Vote fraud training called legit (Tx. cops making it easy to rig)

[donsu]

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/politics/stories/MYSA031706.03B.ag_training.1c6b62e1.html


The Texas attorney general's office this week defended examples given in materials used to train law officers to watch for voter fraud, saying viewers must look at them in the proper context.

Critics took issue this week with two examples in a PowerPoint presentation used by the attorney general's office to train law officers to recognize election fraud. The critics argued the examples give poll monitors huge discretion that could result in voters inappropriately being turned away.

One example pictured apparel with logos of the Dallas Cowboys as a possible violation of a section of the state election code that bars in polling places badges, insignias and emblems that relate to any candidate, measure or political party on the ballot.

The other example gives law officers tips on what to look for when examining documents for fraud, including "unique stamps" on mail-in ballots. Appearing next to those words is a postage stamp of a black woman kissing a black child. The stamp promotes testing for sickle cell disease. The racial undertones of that example riled some critics.

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The training was offered to 44 counties where voter fraud had occurred, or where the population is at least 100,000. The training took place before early voting began in the March primary
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racial hatred has no boundaries

the only thing Tx. cops need to do is keep traffic moving at polling places, and disperse any trouble makers.

the poll workers are the ones that know election rules (whether they follow them is another subject)

[RufusEarl]

1. I tell ya, it's feels great to be a Texan!

really no kidding it feels so fuck'n great to live in a state that has oh so many bigots. I swear folks if i could get up and move from this state, i'd be gone in a heart beat.

I spent most of my life living in this state and it has it's pluses, but when it comes to politics and these types of stories i'm lost for words.

[petronius]

2. Both of those examples

seem like techniques for guessing how a particular person is voting, not whether the vote is fraudulent. It reads like a manual for rigging the vote at the polling place/registrar, by discouraging voters who meet certain profiles, or discarding mail in ballots that meet certain criteria. Maybe they should just toss out all the absentee ballots that don't have flag stamps - real patriots don't use specialty stamps...:sarcasm:

I wonder how they identified those 44 counties where "voter fraud had occurred" - Republicans didn't win?