About Those Democrats And Cheating In Elections
Nov 5, 2010 Political
In Connecticut the Governor’s race is really close and there is no official winner. The Secretary of State declared the Democrat the “unofficial” winner even though the Republican is leading by 8000 votes. Well we all know what happens when a Democrat is behind in the vote count.
A bag of ballots is mysteriously discovered:
In what has become one of the stranger twists in an already bizarre Governor’s race, a bag of uncounted ballots was found in Bridgeport Thursday night.
Republican officials were approached by Democratic operatives and told about the surprise ballot bag, according to Bridgeport GOP Chairman Marc Delmonico.
Delmonico said Democrats asked to have several people deputized to count the uncounted ballots, but Republicans objected, claiming that wasn’t proper procedure in the vote-counting process. NBC Connecticut
Isn’t it odd that Democrats found a bag of uncounted ballots while the Republican is leading in the Governor’s race? And they wanted to count them on the spot instead of following procedure, how convenient.
Want to bet the bag contains just enough ballots to push the Democrat over the top?
This is Al Franken all over. Keep working to get the right number and then declare victory and move on. It is typical of the left.
And something similar is happening in North Carolina where the winner of NC2 was far enough ahead that there was no automatic recount. Suddenly the vote lead changes by 500 and her opponent and loser says he will demand a recount. Her opponent is the guy who physically assaulted a college student. Who is working to help him get back in?
Cave Canem!
Never surrender, never submit.
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Tags: ballots, cheating, connecticut, Democrats, liars, north carolina
Why Some People Should Not Vote
Nov 24, 2008 Political
I am firmly convinced that some sort of literacy test should be required before people are allowed to vote. Now it does not have to be a tough test about civics (though maybe it should be) but a basic test to allow people to demonstrate basic literacy should be required.
The Minnesota Senate race between Al Franken and Norm Coleman was so close that a mandatory recount kicked in thus allowing Democrats to find hundreds of ballots that mysteriously appear in car trunks or back seats. Before the recount began, Franken’s deficit was reduced by just such ballots.
The recount is now underway and the ballots being challenged demonstrate the stupidity of some people. The Minnesota law states that no identifying marks are allowed (so you can’t sign or initial it) and that only one vote per race may be cast. The ballots being challenged have signatures, stray marks, marks on the side of the paper, and any number of other features that invalidate the vote. I think all of them should be discarded in accordance with the law and that way there will be no squabbling over who the person intended to vote for. The only one I find valid is the one where a person’s fingerprint is seen (he must have gotten ink on his finger). A fingerprint is an identifying mark if one is on file but this is ridiculous. Everyone who handles a ballot puts fingerprints on it. The ones with erased entries should count as well.
The real tragedy here is that there are people who cannot follow simple instructions like “fill in the bubble.” That is straight forward and fairly simple but for some unexplained reason a number of people were unable to do just that.
I blame it on the school system. Tests in school use the same system of bubbles that must be filled in. Obviously the school system is not teaching children how to fill in bubbles and those children grow up to be adults who are bubble challenged.
I believe that people who show up to a polling place should have to demonstrate they can use the ballot before they can vote. In the case of Minnesota, people would have to fill in a bubble or two and show they are competent enough to do that simple little task. Those who cannot must leave and not return until they are proficient little bubble fillers.
There are also a number of ballots with stray marks on them. Perhaps the part about making “no stray marks” escapes these people or perhaps they really don’t want their ballots to count. Whatever the reason, those ballots should be discarded straight away and not fought over. If the voter was not bright enough to fill out the ballot correctly then it is not up to the judges to read their minds.
Come on folks, how tough is it to fill in a bubble? If you mess up then ask for another ballot so that you can get it right.
And to think, we let these people out in public unsupervised.
My friend Kender has this as his signature:
“Never underestimate the stupidity of people in large groups…especially on election day.”
I don’t know the author but truer words were never written…
You can see the ballots here.
Tags: ballots, bubbles, coleman, franken, minnesota, stupidity
Voting; Will We Ever Get it Right?
Feb 5, 2008 Political
This country has had elections for a very, very long time and yet it seems that every time there is an election there are problems. These are not the problems of cheating like those that took place in past elections with dead people voting, ballot boxes being stuffed and ballots being found at the last minute to rescue a losing Democrat. No, these are technical glitches that seem to occur more and more frequently.
Today there were problems in Illinois, News Jersey, California and Arizona. Some of the problems dealt with voters being purged from the rolls and arriving at the wrong polling places (including those who showed up in states that do not vote today) but most problems were technical in nature. It would seem that a country with the greatest technology in the world could build and use a voting machine that does not cause all the problems. We only do this every few years so we have lots of time to get it right but each and every time we appear more inept than the time before. We went from inept voters in Florida with hanging chads on butterfly ballots to electronic equipment that does not work. These kinds of glitches do nothing to instill faith in a population that already has trusts issues with regard to their government.
It seems to me that there are ways to fix these problems and they do not involve getting more advanced equipment. We should use scanned ballots that the voter fills in with a number 2 pencil. Then the voter would feed it into a machine as the judge watches. The machine can tally the votes and the ballot cards retained in case of a question of accuracy. There are certainly other things we can do. They could have all the primaries on the same day. This would keep us from having confused people and it would also prevent us from having to endure these candidates flying around the country pandering to people. The millions of dollars spent in Iowa and New Hampshire were a waste of money and having all the races on the same day would keep candidates from wasting it and keep states from having an advantage over others.
Having the primaries on the same day would also allow people in every state to vote for the someone on the entire plate of candidates. As it stands now, people who supported Edwards, Richardson, Thompson, Giuliani and others are not afforded the opportunity to vote for those people. We have our national election on one day and the primaries should be no different.
Though it has nothing to do with technical glitches, we should also have a rule allotting votes based on the amount of taxes a person pays. Each person would get one vote and then people would get an additional vote for each $5000 (or another reasonable number) they pay in taxes. This would make our voting system more like corporate America where people get one vote for each share of stock they own in a company. The people who pay more taxes own a bigger share of the country. They have more invested in the country and they should get additional say in how the country is run. I know there are those who will complain and say it is unfair but these are the same people who think it is perfectly fair for the money of those paying taxes to be given to those who don’t. What is unfair is for the top 25% of wage earners to keep paying 80% of the taxes in this country and having no more say in how the country is run than the bottom 75%.
Then again, maybe our election system has glitches because it is run by an ever increasing government bureaucracy. Government never runs things efficiently and more government means more inefficiency.
Source:
ABC News
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Tags: ballots, electronic voting machines, technology, voting glitches