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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mike thomas who wrote (8799)	11/5/1998 9:01:00 AM
From: Catfish	Respond to of 13994

mike, The election of B. Boxer looks like another case of "voter dilution". We experienced this in the Georgia elections where republican Guy Millner (Governor's race) went into the election leading in the polls by 3 to 5 percentage points. He subsequently lost by 10% due to a concerted effort by Clinton and the black leadership to get out the vote. They voted 95% for the Democratic candidate, plus their vote total was a whooping 30% of the entire vote, a state record. The ratio of blacks to the rest of the population statewide is only 27.9%, so how do you account for one group dominating the election process by disproportionate numbers to the rest of the population? Something does not "smell" right here. This is another case of voter "dilution". Darrell

To: mike thomas who wrote (8799)	11/5/1998 9:26:00 AM
From: Catfish	Respond to of 13994

mike, Go back and read posts #8768 and #8769 for more discussion on vote "dilution". Unfortunately, as long as Clinton is in power, the situation will not improve. Here is an excerpt from #8769: Two years ago, groups using federal funds registered hundreds of non-citizens in Orange County, Calif. The House Oversight Committee found that at least 747 votes were cast illegally in the photo-finish election of Democratic Rep. Loretta Sanchez, who won by only 984 votes. But little has changed. House Oversight came up with the names of 1,499 voters who should be removed from the rolls, but election officials claim it's too late to purge them for today's election. This month, the Los Angeles County registrar identified 16,000 phony registrations submitted by two groups aligned with the Democratic Party. Some Hispanic groups say efforts to tighten voter registration are discriminatory, but Texas Secretary of State Al Gonzales disagrees. His office has taken steps to rid the state's rolls of 74,000 duplicate voters and 43,000 others who may have died. He plans to ask the legislature next year for authority to curb mail-in ballot abuses. Mr. Gonzales has seen how easy it is for politics to get in the way of attempts to curb voter fraud. Last year, the Immigration and Naturalization Service's Dallas office ran a random computer check of voter registration records with citizenship records. Of 400 registered voters, 10 weren't citizens, or 2.5%. At that point, the INS's district director stopped the probe and the Associated Press reported that internal memos "suggested the inquiry was stifled because of superiors' concerns about 'political ramifications.' " No wonder. INS officials presided over shocking lapses in "Citizenship U.S.A.," a crash program to clear immigration bottlenecks that resulted in 180,000 people becoming citizens without proper background checks before the 1996 election. It was later found that at least 5,000 of these new citizens had been arrested for felonies. Given this record, you'd think the Clinton Justice Department would be eager to help states police voter fraud. Instead, it is actively thwarting them through a recent ruling that bars states from verifying voters' citizenship. "I don't know how the Justice Department can say that non-citizens shouldn't vote and then block them from checking on what the status of a voter is," says Abigail Thernstrom, an expert on the Voting Rights Act.