Comments on: Couldn’t Help But Notice (122807) http://www.bizzyblog.com/2007/12/28/couldnt-help-but-notice-122807/ The Business End of the Blogosphere Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:19:09 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: dscott http://www.bizzyblog.com/2007/12/28/couldnt-help-but-notice-122807/comment-page-1/#comment-119430 dscott Fri, 28 Dec 2007 18:31:23 +0000 http://www.bizzyblog.com/2007/12/28/couldnt-help-but-notice-122807/#comment-119430 This is an issue we should be beating the drums over: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=23731 "Backing this up in 2005, the bi-partisan Commission on Federal Election Reform, led by former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State Jim Baker, reported that the U.S. Department of Justice had conducted more than 180 investigations into election fraud since 2002. Federal prosecutors had charged 89 individuals and convicted 52 for election-fraud offenses, including falsifying voter-registration information and vote buying. That is why this bi-partisan commission supported laws that require voters to show a photo ID before voting using the Federal Real ID law... ...Your right to vote will be at stake when the Supreme Court decides this case next year. It is now endangered unless there are adequate safeguards against voter fraud such as Indiana’s voter ID law. As former Minnesota Secretary of State Mary Kiffmeyer warned recently, “In this day of illegals’ potentially gaining access to the driver’s license system, the verification of citizenship and accuracy of the connection of the ID card to the person voting is only common sense. Anyone who thinks that there is no stealing of votes should go home and next time don’t lock their doors or cars when leaving.” This is an issue we should be beating the drums over:

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=23731

“Backing this up in 2005, the bi-partisan Commission on Federal Election Reform, led by former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State Jim Baker, reported that the U.S. Department of Justice had conducted more than 180 investigations into election fraud since 2002. Federal prosecutors had charged 89 individuals and convicted 52 for election-fraud offenses, including falsifying voter-registration information and vote buying. That is why this bi-partisan commission supported laws that require voters to show a photo ID before voting using the Federal Real ID law…

…Your right to vote will be at stake when the Supreme Court decides this case next year. It is now endangered unless there are adequate safeguards against voter fraud such as Indiana’s voter ID law. As former Minnesota Secretary of State Mary Kiffmeyer warned recently, “In this day of illegals’ potentially gaining access to the driver’s license system, the verification of citizenship and accuracy of the connection of the ID card to the person voting is only common sense. Anyone who thinks that there is no stealing of votes should go home and next time don’t lock their doors or cars when leaving.”

]]> By: dscott http://www.bizzyblog.com/2007/12/28/couldnt-help-but-notice-122807/comment-page-1/#comment-119426 dscott Fri, 28 Dec 2007 16:19:53 +0000 http://www.bizzyblog.com/2007/12/28/couldnt-help-but-notice-122807/#comment-119426 ACORN's activities are well known http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6968 and documented. The underlying story isn't. What is being stolen? Sawdust or wheelbarrows? Why register fake names for voter registration unless someone intends to use those fake names to vote in order to influence the outcome of an election? The question is: Who is ACORN giving extra voting rights to? Who benefited from those extra votes? Merely prosecuting those who engage in false registration will never end the activity. Like suicide bombers, there are plenty of willing martyrs to go around churning out false voters for the cause. Going after those (big fish) who benefit by the false registration is powerful insentive not to engage in the activity in the first place. All registered voters have a unique ID number. Please note that your ballot is so not secret as you suppose, every ballot has a unique ID number as part of the tracking system to ensure the only ballots counted are those matched with the registered voter who submitted them to be counted. That ballot number is recorded right next to your name on the voter registration roll when you get your ballot. Hence the paper trail! Remember that little receipt you are given upon submitting your completed ballot, which is separated from that ballot? This is done to counter ballot box stuffing by simply marking up unused ballots. Find the false registration and you find who they voted for! The authorities need to take it up a notch, go after the person who received the votes! ACORN’s activities are well known http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6968 and documented. The underlying story isn’t. What is being stolen? Sawdust or wheelbarrows? Why register fake names for voter registration unless someone intends to use those fake names to vote in order to influence the outcome of an election? The question is: Who is ACORN giving extra voting rights to? Who benefited from those extra votes? Merely prosecuting those who engage in false registration will never end the activity. Like suicide bombers, there are plenty of willing martyrs to go around churning out false voters for the cause. Going after those (big fish) who benefit by the false registration is powerful insentive not to engage in the activity in the first place.

All registered voters have a unique ID number. Please note that your ballot is so not secret as you suppose, every ballot has a unique ID number as part of the tracking system to ensure the only ballots counted are those matched with the registered voter who submitted them to be counted. That ballot number is recorded right next to your name on the voter registration roll when you get your ballot. Hence the paper trail! Remember that little receipt you are given upon submitting your completed ballot, which is separated from that ballot? This is done to counter ballot box stuffing by simply marking up unused ballots. Find the false registration and you find who they voted for! The authorities need to take it up a notch, go after the person who received the votes!

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