- Rock Island County – where collecting and recording is not tabulating
- Touch Screen errors in Rock Island (that means voting Republican)
- Voter Fraud – Iowa and Illinois vulnerable (along with most states)
- LaRaza making sure the word gets out
- Group sues Maryland over ‘illegal’ voters
To their great credit Rock Island County Republicans led by Bill Bloom have made it very clear that they will not go quietly into the night instead of insisting on the integrity of the vote. Late last week they followed up on testimony that absentee votes were being illegally counted. They sought an immediate court injunction regarding the practice. Incredibly, albeit predictably, the Democrat judge Lori Lefstein sided with the Democrat Clerk’s office. From the Moline Dispatch article:
‘There is nothing wrong in this office,’ RI County Clerk says
Mr. Bloom’s argument about the alleged counting of votes came from poll watchers who saw ballots being opened and then placed in a tabulating machine.
But once stored in the machine, votes are not counted until polls close on election day. Judge Lefstein said no votes had been counted in Rock Island County.
The information is stored on a pressure-locked memory card, which will be taken out after polls close at 7 p.m. on Nov. 4. The cards are then put in a separate machine that counts votes.
“There’s no evidence the machines have ever been tampered with or the integrity of the vote compromised,” Judge Lefstein said.
Ballots are handled by Ms. Kinney, a Democrat. Election judges, who are sworn-in and include Democrats and Republicans, process the ballots.
So you got that, processing them to the extent of storing the votes on a memory card is not counting them. It is as if running a tape of figures into an adding machine is not for all intense and purposes the process of counting the items. According to the fine point it is only “counting” if you refrain from pushing the total button. That is a distinction that makes a mockery of the law. The very processing could involve the creation of a picture of the election for the processors. But surely the purpose of the law is not simply to keep things a surprise but to make the opportunity to obtain the data constricted to a time period to ensure less opportunity for leaks or to manipulate the data. Pardon us for being paranoid about Democrat run voter operations especially in Illinois. Speaking of Democrat run fraud operations here are a few links to enlighten readers about recent Democrat activities:
How about those Democrats? Voter fraud much? – Big Jolly …
DEMOCRATS Arrested and/or Convicted of Voter Fraud
Here Comes the 2014 Voter Fraud – Wall Street Journal
Could non-citizens decide the November election? – The …
Michelle Malkin | » Voter fraud
2014 Election Results: Democrat Voter Fraud Caught in …
We also want to take issue with the idea that because Democrats and Republicans are involved in the counting process that that makes it alright from a constitutional civil liberties standpoint. Besides the Constitution not mentioning political parties as determining the scales of justice, what is a minor party’s role in this and what is to prevent collusion against one or another party? It is important to have one party looking over the others shoulder but that is only one aspect to fraud prevention. There are other facets to prevent opportunities for fraud, including constricting the time frame for elections and “processing” to a reasonable degree. There should be all manner of checks and built in palliatives along the way, including things like photo ID to decrease opportunities for fraud.
Before we leave Rock Island County the latest integrity alert* for voters there comes due to a touch screen machine (or machines) not registering early votes as voted. Surprise, it happened to a Republican voter in similar manner to what happened to a Chicago Republican voter using a touch screen machine. Pick the Republican and it comes up Democrat. They know what you meant. We commented on that matter herein: R is D — Call it “the Chicago calibration”
The Rock Island touch screen incident is covered in this WQAD report. The title of the report – Voters caught in the middle as Republicans and county clerk spar over voting machines is biased to imply that pursuit of the integrity of the vote somehow puts voters in the middle! Nevertheless here is the YouTube posting of a video demonstrating the Rock Island touch screen phenomenon.
The solution according to the Democrat County Clerk Kinny’s office is check your vote before finalizing it, which we heartily plead with Illinois voters to do. But consider this comment:
Kinney said she wondered whether the video that purportedly showed a vote change was actually demonstrating someone intentionally trying to move their finger up, so their vote would be skewed.
There should be an injunction against such sloppily calibrated machines where such errors or purposefulness are even a remote possibility. To his credit once again, Republican County Chairman Bill Bloom has issued a statement promising legal action if recalibration does not take place by noon Friday. Now imagine what Democrats would be doing if the tables and touch screens were turned against them? Remember the hanging chad and butterfly ballots controversy of 2000? The litigation would be endless if they saw a way to upend the actual results of an election going against them. This case is an effort to insure the integrity of the election before the election not, as in 2000, to keep counting until the desired results are achieved, and then stop, as Democrats tried to do.
Voter Fraud – Iowa and Illinois vulnerable (along with most states)
Before reading about the possibilities of widespread illegal voting by immigrants (legal and otherwise) consider the part of the Washington Post (WaPo) graph we have appended below via a screen capture. Then consider the implications to local and statewide voting of the other articles we append. Note the WaPo’s characterization of Iowa and Illinois as “No ID needed.” The law in Iowa does not require a simple universally obtainable picture voter registration card. Iowa has provision for challenged ballots and provisional ballots in case of suspected illegal voting but the opportunity to successfully do so practically requires inside knowledge or familiarity with suspected illegal voters. Judges don’t extensively have that especially in urban areas and the poll watchers do not either. Those are reasons why photo ID is important — prior to registering to help ensure eligibility — and at each occasion of voting.
How big a problem might this be? Consider the implications of the organization La Raza promulgating the list of ” no ID no problem” states for easy (illegal?) voting. The article is from Patrick Howley, political reporter at the Daily Caller.
La Raza Promotes Washington Post Guide On Where People Can Vote Without An ID
Now consider this article from Kenric Ward writing at Watchdog.org re-posted in its entirety with permission:
Group sues Maryland over ‘illegal’ voters
An election-watch group is suing Maryland over the alleged presence of noncitizens on the state’s voting rolls.
The lawsuit, filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore, asserts that individuals who opted out of jury duty because they were not legal U.S. residents have cast ballots in at least three Maryland elections.
Based on the number of potential unqualified voters identified in Frederick County, up to 7 percent of Maryland’s registered voters could be illegal immigrants, according to estimates.
“Their continued appearance on these lists makes it nearly impossible for Maryland law to prevent these declared noncitizens from casting votes in elections and significantly affecting the integrity and outcomes of overall electoral processes,” said Reagan George, president of the Virginia Voters Alliance, which brought the lawsuit on behalf of four Frederick County residents: John Miller, Virginia Grant, Kathy Troxell and Robert Bogley.
The plaintiffs are suing the Frederick County Board of Elections and the Maryland State Board of Elections.
Miller, the lead plaintiff in the case, told Watchdog.org, “How could this happen in America? Whoever is responsible should be prosecuted.”
Neither Frederick County nor state election officials were immediately available for comment.
Christian Adams, an election law expert, said voter rolls cannot be purged within 60 days of a federal election. He said anyone attempting to do so could “be sanctioned.”
George said because the lawsuit is based on “civil rights,” time limits do not apply.
In a separate matter, both VVA and another voter-watch group, Election Integrity Maryland, say Maryland officials have been unresponsive to evidence of dual registrations in the two states.
VVA estimates more than 14,000 voters are registered in both Maryland and Virginia.
Meanwhile, a task force in Montgomery County, one of Maryland’s “sanctuary counties” for illegals, has recommended that certain noncitizens be permitted to vote.
Voter fraud in heavily Democratic Maryland is a misdemeanor.
More veritaspac.com articles dealing with related matters can be viewed by opening this category link: Voting Integrity
*Thanks to MVM for the forward regarding the WQAD story on touch screen voting in Rock Island County. R Mall
The very idea that a citizen in the United States of America, a constitutional republic, can vote without being registered to vote and without having to produce any identification of who they are when they vote, is incomprehensibly irresponsible and is definitely not in the best interest of the citizens or government of the United States.
The ability to vote is considered the world over to be the unique privilege of those people fortunate enough to live in a democracy under the rule of law, not of men. And to demean that privilege in this way is an insult to the integrity of all citizens and their government.
To enable voting without the necessity of proof of one’s identity makes a mockery of our democratic elections system, and further says we are no more advanced in our governing than the worst dictatorship in a third world country. The situation we allow to exist is appalling.
This points to unspoken reality that we are governed by the political parties, not by our democratically elected officials. In order to ever have an honest and incorruptible system for voting, the machinery and mechanics of all voting on any level of government must not be allowed to reside in the hands of the political parties, or any political entity.
Deep and concerned thought should be given about a way in which the voting system can be constructed within the purview of an incorruptible body of competent individuals. That’s problematic knowing human nature. No one is perfect, and the forces of corruption pull and push on all people at all times. So safeguards must be in place to prevent such corruption. But the point is, we can do better than this.
Think about it. To continue doing the same things as are currently being done that have proven to render our elections questionable if not outright criminal, yet expecting a better outcome next time is to be in denial. And denial really means being dishonest with oneself.
I suggest the first step ought to be a Federal law requiring voter registration and a means of identifying such voters at the polling place as they vote in any democratic election anywhere at anytime on every level of government. It goes without saying that this is not a new idea, and the Democrats have rudely opposed this with their whining about voter disenfranchisement, but we must press the issue. Voters are no more disenfranchised by having to identify themselves when they vote than the driver of a vehicle is disenfranchised by being required to have an operators’ license to drive. It’s time for some true governing leadership to go against the current of Progressive thinking, and stop being intimidated by those who purposely delegitimize our most precious right for the sake of gaining votes.
Our next assignment must be to look into dissolving the political hocus-pocus of gerrymandering, in which I could get my dog elected to Congress with a bit of luck. Again, this ruse exists only because the political parties are in charge of creating the voter districts. Of all the outrageous political tricks, how and why do we let that insanity continue?
I recently advanced essentially the same arguments, though perhaps not as eloquently as Mr. Kelly to a liberal acquaintance (don’t have many liberals I call a “friend”). This is not a “47 percenter”, nor a Dem party activist. He is a highly “educated” affluent professional who acknowledges NPR as possibly his primary source for news and opinion. His response to the argument Mr. Kelly and I make for the common sense and morally justified need for proper voter ID is opposition. His reason, and I quote, “there is a racist component to the demand for voter ID”. Now where would he get that notion?