tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post1858882492338062352..comments2024-03-28T01:33:22.764-04:00Comments on The DiploMad 2.0: The Integrity of the Electoral ProcessDiploMadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02316439950882822419noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-58092905266724918982016-10-31T00:55:21.163-04:002016-10-31T00:55:21.163-04:00If an election is close, Dems have recounts until ...If an election is close, Dems have recounts until it's shown that they won. Then the recounts are over. Like the last Governors race in Oregon. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18059392961359102465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-56314625242852128302016-10-20T00:24:51.847-04:002016-10-20T00:24:51.847-04:00Now they don't even need dead voters. Where th...Now they don't even need dead voters. Where there is electronic voting they can program the machines to show any result they desire regardless of how people actually vote.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-10181371568559993642016-10-19T21:10:46.823-04:002016-10-19T21:10:46.823-04:00Yes, I was very disappointed to hear about that, a...Yes, I was very disappointed to hear about that, a couple of years back. I had thought that y'all had worked out the kinks and had pretty straight-up elections. I am not happier to hear friends' bad news than my own. <br /><br />This thing seems determined to ID me as unknown, but I am Michael Adams of Round Rock TX.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10352174311146177708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-11050849744194378812016-10-19T14:41:30.146-04:002016-10-19T14:41:30.146-04:00My underage college friends were paid $5 to vote D...My underage college friends were paid $5 to vote Democratic but actually voted for Goldwater in 1964; actual voter fraud now documented by James O'Keefe. amrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09351633653335252003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-23521807160073521122016-10-19T11:31:45.123-04:002016-10-19T11:31:45.123-04:00I hate vote by mail. It's interesting that mos...I hate vote by mail. It's interesting that most of the states where they impose this, don't even get to vote on whether they want it. I can't think of any easier way to hack an election.Terihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13382050215676302342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-74512371845731278522016-10-19T10:15:51.914-04:002016-10-19T10:15:51.914-04:00Our British system is pretty free-and-easy. ID is...Our British system is pretty free-and-easy. ID is not demanded. For years we all assumed there was little fraud. Then that nice Mr Blair, making a sweeping racist assumption, changed the rules to make election fraud much easier, in hopes of Labour gaining lots of illegitimate votes especially from Pakistanis and Bangladeshis. (Naturally, that's not quite how he phrased it in his public announcements.)deariemenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-15274985318229905222016-10-19T09:42:52.412-04:002016-10-19T09:42:52.412-04:00Is that what the president was quacking about? Ra...Is that what the president was quacking about? Radio talker Erick Erickson was spouting the same line. Didn't sound convincing coming from either of them. The presiden't motivation for putting out a line of b.s. is obvious. Wonder what Erickson's was?RNBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09925618870483872727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-32720146167517747882016-10-19T05:04:54.056-04:002016-10-19T05:04:54.056-04:00“It’s a very easy thing for Republicans to say,
&...“It’s a very easy thing for Republicans to say, <br />"Well they’re bussing people in!" <br />Well you know what? <br />We’ve been bussing people in to deal with you <br />f---in’ assholes for fifty years and <br />we’re not going to stop now, <br />we’re just going to find a different way to do it,” <br />Foval says.<br /><br />Sounds about right.Jon Ericsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05548597217632737704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-48989188230927649282016-10-19T03:18:07.425-04:002016-10-19T03:18:07.425-04:00This sort of thing has gone on for ages, and no on...This sort of thing has gone on for ages, and no one has ever seemed to give much of a damn.<br /><br />In November 1972, when I was a sophomore at Northwestern, I volunteered to be a poll watcher for the Independent Voters of Illinois at a voting site on the northwest side of Chicago, when the infamous Richard J. Daley was still alive and the city's mayor.<br /><br />The polling place had mechanical voting machines, which were common in those days. I was received with barely disguised contempt by the election workers, but they tolerated me until 10 minutes before the polls closed, when they threw me out on some thin pretext.<br /><br />This was deliberate. If they had thrown me out earlier, I could have returned in an hour with IVI officials and possibly made some trouble for them. But by having me ejected so late in the day, they could take the backs off the voting machines and write down any vote totals they thought they could get away with as soon as the polls closed and, crucially, before anyone arrived to look over their shoulders -- which was one of the things I was supposed to do.<br /><br />It gets better. I did call the IVI, and one of its people managed to show up in 15 minutes. The election workers threw him out, too. He called the Illinois Attorney General's Office, which was run by a Republican and didn't maintain exactly cordial relations with the Daley Machine. An actual assistant attorney general of the state showed up. He, too, was thrown out of the place. (If he had thought to bring along a few state troopers, that particular confrontation might have ended differently.)<br /><br />And that's where things stood until a few months later, when two FBI agents showed up unannounced at my dorm and questioned me about what had happened. I gave them the whole story, and that was the last I heard about it. I can only guess that the Bureau, long before it was corrupted by Democratic hacks, decided it didn't have enough courtroom-worthy evidence to proceed further.<br /><br />So there was fraud then, as there is now. It takes different forms these days, but give the Dems credit for adapting their schemes to the times. Let's just hope it doesn't throw the national election the way it probably did in 1960. Local races with smaller margins of victory are another matter, of course. HarryBrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12314760612207282403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-83191624856098520122016-10-19T02:42:22.114-04:002016-10-19T02:42:22.114-04:00The recent revelations of electoral fraud are hard...The recent revelations of electoral fraud are hardly surprising, but what is startling is the apparent scale of the fraud, its organised nature, and the sheer audacity of some the people involved. I suppose when they have gotten away with for so long, the temptation to scale it up was irresistible.Brettnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-64625797200165820892016-10-19T01:11:43.190-04:002016-10-19T01:11:43.190-04:00And challenging the outcome is unAmerican unless y...And challenging the outcome is unAmerican unless you are Al Gore ... If Trump is elected, I surely hope he fixes this fraud ...George W. Pottshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15559745926094694653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-87082088542284512692016-10-19T00:55:16.513-04:002016-10-19T00:55:16.513-04:00"God help the brave poll worker who challenge..."God help the brave poll worker who challenges somebody to prove his or her citizenship." When I received my poll-worker training in 2004, I was told explicitly not to ask for idendtification, with one exception. The one exception -- when the name the would-be voter gave matched one marked saying the named person had registered by mail and the current election would be the first _federal_ election she voted in, identification was required. <br /><br />I was able to register without showing any proof of age, citizenship, or residency -- and then vote without showing identification either. All I had to do was go to the Tulsa County Election Board office and sign up. I checked with several county election boards in Oklahoma and the Oklahoma State Election Board as well -- and found found that virtually nothing was being done to prevent election fraud. The Help America Vote Act should have been called the Help Everyone Vote Act.<br /><br />After several years of trying, some tenacious Oklahoma legislator finally managed to get Oklahoma law changed such that voter identification is now required. It was not an easy battle to win.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-40936699713951018962016-10-19T00:19:49.546-04:002016-10-19T00:19:49.546-04:00I still don't know what will happen but worry ...I still don't know what will happen but worry a lot about fraud. It has been a joke about dead voters but this time it may mean the country,Michael Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18127450762129879267noreply@blogger.com