OH really??? McCain Strategist: Voter Fraud Is GOP ‘Mythology’ (VIDEO)

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A strategist for Sen. John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign said on Monday morning that voter fraud was virtually nonexistent in the U.S. and yet has somehow become part of the Republican “mythology.”

“I think that all of this stuff that has transpired over the last two years is in search of a solution to a problem, voting fraud, that doesn’t really exist when you look deeply at the question,” strategist Steve Schmidt said on MSNBC.

“It’s part of the mythology now in the Republican Party that there’s widespread voter fraud across the country,” Schmidt said. “In fact, there’s not. Both sides are lawyered up to the nth degree and they’ll all posture back and forth on it but it probably won’t come down to lawyers.”

Republican-led legislatures across the county have passed voter ID laws during the past several years, including laws in Pennsylvania and Texas that have been blocked or delayed by courts.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/11/steve_schmidt_voter_fraud_mythology.php?ref=fpa

[justiceischeap]

1. Tell us all something we already knew, Schmidt

it's obviously a way for Republics to disenfranchise voters and nothing more. I'd be more impressed with his statement if he'd said that--because anyone with a functioning brain cell knows what the problem really is... angry, white men just don't appeal to the majority so they gotta do whatever they can to suppress that majority.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

2. my fox news junkie mother would disagree.

[MissMarple]

4. Some goppers believe it so much they make it happen.

http://www.koaa.com/news/voting-machines-changed-their-vote-some-say/

Reports of problems have come from every polling location in Pueblo county. Lucky for those voters, they saw the error before their ballot was submitted and were able to change their vote before it was too late. Still, the problem has left officials with an urgent message to voters leading up to Election Day.

"I'm concerned and I'm upset because I want to feel good, I want to feel good about my vote and I'm not really sure where it ended up," one Pueblo voter said, wishing to remain anonymous. She's one of at least a dozen people who reported problems using electronic voting machines in Pueblo County. "I voted for Romney-Ryan and it popped up, showed my vote went to Obama-Biden," she said.

"Though her ballot was corrected in the end, she says the experience cast shadows on the electoral process, and Republican campaign officials say there's a bigger problem at hand. Vera Ortegon, Chairman of the Pueblo County Romney/Ryan Campaign, told News 5, "There may be other people that already voted and they dont know, casting the vote for one candidate but it turned out for the other candidate, they may not know."

The problem so far has only worked in favor of President Obama. "The problem is that it is only happening in swing states and more specifically in swing counties within swing states and it's very coincidental. Pueblo County is a crucial swing county so it's going to boil down to just a few votes," Ortegon told News 5.

The Pueblo Clerk & Recorder, on the other hand, says there's no conspiracy going on. Gilbert Ortiz said, "We don't feel it's an error, we feel like that person that was voting made a mistake when they were voting. We feel like our voting machines are working correctly and there's no voting error in Pueblo."

The machines were calibrated before the election and inspected by both Democratic and Republican election judges.

Other voters say they got through the process just fine. Darryl Gonzales told News 5, "I think it's a total Republican agenda to make it look like people were cheating. You have several chances to go back, review before you cast your ballot." "


And some of the responses to the article are hilarious .

[SleeplessinSoCal]

5. She brought up the subject, and now won't answer my calls.

The craven agenda of Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch have driven a wedge right down the middle of my family. It's Civil War time...

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[Scuba]

3. Yeah, but when he says this, he's not Steve Schmidt, Republican Strategist, he's ...

... Steve Schmidt, employee of the uber-liberal MSNBC.

Now when he says Mitt Romney's tax plan is workable, then he's Steve Schmidt, Republican Strategist.