“Voter Fraud” – How the Scam Works – Election Fraud Research & Discussion News 25 Mar

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Election Fraud Research & Discussion News March 26, 2007

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It’s a long way down ….

This is our time. It’s all happening right now, laid out before us. I suspect that within the next nine to ten months, the full truth concerning the election fraud strategies and tactics will be available to us. Here’s where we came from just a little over two years ago. The most recent cycle of fraud starts with Ohio. Now look…

Ohio 2004 Brunner Calls for Resignations of Cuyahoga County (Cleveland etc.) Board of Elections
For Immediate Release

Columbus, OH – March 19, 2007 – Pledging to restore trust to elections in Ohio amidst the myriad of challenges facing the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections, the state’s chief election officer, Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, has asked for the resignation of the four-member board, two Democrats and two Republicans, effective the close of business March 21, 2007.

“Cuyahoga County has historically faced challenges with its board of elections, but we are at a time when these challenges are so great that extraordinary measures are needed to improve the election process in the state’s most populous county,” said Brunner.

…and here’s where they’re headed. ..
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Ex-Prosecutor Says He Faced Partisan Questions Before Firing
By R. Jeffrey Smith Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, March 26, 2007; Page A03

One of the eight former U.S. attorneys fired by the Bush administration said yesterday that White House officials questioned his performance in highly partisan political terms at a meeting in Washington in September, three months before his dismissal.

John McKay of Washington state, who had decided two years earlier not to bring voter fraud charges that could have undermined a Democratic victory in a closely fought gubernatorial race, said White House counsel Harriet Miers and her deputy, William Kelley, "asked me why Republicans in the state of Washington would be angry with me."

This is an excerpt form an article that will be published later today. It’s the functional description of how voter fraud charges are used as a diversion to put in place voter suppression programs. There are hardly any cases of voter fraud in a given year, 24 form 2002 to 2005 according to the most recent study. But…read the segment from the article. It’s quite enlightening.

Michael Collins
Washington, D.C.

Election Fraud versus Voter Fraud

Lorraine C. Minnite, PhD of Barnard College, Columbia University just published a major article explaining voter fraud. Here distinctions between voter and election fraud are critical:

Voter fraud is the “intentional corruption of the electoral process by the voter.” This definition covers knowingly and willingly giving false information to establish voter eligibility, and knowingly and willingly voting illegally or participating in a conspiracy to encourage illegal voting by others. All other forms of corruption of the electoral process and corruption committed by elected or election officials, candidates, party organizations, advocacy groups or campaign workers fall under the wider definition of election fraud.

Voter fraud is the retail while election fraud is the wholesale corruption of elections.

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Why the Effort to Attack a Problem that Doesn’t Exist? It’s All About Suppressing the Vote

Why? It’s simple. The payoff in suppressed votes from hostile voting groups is the real goal. Voter fraud initiatives result in solutions to problems that don’t exist. However, those solutions provide a rationale to create the type of problems that are desirable by those who choose to suppress the vote. Which voters am I talking about? The poor, black and Latino citizens in particular, and, to a lesser degree, college and university students strongly favor Democrats. Any process which subtracts voters from these groups adds vote margins to right wing candidates, typically but not always Republicans.

Here’s how it works:

You speak repeatedly of the non existent problem of voter fraud, over and over. At the Federal level, you start something called the Ballot Access and Voter Integrity Initiative. It suggests that there are hoards of voters out there who want to vote illegally on their own or, even worse, at the behest of nefarious individuals who might organize these hoards. You hint broadly that these voters are minorities and maybe even illegal aliens.

If there’s an initiative to solve a problem, you assume some people will believe that the problem actually exists. Those who actually know better, state legislators, sponsor and pass legislation like restrictive voter identification requirements for both the registration and voting processes. The net result is a series of laws at the state level that make it harder to vote for the previously mentioned target groups. Missouri’s most recent attempt at a restrictive voter identification law was judged to be unconstitutional before it was ever enacted.

When you are accused of suppressing the minority and poor vote, you engage in the false argument about tradeoffs. You assert that restrictive voter identification requirements are necessary to prevent voter fraud (all eight cases a year!). You say you want people to vote but opponents of voter ID requirements are really promoting voter fraud. It’s all quite brilliant, symmetrical, and self perpetuating.

Former Georgia Governor Roy Barnes simplified the analysis last week when he said

"Georgia's had a long history of being a state where we only want a certain number of people, a certain color of people, to vote," argued former Gov. Roy Barnes, now a private attorney.

Georgia is not alone.

Watch GD for publication of full article
Amazing isn’t it. Their plans are so well thought out and so well executed when it comes to elections. Now they’re up in smoke

See Also: Fired Federal Prosecutors and Election Fraud Scop 12 March 2007

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1. K & R for transparent democracy nm

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2. XLNT sourcing on definitions of voter fraud vs. election fraud

For more on how they are attempting to reframe this (as well as Bush's reference to the need for "vigorous prosecution of election fraud" see ERD article on Bush wanting "vigorous prosecution of election fraud"...

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3. If you mean the following article,

yes, it is very good in flushing out the Administration's duplicitous take on the matter, and their attempts to confuse the two.

Let's not let them get away with it. The problem here is "ELECTION fraud", as committed by the powers that be, and on a massive, organized scale by REPUBLICAN owned vote machine companies with the major assistance of REPUBLICAN Secretaries Of State and REPUBLICAN workers at each site.

Article:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x469651

I hope I'm making sense here, I'm having brain lag today.:-) Any corrections or further elucidation will be appreciated.

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5. Thanks for the pointer.

It all fits together - stop a non crime, voter fraud, while facilitating a real crime, voter suppression. The architects know it's not a real event but they stir up enough agitation for
those not well informed to actually believe it. It's a true shame and reveals the total cynicism
of the * administration and its supporters. Sham(e) on them!

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4. Thanks! "The Politics of Voter Fraud" is a must read article for all Democrats.

It really opened my eyes and all owed me to make a few connections that closed the loop on the
biggest scam.

The Politics of Voter Fraud

What amazes me is not the firings. That was predictable. The 93 at one time wouldn't have shocked
me either.

What is amazing is that not one single U.S. Attorney has objected to the "voter fraud" scam since
the WH started it under Ashcroft's leadership. 24 convictions in four years, what a crime wave, no?
And they all knew it was bogus. I'm sure some spoke up in private meetings and a whole bunch of them
would openly grouse about "this crap again." But, holy cow! Let's say something now, including those
who were not fired.

Voter fraud prevention equals voter suppression. Not two ways about it.

On edit: The WH calls for "election fraud" prosecutions. Is that form the McClatchy aricle?

I actually think * confused his frauds there and probably meant to say "voter" but you never know with
him. What a joke. Nobody prosecuted real election fraud until Baxter in Ohio.

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6. K'ed & R'ed