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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-08-09 12:32 PM
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They are gearing up to STEAL 2010. . .. . .
Watch the MSM attacks on ACORN. This has NEVER been properly covered on TV. The "Voter Fraud" that they are chasing never results in people voting who should NOT be allowed to vote.

A worker for ACORN, too lazy to register people to vote in the correct way, just runs through phone books and pretends that he has registered those people....

When the lists are turned over to the local election boards As they MUST be, according to the Law.. the false "registrations" are caught. ACORN is a victim of this. Someone who works for them has defrauded them by not actually doing the work they were being paid to do.

By the time Corpomedia is done with the story.. you are left with the impression that tight controls must be placed on the voting rolls. People should be fingerprinted, urine tested, credit checked, whatever. . ...

And the end result is that people are made to jump through hoops and scale high barriers, take time from work, prove their bonafides again and again... so, predictably, the poorest, oldest, sickest and least English-fluent end up not being able to vote.

Whenever you hear the media beating up on ACORN.. your ears should start tingling and the hairs should stand up on your neck.
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tjwash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-08-09 12:34 PM
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1. They are gearing up to steal every election.
That's older than Tammany hall...
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nykym Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-08-09 12:40 PM
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2. Here's my 2 cents
A worker for ACORN, too lazy to register people to vote in the correct way, just runs through phone books and pretends that he has registered those people.... Most likely a republican looking to help the Grand Old Party.
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TornadoTN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-08-09 12:44 PM
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3. There's probably some truth to that - but there's also zealots on the other side

ACORN, by in large, is a great organization that does a lot of good things for society. But they really need to do more to weed out the "bad apples" that somehow slip by their hiring process. Further, they need to put in more safeguards to verify the voters that they bring in are actually legit. I've seen they've done a lot of this already so they are on the right path.

Regardless, they are going to be demonized by the media. We just have to be able to keep the cases that they can report on at a minimum by making sure the number of cases are at a absolute minimum. We also need to be doing our own research into the GOP organizations that hide behind religion and other groups that do the very same thing and get by with because its somehow "wrong" to call out a religious group.
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LaPera Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-08-09 12:45 PM
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4. Still no action from the Democrats....
The Dems are going to wait until 2010 (if ever) and stand by and watch more of this bullshit go down....the republicans have to steal elections in order to gain & keep seats in elections, always have to continue their elitist corporate power & fascist ideology...

Congress must get rid of the republican written "Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002. Congressional & Senate seats have absolutely been stolen, as well as local seats, just because Obama won the presidency doesn't mean republicans didn't steal other seats, they have. They certainly would have even less seats than they have now!

WASHINGTON — Four million to five million voters did not cast a ballot in the 2008 presidential election because they encountered registration problems or failed to receive absentee ballots, which is roughly the same number of voters who encountered such problems in the 2000 election, according to an academic study to be presented to the Senate Rules Committee on Wednesday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/11/us/polit...

2009 - DIEBOLD ADMITS ALL THEIR VOTING SYSTEMS
FAIL TO REPORT BALLOT DELETIONS
Spokesman Concedes Audit Log Failures at Stunning CA Hearing
http://www.bradblog.com /

2009 - ELECTION OFFICIALS BUSTED IN KY: FLIPPED ES&S TOUCH-SCREEN VOTES
http://www.bradblog.com /

2009 - Our Top Election Reform Priorities
Federal election reforms...
http://www.bradblog.com /

More....
The former category would include, along with those sidelined by the voter ID laws in
Indiana and Georgia, all those who were registered, but showed up at the polls only to
find that they'd been stricken from the rolls. And such disenfranchisement was either
"legal," as BushCo's DoJ had been conducting quiet voter purges nationwide, or illegal,
as partisan free-lancers cleansed the voter rolls of those who would have cast a ballot for
the Evil Ones. (Those voter rolls now being electronic, such deletion is a snap for anyone
with access to them.)

Now, the number of those disenfranchised certainly was even higher than MIT's report
suggests, since it refers exclusively to registration hurdles and missing absentee ballots.
There were also many voters who could not wait on the endless lines that formed in
Democratic precincts only, there having been too few machines placed there, and/or
machines that didn't work. (The same thing happened in 2004 and 2006.)

And then there were those citizens whose votes were not suppressed, but electronically
erased or altered: a type of disenfranchisement not noted by the researchers at MIT, who
looked exclusively at vote suppression, not election fraud. But, just as in 2004 and 2006,
so in 2008 there were numerous firsthand reports of voters seeing their votes "flipped"
right before their eyes--a problem that afflicted many Democrats and just a handful
of Republicans. And those reports point only to a fraction of the ballots altered
electronically, since it's quite easy to flip votes without its being perceptible.

It's therefore very likely that the number of those disenfranchised in this last election,
by whatever means, was actually far higher than the 4/5 million here reported.We may
conservatively estimate that it was more like 7 to 8 million US citizens who couldn't vote;
and we may add with confidence that most of those blocked voters would have voted
for Obama, and also would have voted Democratic in their local House and Senate races.

What this means is that (a) this president won by a landslide, not merely a "decisive"
margin, and that (b) the GOP is, more than ever, a fringe party--and (c) a party that
relies on every dirty trick and tactic in the book to "win" in our elections, so as to push
their program on the rest of us despite the will of the electorate. And what this means is
that (e) our degraded voting system now needs radical reform, or else that undead party
will keep "coming back" until they've ruined everything.
MCM

Now, even the CIA admits election discrepancies, we know by the slimy republicans. What will it take for the Democratss in congress to do something,, do they believe it or even care?
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bobbolink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-08-09 12:47 PM
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6. And Al Franken learned..........ZIP
:grr:
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Raskolnik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-08-09 12:45 PM
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5. The whole year!?
So we'd go directly to 2011 and those bastards would pocket the whole of 2010? Damn their eyes!
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Fireweed247 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-08-09 12:50 PM
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7. I thought it was pretty obvious that someone was trying to steal the election in the dem primary
the electronic machine results kept showing the exact opposite of elections with other voting.

I think they let Obama win the general because they wanted him to blame everything on. They are just getting ready for ***JEB 2012***
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Echo In Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-08-09 12:53 PM
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8. I'm not so sure certain Establishment powers could go along as easily as they did in 00 and 04
Edited on Fri May-08-09 12:54 PM by Echo In Light
...there'll be A LOT of attention paid to this.

It may be an unpopular view, but I fear another orchestrated, inside job, "terror" attack will be staged to bring the lost flock back into a supportive, rallying cry.
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-08-09 01:34 PM
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9. and we still haven't done anything about election reform or e voting.
they will steal it again if we do not get these e voting machines in check.
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