic Party and the county elections board, said an updated number of cards returned is 5,808 out of 150,000 mailed not only to new voters, but also to those changing addresses, for a return rate of less than 4 percent.
4 percent of these cards are potentially fraudulent, many of them made out for persons named Dick Tracy and Mary Poppins. They list non-existant addresses. And the vast majority of them were completed and submitted by PACs loyal to the DNC, whether openly or not.
Think of the implications of 4 percent for a moment. That's the margin of error in most polls. That's enough to rob the legal voters of a county, a state, an entire nation of their legal choice for elected officials.
This is why all polling places need to require identification. I don't mean simply your voter registration card, either. I mean your Driver's License, or a work ID with your photo. Demanding this of a person is not intimidation by any stretch of the imagination unless you're some criminal trying to vote illegally.
I received this year voter registration update mailers for no less than three persons who do not live at this house, nor have lived at this house for at least 5 years. I have, at each election to this point, given the poll workers the names of these people to remove from the books, and every subsequent year they are there for the next election.
This situation in Ohio, I'm afraid, is not isolated. It is an excellent argument for a complete purge of the voter registration rolls, and the prosecution of those who would try to subvert the system, regardless of party affiliation. Wrong is wrong. Illegal is illegal.
"This is why all polling places need to require identification. I don't mean simply your voter registration card, either. I mean your Driver's License, or a work ID with your photo. Demanding this of a person is not intimidation by any stretch of the imagination unless you're some criminal trying to vote illegally."
That's one of the few controls we have in place here in Jawja, and it blows my mind that it's not universally required. Hell, I like the Afghani method of inking your thumb once you've voted. We're going to have to get this under control one way or another. We can't have every future national election decided by lawsuit and judicial mandate. Otherwise, we're heading for anarchy and not-so-civil unrest unlike anything this country's seen in its relatively short history. And that's a fact.
Posted by: tybee mike at October 20, 2004 03:45 PMYou are both absolutely right.
Our only "controls" in the district in NJ where I vote are: 1. the presence of "challengers" from each party, who are supposed to be able to physically recognize everyone in the district, which is, of course, nonsense, and 2. the requirement to sign the voting book, which contains my sign-in's from prior elections. I suppose if the signatures didn't match, a sharp person would (and could) demand my ID. Unfortunately, the polls are staffed with very old retirees who, in my experience, don't even check the signature and woudln't know what to do if the signature didn't match.
Bottom line: If someone is determined to vote more than once, I believe it could be accomplished relatively easily.
Posted by: Parkway Rest Stop at October 20, 2004 04:26 PMMany years ago, my grandmother went to her polling place in Caribou, ME, and was told that she was the 5th or 6th Eva Albert to vote that day. Was she ever angry!
Photo IDs are just a necessity, and the sooner these "whores for the party" realize it, the better for us all.
Posted by: Mamamontezz at October 20, 2004 04:32 PMWhat? Disenfranchise all those Illegal Aliens, and what about all those Snowbirds in Florida, how will they get to vote in both states if you require identification?
Photograph and fingerprint every voter that doesn't have proper ID, require every absentee voter to come in at some time prior to election and pre-register. No ID no vote. Require every voter to show proof of U.S. Citizenship.
I read, a few years ago, that most of the older people in Ohio, moved to Florida, that is why Florida is so fucked up, Catfish.
Posted by: Catfish at October 20, 2004 11:53 PM