Voter suppression theory: If only Republicans vote, only Republicans can win
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Voter suppression theory: If only Republicans vote, only Republicans can win

Tallahassee : FL : USA | Jun 10, 2012 at 2:20 PM PDT
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Florida Purging Voters!!

In the past two years, more than 30 states have enacted new voter ID laws and other restrictions to keep Americans from voting.

Republicans claim that purging voting rolls is necessary due to illegal voting. But there is little physical evidence to suggest that voter fraud has ever been a problem in the United States.

Case studies show that voter fraud in the U.S. is virtually non-existent, so Republican claims that it is rampant are misleading and false.

In every state studied since 2000, the incidences of voter fraud has turned out to be such a low percentage, the number of individual voter fraud cases could be counted on one hand.

“Two reporters attempted to probe the accuracy of New York’s voter rolls by comparing them with death records and with the rolls of other states. The reports led to inflated claims of widespread fraud, of the sort commonly used to support restrictive identification requirements for voters at the polls. We examined each of the allegations of fraud by individual voters -- the only sort that ID could possibly address -- to uncover the truth behind the assertions," according to the Brennan Center for Justice.

"In a review of at least four different elections, the allegations yielded only two substantiated cases of individuals knowingly casting invalid votes that counted – two voters who voted twice. Given the number of votes cast in these elections, this amounts to a rate of 0.000009%. Neither of these problems could have been resolved by requiring photo ID at the polls.”

Critics claim that Republicans are trying to stack the deck against the Democrats by targeting specific voting groups that tend to vote Democratic. The theory is that if only Republicans can vote, only Republicans can win.

Is it a coincidence that the Florida voter purge currently being attempted by Republican Gov. Rick Scott, is aimed overwhelmingly at Latinos?

“Latinos are not voting in numbers that fully reflect their potential strength, leaving Hispanic leaders frustrated and Democrats worried as they increase efforts to rally Latino support,” according to the New York Times.

There is further evidence that non-white voters are being targeted.

“In addition to being inaccurate and outdated, the list the State of Florida sent to local elections officials to trigger the re-verification requirement letters, disproportionately targets Hispanics... analysis of those singled out to prove their citizenship, 61% are Hispanic when only 14% of registered Florida voters are Hispanic."

"By contrast, only 16% of those on the state’s purge list are identified as white when they compose approximately 70% of Florida voters,” according to the Miami Herald.

Taxpayers are funding what some believe is a witch hunt for a problem that never existed in the first place – namely, voter fraud.

In a time when Republicans are preaching about fiscal responsibility, are they really doing the public justice by spending millions of dollars to purge what in fact may be just a few hundred voters, out of millions?

The more Republican governors go after non-white voting groups, the more it looks like their intentions are not honorable.

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Posted By fireside fireside | 11 months ago
links to help to overcome voter fraud in every area ..The computerized voting machines are being hacked in less than ten minutes and then controlled by a central location to send votes wherever the democrats need them…notify your legislators of these problems to secure the 2012 elections...send to legislators, state and federal, attorneys general and secretaries of state...Excellent video links inside other voter fraud discussions Don't let the 2012 elections be stolen by the socialists.
http://teapartypatriots.ning.com/forum/topics/voter-fraud-information
http://teapartypatriots.ning.com/forum/topics/how-to-save-the-election-in
General and problems with central tabulator 958
Direct recording election or touch screen machines 962
Optical scanners 963
http://www.ejfi.org/Voting/Voting-145.htm#pgfId-1401104
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=I3_xFb1sWKU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZp3rA1XXjw&feature=player_embedded
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/09/30/researchers-hack-voting-m...
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/1269/529/Warning_Progressives_NPV
hackers could be the ones whose votes have the biggest impact.
Researchers from the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois have developed a hack that, for about $26 and an 8th-grade science education, can remotely manipulate the electronic voting machines used by millions of voters all across the U.S.

The researchers, Salon reported, performed their proof-of-concept hack on a Diebold Accuvote TS electronic voting machine, a type of touchscreen Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting system that is widely used for government elections.

(Diebold's voting-machine business is now owned by the Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems, whose e-voting machines are used in about 22 states.)

In a video, Roger Johnston and Jon Warner from Argonne National Laboratory's Vulnerability Assessment Team demonstrate three different ways an attacker could tamper with, and remotely take full control, of the e-voting machine simply by attaching what they call a piece of "alien electronics" into the machine's circuit board.



Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/09/30/researchers-hack-voting-machine-for-26/?test=latestnews#ixzz1xbtC70sN
Reply By kularob Rob Lafferty | 11 months ago
Interesting. I didn't know that it was just Democrats who are hacking electronic voting systems across the land. I thought that was a non-partisan bit of behavior...
Posted By itobin53 itobin53 | 11 months ago
the only ones trying to cheat with voting are the republicans. and as for calling Obama a socialist, you can only apply that is you are calling him bad at it. Wall street has done better under obama than it did under bush.
Posted By fireside fireside | 11 months ago
Barack Obama was, in fact, a member of the socialist New Party and sought its endorsement for the Illinois senate--contrary to the misrepresentations of Obama's presidential campaign in 2008,
Minutes of the meeting on January 11, 1996, of the New Party’s Chicago chapter read as follows:
Barack Obama, candidate for State Senate in the 13th Legislative District, gave a statement to the membership and answered questions. He signed the New Party “Candidate Contract” and requested an endorsement from the New Party. He also joined the New Party.
Consistent with this, a roster of the Chicago chapter of the New Party from early 1997 lists Obama as a member, with January 11, 1996, indicated as the date he joined...
The documents reveal that the New Party’s central aim was to move the United States steadily closer to European social democracy, a goal that Mitt Romney has also attributed to Obama.
Don't be fooled. Obama's health plan, the government's takeover of education, the eradication of God and anything pertaining to His name — all these and much more are a repeat of what happened in Europe. Look how that ended.
We are fast losing our foothold on the slippery slope of Obama's socialism
Posted By itobin53 itobin53 | 11 months ago
The only one acting like a socialist (or more like fascist) is the invasive big govt republicans who don't seem to be able to stay out of a woman's uterus. How about a big, "mind your own business" for the GOP.

And if I can get comprehensive health insurance cheap, I don't care where it comes from.
Posted By fireside fireside | 11 months ago
AGAIN_He signed the New Party “Candidate Contract” and requested an endorsement from the New Party. He also joined the Socialist New Party.

Obama Has Signed 923 Executive Orders in 40 Months
EXECUTIVE ORDER 10990 allows the government to take over all modes of transportation and control of highways and seaports. (converting our hyways to toll roads is already underway)

-EXECUTIVE ORDER 10995 allows the government to seize and control the communication media. (we will pay for internet use by the minutes used and our rights to free speech finished.)

-EXECUTIVE ORDER 10997 allows the government to take over all electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuels and minerals. (gas to $8 dollars a gallon)

-EXECUTIVE ORDER 10998 allows the government to take over all food resources and farms.

-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11000 allows the government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under government supervision.

-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11001 allows the government to take over all health, education and welfare functions.

-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11002 designates all persons. Postmaster General to operate a national registration

-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11003 allows the government to take over all airports and aircraft, including commercial aircraft.

-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11004 allows the Housing and Finance Authority to relocate communities, build new housing with public funds, designate areas to be abandoned, and establish new locations for populations.

-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11005 allows the government to take over railroads, inland waterways and public storage facilities.( we might be hiding our cars or possessions he has not taxed yet from him)

-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11049 assigns emergency preparedness function to federal departments and agencies, consolidating 21 operative Executive Orders issued over a fifteen year period.

-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11051 specifies the responsibility of the Office of Emergency Planning and gives authorization to put all Executive Orders into effect in times of increased international tensions and economic or financial crisis.

-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11310 grants authority to the Department of Justice to enforce the plans set out in Executive Orders, to institute industrial support, to establish judicial and legislative liaison, to control all aliens, to operate penal and correctional institutions, and to advise and assist the President.

-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11921 allows the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency to develop plans to establish control over the mechanisms of production and distribution, of energy sources, wages, salaries, credit and the flow of money in U.S. financial institution in any undefined national emergency. It also provides that when a state of emergency is declared by the President, Congress cannot review the action for six months.

Feel free to verify the “executive orders” at will… and these are just the major ones…

I’m sure you’ve all heard the tale of the “Frog in the Pot”… you all comfortable???

Watch Obama’s actions, not his words! By his actions he will show you where America is headed.
Across the country efforts are increasingly under way to track closely all road vehicle movements, initially using a nationwide network of roadside cameras connected to automatic number plate recognition systems. These track, record and store the details of all journeys undertaken on major roads and through city centres and the information is stored for five years In the longer term mandatory onboard vehicle telematics systems are also suggested, to facilitate road charging (see vehicle excise duty).
Enough Obama Big Governme for you
Reply By perturbed perturbed | 6 months ago
Following is from Factcheck.org. "Presidents number their executive orders consecutively. The first executive order that President Obama signed was EO-13489, which dealt with presidential records. Obama’s predecessors signed any executive order with a number lower than 13489
Obama has not issued 900 executive orders. He has signed slightly fewer orders than President George W. Bush during this point in his first term. " Fox News lies are repeated here. Ignorance in one thing but lies are something else. What does Bible say about this?
Posted By itobin53 itobin53 | 11 months ago
you need to watch less fox 'news' and ignore anything Rush Limbaugh says. Really. This is ridiculous.
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