Thread: Angle Files Voter Intimidation Complaint with Justice Depart

Originally Posted by bigtex

Originally Posted by onetrickydude

Why is there no mention of illegal immigrants voting? They can verify those votes.

There is a campaign going on right now to get Angle to have an investigation launched to find out how many illegals voted.

Really? It's about time someone seriously addressed this issue.

Originally Posted by jean

Originally Posted by bigtex

Originally Posted by onetrickydude

Why is there no mention of illegal immigrants voting? They can verify those votes.

There is a campaign going on right now to get Angle to have an investigation launched to find out how many illegals voted.

Really? It's about time someone seriously addressed this issue.

Believe me , it is being addressed

Its just going to take a couple days to surface

Claims that Harry Reid Stole Nevada and Other Claims of Voter Fraud
Published November 04, 2010 by:
Lauren Finnegan

In one of the most highly anticipated elections of this year between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Tea Party candidate Sharron Angle, the race doesn't seem to be over yet, at least for some. In the pre-election reporting, Angle was predicted to win the election with a 5-point margin, so when she lost by a 9-point margin, people became suspicious, according to Time of the Internet. Angle has even filed a complaint with the Nevada Attorney General's office accusing Reid of forgery in the election. There have been reports that in Clark County, the voting machines were automatically checking Harry Reid's name. Also, Reid's son Rory is a county commissioner, which some have speculated could have had a part in the supposed ballot fixing.

This is not the only report of cheating in the elections; there were many other complaints in many other states this week.

In the Minnesota governor race between Democrat Mark Dayton and Republican Tom Emmer, the winner still has not been decided because the official count is less than half a percentage point, which would require a recount, according to The Associated Press. This is coupled with the reports of voter fraud in Minnesota, where a complaint was filed by a voter who claimed that employees at a home for the mentally ill were filling out absentee ballots for their patients last week, according to CNN. Reportedly, the employees were members of the American Federation of State, an employee union that backed Dayton. This claim has to be verified by looking at any ballots that were cast by the mentally ill patients, or to see if they cast ballots at all. That would put to rest any claims of voter fraud and verify it.

In North Carolina, Republicans were claiming that the voting machines there were checking Democratic picks every time they would choose Republican candidates. The only thing that was done there was to encourage voters
to make sure their ballot was marked for the right candidates before turning it in, according to CNN. This was just one of the many technical glitches that plagued many elections. This seems to be just another technical problem with the voting machines that have been seen since the machines started being used. For every state that a voting machine seems to be favoring one party, there are many other voting machines that are doing the opposite. Voters just need to be diligent when submitting their ballots.

As for the Harry Reid claims and many others across the nation, they definitely need to be looked at, but it just seems like a big upset that has left Sharron Angle with a sour taste in her mouth. Angle was built up to be the big winner, and when she lost, many were upset. As should be done in all the claims of voter fraud, all of these reports should be looked at and a ruling should be made. The most important thing in these elections is that people's voices were not distorted; they should be heard very clearly.

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Great!! It will be great if we can remove from office Harry Reid NOW.

I thing Reid hurt himself from pushing too many buttons.

Justice Department Weighs Voter Intimidation Complaint Against Reid Camp

Published November 05, 2010
FoxNews.com


The Justice Department is reviewing a complaint from failed Republican Nevada Senate candidate Sharron Angle after allegations that Sen. Harry Reid's campaign engaged in voter intimidation and broke campaign finance law in his re-election campaign.

Laura Sweeney, a spokeswoman for the Justice Department, told FoxNews.com on Friday that the department is reviewing the complaint filed by an attorney for Angle that followed a National Review report about internal e-mails among Harrah's casino executives and a campaign staffer for Reid. The e-mails appear to show the group orchestrating an effort to push Harrah employees to get out and vote for Reid.

Sweeney would not comment further on the status of the review.

The complaint came after Reid prevailed Tuesday over Angle in their high-profile, bruising election, allowing Reid to remain as Senate majority leader.

Hans A. von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation and a former Federal Election Commission member and Justice Department official, told FoxNews.com that there is enough evidence in the e-mails to warrant opening an investigation because they suggest that both the Reid campaign and Harrah's may have violated federal campaign finance law that "prohibits in-kind corporate and union contributions to, and coordination with, political campaigns."

"Look, a company can encourage its employees to go out and vote, but if you have e-mails coming in from a candidate like Harry Reid saying you've got to get out the vote for me, you have coordination going on between the candidate and the corporation," he told FoxNews.com.

Von Spakovsky also argued they Harrah's may have violated federal criminal law that prohibits intimidation and coercion of citizens exercising their right to vote -- or not to vote.

"On coercion, it boils down to what kind of threats, if any, were used against employees," he said. "Were they told there will be adverse employment consequences? The only way to figure out is to open an investigation, subpoena all the e-mails ... and get the employees in front of a grand jury so they can testify to what they were being told by supervisors."

But Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, CREW, said the case doesn't hold up.

"I think this is all quite a stretch," Sloan told FoxNews.com. "This isn't going to change an election outcome."

Sloan said she couldn't find any evidence of coercion of Harrah employees, and the Justice Department doesn't need to open an investigation into that unless there is an allegation.

On the campaign finance charge, Sloan said past regulations prohibiting partisan get-out-the-vote activities may have been wiped out by the Supreme Court ruling in January that gave corporations and trade unions broader First Amendment rights in political advertising.

"There's at least a question," she said.

In an opinion article published Friday in the Washington Examiner, Von Spakovsky said the Justice Department has to choose between investigating "what seems to have been blatant violations of federal law" or making "the same type of political decision that it has made in numerous other cases, including the New Black Panther Party."

Von Spakovsky said that if the Justice Department "fails to investigate, it will be telling the country that as long as you are an important political ally of the president, you need have no worry about violating federal law."

But Sloan said she found it "ironic" that Von Spakovsky complained about the lack of campaign finance rules only when it helped a Democrat instead of a Republican.

"I'm not very sympathetic," she said.

The exchange among Harrah's executives revolves around an e-mail received from an unknown Reid campaign staffer who promises to do "ANYTHING" to drive votes, offering to work with unions and provide access to the senator if it would help drive votes, the National Review report says.

The complaint from Mitchell specifically cites the National Review report, saying that the story "documents an orchestrated effort" by Harrah's "to intimidate and coerce" employees for the casino to vote for Reid, "to track whether or not employees had or had not voted and to pressure supervisors to ensure that the employees reporting to those supervisors were voting."

"And those overt activities were specifically demanded by one or more persons who work for Sen. Reid," the complaint reads.

Harrah's declined to comment.

A spokesman for Harry Reid's campaign dismissed the National Review report.

"This 'report' by a right-wing blogger who was literally embedded within the Angle campaign has no credibility on its face," Reid campaign spokesman Zachary Petkanas said in an e-mail to FoxNews.com earlier this week. "I'm not even sure the nature of the e-mail this blogger references. That being said, given Sen. Reid's work to strengthen the state's top industry, it should come as no surprise that casino employees support his re-election."

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