The cleanest election ever!
Posted: November 9, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Joseph Farah
© 2006
Congratulations, America, on conducting the cleanest, most fraud-free election in history.
I know that hasn't been the story other newsmen have been telling you about the midterm congressional election. They've been telling you other stories:
Democrats swept back into power in the House of Representatives and stand to make Nancy Pelosi the first women speaker;
It appears Democrats have taken control of the U.S. Senate, though recounts may delay an official verdict for some time.
For the first time ever, a marriage amendment defining the institution as between one man and one woman was defeated;
A state measure supporting human cloning and embryonic stem cell research was passed;
A ban on abortions was defeated in a "conservative" state;
Democrats won control of a majority of statehouses.
All that is true, of course – and those are certainly important stories.
But no one today is charging that the elections were rigged – that the voting system allowed for massive fraud.
It seems that charge is only made when elections don't go as the new governing party in America wants them to go.
I'm searching all over for reports of fraud and can't find them – even though they were being made early on Election Day and for weeks leading up to it.
Mind you, I'm not alleging that widespread voter fraud did, indeed, take place. I'm just wondering why all the talk of it leading up to the election disappeared as soon as the results became known.
Not only has all such talk from the Democrats ceased, but the constant chatter about alleged fraud by so many of my colleagues in the press also stopped cold as soon as most votes were tabulated. This was the case even though some races were so close that weeks of recounts and legal gymnastics will be necessary before we know with certainty the final outcomes.
On Election Day, MoveOn.org, the George Soros-funded activist group that mostly got its way when votes were counted, was offering bounties of up to $250,000 for material evidence leading to a felony conviction for an organized effort of partisan voter suppression or electronic voting fraud. So far, MoveOn.org has not even suggested any such evidence has been forthcoming, despite the massive rewards it was holding out.
There were major concerns about electronic voting expressed mainly by Democrats and their cheerleaders for days and weeks leading up to the vote. Were they valid? Evidently not. Since the election, not one major Democratic Party figure has made any such allegations.
More interestingly, perhaps, is that neither have Republicans, who took a major shellacking at the polls, charged the elections were rigged.
So, if there is something to celebrate in the outcome of Tuesday's midterm congressional elections, it would seem to be that America has finally figured out how to conduct clean, fraud-free votes.
The only alternative I can imagine is that Democrats, and their allies in places of influence, reserve charges of voting fraud exclusively for elections in which they lose. They set the stage for defeat by raising suspicions. If they lose, they have ready-made excuses. If they win, they just forget about all the hysteria they whipped up prior to and during the vote.
The moral of the story is this: Fraud-free elections are those won by Democrats. Fraudulent elections are those won by their opponents.
And that strikes me as the biggest election fraud of all. |
