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Dovid Rees

(21 posts)
Tue Jul 24, 2012, 06:36 AM Jul 2012

Pennsylvania GOPers Concede That Voter Fraud Claims Are a Myth

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/07/23/pennsylvania-gopers-concede-that-voter-fraud-claims-are-a-myth/

As our regular readers undoubtedly know, Republicans have been engaged in a concerted effort to reduce voting by college students, people of color, poor people, the elderly and other Democratic-leaning constituencies by enacting laws prohibiting people from voting unless they have certain government-issued photo IDs. Supporters of such laws claim that they are trying to stop rampant in-person voter fraud – i.e., concerted efforts to have ineligible people vote in order to throw an election. But the reality is that there is no evidence of any such fraud. For example, a five-year long investigation by the Department of Justice under President George W. Bush found “virtually no evidence of any organized effort” to fraudulently impact federal elections, and other analyses have similarly found no evidence of fraud.


Actually, the only people engaged in voter fraud are likely the reThuglicans themselves.
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Pennsylvania GOPers Concede That Voter Fraud Claims Are a Myth (Original Post) Dovid Rees Jul 2012 OP
"Actually, the only people engaged in voter fraud are likely the reThuglicans themselves." Botany Jul 2012 #1
you're right... voter fraud is being done by the voting machines and the vendors of them... itsrigged Jul 2012 #12
Look at how vote buying & fraud was done in Kentucky.... kooljerk666 Jul 2012 #2
The Texas GOP are not bound by reality and are still claiming that vote fraud exists Gothmog Jul 2012 #3
The Republican Party randr Jul 2012 #4
k&r . . . .n/t annabanana Jul 2012 #5
I'm really surprised Proud Liberal Dem Jul 2012 #6
Why are you so surprised? We have a corporate run "librul" media Liberal_Stalwart71 Jul 2012 #9
I suppose I shouldn't be Proud Liberal Dem Jul 2012 #11
Voter supression, lies and money pscot Jul 2012 #7
I've stated this many times... Liberal_Stalwart71 Jul 2012 #8
the only voter fraud i've seen was by james o'keefe. eom ellenfl Jul 2012 #10

Botany

(70,521 posts)
1. "Actually, the only people engaged in voter fraud are likely the reThuglicans themselves."
Tue Jul 24, 2012, 07:17 AM
Jul 2012

No what they do is election fraud but they do yell about voter fraud as a cover.

See Florida 2000
See Ohio 2004
See Wisconsin 2012
See South Carolina 2010 Dem. Senate Primary,

 

itsrigged

(116 posts)
12. you're right... voter fraud is being done by the voting machines and the vendors of them...
Tue Jul 24, 2012, 02:50 PM
Jul 2012

Now that Citizens United let pandora out of her box, she being the big million and billion dollar corporations have sided with the GOP and have plans on stealing the election again as they did with bush and Al Gore and Bush and Kerry... http://www.democraticunderground.com/10844206 when you get there, click the thinker to see how it is being done... PS Romney is hiding his tax info as Bain Capital and their subsidiaries invested in a voting machine company that will be counting our votes and that may be his sandwich he was ordering with his mind being all amazed at how the machine in wawa land spit out his hogie... touch here touch there and out comes a stolen election just like a sandwich is probable what he was thinking...

Gothmog

(145,339 posts)
3. The Texas GOP are not bound by reality and are still claiming that vote fraud exists
Tue Jul 24, 2012, 08:28 AM
Jul 2012

At the trial on the Texas voter id law, the Texas Attorney General's office continued to claim that voter fraud exists but offered no direct evidence of the existence of this fraud. Hopefully, the judges in the Texas case saw through this crap. It sounds like the PA GOP are living in the real world and are worried about whether the actual facts back up their claims.

Proud Liberal Dem

(24,415 posts)
6. I'm really surprised
Tue Jul 24, 2012, 09:44 AM
Jul 2012

that that one Republican State Legislator- the one that crowed about helping deliver the state for Romney in November- isn't being scrutinized more though I guess it's good that DOJ is taking some action in Pennsylvania. Kind of brings back bad memories of 2004 with the CEO of Diebold(?) promising to "deliver" Ohio for George W. Bush.

Do most people realize (if they care to think about it at all) how much effort is required to actually engage in voter fraud? Republicans tend to conflate voter registration fraud with voting fraud and, I guess, that works with most people even though fraudulent voter registrations do NOT equal actual votes and that most people don't have the time, energy, or money to vote several times at several different locations, constituting fraud. Besides "too many people voting" is hardly the problem in this country.

 

Liberal_Stalwart71

(20,450 posts)
8. I've stated this many times...
Tue Jul 24, 2012, 01:22 PM
Jul 2012

I've stated this many times, but if the Republican Party is so confident that the American people agree with their views and support their policies, then there would be no need to engage in these egregious acts to suppress votes.

Why not allow the American people to speak through their votes? And without going through this rigor to suppress them?

Answer: Perhaps the GOP aren't confident at all that the American people--if they truly knew the real reasons and motives behind Republican rhetoric--would not support the candidates or their policies.

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