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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 07:43 AM
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Professional "voter fraud" troll now preemptively predicting fake voter fraud
Hans A. von Spakovsky wants you to know that if Democrat David Weprin pulls it out and wins the special election tomorrow for the congressional seat vacated by Anthony Weiner, Weprin will have won this longtime Democratic district through voter fraud. So, you know, just be prepared!

Polls show Republican Bob Turner slightly leading, so obviously any result other than a Turner victory means ACORN paid homeless people to vote 100 times under false names. "Will (close polls) tempt some locals to resort to the kind of voter fraud that Kings County and Brooklyn are infamous for?" asks former Fulton County, Georgia Republican Party head Hans A. von Spakovsky, who is apparently unaware that "Kings County and Brooklyn" is redundant.

Spakovsky suspects imminent voter fraud because some people listed on the registration rolls have moved or died:

A source within the Turner camp tells me the campaign sent a letter and campaign literature to all the voters on the permanent list maintained by the Board of Elections who are automatically mailed absentee ballots. They have received hundreds of pieces of returned mail marked "address unknown" or "return to sender" and at least five marked "deceased."

ACORN!!!

"Voter fraud," as Matthew Vadum recently explained, is a phony threat hyped by Republican operatives in order to whip up support for rules making it more difficult for poor people, minorities, and other traditional Democratic constituencies to vote. There's the lowbrow form of "voter fraud" trolling -- screeching conspiratorial nonsense about ACORN -- and there's the highbrow kind, practiced most expertly by former Justice Department attorney and Federal Election Commission member Hans A. von Spakovsky.

In classic George W. Bush administration form, von Spakovsky was a Civil Rights division lawyer who hated enforcing civil rights laws and an FEC advisor who hated election laws. His sole, driving concern was doing everything in his power to help the Republican party. Now von Spakovsky, a prime mover behind the politicization of Bush's Justice Department, spends much of his time accusing the Obama administration of politicizing the Justice Department.

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http://www.salon.com/news/new_york_city/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2011/09/12/hans_fraud_weprin
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 07:46 AM
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1. Any repuke from the state that screwed Max Cleland with the help of Diebold
needs to be keeping their piehole shut about "voter fraud"
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NorthCarolina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 07:51 AM
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2. There will undoubtedly be voter fraud, but it won't favor the Democrat.
I seriously doubt that there has been an election in America in the past decade that wasn't touched by fraud. The big push to switch to EVM's and the help America vote act were likely intended to control the outcome of elections.
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jtrockville Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 08:33 AM
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4. I think that's election fraud, not voter fraud. And yes, it's rampant.
But if we convince enough people to get up-in-arms about voter fraud, and pass enough laws to prevent the damn DEMS from voting, we might be able to completely eradicate election fraud.

/sarcasm
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midnight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 07:52 AM
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3. I read about this race a few weeks ago... Lot's of undercurrent stuff...
Is the Dem. candidate the favorite among Dems? I got the impression he wasn't. Is that correct? Anyone voting in this election want to share their thoughts on this-thanks...
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