Media blast this evidence of Republican election Fraud

[Melissa G]

http://www.counterpunch.com/moses01312005.html
So Many Watching, So Little Seen
The Real Scandals of the Texas Election
By GREG MOSES

In live internet broadcasts last week, a Master of Discovery appointed by the Texas Legislature to investigate allegations of a stolen election in West Houston indeed found some 'fact patterns' that looked scandalous, but you can't tell it by reading any press reports. The hearing was supposed to look for evidence of voter fraud committed by Democratic voters. Instead, every time one of these curious patterns emerged, it was a hint of possible fraud not by Democratic voters, but against them.

On Thursday for example, Master of Discovery Will Harnett (R-Dallas), a cum laude graduate from Harvard, noticed that several voter registrations in the West Houston area looked strangely alike. They were all dated late 2003, presented accurate mailing addresses, yet re-registered voters to addresses where they did not live. In effect, the series of fraudulent registrations 'deported' African American voters out of Texas House District 149 and therefore made the voters appear illegal when they attempted to vote in their usual precincts.

So when the defeated Republican incumbent in the District 149 race went looking for evidence of 'massive voter fraud' that would explain his embarrassing loss to a Vietnamese immigrant, he snared the names of these 'illegal' voters and brought them to the state capitol accusing them on live broadcast of voting where they did not live. Instead of proving these voters had cast illegal ballots, however, the Republican team of lawyers actually produced evidence of another kind.

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[meganmonkey]

1. Hot damn!!!

So much for fraud by Democratic voters!!!

Shady shady business!

[sonias]

2. Another fine piece of reporting by our own GMoses

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Thanks to the careful eye that Hartnett cast upon the evidence, it appeared that someone was moving voters without their knowledge. Hartnett suggested the cards might be forwarded to the Harris County District Attorney. In press reports Friday, Saturday, and Sunday I have not been able to locate a sentence, much less a headline about Hartnett's discovery of this criminal pattern.
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But you had to be watching the hearings in their 19-hour entirety to know any of the above, because according to inscrutable laws of Texas journalistic selection, nothing of this sort has yet been counted as news. How could so many eyes of Texas be upon the hearing, and yet so little be seen? If this is the kind of reporting we get about publicly broadcast events, what kind of independent reporting can we expect during this legislative season session about anything happening behind the scenes?
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That's exactly it, where are the media indeed. Greg picked it up, but all other so called "mainstream media" don't do any investigative coverage to this at all. So do we really think the Harris Co. attorney is even going to touch evidence tampering by the repukes?

Thanks for the article link Melissa.

Sonia

[Melissa G]

3. Kick for GMoses!

Hi Sonia! Sounds like more evidence brought out by great D U folks!

[rainbow4321]

4. Repukes opening a can of worms...

Probably why the other 2 TX repukes dropped their protests against their losses to Dems...wouldn't want anyone actually looking TOO closely at the TX voting process. I've wondered for a while if the repuke party would tell the losers to STFU and take one for the team so as to keep the repuke voting tricks from surfacing. You think someone in their party would bitch slap the ongoing sore loser and make him drop his protest of the race's outcome...if they have not yet, after this stuff surfaces they will be.

[rumpel]

5. This is classic!

[GetTheRightVote]

6. They caught themselves in crimes against election, I love it, just love it

:kick:

[skids]

8. It just goes to show...

That the left... ermm... least right... hand of the Republican Party doesn't know what the right hand is doing. My bet is most of the candidates, and even most of their campaign staff, had no knowlege of a lot of the fraud and disenfranchisement tactics being employed to elect them.

[rumpel]

7. Has anyone forwarded this to Conyers? Don't want to duplicate.

[Melissa G]

9. Please send to Conyers. I sent to Freeman and US vote counts n/t

[Wilms]

10. Nice. n/t

[Melissa G]

11. Any other places we can send this repub discovered evidence

Of election fraud?

[Wilms]

12. Sennsenbrener. n/t

[texpatriot2004]

13. Thanks for this article/link. Has anything become of this info?

Has Ronnie Earle made any comment about it? Is anyone investigating?

[Melissa G]

14. I called Ronnie Earle 's office 'cuz I was curious too

Will let you know when I get a call back

[Wilms]

15. I love this whole Texas drama. Must kick. n/t

[Melissa G]

16. Would really love it if it had a tie to Tom Delay but will settle for it

taking out any arrogant cuss who had anything to do with re-redistricting

[KerryReallyWon]

17. Anyone send to Keith at Countdown?

:shrug:

[Melissa G]

18. Unless a KOEB er who has come back to earth from KO wearing

THE TIE has, the job is all yours.

[texpatriot2004]

19. Okay, what's up with THE TIE? I must have missed some KO

thing here at DU? Can you fill me in?

[Melissa G]

20. The short version of the estrogen triumph was distilled here

KOEB ers gave Keith a tie for his bday and he wore it....http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=313432&mesg_id=313432

[Wilms]

21. DU is a mover and a shaker.

Soon, no journalist or politician will do anything without checking in here first.