Thread: LIBERAL-LEFT SALON.COM SAYS ILLEGAL VOTE FRAUD IS A LIE

Salon.com
Alex Pareene

Right-wing voter fraud obsession leads to tens of criminal charges
Conservatives call for widespread intimidation of minority voters to solve a non-existent problem

Worrying about "voter fraud" is a convenient way for Republicans and conservatives to practice voter intimidation and old-fashioned suppression of minority voters without drawing as much negative attention as, say, an outright poll tax would. In truth, there is hardly any "voter fraud," and even if it was as rampant as they pretend, it wouldn't actually work., as Christopher Beam explains today. (For it to swing an election, it would require the participation of a ridiculous number of people willing to commit a felony, including, in the fevered conservative imagination, illegal immigrants willing to risk deportation in order to support Harry Reid.)
http://www.slate.com/id/2272405/

The Bush administration dedicated itself to fighting this imaginary menace of voter fraud, either because conservatives have deluded themselves into believing it a legitimate problem or just to, again, throw minorities off voter rolls. But in five years they managed 86 convictions, some of which were accidents and all of which were incredibly small-scale.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/washi ... wanted=all

Conservatives have seized on the election of Al Franken as their own Bush v. Gore, except in this case the winner actually got more voters than the loser. But they can't accept that (Senator Al Franken!!), so they've spent years convincing themselves that they're one lawsuit or investigation away from proving that Franken's 312 vote margin of victory was based on voter fraud. The most extensive conservative investigation to date alleged that over a thousand fraudulent votes were cast. Except that in reality it was more like 205 instances of someone who might have been a felon maybe voting. (For whom? There's no way to know.)
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_ ... lon_voting

Based on this group's exhaustive study, Hennepin County has charged 47 people with committing voter fraud. 43 felons voted (many of them just didn't know that felons aren't allowed to vote) and four people double-voted.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.c ... curate.php

Meanwhile psychotic hate-blogger Michelle Malkin is appearing on Fox to warn the old people that any time a Democrat wins an election, it is because thousands of illegal immigrant felons triple-voted for him or her. Malkin commands Fox viewers to declare themselves the "voter fraud police," which means harassing people who look poor or foreign. (Why won't the Justice Department arrest the New Black Panthers who keep stealing elections, hmm?)
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.c ... ce_now.php

Should the Democrats maintain a slim majority in either legislative house, expect conservatives to blame fraud. Aided by, of course, the currently non-existent ACORN.

Source: http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_ ... index.html

How soon they forget hanging chads and their own accusations that Bush stole the election.

Originally Posted by ReggieMay

How soon they forget hanging chads and their own accusations that Bush stole the election.

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Right. Illegal immigrants wouldn't think of committing a felony. Why, they'd never break our laws.

One has to ask, however, how they came by the description "illegal immigrants".

Stealing someone's identity in order to get a job is also a felony but that doesn't stop illegal invaders! Walking into a state DMV office with fraudulent identification and securing a drivers license is also a felony which doesn't seem to faze the invaders. There's numerous other felonies illegal invaders commit on daily basis in order to remain in this country illegally.

What makes this dolt think an illegal invader would hesitate to cast a ballot in the privacy of their own home (why do you think scum bag politicians pander to these criminals?) or a polling place manned by those who are not allowed to ask for identification in order to allow those to vote?

As far as fearing deportation, well, this guy must be as clueless as they come. Illegal invaders have no "fear" whatsoever of being deported because if in the unlikely even they are deported, they just come right back