Hypocrisy at Democrat Convention Center

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1. Chris says:

   Tuesday, September 4, 2012 at 11:15 am

   For it to be hypocrisy, the situations would have to be similar. They are not. Every citizens has the right to vote, and any unnecessary infringement on this right is viewed with a lot of skepticism by the courts (which is the why the Texas voter ID law has been overturned). There is no equivalent right to attend the Democratic Convention.
2. Pie Guevara says:

   Tuesday, September 4, 2012 at 12:54 pm

   Obama, Obama for America campaign, the DNC, and the Ohio Democratic Party gets Ohio’s military voter weekend privileges revoked and creates chaos. Smart move. Going after military privilege will insure less military votes.

   http://pjmedia.com/blog/judge-discards-ohio-military-voting-privileges-imposes-weekend-voting/

   http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-09-04/ohio-says-it-will-appeal-ruling-on-early-voter-limits
3. Peggy says:

   Tuesday, September 4, 2012 at 3:35 pm

   Texas will appeal to the Supreme Court. Greg Abbot stated, “to overturn (this) baseless decision and ensure Texas can protect its ballots the way other states are allowed to do.”

   http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/08/30/federal-court-rules-against-texas-voter-id-law/

   In 2008 the Supreme Court upheld voter ID for Indiana.

   http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/story/2012-03-19/voter-ID-Texas-fraud/53658158/1
4. Tina says:

   Tuesday, September 4, 2012 at 6:33 pm

   A photo ID is not an infringement. It does not limit, undermine, or i9nfringe upon the right to vote as long as ID is not denied to a citizen. We must register to vote. It requires an action by the citizen. A photo ID requires an action by a citizen. There is no reason both couldn’t be accomplished simultaneously for future registrants.

   Democrats just don’t want an infringement on their recruitment within an illegal (non-citizen) voting block.

   We must return sanity and integrity to the Justice Department. This one is out of order. there was the voter intimidation case with the NBP. Then there is the Fast and Furious scandal. And there is also a scandal brewing regarding terrorism in the US and radical Muslim clerics:

   http://pjmedia.com/blog/did-obama-and-holder-scuttle-terror-finance-prosecutions/

   During the House Homeland Security hearing last month on the topic of radicalization in the American Muslim community, one exchange between L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca and Rep. Chip Cravaack (R-MN) concerned the relationship between the L.A. County Sheriffs Department and Hamas terrorist front the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Sheriff Baca told the congressman:

   We dont play around with criminals in my world. If CAIR is an organization that is a quote criminal organization, prosecute them. Hold them accountable and bring them to trial.

   But according to a high-ranking source within the Department of Justice, who spoke exclusively to PJ Media on the condition of anonymity, Sheriff Baca, a long-time supporter of CAIR, was probably already in on the joke.

   The joke is that a number of leaders of Islamic organizations (all of whom publicly opposed the King hearings on Muslim radicalization) were about to be indicted on terror finance support charges by the U.S. attorneys office in Dallas, which had been investigating the case for most of the past decade.

   But those indictments were scuttled last year at the direction of top-level political appointees within the Department of Justice (DOJ) and possibly even the White House. (continues)
5. Post Scripts says:

   Tuesday, September 4, 2012 at 9:20 pm

   Chris lol that was perfect, I said 2/3rds of the democrats wouldn’t see the connection.

   Its the same Chris, its exactly the same…

   Photo ID required to protect the integrity of their voting process, how much more identical could it be?
6. Post Scripts says:

   Tuesday, September 4, 2012 at 9:22 pm

   Yup Tina, you hit it square on, the dems objections have nothing to do with civil liberties, but everything to do with protecting an illegal voting block they rely on. Ask Bob Dornan.
7. Chris says:

   Wednesday, September 5, 2012 at 8:42 am

   Pie Guevara: “Obama, Obama for America campaign, the DNC, and the Ohio Democratic Party gets Ohio’s military voter weekend privileges revoked”

   LOL! You are either a liar or an idiot. The lawsuit did not “get military voter weekend privileges revoked.” It extended these privileges to ALL citizens of Ohio, essentially returning things to how they were in the last election, meaning that every eligible voter who voted in the last election will be able to vote in this one. The GOP took those voting privileges away from the citizens last year in an effort to disenfranchise primarily Democratic voters.

   Jack: “Yup Tina, you hit it square on, the dems objections have nothing to do with civil liberties, but everything to do with protecting an illegal voting block they rely on.”

   You caught us. We are totally banking on the .000004% to win us this election, just as we always have. Every election has been that close, that’s why we know it will be the same this time.

   http://www.brennancenter.org/content/resource/policy_brief_on_the_truth_about_voter_fraud/

   Republicans have presented zero evidence that voter fraud is occurring in numbers significant to swing an election. Voter fraud is about as rare as getting struck by lightning. Voter ID laws are a solution in search of a problem, and the costs far outweigh the benefits.
8. Tina says:

   Thursday, September 6, 2012 at 11:10 am

   Chris: “Republicans have presented zero evidence that voter fraud is occurring in numbers significant to swing an election.”

   That’s not true.

   http://www.forbes.com/sites/billfrezza/2012/08/08/sen-al-franken-voter-fraud-revelations-call-for-ways-to-reduce-it/

   The latest revelations that illegal votes may have given Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) his 312-vote margin of victory in his 2008 Senate raceout of the nearly 3 million votes castgives one pause. The fact that 243 people have already been convicted or are awaiting trial on voter fraud underscores a persistent concern that, despite their small share of the vote, ineligible ballots can actually swing results.

   What were the revelations in this election:

   http://washingtonexaminer.com/york-when-1099-felons-vote-in-race-won-by-312-ballots/article/2504163

   In the eyes of the Obama administration, most Democratic lawmakers, and left-leaning editorial pages across the country, voter fraud is a problem that doesn’t exist. Allegations of fraud, they say, are little more than pretexts conjured up by Republicans to justify voter ID laws designed to suppress Democratic turnout.

   That argument becomes much harder to make after reading a discussion of the 2008 Minnesota Senate race in “Who’s Counting?”, a new book by conservative journalist John Fund and former Bush Justice Department official Hans von Spakovsky. Although the authors cover the whole range of voter fraud issues, their chapter on Minnesota is enough to convince any skeptic that there are times when voter fraud not only exists but can be critical to the outcome of a critical race.

   In the ’08 campaign, Republican Sen. Norm Coleman was running for re-election against Democrat Al Franken. It was impossibly close; on the morning after the election, after 2.9 million people had voted, Coleman led Franken by 725 votes.

   Franken and his Democratic allies dispatched an army of lawyers to challenge the results. After the first canvass, Coleman’s lead was down to 206 votes. That was followed by months of wrangling and litigation. In the end, Franken was declared the winner by 312 votes. He was sworn into office in July 2009, eight months after the election.

   During the controversy a conservative group called Minnesota Majority began to look into claims of voter fraud. Comparing criminal records with voting rolls, the group identified 1,099 felons — all ineligible to vote — who had voted in the Franken-Coleman race.

   Minnesota Majority took the information to prosecutors across the state, many of whom showed no interest in pursuing it. But Minnesota law requires authorities to investigate such leads. And so far, Fund and von Spakovsky report, 177 people have been convicted — not just accused, but convicted — of voting fraudulently in the Senate race. Another 66 are awaiting trial. “The numbers aren’t greater,” the authors say, “because the standard for convicting someone of voter fraud in Minnesota is that they must have been both ineligible, and ‘knowingly’ voted unlawfully.” The accused can get off by claiming not to have known they did anything wrong.

   Still, that’s a total of 243 people either convicted of voter fraud or awaiting trial in an election that was decided by 312 votes. With 1,099 examples identified by Minnesota Majority, and with evidence suggesting that felons, when they do vote, strongly favor Democrats, it doesn’t require a leap to suggest there might one day be proof that Al Franken was elected on the strength of voter fraud.

   And that’s just the question of voting by felons. Minnesota Majority also found all sorts of other irregularities that cast further doubt on the Senate results.

   The election was particularly important because Franken’s victory gave Senate Democrats a 60th vote in favor of President Obama’s national health care proposal — the deciding vote to overcome a Republican filibuster. If Coleman had kept his seat, there would have been no 60th vote, and no Obamacare.

   Voter fraud matters when contests are close.

   As long as Democrats defend the notion that fraud “doesn’t matter” the practice will not be discouraged…and this will continue:

   http://www.fox16.com/news/local/story/Ark-lawmaker-pleads-guilty-to-election-charge/qjc8PtXwfkC8frDCgwLNrg.cspx

   LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – A Democratic state legislator from east Arkansas, his father and two campaign workers pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiracy to commit election fraud after federal prosecutors said the lawmaker’s campaign bribed absentee voters and destroyed ballots in a special election last year.

   Prosecutors said Democratic Rep. Hudson Hallum of Marion, Kent Hallum, Phillip Wayne Carter and Sam Malone acknowledged that they participated in a conspiracy to bribe voters to influence absentee votes in the Arkansas District 54 primary, runoff and general elections in 2011. The four were released pending a sentencing hearing.

   “In a nation in which every person’s vote matters, protecting the integrity of the electoral process from those who seek to win office by cheating the system is critical,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Jane Duke said in a statement released by her office. “Voter fraud schemes such as that carried out in the 2011 District 54 race have the devastating effect of eroding public confidence in elected officials and disenfranchising voters.”

   A Democratic Party spokeswoman said Hallum indicated he would step down from his seat, but Gov. Mike Beebe had not received a formal resignation by Wednesday afternoon.

   Hallum didn’t respond to phone messages from The Associated Press seeking comment, and House Speaker Robert Moore said he has not heard from the lawmaker. But in an email sent to other Democratic legislators, Hallum apologized for his actions.

   “I took some bad advice that led to some bad decisions on my part. I am going to stand up and accept full responsibility for my actions,” Hallum wrote. “I am truly sorry because I know this news will have an effect on everyone’s upcoming race.”

   Prosecutors said Hallum and his father, Kent, tasked Carter and Malone with obtaining absentee ballot applications for certain voters and assisting voters in filling out the ballots, “actually completing absentee ballots in some instances without regard to the voter’s actual candidate choice.”

   The ballots were typically placed in unsealed envelopes before being mailed to local election officials.

   “If a ballot contained a vote for Hudson Hallum’s opponent, it was destroyed,” prosecutors said in a bill of information filed with the court.

   Prosecutors also accused the four of offering money and food to absentee voters in exchange for their support.

   His apology to the party indicates he will take “full responsibility” but his reasoning is only that it will hurt his party…no mention of it being wrong on moral grounds…or even under the malleable rubric of “fundamental fairness”.
9. Peggy says:

   Thursday, September 6, 2012 at 3:18 pm

   Chris: “Republicans have presented zero evidence that voter fraud is occurring in numbers significant to swing an election.”

   Chris, How can you say this when Ive posted several times articles and videos verifying voter fraud has happened?

   One of the videos I posted was an IT programmer testifying before the Florida legislator about how hed written programs to change votes for candidates. Google it.

   The other is this one by a DEMOCRAT reporter during the 2008 primary.

   We Will Not Be Silenced

   The documentary, titled We Will Not Be Silenced isn’t the work of a partisan hack, the Republican National Committee, or some other “vast right-wing conspiracy.” It was created by Gigi Gaston, a writer/director who is also a lifelong Democrat and whose grandfather was a Democratic governor of Massachusetts.

   http://wewillnotbesilenced2008.com/video/index.htm

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EGZFgMNM-UU

   To use your own words against you, when are you going to admit youre wrong and that evidence does exist?

   Will you watch them or just stick your head in the sand because they don’t meet with your agenda? Wake up. Every vote should count no matter what party.

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