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Democrat says Democratic Party bosses use voter fraud
Former Alabama Democratic Rep. Artur Davis told The Daily Caller that anti-fraud measures are needed to protect African-Americans from corrupt political bosses — many of them African-Americans themselves — who run Democratic Party machines in the South.
On Nov. 14, progressive Democratic Reps. John Conyers, Steny Hoyer, Jerrold Nadler, Keith Ellison, Steve Cohen, Marcia Fudge and Emanuel Clearer, the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus — along with representatives from several advocacy groups — held a meeting to complain about what they say is the danger posed by laws that require voters to identify themselves.
Artur Davis is unimpressed.
“What I have seen in my state, in my region, is the the most aggressive practitioners of voter-fraud are local machines who are tied lock, stock and barrel to the special interests in their communities ... and they’re cooking the [ballot] boxes on election day, they’re manufacturing absentee ballots, they’re voting [in the names of] people named Donald Duck, because they want to control politics and thwart progress,” he told TheDC.
“People who are progressives have no business defending those individuals.”
12 former Brooks County officials were indicted for voter fraud. The suspects are accused of illegally helping people vote by absentee ballot.
State officials launched an investigation after an unusually high number of absentee ballots were cast in the July 2010 primary election. "As a result of their grand jury findings 12 individuals were indicted in that particular matter and we will be trying that case in a court of judicial law instead of a court of public opinion so that will be pending this next year," said District Attorney Joe Mulholland.
The defendants include some workers in the voter registrar's office and some school board members.
The charges followed a bitter November 2010 school board election in Brooks County in which the final tally was changed by an unusually large wave of absentee ballots.
During the election, 1,060 absentee votes were cast out of the 1,403 ballots mailed out to people who requested them, according to a July 2010 report by WCTV.
That’s far higher than nearby Thomas County, which had 119 absentee votes cast out of 202 requests, and Lowndes County, which had 169 absentee votes cast out of 439 requests, said WCTV’s report.
The 12 people charged are aligned with the Democratic Party.
Democrats argue that the voter identification laws are intended to suppress votes by blacks and Hispanics.
Since President Barack Obama’s election, officials at the Department of Justice have downplayed complaints about ballot fraud.
Under former President George W. Bush, the department had aggressively pursued numerous cases. In 2007, for example, Ike Brown, the chairman of the Democratic Party in Noxubee County, Miss., was investigated for interfering with white voters’ access to the ballot box.
State investigations and convictions continue despite the DOJ’s current lack of interest.
This administration constitutes the greatest betrayal of the United States and its law-abiding, legitmately-registered, voting citizens I have seen in my 40+ years as a registered voter.
It takes a concerted effort, but the bums can be thrown out.
Originally posted by phishyblankwaters
This administration constitutes the greatest betrayal of the United States and its law-abiding, legitmately-registered, voting citizens I have seen in my 40+ years as a registered voter.
I assume you expressed similar outrage at the rigged 2000 election as well right? that's all completely documented and they didn't really go after anyone hard, and the same rigged system (diebold) is in use today.
all of this, and more, happened to allow Bush to "win" both of his elections. the system is in shambles.
BUT......
I'd be weary of any "voter ID" methods to be implemented as that sounds like an easy way to instituted "real id" and rfid tracking.
It takes a concerted effort, but the bums can be thrown out.
Indeed, effort from all people from all sides ignoring party lines. If only a movement of non partisan people could form around the country, and world, demanding these things be stopped.
Oh well.edit on 24-11-2011 by phishyblankwaters because: (no reason given)
I assume you expressed similar outrage at the rigged 2000 election as well right? that's all completely documented and they didn't really go after anyone hard, and the same rigged system (diebold) is in use today.
BUT......
I'd be weary of any "voter ID" methods to be implemented as that sounds like an easy way to instituted "real id" and rfid tracking.
Originally posted by benrl
I remember there was a programer that went on record saying the GOP had paid him to make a way to rig the electronic voting machines..
Not everyone drives, not everyone feels the need to carry identification with them.
To the people who don't have ID's you're telling them they can't vote.
What if I move out of state and register my new home address? That doesn't mean I have to get a new driver's license
Yes, it does.
If you move out of state and "register my new address," you forfeit your previous state's license and must obtain a new one in your new home state.
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..under a voter ID law I would have to get a new license.
If you have established a new permanent address, you do have to get a new license. If you haven't established a new permanent residence, you must vote "absentee" in your home state.
The argument isn't as simple as you make it out to be. You just want ID. I want guarantees that people who don't have an ID or don't always keep it up to date will still be able to vote.
Now, if you could combine the process...say, automatically register when you obtain an ID thereby requiring you to have an ID in order to be registered, I could go along with that.
You are just trolling.
When you apply for an identification card, the agency ALWAYS has voter registration forms available and advertised around the building. Look up your DoJ Civil Rights Division law; it is plain as day.
When you get old enough to drive, you will see. Does your mom know you're using her comnputer?
Originally posted by links234
Not everyone drives, not everyone feels the need to carry identification with them.
Each elector shall present proper identification to a poll worker at or prior to completion of a voter's certificate at any polling place and prior to such person's admission to the enclosed space at such polling place.
If you show up to vote and you do not have one of the acceptable forms of photo identification, you can still vote a provisional ballot. You will have up to two days after the election to present appropriate photo identification at your county registrar's office in order for your provisional ballot to be counted.
Georgia driver’s license, even if expired
ID card issued by the state of Georgia or the federal government
Free voter ID card issued by the state or county
U.S. passport
Valid employee ID card containing a photograph from any branch, department, agency, or entity of the U.S. Government, Georgia, or any county, municipality, board, authority or other entity of this state
Valid U.S. military identification card
Valid tribal photo ID