Repub rep admits fraud

[pat_k]

On Countdown on Wednesday the 8th, we have the following from REP. MARSHA BLACKBURN ®, TENNESSEE:

"There was an election, and they lost. And there are not enough ghost votes, there are not enough miscounted or conspiracy votes to get them to where they want to be." (See transcript)


Ghost votes? I've never heard this term and find it very interesting that they have a name for something I've assumed from the beginning they did, i.e., pad registration roles with republican "ghosts" (non-existant people) who then "voted" for Bush.

Her statement is a classic "tell" -- and here is what she is telling us:

Translation:

Sure, the margin for Bush was padded with "ghost votes" and miscounts, but none of it will add up to enough to cover the number of votes that were suppressed!

[Straight Shooter]

1. Your translation is correct

Now get them to admit it. Good luck. Our road is uphill and the mountain at the end of the road is very high and rocky.

As for Ms. Blackburn of Tennessee, I hope she's happy as she watches the dismantling of Tenncare, the program which just dumped or is getting ready to dump 400,000 needy people from its healthcare program.

Volunteer state, my a**.

(Tennesseans, please take no offense. I lived in Kingsport many years, lots of fine people there.)

[Clark2008]

9. Knoxvillian here

I wrote Ms. Blackburn the NIGHT before she made this ludicrous statement (even though I'm not in her district - I just wrote her as a concerned Tennessean).

She made this statement on Keith Olbermann the next night and I shook my head at what a bitch she really is.

As far as TennCare - it's on life-support right now. The lawyers have taken over and are preventing our governor (a Democrat) from dismantling the program - for now.

And the "volunteer" came from the number of people from here who volunteer for military service. It's ironic that, for all the idiotic Marsha Blackburns we have, at least we have a real media in Chattanooga, who has a newspaper reporter there who worked with Tennessee National Guardsmen to ask Rummy a tough questions none of the rest of the media magpies would.

No offense taken - but this was a wild week for Tennessee. :)

[merh]

2. They used many ways to pad the vote and steal the election.

Ghost voting was just one, funny how she mentioned it as that has not been publicly alleged in this instance.

Nice catch and Welcome to DU. :hi:

[pat_k]

8. Yup! A definite "tell"

And thanks for the welcome. Glad to be here!

[merh]

10. The repugs had many games playing at once.

There is the master fraud voter spread sheet referencing voters in Nevada. It apparently is a list of registered voters that had moved and did not receive the mailers from the repugs. Now, was the list developed so that repugs could keep an eye out for dems trying to commit fraud, or was this their "ghost voter" list? Did they use these names to pad the vote, send folks to vote in place of the actual registered voter?


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-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Carr's Blackberry <mailto:[e-mail] >
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 5:57 PM
To: Rich Beeson <mailto:[e-mail] >; Cary Evans <mailto:[e-mail] >; Scott Stewart <mailto:[e-mail] >; Goose; [e-mail] ; [e-mail]
Subject: Fw: douglas county voter confirmation

This is actually from carson and douglas

-----Original Message-----
From: "Christopher M. Jaarda" <[e-mail] >
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:54:38
To:[e-mail]
Subject: douglas county voter confirmation

Chris,

Attached is the excel document with the returned mail from Douglas County.

Chris Jaarda

Chris Carr
702-258-9182 p
702-258-9186 f

ATTACHMENT: Douglas County Voter Fraud Master Spreadsheet.xls

http://2004.georgewbush.org/deadletteroffice/index.asp

[Clark2008]

13. All this proves is that Ms. Blackburn

shouldn't have shrugged off the forum.

If she believes people are alleging that dead folks were voting, then she's sorely misinformed.

Maybe if she'd had the cojones to attend the meeting (and buck the Shrub), she'd learn that NO ONE is alleging ghost votes. It's about the voter intimidation, lack of polling places in minority districts and paperless voting machines.

[electropop]

3. Like Cindy Brady trying to keep a secret

"Yes Mom, I had a nice day and I didn't break your favorite vase!"

[bleever]

15. LOL! And Shrubco has ALWAYS done this. I remember right after 9/11

when Junior came out and said, "If I had had any idea this was gonna happen, I woulda done everything I could to protect the American people", and I thought, WTF? Nobody was accusing him of foreknowledge or failure to act. Why so defensive?

And the answer of course was that he DID have warning, and DID fail to act.

I'm sure people here can think of many such incidents where, by trying to preempt criticism, they let on what was really up.

[righteous1]

4. "Ghost Votes" are a republican euphemism for registering

dead people. They used the same terminology for dead people voting in Missouri in 2000

[pat_k]

12. Failing to purge dead people from the roles is one thing...

but I have no doubt that there are ghosts -- whether dead or fictitious, in the "big surge" in republican registrations.

[mikelewis]

5. So isn't it surprising that Ohio has a 93.5% voter registration?

According to the Census Bureau the estimated population of Ohio is 11,435,798 as of 2003

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/39/39155.html
The number of persons under 18 is 25.4% which equates to 2,904,692 persons below voting age

This means that there are 8,531,105, people of voting age in Ohio

According to the above information the number of registered voters is 7,979,639

The percent of registered voters versus eligible voters is 93.5%.

Do you really belive we have this many people registered? We must it says so at the SOS. Bunch of fucking thieves. If there is one thing I can promise that c***-sucker Blackwell, I am going to start campaigning to make sure that fucking pr**k never makes it to Governor. I'm going to start this spring and do everything I can think of to smear that fu**er's name because of how he robbed us of our vote.

[Ugnmoose]

6. Marsha Blackburn is a dumb shit

She represents the 7th CD of Tennessee, a totally safe Republican seat.

[pat_k]

7. She is certainly "unwittingly" telling us the truth....

I have found that the ones that don't appear to be the the sharpest knives in the drawer are worth listeing to. They often spill beans "unwittingly".

[Clark2008]

11. She's such a suck up

I went to her website the other night to get an e-mail addy for her and had to take antacids to keep from vomiting at the pandering "God, gun and gays" viritrol on her site.

:puke:

[meganmonkey]

19. LOL at your self-censorship

You censored out the word 'prick' but you left 'fucking' intact as the adjective

:P

[pat_k]

14. I think she is "unwittingly" saying something they all "know"...

...and that is that they were incredibly successful suppressing Kerry votes. Sure, ghost votes and other fraud padded the Bush totals, but even if we uncovered it all, it wouldn't "be enough" because they prevented enough people from voting at all.

Whether or not she is right, it provides more reason for focusing on the suppression over everything else.

Ask your representative to stand up for the principle of consent and to stand against discrimination by endorsing this declaration of intent regarding Presidential electors

[phantomvotes]

16. headstones for votes

that's what they called in 1960.
http://www.adversity.net/florida/Frame_Fla_Stories/Kennedy_Daley_1960.htm

[JunkYardDogg]

17. Isn't Being Brain Dead a Prerequisite for being a Repunk??

N/T>
No Brain>
Repunk

[politicasista]

18. She is from the rich people's area here in TN

She eats Smirky's cheese. She is a joke.