As a Chicago native, I am often faced with references to dead people voting and rigged elections. Unfortunately, having grown up under the original Daley machine, they are largely true. My parents helped found the Independent Voter movement and documented some unbelievable cases of fraud. I recall on precinct where the captain actually produced more votes than registered voters. In one percent where I was an observer, a voter discovered that her dead husband had voted before her. For that reason, the controversy with voting machines this week could not have come at a worse time or place — particularly with polls showing the Democrats approaching what could be a disaster. When Republican state representative candidate Jim Moynihan went to cast his vote Monday at the Schaumburg Public Library, he experienced a Homer Simpson moment when every time he tried to pick his name, the machine registered the vote for his Democratic opponent.
As Homer said, “this type of thing doesn’t happen in America . . . maybe Ohio but not America.”
Moynihan issued a warning for Republicans not to trust the machines and “Be careful when you vote in Illinois. Make sure you take the time to check your votes before submitting.”
Cook County Board of Elections Deputy Communications Director Jim Scalzitti insisted that this is not a return to “Cooked County” and that this was merely “a calibration error of the touch-screen on the machine.”
Source: The Week
I agree. I would love to see an intelligent supporter of the left here.
One who doesn’t simply use the same stale accusations (racism, sexism, homophobia, haters, etc.)
But I am increasingly suspicious they have no intellectual depth to their desires and demands.
They are true believers, part of a religious movement and as such do not question their faith, nor can they defend it except by hurling abuse at unbelievers.
I hope it’s otherwise.
SWM, The normal response to competition is to step up your game and have people whose thoughts comport w/ yours to join in the discussion. The liberals fled. The ones who stayed just attack the conservatives, but don’t bring like minded people into the discussion. Liberals cannot handle competition. They are too smug and think themselves above the dirty conservatives. That’s why there are so many liberal echo chambers. We have a mix here. That’s good. Bring in more folks. I was told here, a hundred times by your peeps, to leave. I have never said that to anyone. Being a free thinker and lover of competition, I say bring in folks to support your positions. The more the merrier. A bigger tent.
nick, I am more insular now as I don’t live near a mega church and a big group of tea partiers. To tell you the truth I really don’t cross their paths unless I visit here. The time is probably better spent making calls for Mark Udall from my cell phone.
“It does sound legal under what I know of Minnesota law.”
You’re quite wrong.
Each person is required to identify himself/herself.
People cannot go in and tell you how to vote.
Look, I get it.
You don’t care.
Let it be.
SWM, Am I a racist for saying there are some serious problems w/ some in the Somali community? Is my daughter? Is a woman, as liberal as you who LIVES within the Somali community? Playing the race card so soon and cavalierly is morally bankrupt. You don’t know Pogo. He’s new here. He IS NOT a racist.
Annie, Well most progressives are gone so I guess they need to fill in the slots with some compatible folks.
SWM, I’m reminded of the liberal socialite on the upper West Side of Manhattan who said, “I can’t believe Reagan won, no one I know voted for him.” If you don’t recognize your insularity, which you don’t, then you will never be able to have a substantive discussion w/ someone who is not a lockstep Dem.
“Maybe some suspect your motives.”
SWM is simply doing classic projection.
She harbors latent racist feelings, and blames me for them.
Not my problem.
pogo, It does sound legal under what I know of Minnesota law. Certainly not the democrats fault that the republicans nominated a poor slate of candidates for statewide offices.
I think it’s a blessing that Pogo was recruited to RIL, lol.
Maybe you’re not telling the truth Pogo. Maybe some suspect your motives.
LOL
@Annie
“SWM, I trust your judgment far and above Pogo’s.”
God in heaven is truly wonderful, to bless me today in this way.
Thank you, Lord.
Annie, He must be a fish out of water in the twin cities.
“Are Somali’s the new “others”?”
What a strange conclusion.
Well, so you’re a racist.
I don’t care.
My case was simple:
Busload of non-English speaking people, one person gave their names from a list (the immigrant women all stayed silent), that same man vouched for them as a group, and then went into the voting booth with them and speaking loudly, told them which boxes to check.
Rinse, repeat.
Legal in MN.
Look, I get it.
You don’t care.
You are told of fraud and you don’t believe it or try to blame me for racist feelings you harbor.
Same old same old lefty tricks.
As I said, Cthulhu swims slowly, but he only swims left.
SWM, I trust your judgment far and above Pogo’s. He is virulently anti Democrat, liberal or progressive. Ask him about the SC decision on the ACA, lol.
So you saw one case of possible fraud. Are Somali’s the new “others”? Go stand in line in Texas and watch minorities sent to holding rooms so they could be further questioned before they voted. Now with voter the voter id law it will be legal for them to do that.
Yeah, a gas station toilet is strikingly clean compared to the city dump, but I still wouldn’t eat there.
“Minnesota is strikingly clean compared to…”
See? Like other Dems, you dismissed out of hand a direct complaint against the integrity of the elections in Minnesota.
I have seen fraud myself and reported it. It was ignored.
Democrats simply don’t care that it occurs, and/or do it themselves.
You’ve confirmed my opinion of MN state capitol workers.
If you look up the term, “Damning w/ faint praise” you see “Cleaner politics than IL.” as an example.