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
SWM:
Come on over to CA. There, you will be shocked by the billions of tax dollars wasted while the roads are choked with traffic, and pockmarked with pot holes. We take in more tax revenue than some countries, and yet we’ve got illegal aliens overwhelming ERs and the public health care and benefits system, voter fraud, people with antibiotic-resistent TB refusing quarantine, wasting billions of dollars on a vacation train, bad public schools, gangs, sex trafficking by Mexican cartels and Russian gangs. They release people early from prison, and it’s really hard to get jail time in the first place. Car thefts went up over 400% in one city as a direct result of that lovely policy. They refuse water to farmers, and let their farms and orchards dry up, but no one’s dried up a pool or a golf course yet. The permit process is worthy of Monty Python, and atrociously expensive, and it’s one of the most unfriendly environments to small businesses in the union.
But the weather, the beaches, and the sunsets are lovely.
It’s a real Liberal wonderland and a banner example of Tax-and-Spend.
Tyger G,
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Rigged voting machines are just one reason not to trust the election system. The whole thing is a fraud and deception, merely a tool used by the ultra-rich who actually run everything to keep the populace believing they have some say in how the government controls their lives.
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Well said.
That is why I vote.
So they don’t know I know about their matrix (What If There Was No Heaven Matrix?).
Keep voting.
Time for you all to hear from your resident anarchist (and I’m not one of the bomb-throwing types out of the 1930’s the government and media wants you to believe all anarchists are):
Rigged voting machines are just one reason not to trust the election system. The whole thing is a fraud and deception, merely a tool used by the ultra-rich who actually run everything to keep the populace believing they have some say in how the government controls their lives. Except maybe in very small towns or school board elections, the individual’s vote is meaningless. At the national level, voting is a waste of time. Voters become neutralized because the Electoral College votes are what determines the results. Voting precincts are structured to ensure an advantage to one party. Rural voters are drowned out by voters in large cities. But never mind all that.
The party bosses and the media determines who the voters get to vote for, and they control the process tightly to be sure the candidates wanted by the real rulers, the Bilderbergers and their ilk, are the ones the people get to vote for. It’s nothing but a giant criminal enterprise, operating independently at various levels but with the single objective of manipulation and control to coordinate them. The Republican Convention in 2012 was a perfect example of this. Party leaders made sure Ron Paul didn’t get on the ballot by changing the rules on the floor before the delegates could vote for him. The Mafia couldn’t have done a better job of it with machine guns.
The act of voting is an endorsement of the whole fraudulent system being foisted on the sheeple, perpetuating the crimes of the men behind the curtains. Why play a game that you know you are going to lose because it is rigged against you? It just doesn’t make any sense for the individual.
In case you haven’t seen it…
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/390893/james-okeefe-strikes-again-john-fund
Paper ballots only.
Transparent curtains on the voting booth so that Claire Booth don’t go loose.
No one check mark for all Dems or RepubliCons.
No dead guys voting.
Fingerprint ID with the ballot. Have a computer determine if any two match.
Let the guide dog for the blind guys.
Early and often.
“Which means that it is impossible to confrim this tall tale using independent sources.”
pbh51,
Healthy skepticism is warranted; I find it interesting you have already labeled this a “tall tale” given your inability to find a source “you” trust.
Portland. Neat town.
There is much I admire that comes from the left.
So I do go to excess in discussing the faults on the Blue side.
From Popehat:
“I like rural landscapes and salt of the earth people…but I live in a dense blue state so that I’m surrounded by museums, coffeehouses, and restaurants. I bring all of this up to make the point that I’m not unwaveringly opposed to the blue alliance. It’s done a lot of good things.
“The problem I have is that the blue alliance has been on a winning streak, and with recent Blue success in gay marriage, immigration of client populations, university-and-media roll-up, etc. I feel like the culture war is over and the victors are going around (metaphorically) humiliating and shooting survivors of the losing side, and conducting mop-up operations. Witness team Blue forcing bakers to bake cakes and forcing photographers to shoot photos for partnerships that they consider immoral. Witness blue team arguing that innocent people should go to jail for rape, because – and I’m quoting Ezra Klein here – we “need to create a world where men are afraid.” Red team men, I take that to mean. Football players. Frat boys. Not nice guys like Ezra.
“The people must be reeducated!” goes up the cry. …but that’s not the reason for the ritual humiliation. The reeducation is merely the rationalization, the justification.
“However, the Blue team is ascendant, and it’s a valid question as to whether it wants a peaceful rise. It’s not crazy to note that Blue Team has used policies that arrest, deport, and kill “thought leaders” from Red Team on occasion (in Ireland, in France, in Mexico, in Germany, in Russia, and so forth) and to note that the ascendant Bright majority today is happy to talk about imprisoning or killing people who disagree with their conclusions on, say, global warming. Sure, the slickly produced videos of AGW deniers being exploded for their thought-crimes are meant as a light hearted joke, but many a truth is spoken in jest.
“…All things being equal, I’d prefer to live in one of Conquest’s “civic” cultures, and not one of his “despotic” cultures. But if I’m forced to live in one of the latter, then it behooves me to play a game of realpolitik and back the weaker side.
…I know a culture war when I see one, and I’ve chosen
my side. It might be the losing side, but I’m still not convinced it’s the wrong one.“
Interesting that when you try to follow the citation trail you keep discovering that the story has been recited through a sequence of conservative sites all of which cite each other for authority. Which means that it is impossible to confrim this tall tale using independent sources. Also, when it is an interested party, ie: a congressional candidate, making this allegation, I am entitled to some skepticism w/r/t his veracity.
MPLS’s murder rate peaked in 1995. The New York Times called Minneapolis “Murderapolis.”
Currently, the MPLS crime rate = 672.2 (higher means more crime, U.S. average = 301.1; City-data.com)
The Cities Journal placed MPLS 22nd on its 25 Most Dangerous Cities In The USA list.
You all probably hate Portland, too. Need to run.
“Thank you for not voting.” (on the bottom of the receipt given when paying the poll tax at Voter ID Central – a.k.a. republican head
huntersquarters).I was there recently. It had changed for the better. Grocery shopping and restaurants were much better. They even had a co-op in my old neighborhood.
SWM, US News. There are always some variations in lists.
swarthmoremom
St. Paul has changed….
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He should not have changed his name to PC the S.
From SWM’s link:
Top Ten Most Dangerous Cities in America (Forbes)
10th- Buffalo, N.Y. (Democrat Mayor )
9th- Cleveland (Democrat Mayor )
8th- Stockton, Calif. (Democrat Mayor)
7th- Baltimore (Democrat Mayor)
6th- Atlanta (Democrat Mayor)
5th- Birmingham, Ala (Democrat Mayor)
4th- Memphis, Tenn (Democrat mayor)
3rd- Oakland, Calif (Democrat Mayor)
2nd- St. Louis (Democrat mayor)
1st- Detroit (Democrat Mayor)
Catholic colleges and churches everywhere….. Plenty of liberal catholic church there. Although I will admit that sex abuse scandal has many catholics rightfully angry.
Nick Spinelli
Democrats lie about crime state. NOBODY does it better than Rahm. He has the murder rate declining in Chicago!! Those dead bodies w/ 14 bullet holes are suicides. Watch The Wire, maybe the best crime show ever, written by a great Baltimore Police reporter.
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And they said you were bombastic.
Imagine.
Pogo, St Paul is a catholic city for the most part.
I work at free clinics here, so don’t presume to tell me how great health care is in MN.
Some health care may be nominally “free,” but there are no providers.
http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mlj45jggj/10-buffalo/ Top 10 Mpls. What list? Always felt safe there. Another thing about Texas, Many people are armed and they live in gated enclaves. Lacks a sense of community…