9.23.2004
About those 10,000 Lawyers.
Voter Fraud. Mischief afoot. As I touched upon previously, it would appear that many more people are actively developing options which would be utilized in the event of a close election.
John Fund, writing on the Wall Street Journal OpinionJournal website, has done a considerable amount of intelligence-gathering on the subject.
"If you think of election problems as akin to forest fires, the woods are no drier than they were in 2000, but many more people have matches," says Doug Chapin, director of the nonpartisan Election Reform Information Project.
The Kerry campaign has already spammed its supporters with an e-mail saying it is "considering our options should John Kerry or George Bush pursue a recount like the famous Florida ballot dispute" and soliciting funds to do so. The Federal Election Commission will hold a hearing this month on a Kerry request to use its legal and accounting funds to pay for recount expenses. Republicans are forming their own network of lawyers to guard against possible voter fraud, citing what they say has been a flood of questionable new voter registrations submitted by liberal activist groups.
Fund points to litigation in Missouri, where Democrats are seeking to make St Louis the only jurisdiction where early voting is allowed at government offices. St Louis is, of course, a Democrat stronghold. Elsewhere, in Florida and New Mexico, liberal groups are seeking to loosen voting requirements still further(as if ease of voting hasn't been an issue for the past 20 years!).
Mary Herrera, the clerk in Bernalillo County, which includes Albuquerque, says her office has received over 3,000 suspicious registration forms. A 13-year-old boy received a voter card in the mail. Acorn organizers admitted that registration was submitted by one of their employees, who has since been fired. But in a court case this month, Acorn director Matt Henderson invoked his Fifth Amendment rights and refused to answer whether his group illegally copies voter registration cards before turning them in to election officials. Previously, he had admitted to the Albuquerque Tribune that it did so.
Today while listening to a Limbaugh segment, the radio commentator mirrored Mr Fund, except that he pointed to egregious examples in other states. Examples of -- you guessed it -- voter registration cards containing the names of dead people, or cards which contained fabricated addresses.
Yeah...JF'nKerry cries out that Republicans are going to suppress the vote. I guess he's talking about dead voters. Jah Wohl! Evil Republicans!
If there is a close election, i.e., where the votes are the "margin of litigation," then we are going to have another not-so-fine mess. Only this time, the vitriol will be less concealed, and the 'culture war' will be laid bare as it has been by the likes of Michael Moore, George Soros, and MoveOn.org.
Voter Fraud. Mischief afoot. As I touched upon previously, it would appear that many more people are actively developing options which would be utilized in the event of a close election.
John Fund, writing on the Wall Street Journal OpinionJournal website, has done a considerable amount of intelligence-gathering on the subject.
"If you think of election problems as akin to forest fires, the woods are no drier than they were in 2000, but many more people have matches," says Doug Chapin, director of the nonpartisan Election Reform Information Project.
The Kerry campaign has already spammed its supporters with an e-mail saying it is "considering our options should John Kerry or George Bush pursue a recount like the famous Florida ballot dispute" and soliciting funds to do so. The Federal Election Commission will hold a hearing this month on a Kerry request to use its legal and accounting funds to pay for recount expenses. Republicans are forming their own network of lawyers to guard against possible voter fraud, citing what they say has been a flood of questionable new voter registrations submitted by liberal activist groups.
Fund points to litigation in Missouri, where Democrats are seeking to make St Louis the only jurisdiction where early voting is allowed at government offices. St Louis is, of course, a Democrat stronghold. Elsewhere, in Florida and New Mexico, liberal groups are seeking to loosen voting requirements still further(as if ease of voting hasn't been an issue for the past 20 years!).
Mary Herrera, the clerk in Bernalillo County, which includes Albuquerque, says her office has received over 3,000 suspicious registration forms. A 13-year-old boy received a voter card in the mail. Acorn organizers admitted that registration was submitted by one of their employees, who has since been fired. But in a court case this month, Acorn director Matt Henderson invoked his Fifth Amendment rights and refused to answer whether his group illegally copies voter registration cards before turning them in to election officials. Previously, he had admitted to the Albuquerque Tribune that it did so.
Today while listening to a Limbaugh segment, the radio commentator mirrored Mr Fund, except that he pointed to egregious examples in other states. Examples of -- you guessed it -- voter registration cards containing the names of dead people, or cards which contained fabricated addresses.
Yeah...JF'nKerry cries out that Republicans are going to suppress the vote. I guess he's talking about dead voters. Jah Wohl! Evil Republicans!
If there is a close election, i.e., where the votes are the "margin of litigation," then we are going to have another not-so-fine mess. Only this time, the vitriol will be less concealed, and the 'culture war' will be laid bare as it has been by the likes of Michael Moore, George Soros, and MoveOn.org.
// posted by HunterByrd @ 12:45 PM 
