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Election Day shenanigans: ballots shredded, voters ferried, Black Panthers return

By: John Hayward
11/6/2012 08:53 AM
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Update: Tough break, Democrats! Fox News is reporting “a Pennsylvania judge is issuing an order to reinstate Republican election officials across Philadelphia who allegedly were ejected or refused entry by on-site Democratic voting chief judges.” It looks like “just under 70″ of those Republican observers got booted out by Democrats, a total considered “rare even for Philadelphia” by a Republican official. Looks like it just got harder to steal that election, Philly Dems!
Update: Reports are coming in from Colorado of more touch-screen voting machines registering Romney votes as Obama votes. Similar problems have been previously reported in Ohio.
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It just wouldn’t be a proper Election Day without all sorts of funny business going on at the polls. The Black Panthers are back in Philadelphia, outside the same polling place where they flagrantly intimidated voters in 2008, to the mild amusement of Eric Holder’s Justice Department. It looks like this time they’re not packing truncheons, and as long as they obey the rules and maintain the proper distance from voters, they have the same right to be there as anyone else. They just seem to be the only ones that get away with wearing paramilitary uniforms while they’re “monitoring” elections.

A group called the Americans for Legal Immigration PAC sent the Nevada Secretary of State a letter citing reports accusing “the Culinary Union 226 of knowingly registering illegal immigrants and then pressuring them to vote,” according to a Fox News report. One illegal immigrant is quoted as saying a union representative ominously warned he would be “in so much trouble” if he didn’t vote. Somewhat improbably, the head of ALIPAC claimed Senator Harry Reid’s re-election victory in 2010 was due to illegal immigrant votes; and, quite unrealistically, he wants the Clark County voter rolls purged completely of illegal aliens in a single day.


Sorry, but that ship has sailed. That’s why vote fraud defenders are so fiercely determined to block photo ID laws. Very little can be done once Election Day rolls around, and it’s extremely unlikely that any subsequent test of ballot integrity would lead to overturning an election, particularly a presidential election. The odds of fraudulent voters facing any sort of real consequences are slim, and even verbally reminding them of the potential penalties has been declared an act of racist voter suppression. Election Day is the finish line for the voter-fraud crowd.

In North Carolina, according to another Fox News report, it has been alleged that patients at a home for the mentally handicapped have been “carted off” to the polls by staffers and instructed to vote for President Obama. The complaint comes from the father of a patient, who says his daughter was “brainwashed” for this activity, along with at least three other residents at the home. The owner of the home denies the accusation, but admits that “it’s not uncommon” for transportation to be provided to polling sites. Ominously, he went on to incorrectly assert that “there is no intellectual test to whether or not you can vote,” when in fact a person who has been declared mentally incompetent by court order, as in the case of the young lady whose father made the complaint, cannot vote. You would think the owner of a home for the mentally handicapped would know something like that. An investigation by a North Carolina Medicaid provider found at least seven similar cases of mentally incompetent people registered to vote over the last two years.
Reports are coming in from Philadelphia that court-appointed Republican poll watchers are getting thrown out of polling places in at least fifteen different wards. No big deal – it’s not like big-city Democrat political machines have a long history of vote fraud or anything.
Also in Philadelphia, Breitbart.com reports a “citizen journalist” discovering bags of shredded voter registration forms behind the offices of an ACORN-style group called the Community Voters Project. Sifting through the trash, it was found that many of these forms came from people trying to register as Republicans. Which is funny, because supposedly CVP is a “non-partisan” group whose goal is to increase voter registration.

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