Voter Fraud
From the “there’s nothing new under the sun” category.
The electoral implications were significant because the Irish Catholics gravitated toward a welcoming Democratic Party that organized them into voting blocs rather than trying to reform them with temperance lectures. In the three weeks before the election of 1844, as many as five thousand immigrants in New York City alone were naturalized so they could vote. Whigs, with their reform policies and reliance on a strong Protestant base, found it all but impossible to attract these new arrivals, and complaints that many immigrants were hastily naturalized or were allowed to vote even when not citizens further cemented their bond with Democrats. Clay consequently approached the issue of immigration and naturalization gingerly. Neither he nor the Whig Party opposed immigration and naturalization, he insisted, especially that of Irish Catholics. He pointed to his long record of supporting Spanish American independence and voting for land grants to French and Polish immigrants. Yet he also insisted that the government should enforce naturalization. Otherwise voter fraud would make elections meaningless and destroy the people’s faith in democracy. There was a reason, after all, that felons who were citizens were not allowed to vote. Like felons, residents who were not citizens were more likely to sell their votes to the highest bidder, polluting the franchise and soiling the very concept of civic virtue. “I am in favor of American industry, American institutions, American order, American liberty,” Clay proclaimed, but he added, “I wish our Country, forever, to remain a sacred asylum for all unfortunate and oppressed men whether from religious or political causes.”
- Henry Clay by David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler
And the relevancy of this to 2012 is…?
And your evidence of voter fraud in 2012 is…?Or is it that you just don’t like brown-skinned voters and how they vote wrong, like Clay and the Protestant’s attitudes toward the Irish-Catholics?
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 22, 2012 at 0947 hrs
My goodness, you’re an idiot. I was merely pointing out that these debates have been raging for centuries in this country.
Posted by Owen on December 22, 2012 at 1006 hrs
My goodness, Owen, I was merely agreeing with you that there is nothing new under the sun; this country has a long and rich tradition of the white establishment disenfranchising minorities and recent immigrants.
Irony: not part of The Conservative’s Vocabulary.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 22, 2012 at 1015 hrs
According to True the Vote:
To date, 46 states have prosecuted or convicted cases of voter fraud.
More than 24 million voter registrations are invalid, yet remain on the rolls nation-wide.
There are over 1.8 million dead voters still eligible on the rolls across the country.
More than 2.75 million Americans are registered to vote in more than one state.
True The Vote recently found 99 cases of potential felony interstate voter fraud.
Maryland affiliates of True The Vote uncovered cases of people registering and voting after their respective deaths.
This year, True The Vote uncovered more than 348,000 dead people on the rolls in 27 states.California: 49,000
Florida: 30,000
Texas: 28,500
Michigan: 25,000
Illinois: 24,00012 Indiana counties have more registered voters than residents.
The Ohio Secretary of State admitted that multiple Ohio counties have more registered voters than residents.
Federal records showed 160 counties in 19 states have over 100 percent voter registration.
The Florida New Majority Education Fund, Democratic Party of Florida and the National Council of La Raza are currently under investigation for alleged voter registration fraud.If all of this is
the white establishment disenfranchising minorities and recent immigrants
then I maybe will start believing Bill Clinton did not have sex with ‘that woman.’
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 22, 2012 at 1159 hrs
True the Vote?
Let me know when you have a credible organization to cite, not some teabagger-frenzied group. Dead people on the rolls? Who said they voted?Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 22, 2012 at 1242 hrs
Let me see if I understand Bob. If I support changes in election laws that increase the integrity of the process I’m RAAAYYYCCCIIISSSTTTT!!!!!
True the Vote has no credibility when they quote Attorney Generals.
True the Vote has no credibility when they uncover public records of felony voter fraud.
Dead people on the rolls? Who says they didn’t vote?
I can travel into 5 different countries in two weeks and thirty days later my credit card company bills me for the exact amount I spent, and converts the currency to the exact date the charge was posted. But for some fucking unknown reason the government can’t accurately count the votes and the voters. They ought to be in charge of healthcare too…Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 22, 2012 at 1410 hrs
Jeeze, Terry, did I strike a nerve?
Yes, if you support changes to election law that disproportionately affect minorities, the elderly and college students while doing little to protect the integrity of the vote (as you put it), you could be racist and a whole lot more. What you definitely are is a naked partisan who will disenfranchise Democratic voters, but won’t just come right out and say it. Much like Clay and the Protestants did toward Irish Catholics, to get back to my original point.
In support of your “integrity,” which Attorneys General do you wish to quote, the hard right hacks of Michigan, Ohio, or Florida? Or our own inadequate version?
I’m glad to hear you have such admiration of the efficiency of your credit card company. When it’s staffed by little old ladies who volunteer for a 16 hour day on Election Day, get back to me. Although to be honest, I would rather see them in charge of healthcare, instead of the for-profit private health insurance companies.Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 22, 2012 at 1716 hrs
Dead people being registered to vote has been a problem for too long now. We should require folks to notify their county clerk 2-4 weeks before they die so they can be removed from the election rolls in a timely manner.
Posted by purplepenquin on December 22, 2012 at 1744 hrs
Sorry, I have always known I was a racist because I do not think dead people should vote especially not twice.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 22, 2012 at 1802 hrs
Bill,
You showed stats saying dead people are on the rolls. You showed nothing that those dead people are voting. Where’s the fraud exactly, other than you just saying “I do not think dead people should vote”?
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 23, 2012 at 1926 hrs
See the right to vote is so sacred that it should be open to all without a single restriction…yet another right is severely restricted, documented, and monitored. I am thinking that more people died at the hands of bad govt. than will ever die at the hands of semi auto, pistol gripped, bayonet lugged, muzzle shrouded, .223’s with 30 round magazines(it is a magazine not a clip for all of the misinformed). Why is it that one right can require background checks, mandated training, waiting periods, lifetime record keeping, regular audits, and required payment to excersize and another can be done willie nilly? I say that the same requirements and restrictions on one right be applied to the other.
Posted by fishaddict on December 24, 2012 at 0856 hrs
Why is it that one right can require background checks, mandated training, waiting periods, lifetime record keeping, regular audits, and required payment to excersize and another can be done willie nilly?
Because it’s not about keeping rights. It is about taking them away by any means necessary.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 24, 2012 at 0914 hrs
Because one right just killed 27 innocents in CT. The other right, people have died to get.
What is wrong with you people?Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 24, 2012 at 2215 hrs
You have no constitutional right to vote, dipshit.
Posted by Robert on December 24, 2012 at 2256 hrs
Robert…
sighPosted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 25, 2012 at 0721 hrs
One right did NOT kill anybody in CT. One person did. Once the selective rights crowd realizes this maybe we can solve the real problem.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 25, 2012 at 0916 hrs
Once the selective rights crowd realizes this maybe we can solve the real problem.
And what would that problem be?
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 25, 2012 at 1336 hrs
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