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applegrove

(118,732 posts)
Sun Jun 3, 2012, 10:23 PM Jun 2012

"Republicans Plot to Steal White House" by Paul McGeough at commondreams.org

Republicans Plot to Steal White House
by Paul McGeough at commondreams.org

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/06/02-6


"SNIP...............................................

There's a fiendish cleverness in perpetrating a fraud in broad daylight, at the same time as you tell the people that it must be done to guard against - you guessed it - fraud.Illustration: Simon Bosch

The reality of voter fraud in the US is that it is virtually non-existent. It has been known to happen, but studies reveal its probability is less than that of being struck by lightning - just 0.0009 per cent in Washington State and a very remote 0.00004 per cent in Ohio.

So welcome to the state of Florida, where the state emblem is the hanging chad. Remember, it was here that just 537 votes in the recount drama of 2000 threw the presidency to George W. Bush.

Nothing can be left to chance. Like about 20 other Republican-controlled states, Florida has gone all out to stifle the likely Democratic vote before the presidential poll in November. Using the Bush rule of thumb, a tweak to the law that shaves the Democratic vote by just a few hundred at elections where about 10 million get to vote, is halfway to throwing the outcome.

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"Republicans Plot to Steal White House" by Paul McGeough at commondreams.org (Original Post) applegrove Jun 2012 OP
"Voter fraud" to the right is whenever a Democrat votes ck4829 Jun 2012 #1
In TN, President of GOP Women arrested for Voter Fraud SharonAnn Jun 2012 #2
It's rather obivious that the Repuggish Party is trying to steal the whole country... amerciti001 Jun 2012 #3

SharonAnn

(13,777 posts)
2. In TN, President of GOP Women arrested for Voter Fraud
Mon Jun 4, 2012, 01:13 PM
Jun 2012
http://nashvillepost.com/news/2006/8/25/gop_leader_arrested_by_tbi_for_voter_fraudhttp://nashvillepost.com/news/2006/8/25/gop_leader_arrested_by_tbi_for_voter_fraud

GOP leader arrested by TBI for voter fraud

President of the Tennessee Federation of Republican Women arrested in Tipton County
Published August 25, 2006 by Ken Whitehouse

Shirley Ward, president of the Tennessee Federation of Republican Women, has turned herself in to authorities and has been arrested on charges of voter fraud by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, according to department spokesperson Jennifer Johnson.

Ward, a Tipton County resident, has been charged with knowingly voting in the wrong district for a Tipton County Commission race. While Johnson could not say which County Commission seat was affected, she said the winner of the race had won by one vote.

A call to the Tipton County Election Commission confirmed that the August 3 election for Tipton County Commission race, District 2, between John Arnold McIntyre Jr. and Billy Dan Huggins was decided by one vote. McIntyre was the victor in the non-partisan race.

Ward was elected president of the Tennessee Federation of Republican Women in 2005 and has a long history in Republican politics. According to her biography on the organization's website, she has served as deputy chairman of "W Stands for Women," county chairman for Senator Bill Frist and Van Hilleary and co-chairman for the Bush/Cheney campaigns of 2000 and 2004. She has also served as the financial director for TeamGOP.org, an organization that is run by her son, Jeff Ward.

She has also been named "Woman of the Year" by the Tipton County Republican Women's club and serves on the statewide "Tennessee GOP Development Council in 2005."

amerciti001

(158 posts)
3. It's rather obivious that the Repuggish Party is trying to steal the whole country...
Mon Jun 4, 2012, 05:14 PM
Jun 2012

See, my view is that by restricting as many people from exercising their constitutional right to vote, by discouraging as many voters of all strips not to take part in the democratic process, they(the Repuggish Party) is on track to steal the whole country and divide it up among themselves. WE don't have titles of aristocracy in America, i.e. Barons and Dukes and Earls or Prince nor Princess, Counts or Viscounts, Knights nor Barons... But these same Millionaires and Billionaires would love nothing more than to bestow Titles upon themselves to make themselves the Nobility of American Society.
They all really want there own Fiefdoms to do as they want to do- be Kings in an open republic. That why its in the Constitution: Article I, Section 9, Clause 8:
No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state. The Framers' intentions for this clause were twofold: to prevent a society of nobility from being established in the United States, and to protect the republican forms of government from being influenced by other governments. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_of_Nobility_Clause
So, by denying as many Citizens their Constitution rights to the Vote, we are headed to a time in history that this country at one time actually had a Revolution to end such Tyranny and these people are trying to take US back there.
GET OUT THE VOTE...

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