9 Oct 2011 9:49 am
The GOP myth of rampant voter fraud.....Myth.Chicago!!! Philadelphia!! New Orleans!!!You're not blind, so you must be lying.Former Justice Department official Hans von Spakovsky discusses in a recent Heritage Foundatioin report a shocking 1982 election for Governor in Illinois in which 10% of the votes cast in Chicago, 100,000 overall, were found to be fraudulent by a federal grand jury investigation that produced 63 criminal convictions for vote fraud. Spakovsky writes: One primary method of perpetuating such fraud was for impersonators to vote in the name of dead people, people who had moved away, and fraudulently registered names. Impersonators were sometimes paid in cigarettes, liquor, or cash, known in the trade as "walking around money." Votes for a straight Democrat ticket, regardless of the actual voter's preferences, were also cast for the elderly, the disabled, and the sick who were unaware of what was going on. Then Chicago U.S. Attorney Dan Webb estimated that 80,000 illegal aliens were registered to vote in the city at the time, and that was 25 years ago. Precinct captains filled out absentee ballots obtained by others, and absentee ballots with Republican votes were trashed. Another method was to alter the vote count by repeatedly running straight party line ballots through the counting machine, or altering the counting machine vote totals. Unfortunately, as Spakovsky notes, the Justice Department has never again engaged in such a thorough investigation of vote fraud.http://spectator.org.../22/voter-fraudAnd on the basis of that, Republicans are willing to disenfranchise as many as 5 million voters, most of whom would probably vote Democratic.According to a study done by the Brennan Center For Justice, as many as 5 million voters will be disenfranchised by Voter ID laws passed in Republican states.You can't even get on an airplane or cash a check without an ID.More DNC Disinformation. Former Democratic Congressman Alan Grayson was the first guest to ever get a standing ovation on Real Time with Bill Maher last night, when he owned P.J. O'Rourke.Figures they'd applaud a shameless lying moonbat like Grayson. And how typical a shameless lying leftist like you would take him seriously. Grayson: Let me tell what they're talking about. They're complaining about the fact the Wall Street wrecked the economy three years ago and nobody's held responsible for that. Not a single person has been indicted or convicted for destroying twenty percent of our national net worth accumulated over two centuries. They're upset about the fact that they have iron control over economic policies of this country and that one party is a wholly owned subsidiary of wall street and the other party caters to them as well, that's the truth of the matter as you said before. And Grayson: If I am the spokesman for all the people who think we should not have twenty four million people in this country who can't find a full time job.I'm glad to see that Grayson is denouncing his own party, at long last.It was Democrats who wrote Fannie, Freddy and liberal lending policies into law. who protected them when Bush and Repubs tried to reform them years before the collapse.It was Democrats who were the strongest supporters of TARP, who funnel taxpayer money to Wall St. companies like Goldman Sachs.