Fred,
First of all, let me say I look forward to the day when electronic voting is mandatory and a SS number is required and can be checked immediately. I am sure fraud occurs on both sides, but it is much more prevalent among the Dems and is well publicized, yet people like Jesse Jackson or the Dems NEVER acknowledge any of it. As for the NYTimes article, that is the first I have heard of it so would like to see it confirmed by another source since they have shown a slight bias in the past:-)
Even if the article is true, it is one incident, as compared with the LONG list of infractions already known to have taken place be the Dems, as listed below.
Regards,
Brian
Some of the Dems Dirty Laundry:
GOP's list of voter irregularities in Milwaukee
Last Updated: Nov. 10, 2000
Following is the text of a list of allegations of voter irregularity and fraud in Milwaukee collected by the Wisconsin Republican Party and turned over to the Milwaukee County district attorney's office on Friday:
Incident: Marquette students were seen taking 10 or more ballots at a time.
Incident: Ballots were taken out of the polling place.
Incident: Individuals entered the voting place with more than one addressed envelope and asked which one would allow them to vote in that location.
Incident: A voter was asked by another voter to vouch for her residence in the ward. He said he wouldn't, and the woman appealed to another person in line. The other person claimed to poll workers that she is his roommate.
Incident: A voter was told that she had already voted upon arriving at her polling place. She was asked to sign an affidavit verifying who she was and was not told what happened to her first ballot.
Incident: Polling place had a "help yourself" pile of ballots. Voters could have easily voted more than once.
Incident: Ballots were left sitting on a chair prior to being fed through the machine. Poll workers were seen looking through them.
Incident: UWM student voted on campus. Another voter showed his off campus address to a poll worker. The poll worker told him, "you can't vote here, put down (address of dorm) instead." Same student said friends were bragging about having voted for Gore five or six times.
Incident: Voter was told that his marks on the ballot were too dark, and asked to re-do the ballot. The voter did not see the other ballot destroyed.
Incident: Ballot machine was not operating. The ballots were being stacked in a pile for workers to run through later.
Incident: Ballots may have been left unattended in some areas of Milwaukee due to a broken down truck.
Incident: Marquette students voted 5 or 6 times for Al Gore.
Incident: Two ballots were given to a man wearing a Milwaukee County Public Schools jacket. When he tried to return a ballot, he was told that he should have two.
Incident: Poll workers told a voter to "vote democrat".
Incident: A voter tried to register to vote at the 4th Precinct in the 72nd Ward of Milwaukee. He was not asked for identification or proof of address. Poll workers tried to prevent him from filling out a registration card. Registration cards that he observed only had a signature, no address.
Incident: Ward 296, District 16, called the city clerk to verify what was needed to re-register at a new address. When they re-registered, they were not asked for any proof of residence.
Incident: Non-registered voters were not asked for identification at the 6th District polling place.
Incident: A new voter was not required to show any identification at the Cumberland School in Whitefish Bay.
Incident: A Marquette student had moved since voting in the April primary. Poll workers told her "not to worry about it and just go ahead and vote" when she attempted to change her address.
Incident: A voter was given three different ballots due to mistakes he made on them. The two previous ballots were not seen destroyed.
Incident: Ballot machine in Wauwatosa was broken, and until the machine was fixed, ballots were stacked next to the machine.
jsonline.com
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Allegations Of Voter Intimidation By Democrats Swirl In Miami
Friday, November 10, 2000
William LaJeunesse
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African-American voters make up 15 percent of the electorate in Florida. Al Gore won their overwhelming support on Tuesday, receiving an unprecedented 93 percent of the black vote, seven percent more than Bill Clinton got in 1996.
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Wednesday: The Rev. Jesse Jackson greets Haitian leaders in Miami.
But questions are now circulating about some of those voters being unfairly and illegally influenced — even intimidated — by Democratic campaign workers in certain precincts of Miami's Little Haiti.
A near-perfect turnout in a heavily Democratic district helped sweep the state's first Haitian-American state legislator, a well-known activist and attorney, into office with more than 80 percent of the vote.
The Republican candidate, a political novice, is crying foul, saying his opponent's supporters prodded some voters into voting a straight Democratic ticket.
More than 100,000 Haitians live in Miami-Dade County, many of them in Little Haiti. Most are new to America, new to democracy and are unfamiliar with the U.S. election process.
That leaves them vulnerable to intimidation, say campaign workers and a prominent Haitian minister.
"I believe there should be an investigation into the Haitian vote," said Rev. Phipps St. Hilaire of Christian Churches United. "There were a lot of calls here from people who said there were people who intimidated them."
Phipps said he received at least three dozen complaints from constituents that Democratic campaign workers for Al Gore and state assemblyman Philip Brutus unfairly and illegally violated the 50-foot rule around some precincts in Little Haiti.
The rule prohibits workers from interfering with voters' access to the polls or trying to pressure them.
Some campaign volunteers actually entered the precincts, Phipps said, telling voters what holes to punch and forcing sheets of paper into their hands with the numbers to punch listed on them.
Pauline Charles, a campaign worker for Brutus's opponent, Republican Reggie Thompson, said she saw volunteers helping voters fill out their ballots.
"I heard him tell him, 'Say no to all of this, punch this number and make sure you vote for Gore. Punch number 85, I mean 86 for Brutus.' And you know, giving them exact numbers to the point where he had it written down on a piece of paper just in case they got confused and they'd take the piece of paper and punch in the numbers," Charles said.
"It was wrong," said co-worker Kathy Brinson. "It was wrong for my candidate. We were outside, 50 feet away from the building like the rules said and [the election official] was letting him inside and nothing was said. It wasn't fair."
Charles and Brinson complained to election officials repeatedly. Finally, they called the police, and election officials removed the political partisans from the voting area.
But critics say countless Haitian voters at several precincts were unfairly influenced to vote for a straight Democratic ticket.
"It's not a matter of whether you had a chance to win the race. But you'd like to think that in a democracy, you'd like to hear everyone has an equal chance," Thompson, the aggrieved candidate, said.
— FOXNEWS.com's Sharon Kehnemui contributed to this report
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Spurious tactics
Michelle Malkin
Published 11/11/00
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Faster than you can say Court TV, a high-priced flock of Democrat Party lawyers packed their polo shirts and jetted to Florida to investigate claims of election fraud.
Al Gore's presidential campaign is reportedly drumming up $3 million from lobbyists to pay for the legal fishing expedition. Democratic National Committee spokeswoman Jenny Backus was quickly dispatched down south to protest "thousands — literally thousands of reports of irregularities." She decried the confusing design of ballots in Palm Beach County. Moreover, she complained, "There is [sic] ballot boxes that are missing."
Where, Mrs. Backus asked, was the "sunshine in the Sunshine State?"
CNN aired these sensational allegations relentlessly, including several stories that poll workers in black churches lost boxes containing ballots or left them uncounted in precincts. Complete bunk. The Miami Herald reported Thursday that election officials accounted for all transfer cases used to transport ballots to the elections department. Those mysterious locked ballot boxes left behind by workers contained supplies — not votes. As for the whining about misleading "butterfly" ballots in Palm Beach County, they were approved by Democrats and widely publicized before Election Day.
The Democrats' newfound passion for fairness, openness and integrity in the election process is fascinating.
While they bray about honoring the rule of law, the party's legal scholars are mum on the bothersome constitutional questions surrounding the election of a dead man in Missouri, Mel Carnahan, to the U.S. Senate. Nor are the Democrats' lawyers troubled by a slimy judicial stunt that allowed citizens in Democrat-heavy St. Louis to cast ballots for 40 extra minutes past the voting deadline. Incumbent Sen. John Ashcroft, Missouri Republican, conceded defeat to Carnahan's widow and brushed aside calls to litigate. It was an extraordinary display of grace and humility — two traits foreign to the Gore campaign.
Will any of the DNC attorneys be dispatched to Wisconsin for an open-and-shut case of election bribery? Deep-pocketed doyenne Connie Milstein, a New York real estate heiress who raised more than $1 million for Mr. Gore, told Milwaukee TV station WISN that she was "asked to come down and ring doorbells, go to shelters, see if I can get as many people as I could out to the polls." She lit up voters' interest — literally — by persuading homeless men to come to the polls for free cigarettes and food. Mrs. Milstein and several other Gore campaign workers were caught on tape with huge bags teeming with tobacco. In Wisconsin, it is illegal to procure votes with gifts valued at more than $1.
If Wisconsin is too far, how about a side trip by the Democrat legal squad to investigate dubious election practices in New Jersey? Democrat Jon Corzine bused homeless people and drug addicts from Philadelphia to New Jersey for $75 a day plus coffee and sandwiches to get out the vote for his Senate campaign. The investment banker, who poured some $60 million into his winning effort, said it was all part "of the normal process of getting people out to vote."
Normal? When Republican consultant Ed Rollins mentioned $500,000 in "walking around money" spent on ministers and Democratic Party workers during the 1996 gubernatorial campaign in New Jersey, he was excoriated by the press. When sponsors of the successful Initiative 200 campaign in Washington state bused in paid volunteers to gather signatures for the measure, which eliminated government racial preferences, Democrats cried foul.
But not a peep was heard from the liberal legal eagles about Al Gore's dangerous drive to loosen immigration laws and naturalize 1 million aliens in time for Election Day 1996. Some 75,000 of those new voters had criminal records that would have otherwise disqualified them for citizenship. Nor did Democrats protest when California Democrat Loretta Sanchez beat Rep. Bob Dornan by 979 votes in a highly suspect race. A congressional investigation found that two-thirds of the ballots were invalid —most were cast by illegal aliens.
Two years later, when Mr. Dornan challenged Mrs. Sanchez and asked for election monitors to oversee the polls, Democrats accused him of "political thuggery" and "Gestapo" tactics.
When Democrats lure minorities to the polls, it's "outreach." When Republicans shine light on election abuse, it's racist trickery. Who are the real frauds here? |
