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Twenty voters at a Far North Side precinct who found their ink pens not working were told by election judges not to worry. It's invisible ink, officials said. The scanner will count it. "This one defies logic,'' said Jim Allen, a spokesman for the Chicago Board of Elections.

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not2needy7 months ago

Those officials should be locked up, pronto. That's as bad as it gets, and i wonder who put them up to that.
That bunch is so crooked and unethical. If i were repub i would change my status out of shame. They won't though, anything goes as far as most of them are concerned.
The end justifys the means!
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  tomboy5017 months ago
  
  There's also the 'Nation of Retards' angle.
  These people actually believed the officials about the magic pens, voted, turned in their ballots and went home!
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    Neophile7 months ago
    
    Yeah I couldn't let those poll officials off the hook but I also couldn't let those voters off the hook for being gullible as all get out.
    "My vote was invisible." Yes, yes it sure was.
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      Sock_Puppet7 months ago
      
      I believe most voters were told James Bond regularly votes there. =D
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    Blackacereturn7 months ago
    
    This is soo crazy, we are turning into a 3rd world country all thanks to the bushes. Oh and that TweekerchickQC is hot. Nice set of eyes!
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      MilesAway7 months ago
      
      After "papa's" Clinton 2 term at Oval Office, Chelsea Clinton will be youngest president EVER when she take Withe House from some of Bushes, that replaced "mama" Clinton after she finished her 8 years...
      Dynasty of Clinton and Bushes. My God, I thought we have democracy!!!
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        slate7 months ago
        
        Gawd No!!!!!!!
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        GHOSTWHOWALKS7 months ago
        
        I won't be around to see it, so good luck with that.
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      slate7 months ago
      
      What's this have to do with Bush? No one knows who those people were voting for do they? If you are so stupid to fall for that your vote shouldn't count.
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      amazed7 months ago
      
      I didn't see ANYWHERE which party those officials were from -- or are you just assuming that anyone who might vote Republican would never be so stupid as to fall for "invisible ink"?
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    gamahuche7 months ago
    
    There will never be a shortage of suckers. What we need to be sure of is that there is never a shortage of rope for stringing these suckers from the nearest lamppost. (spoken like the nice pacifist I am..)
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      GHOSTWHOWALKS7 months ago
      
      LOL
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    Beau78907 months ago
    
    I've gotta tell you...given where the 42nd precinct of the 49th ward (where the "invisible ink" pens were given out) is located, I can't imagine that the election judges there--certainly mostly regular Democratic organization volunteers--would want to disenfranchise the voters in that area.
    There is no regular Democratic candidate there against whom those voters would have given many votes. I'd say this is probably a case of sheer laziness on the part of the election workers--they got crummy pens, and couldn't be bothered to go out and get more.
    Not that they should be left off the hook for it.
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    not2needy7 months ago
    
    At least there were a few who went home, called and complained, which probably got all of the ones who were told that another chance to vote.
    NOW, the question is, did their second votes count? Whoever it was that gave them the bogus pens were pretty bent on keeping them from voting.
    I'm so glad we do paper ballots here, not that they can't be rigged, but there is a paper trail.
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      Beau78907 months ago
      
      They were paper ballots in Chicago, too. But I guess invisible ink doesn't leave much of a paper trail. ;-)
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        slate7 months ago
        
        Hey at least they didn't have any of those EVIL electronic thinys that would have made the vote fit in the 21st century,,,, let's go back to putting an X next to your candidate on paper with coal,,,, least that way they woun't fall for the invisible ink trick the birsty bastards pulled,,,, Gawd this is too funny to beileve,,,,
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    Teech7 months ago
    
    Reminds me of the craps game in "Guys And Dolls" where Big Julie pulls out his own blank dice with NO SPOTS on them.
    When Nathan Detroit protests...."It's OK, Nathan. I remember where they were."
    Invisible ink my ass!
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    jaern7 months ago
    
    We had to use an Etch-a-Sketch to vote at my precinct! ;o)
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  cmetzger47 months ago
  
  Where in the article did it specify the political affiliation of the Election Judges?
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    Neophile7 months ago
    
    It didn't.
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      vettenut7 months ago
      
      Actually, not2's post is quite revealing......
      She automatically assumed something that is not only not stated in the article, but is also very probably 180 degrees out of step with reality.
      Here's the reality: The presiding authority was the CHICAGO Board of Elections.
      Reality: Chicago politics, from voter registration to election "monitoring" to vote "counting" to certification of the vote count (in other words, the entire process) is controlled by the Democrat machine. Anyone who doubts this might as well doubt the existence of the earth's sun.
      Reality: In Chicago, many voters can vote more than once, and even deceased voters are known to routinely vote!!!
      This scenario is a long-standing joke among my many friends and family who live in Chicago!
      In other words, not2, your beloved Democrat party (not the Repub's) placed those election officials at that precinct.
      Care to change your party now, (out of shame)??
      LOL!!!
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        Beau78907 months ago
        
        Here's the reality, from someone in Chicago--there's no reason for Democratic election judges to do this. A huge majority of the city will vote Democratic, and for the machine candidates, anyway. These kinds of shenanigans, stupid as they are, don't make a difference in the outcome. The time when people didn't vote that way here was before the 1970s, when Daley's machine routinely paid voters and had people vote twice.
        The machine, though still powerful in other ways (collecting slush funds, railroading bills through the city council, and of course electioneering) simply doesn't do all of what it used to. Nor does it have to.
        Those election officials, though just as guilty as if they were intending to disenfranchise voters, were likely just too lazy to get working pens and made up stories to cover. The voters weren't that bright, but they relied on the poll workers.
        Meanwhile, large-scale vote stealing goes on all the time by state officials everywhere while counting votes.
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  gamahuche7 months ago
  
  That was exactly my reaction n2n.
  Acccountability is the name of the game and as long as these people think they can fool a few suckers they will continue with these shenanigans.
  Name tags on all workers at polls and a hot line on which people can immediately report to an INDEPENDENT election committee.
  It would cost - but what price is too high to protect democracy?
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    vettenut7 months ago
    
    gama:
    Please see my post above, responding to Neo's....
    I agree with you that INDEPENDENT election committees and staff are needed.
    BUT, the question is:
    Since we're talking about Chicago right now, will the Democrat Party relinquish its control on Chicago politics, and actually allow that to happen there????????
    My strong hunch is that they would NOT!
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      Beau78907 months ago
      
      Can't see it happening in the Florida panhandle either...
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        GHOSTWHOWALKS7 months ago
        
        Or in California, Ohio, and several other states. Pawns do not count and neither does their vote.
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  PatrioticAmerican7 months ago
  
  umm n2n i just read the article and i have a question for you, where does it say that the repubs are the ones that are guilty of this "invisible ink" thing??????? you need to quit just throwing things out there okay. let me guess you blame Bush for Brittanys troubles to right???? Bush gets blamed for everything else lets put that on him too
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  saintetienne7 months ago
  
  NOT2NEEDY: "That bunch is so crooked and unethical. If i were repub i would change my status out of shame."
  WHERE in the story does it mention that any of the people involved were Republican? WHERE?
  STOP MAKING SH*T UP AND SPREADING LIES, NEEDY. You're ALWAYS so FULL OF 19 KINDS OF IT, but to arbitrarily make a statement like that is beyond responsibility, even for YOU.
  
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    saintetienne7 months ago
    
    CONT.
    Given that this is CHICAGO, which has a HISTORY of crooked DEMOCRAT politicians, and a legendary LEGACY of corruption by the DEMOCRATS when it comes to elections, MY first thought was that these were most likely Democrats passing off the "invisible ink". However I, unlike NOT2NEEDY, would not make a statement like s/he did.
    The article does not mention ANYTHING about ANY political party.
    This is yet a further testament to the B.S. that "Not2Needy" spreads every day on propeller.
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      mntnman4447 months ago
      
      We'll see who's full of shiit when you slither into the voting booth with your dark glasses on and vote for the "liberal" who represents everything that is opposite of your phony principles...careful,you could get whiplash from making such a hard left turn.
      n2n...saint is one of those "agents of intolerance" his hero McCain was talking about.
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aniokly7 months ago

The scanner did not count the ballots, but the professional Chicago poll workers over rode the machine, and counted the ballots the way they wanted them to be. That is how it is done in Chicago.
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aniokly7 months ago

The 49th ward is not a Republican ward.
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TweekerchickQC7 months ago

Youve got to be kidding me.
I really didn't think people around here were that stupid.
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TimALoftis7 months ago

Unlike what many will try to get you to believe...voter fraud does exist. But its not the 'Voter' who is committing it... its poll workers and the election officials that you have to watch out for.
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canadianrancher577 months ago

I feel that putting blame on the voters is a mistake, I don't know about down there but up here voting is still a very serious event, and I believe it is so down there as well. Being one of our most important rights in a democracy most of us expect honesty at the polling station, Maybe if the right to vote was such a joke to these judges they would be willing to lose their right to vote for life. It is stunts like this that make many in the world who cherish the right question your country.
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aniokly7 months ago

You don't think the voter was to blame? If some one told you you had in your hand a pen with invisible ink, and to just go ahead and mark your ballot you wouldn't question that? Think about it. If they told me that I would threaten to poke their eye out with my invisible ink pen if they didn't hurry, and get me another pen.
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  wtagg7 months ago
  
  The American populous has been led to believe many things by officials that turned out to be not true. It has become a conditioned response of our citizenry.
  When we enter the polls, we rely on workers (from both parties) to provide us a clear and fair way to cast our ballot. So, should the blame be placed on those that lie or those that believe the lie?
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  Beau78907 months ago
  
  Voters should know better. But poll workers pledge honesty.
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    vettenut7 months ago
    
    Exactly right, Beau!
    But the reality is that, in Chicago, a vast majority of the voters, both alive and dead, vote "Democrat."
    Honestly!!!
    (End of sarcasm)
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      Beau78907 months ago
      
      Did you get to see my comments above about Republican strongholds (like the western Chicgo suburbs, Florida panhandle, Orange County, etc.) doing everything Chicago's been accused of? You're living in the days of Kennedy vs. Nixon. A lot's changed all over the place since then.
      And how many votes in total do you think this kind of thing affects? Now how many votes do you think vote-counting fraud and machine tampering (where voting is solely through electronic machines) affect?
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        GHOSTWHOWALKS7 months ago
        
        That's an easy one. It affects every breathing American although most will never believe that.
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ChefEOD7 months ago

I am almost of the mind that people this stupid should not be allowed to vote in the first place, almost.
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  aniokly7 months ago
  
  I am with you. I worked the polls in Chicago as a poll watcher, you couldn't imagine how stupid some of those people are in your wildest dreams.
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unome27 months ago

I have to agree, voters are pretty stupid, they elected Bush twice.
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  MilesAway7 months ago
  
  Voters are twice stupider than you thought and they are on the way to elect Clinton's twice, too. But which one of two Evil Dynasties you prefer: "The Clintons or The Bushes"? Lol.
  
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    GHOSTWHOWALKS7 months ago
    
    Neither but we don't have much choice in the matter.
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bill29367 months ago

It's Chicago, their votes were made for them long before they went to the polls.
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  GHOSTWHOWALKS7 months ago
  
  Yes and it didn't enter their minds to actually listen to anything that didn't have to do with their choice. Shame.
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aniokly7 months ago

Chicago is a Democrat city, and there are not that many Republican Wards. I lived in the 12th and they had more Republican voters, but not enough to be called a Republican ward. You have to understand these are voters that vote the way their Precinct Captain tells them to vote. They get palm cards, and go like zombies to vote for the machine candidates.
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  saintetienne7 months ago
  
  It's why I call that party the Dumb-o-crats: Stupid leaders coercing near-retard constituents to vote Democrat and promising them the moon if they do.
  If I were stupid, lazy and reliant on the government, and someone told me they were going to take care of me if I voted Democrat, I guess I'd vote Democrat, too.
  
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    GHOSTWHOWALKS7 months ago
    
    Some probably do, but I'm not one of them.
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canadianrancher577 months ago

I would like to adress the issue of invisible ink, In the last 2 months I have signed for my drivers licence and also a loan with a pen that had no ink, it was signed on a computer screen and I questioned whether this was legal and they said they would print me a copy, in todays world of technology it is easy to dupe people with explanations that may seem stupid to some but to others they may expect it to be the truth, have any of you been in a garage nowdays and understood everything you have been told, and these people would never lie to you would they?
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Dicax_Maximus7 months ago

Unbelievable......
Both the voters & the officials....
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  Shadowolf7 months ago
  
  I'd love to see that....ahh,NEVER MIND!!!
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aniokly7 months ago

You are handed a ballot. Each name has a little oval beside it. You take a black pen, and fill in the little ovals. Then you feed the ballot into a machine that counts it. Obviously if you have a an "invisible ink" pen you cannot mark the candidates. Those ballots are taken out of the machine after you leave, and the workers mark them any way they want. It is Chicago for God's sake.
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  Beau78907 months ago
  
  There aren't enough people to volunteer as poll watchers here. Some princincts have just one.
  But yes, this kind of thing does go on here in Chicago--and it goes on in other areas of the country as well. It may affect 5,000 votes, generally estimated. Institutional fraud, election fraud, fraud in vote counting (and yes, we have that here, too, as well as other places) affects way more votes.
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  aniokly7 months ago
  
  I had a Democrat Precinct Captain. He knew I was a Republican, and knew better then to give me a palm card. He was a bailiff downtown so all he ever asked me to do was vote for a Judge. When the precinct went from the levered machines to the butterfly ballot. Laughingly I told him well one thing for sure, you can't cheat on this machine. He said stay until after the votes are locked up, and I will show you how we could cheat if we wanted to. The Democrats had already figured out how to vote the dead, the people who were not voting that day, all of them
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    lvrofwolves7 months ago
    
    aniokly said-Laughingly I told him well one thing for sure, you can't cheat on this machine. He said stay until after the votes are locked up, and I will show you how we could cheat if we wanted to.
    So it sounds as if you could have been duped too, 'if they had wanted to' you don't think of yourself as stupid do you?
    The thing is the world is comprised of people with many different IQs, people with lower IQs rely and have to trust in people that run things, there are those who are just normally trusting people also, and probably many other reasons they just went ahead and thought..oh invisible ink!
    Any kind of fraud by whomever, the person commiting the fraud is responsible period.
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      aniokly7 months ago
      
      When John showed me how the ?Democrats could cheat if they chose to, the poll was closed. The votes were locked up. He did nothing illegal. I saw no fraud. Now if he had marked a card with a stylus, and fed it into the machine 25 times and they counted on the machine that would have been fraud, but Democrats are not that stupid.
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        lvrofwolves7 months ago
        
        aniokly-I didn't say he did do anything wrong, but you yourself indicated you thought they couldn't! the votes were safe, and he showed you you were mistaken, that they COULD have if they wanted.
        I also don't think it's right that anyone be pointing fingers at the other side, BOTH sides are guilty of fraud and cheating etc....
        and when it comes to voting there are people that make bad judgements, stupid mistakes, low IQs and are just plain ignorant, and people trying to cheat when it comes to voting, and that's also BOTH sides and people of all ages.
        for me it boils down to it's hard enough to make a decision on who to vote for, hoping they will be what they say and do a good job for our country and us, on top of that you have to worry about poll workers, fraud...your vote...is it safe???
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        aniokly7 months ago
        
        You are right, both sides commit vote fraud, but Democrats, especially Chicago Democrats, have vote fraud down to a fine art.
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        Sock_Puppet7 months ago
        
        I sincerely hope you are writing Fiction. You can make up the most outrageous stories. =D
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        Beau78907 months ago
        
        I don't agree with aniokly that often, but having read about election practices here, I don't doubt her story.
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        Sock_Puppet7 months ago
        
        I think as long as we've had some sort of electoral process, there has been corruption. I just find her stories funny. =D
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        Beau78907 months ago
        
        Well, she did work in Chicago politics during the heyday of the most obvious election violations.
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        Sock_Puppet7 months ago
        
        Good for her! ;D
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joeblowe7 months ago

Although this may have been the FUNNIEST example of election "problems" in Chicago, it isn't the only one. I heard of SEVERAL people who ASKED for a Republican ballot, but were handed a Democratic ballot anyway. "Oops, sorry" was the response. Yeah, sure.
The Democrats have driven this state so close to the edge of disaster (right now, we are set to lose BILLIONS in infrastructure funding from D.C. because - due to fiscal mismanagement - we don't have the required 1/3 matching funds.) that I don't see how we will EVER recover. Hopefully the federal investigation will bear fruit soon and they will haul gubernator B'Vich off to prison. MAYBE that will help.
Oh - if there is anyone out there who may be moving into the Chicago area, DO NOT under any circumstances move INTO Cook County. You have been warned.
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  Beau78907 months ago
  
  Yeah, Blagojavich will end up in prison. All our governors do nowadays, Democrat and Republican. Oh--except Jim Thompson--he was too well-connected.
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TweekerchickQC7 months ago

It just reminds me of some of the things I learned about while studying implied positions of power in college. There are stories of thieves standing outside of drop boxes at banks, claiming they were 'broken' and people actually would hand them the nightly deposit and not second guess it.
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  joeblowe7 months ago
  
  Yes, people will believe almost anything if you tell it with conviction. Sadly. The thing is though - here in Illinois, it is very, very well known that Democratic election officials in Chicago and/or Cook county are likely to pull some sort of trick. NO ONE should have believed this.
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    splitrch7 months ago
    
    "NO ONE should have believed this."
    whether in Chicago or not.
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vettenut7 months ago

It has been stated by some historians that The Chicago (Democrat) Machine elected JFK in 1960.
Now, that may have actually been a good thing.....
But if the same Machine helped select Barack Hussein Obama in the recent Presidential Primary.....
And if it also helps elect another Clinton (Hillary is ACTUALLY from NW suburban Chicago) to the Oval Orifi--(Oops, I mean "Office"--darned keyboard!), will that be a good thing as well??????
That's a hard question in some ways, if you assume it's going to be Hillary vs. The Maverick in November........
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aniokly7 months ago

What happened in 1960 was a very close election. Chicago had paper ballots. JFKs father called the first Mayor Daley and told him how many votes they needed. Daley call the unscrupulous Alderman in the 1st ward, and he found enough boxes of votes to elect JFK. Nixon didn't ask for a recount, and JFK was sworn in Jan 20, 1961.
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  Beau78907 months ago
  
  Right, that's exactly what happened in Illinois in 1960, though I think it had to do with more than just the 1st Ward.
  That was 48 years ago. What happened in Ohio in 2004? What happened in Florida in 2000?
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    vettenut7 months ago
    
    Well, Beau, since you asked.....
    In Florida in 2000 AND in 2004, Democrats attempted to not allow the counting of thousands of military personnels' (Republican-heavy) absentee ballots.
    But this kind of back-and forth fingerpointing contest for historical blame-placing doesn't lead much of anywhere.
    Most Democrats are unwilling to acknowledge their party's culpability, even when it's historically documented. And they resort to conspiracy-theories and baseless and unprovable charges such as yours above.
    They're NOT baseless and unprovable, you say??
    Then call your lawyer and file some lawsuits--you'll get plenty of attention and can write a book about how you single-handedly "righted the ship" called the USA. (Assuming you feel OK using the word "right...")
    So let's identify which party RIGHT NOW is objecting to tighter checks and balances on voter fraud by requiring Photo ID's for all voters?
    A clue: It starts with a "D."
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      Beau78907 months ago
      
      My point in asking was that both parties commit different types of voter fraud. I'm from Chicago--I'd never deny that the local Democratic machine uses illegal and sleazy tactics. And you're right--pointing fingers at the opposition gets nowhere.
      But in 2000 in Florida, and in 2004 in Ohio, there was large-scale tampering with electronic machines and widely reported irregularities that affected hundreds of thousands of votes. That's election fraud. Election fraud affects tens of times more votes than voter fraud, which the photo ID law you refer to would address. Election fraud, on the other hand, affects orders of magnitude more votes than voter fraud. (And by the way, Indiana, whose case defending their ID law went before the Supreme Court, has NEVER had a case of voter impersonation that the photo ID law would have stopped.)
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        Beau78907 months ago
        
        Don't confuse voter fraud, where individuals may vote a few times or illegally, with election fraud, where those in power illegally exclude thousands and thousands from voter rolls (2000 in Florida); or where vote-recording or counting machines can be hacked and no paper trails are allowed to be kept (2004 in Ohio and elsewhere). Election fraud is institutional--like the time the Supreme Court "deliberated" for several days before deciding the remaining days left (less than half of what was remaining before the case went to the Court) wouldn't be enough time before the meeting of the electoral college to conduct an accurate recount, and ruled against it.
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        vettenut7 months ago
        
        Beau:
        Thanks for your reply.
        My point remains: you have listed several accusations of different types of fraud above. All are unproven.
        If they are actually TRUE, there MUST be a way for someone to unmask them.... With all the technology, and all the people involved, surely SOMEONE would have come forward.
        To date, no one has.......
        So those allegations remain just that-- allegations.
        Now, I'm not saying that allegations should be ignored. But after a reasonable period of time, in which discovery can be conducted, details pursued, and involved persons given opportunity to "come forward," the allegations that remain unproven should be dropped.
        If you disagree, then perhaps you would like to have a Special Prosecutor established, to prove the fraud that occurred when all Americans were made to believe that American humans actually walked on the moon, WHEN THEY ACTUALLY were just actors on a huge Houston soundstage....
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        Beau78907 months ago
        
        People have come forward. The link is to truthout.org, but whatever you think of that organization, the link tells about sworn testimony and signed affidavits about election fraud in Ohio in 2004. If the case hasn't made it to court, then of course they're just allegations. But they're allegations made under penalty of perjury.
        http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/121604Z.shtml
        Here are a couple other links to documented election fraud in Florida in 2000:
        http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0310/S00211.htm
        http://archive.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/...
        Florida settled many of its cases rather than fight that they did nothing wrong. The Diebold e-mails, however, are interesting--and I don't know the result of any legal action what might have been taken against Diebold.
        To your last point, everyone knows special prosecutors are appointed by the Justice Dept., and in this administration no one's going to make trouble for well-connected folks in Houston. ;-D
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        vettenut7 months ago
        
        Beau:
        I'm aware of those allegations..... I'm also aware of a saying:
        "The allegation is only as credible as the person making it...."
        There have been a multitude of allegations made about a multitude of things, but what has come of them?????
        Allegations made under oath have no special importance, unless and until someone is persuaded to "take on" the situation and try it in court.
        I'm not saying you are one of them, but:
        To the paranoid or the cynical, there's a conspiracy behind everything......
        To your last point, everyone knows that regardless or (and more probably because of) the well-connected nature of the people committing the alleged action(s), there are a huge number of persons in the "I LOVE TO HATE DUBYAH MORE THAN YOU DO BRIGADE" who are very willing to seek their 15 or more minutes of fame by rubbing any "Repug's" nose in the dirt wherever and whenever then can......
        What a huge coup it would be to discredit NASA!
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        Beau78907 months ago
        
        There've been quite a few allegations, and damn few trials. You think all the allegations, corroborating each other's accounts and coming from various locations, came from people who have no credibility? Some of them are Republican state employees. And it's said it's as easy for a prosecutor to get an indictment as it is to get a ham sandwich. If everyone was a member of the "I love to hate Dubyah more than you do brigade" and wants his 15 minutes of fame, then I'd think the prosecutors would be all over these allegations, wouldn't you?
        I never used to be a conspiracy guy, and consider myself a skeptic. But all partisanship aside--do you really think the Justice Dept. has been impartial during Bush's tenure--regardless of who was running it? Consider for instance the hugely disproportionate number of inexperienced hirees from Pat Robertson's Regent University School of Law.
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        vettenut7 months ago
        
        RE: "But all partisanship aside--do you really think the Justice Dept. has been impartial during Bush's tenure...."
        Whatever has been done in the US Dept. of Justice for the past 7 years, it pales in comparison to the truly pitiful activities of the US Dept. of Injustice under Janet ("We find no reason to investigate") Reno.....
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        Beau78907 months ago
        
        Nice try, but your response doesn't address your own subject. You implied there've been few investigations of election fraud because the allegations weren't credible, and also noted that you thought prosecutors would want to rub "any 'Repug's' (your word, not mine) nose in the dirt" at any opportunity.
        I replied that the allegations also came from Republicans, and that if prosecutors were so desparate for fame, they'd be investigating even unlikely allegations. But the Justice Dept. would have to do it, and the Justice Dept. is loaded with incompetent partisan political appointees who turn a blind eye to Republican misdoings.
        Basically, you said, "Nyahh nyahh, Democrats did it too, so we're going to be at least as unfair to you"--nd you talked about Janet Reno, but didn't even specify election fraud, which is the topic here.
        That attitude doesn't really solve any problems with government or elections, does it?
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tkyrchncs7 months ago

I have a phone. If I do not have a pen that writes in two minutes, the police will be on their way here. 1 min 55 sec...... SHEESH!
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slate7 months ago

LOL I thought people up north are supposed to be smart.... who would believe the invisible ink line in the first place?
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Mdiar7 months ago

Uhhh... I really hate to break it to the Republican bashers on this... and really, I do. But this story was completely nonpartisan and probably a story of lazy poll workers... I doubt that Bush had anything to do with this. I doubt that Obama or Clinton did either lol. Just some lazy poll workers. Unfortunate and its scary to think that it might happen elsewhere, but at the same time... what is wrong with those people? Invisible ink? What? Hey, bring some lemon juice with you, just in case they try to pull that! After you write with the ink, rub the juice on the ink like in National Treasure!
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