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A whopping 1,134,427 voter registrations have been cancelled in Indiana, primarily in black and liberal districts.

Seeded on Mon May 5, 2008 11:09 PM EDT
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One quarter-million of them come from just two northwestern Indiana counties: Lake and Porter. Lake County reports purging 137,164 voters and neighboring Porter County cancelled out 124,958 voters.

Lake County, the home of Gary, Indiana, has been referred to as "the second most liberal county in America." Lake County has one of the heaviest concentrations of African-American voters that you'll find anywhere in the USA.

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Freed

I am not familiar with this site, so I was hesitant to post, but with a little research, it seems legit - reviewed by Time etc.

  • 13 votes
Reply#1 - Mon May 5, 2008 11:10 PM EDT
Eric AlbertDeleted
angela593

Talk about elitist. Thank you Supreme Court for your recent ID requirement. Oh, I forgot we do not want any subversives voting. Except that any one with un-American goals would have a fake foolproof ID. So the real Americans who do not drive cars, handicapped, or are seniors who have not renewed their driver's license since they no longer drive will be banned from their own state's election. Talk about fixing the race. If this is true it is sad and another indication of the desperate state of affairs in these United States of America.

  • 12 votes
#1.2 - Tue May 6, 2008 9:03 AM EDT
Double Demon

THAT IS MORE THAN 1/6 OF INDIANA'S ENTIRE POPULATION! How can this be? Have people been fleeing from the state? Is the PLAGUE back in action? WTF is going on in Indiana? This is not normal and there should be an investigation if even 200k people are turned down at the poling places because of these actions.

Now, if these include duplicate registrations for people that moved to different counties or whatever the so be it. But if these people are being denied the right to vote for some sinister plan then there will have to be an investigation and maybe a lawsuit.

  • 10 votes
#1.3 - Tue May 6, 2008 10:41 AM EDT
Tacitus13

So the real Americans who do not drive cars, handicapped, or are seniors who have not renewed their driver's license since they no longer drive will be banned from their own state's election. Talk about fixing the race.

Each state also offers a picture ID for non-drivers. And here in Georgia at least, you can get a free voter ID card.

Georgia Voter Identification Requirements

THAT IS MORE THAN 1/6 OF INDIANA'S ENTIRE POPULATION! How can this be? Have people been fleeing from the state? Is the PLAGUE back in action? WTF is going on in Indiana? This is not normal and there should be an investigation if even 200k people are turned down at the poling places because of these actions.

I agree that this should be investigated immediately but I'd wait for at least preliminary results before rushing to judgement on this one.

  • 7 votes
#1.4 - Tue May 6, 2008 10:48 AM EDT
miasma

There are only (2006 est) 4.3 million registered voters in IN. There are 6.3 million people according to the 2006 census. That seems to be an awfully high number of reg'd voters. But includes inactive. Inactive voters could be people that moved away or died without anyone notifying the Board of Elections.

  • 4 votes
#1.5 - Tue May 6, 2008 10:56 AM EDT
Dan Hallo, aka, Zoilus

I don't know if anyone paid attention enough to notice, in the Guam Caucuses how the votes were 53% for Obama to Clintons 47% during most of the preliminary counts, with up to 95% of the votes counted, and then at the last 5% he only won by 7 votes?. Am I the only one who saw this as just a little "weird".

  • 8 votes
#1.6 - Tue May 6, 2008 12:30 PM EDT
SteveHouse

No. It's Guam (small). It's a caucus (small).

  • 8 votes
#1.7 - Tue May 6, 2008 12:40 PM EDT
Double Demon

Odd, yes, Impossible, no. As Steve said, Guam is VERY small.

  • 9 votes
#1.8 - Tue May 6, 2008 1:06 PM EDT
JoulesBeef

The georgia id is only free after a legal battle forcing the issue.
when set up it cost $30 and there is also a problem of the number of locations to obtain the id. AT the time of the first voter ID law, there was only one dmv in all of atlanta that serviced people. leaving people with 8hour waits.
Not to meantion the ones most affected would be the rural poor, that would have to make a long trip, at their costs, take a day off from work, just to get an id to vote.
I am glad it is free finally, but that doesn't mean it isnt a speed bump in the process.

ANd mind you the people that bring us voter ID fought letting people register to vote at the DMV.
So if you think this isnt partisan BS, rememerb that fact and the fact that most states voterid DOES NOT include absentee, which generally have been used by the more affluent and the military. And with this HUGE hole, makes the entire program worthless.

I mean let me get this staright.. I need a photo id to vote in person.. and someone is going to look at it and look at me and hope the two matches.. but I can vote absentee and no one will check to see if I was the actual person that filled out the forms. I could just find people not planing to vote and vote for them. It's BS.

  • 7 votes
#1.9 - Tue May 6, 2008 2:04 PM EDT
LiberalRebel

If this is what the supreme court of said country really (s)think is right, then said country is nothing more then a BANANA REPUBLIC. THIS is NOT like ANY Democracy I have ever heard of. Thanks God I am from Sweden, But for you..AMERICANS..it doesn't bode well at all.

  • 4 votes
#1.10 - Tue May 6, 2008 6:49 PM EDT
Reply
James Andre

Nice seed.

  • 7 votes
Reply#2 - Tue May 6, 2008 12:42 AM EDT
SteveHouse

I noted in another seed that 5 of the 7 hardest-hit counties are either Obama or heavily Obama areas. In particular Lake (Gary, East Chicago), Porter (Next to Lake), Marion (Indianapolis), and Monroe (Indiana University).

  • 12 votes
Reply#3 - Tue May 6, 2008 12:46 AM EDT
angela593

yes right where the 10% of disenfranchised live.
How coincidental.

  • 9 votes
#3.1 - Tue May 6, 2008 9:05 AM EDT
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spiffie

Wow. My family is, for the most part, from Lake and Porter counties. (Although I live in Texas.) It wouldn't exactly surprise me to find out that the rolls in these two counties just hadn't been updated in some time, but it's still a little odd that both counties purged more voters than Indianapolis.

  • 15 votes
Reply#4 - Tue May 6, 2008 12:50 AM EDT
space guy

With all the dead still on the rolls this is not surprising.

  • 8 votes
#4.1 - Tue May 6, 2008 2:30 AM EDT
Partisan Hack

Every state that Clinton has won has had voting irregularities.

Tack this one on the list - and tack one more up for people who don't give a hoot about citizens being given their Constitutional right to vote.

  • 10 votes
#4.2 - Tue May 6, 2008 8:33 AM EDT
FDBryant3

Tack this one on the list - and tack one more up for people who don't give a hoot about citizens being given their Constitutional right to vote.

We haven't gotten to voting for the Representatives or Senators yet. You think this is some ploy to deny people the right to vote for them?

  • 5 votes
#4.3 - Tue May 6, 2008 9:06 AM EDT
angela593

Hope this is just gossip
and not really true

  • 3 votes
#4.4 - Tue May 6, 2008 9:06 AM EDT
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SteveHouse

OK, according to BradBlog there's been some new information come out. "Canceled" does not necessarily mean "canceled". If a voter moves and updates his or her registration information, the dumbass system cancels the old one entirely and makes a new one. So if you move across the street, your registration got canceled.

But that still leaves us with over 100% of the population of Porter County, then, with changed information, meaning everyone once and some more than once. With like 70% of Indianapolis. And those are both Obama areas.

  • 10 votes
Reply#5 - Tue May 6, 2008 12:55 AM EDT
Allan Neal

"Mrs. Clinton, where were you on the afternoon of..."

  • 6 votes
Reply#6 - Tue May 6, 2008 1:02 AM EDT
Diane B.

Well thats what you get when you rip off the caucuses.

  • 5 votes
Reply#7 - Tue May 6, 2008 1:11 AM EDT
Scott Isaacs

Pardon? Hillary Clinton's campaign is unorganized, that's why she loses caucuses... it has nothing to do with Obama stealing them. I think you owe him and his campaign an apology for saying he has stolen any contest in this process.

  • 25 votes
#7.1 - Tue May 6, 2008 2:05 AM EDT
twiztidlojik

I guess you never saw the chaos that happened when Chelsea Clinton attempted to take over and run a caucus location in Nevada in clear contravention of DNC rules, state rules, and state election law.

  • 5 votes
#7.2 - Wed May 7, 2008 11:14 AM EDT
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Wheel

I seeded this earlier

  • 10 votes
Reply#8 - Tue May 6, 2008 1:12 AM EDT
backroads

Odd, as I've heard some 200,000 new voters have been registered in Indiana, at least.

  • 9 votes
Reply#9 - Tue May 6, 2008 1:27 AM EDT
ffeineandsugar

Where are the new voters vs. the purged voters? If the new ones are in places like Richmond that are HC country, and the purged ones in places like Gary, then that smells fishy. If they're distributed equally, then you may have something there....

  • 5 votes
Reply#10 - Tue May 6, 2008 1:38 AM EDT
SteveHouse

Heavily around Gary, in Lake and Porter Counties. Fully a quarter of the canceled or changed (not purged) voters are in those two counties.

  • 6 votes
#10.1 - Tue May 6, 2008 1:46 AM EDT
Jason Haworth

I live in the Richmond you speak of. I can say that at a recent Bill Clinton event here, half the 1000 people they let in were Obama supporters.

If Richmond is HC country, I wouldn't worry about HC winning. But I guess you never know.

  • 4 votes
#10.2 - Tue May 6, 2008 11:42 AM EDT
ffeineandsugar

Oops. My bad. I forgot that Earlham is there - that would change the voting matrix. Remind me to correct my source the next time I talk to him....

  • 2 votes
#10.3 - Thu May 8, 2008 1:04 PM EDT
Jason Haworth

No worries

    #10.4 - Thu May 8, 2008 4:34 PM EDT
    Ontological Zombie

    neo, let me tell you about the matrix.

      #10.5 - Thu May 8, 2008 5:28 PM EDT
      Reply
      Roy Batty

      "Cancelled." "Purged." Just what does this mean? Why would a voter in this state fall into this category? It's not clear from the article and I'd like to know......

      • 6 votes
      Reply#11 - Tue May 6, 2008 1:42 AM EDT
      SteveHouse

      As I said in #5, when your information gets updated, they cancel your old info and make a whole new record. That what it means. But 115% of Porter County did not change voter information.

      • 6 votes
      #11.1 - Tue May 6, 2008 1:47 AM EDT
      Roy Batty

      OK didn't see that ... thanks.

      I smell a fat stinking rat.

      • 5 votes
      #11.2 - Tue May 6, 2008 2:05 AM EDT
      space guy

      As I said in #5, when your information gets updated, they cancel your old info and make a whole new record. That what it means. But 115% of Porter County did not change voter information.

      Lets examine that statement above. If there is 115% of a county registered to vote period, does that not imply a huge amount of fraud? Since the entire state voting apparatus is controlled by democrats does that no imply massive incompetence?

      Just thinking.....

      • 8 votes
      #11.3 - Tue May 6, 2008 2:32 AM EDT
      SteveHouse

      I think it's more like 115% of the registered voters were changed/canceled, but that doesn't make it any less of a shenanigan-wad.

      • 5 votes
      #11.4 - Tue May 6, 2008 3:42 AM EDT
      Reply
      Scott Isaacs

      Is anyone else sick of these archaic election rules made by states that are apparently run by idiots?

      • 11 votes
      Reply#12 - Tue May 6, 2008 2:07 AM EDT
      alkimija

      Election rules creatively interpreted by state officials not legitimately elected by the citizens. These people aren't stupid: they're thoroughly corrupt.

      • 6 votes
      #12.1 - Tue May 6, 2008 2:13 AM EDT
      angela593

      The states are run by people who want to stay in power and have political agendas.
      Idiots? I think not. Shrewd, cunning, etc.
      but I do know what you are saying

      • 5 votes
      #12.2 - Tue May 6, 2008 9:09 AM EDT
      Scott Isaacs

      angela:
      I'm glad you caught the drift. I had to use "idiots" as a substitute for a number of four letter words I would have preferred to use on them and a particular 12-letter word. ;-)

      • 1 vote
      #12.3 - Mon May 12, 2008 4:26 AM EDT
      Reply
      Jimster

      The Obama campaign has been contacted.

      We'll see what they do, if anything.

      • 8 votes
      Reply#13 - Tue May 6, 2008 2:18 AM EDT
      Diane B.

      Texas caucus Fraud Link

      • 5 votes
      Reply#14 - Tue May 6, 2008 2:43 AM EDT
      angela593

      The caucus process is out of date. I think they could be an ineffective, invalid, unreliable, and inadequate way to vote. It seems that any candidate could use these weakness to their advantage.

      • 4 votes
      #14.1 - Tue May 6, 2008 9:13 AM EDT
      Meloney

      #14 links to:

      The address is not valid

      • 2 votes
      #14.2 - Tue May 6, 2008 11:05 AM EDT
      eriq samson

      then you have a problem with your browser

      from that article:

      My observations in Texas were that caucuses were broadly illegitimate. In a few well-run counties, Hillary's caucus vote was the same or better than the popular vote, but in chaotic counties, she fell behind by double digits. While Texas is the only state to have both a binding popular vote and a caucus vote, we saw similar results in Washington State, where Obama's numbers plunged in the unofficial primary compared to the caucuses .

      This stands out: only four major Texas counties were orderly enough to report most of their caucus results election night, and in three of these, caucus preference mirrored the popular vote (HRC popular/caucus): El Paso (69/75), Austin/Travis (37/34), San Antonio/Bexar (56/57). In the case of Austin, I have read reports that that both sides ran their caucuses well.

      These counties had exceptional organizations, but it should not take heroics to run a fair election.

      On election night in El Paso, it became obvious that the Obama field campaign was designed to steal caucuses. Prior to that, it was impossible for me to imagine the level of attempted fraud and disruption we would see. It was far worse than any GOP campaign I have organized against on the Central Coast, worse than Tom Bordonaro's, worse than Andrea Seastrand's, worse than the Dole campaign whose supporters vandalized our headquarters.

      We saw stolen precincts where Obama organizers fabricated counts, made false entries on sign-in sheets, suppressed delegate counts, and suppressed caucus voters. We saw patterns such as missing electronic access code sheets and precinct packets taken before the legal time, like elsewhere in the state. Obama volunteers illegally took convention materials state-wide, with attempts as early as 6:30 am. Some of this was presented in a press release from Clinton Campaign Counsel Lyn Utrecht, but I witnessed worse than what she disclosed.

      In one example of fraud that I witnessed, one of my precinct captains, an elderly Hispanic woman, called me to report that BHO supporters had illegally seized control of the convention. During our series of phone calls, Mrs. "A." reported that the Obama people took the convention materials and did not have a legal election of officers. Like nearly all of El Paso, BHO people would have lost such an election in this majority-Hillary, Hispanic, mostly elderly precinct convention.

      The Obama people ordered Mrs. A. to sit across the room during the delegate calculation, and excluded Hillary supporters from the process. Mrs. A. overheard an Obama supporter call in a false delegate count to Austin. In a 13 delegate precinct where Obama should have won approximately 4 delegates, the Obama supporters attempted to award 19 delegates to Obama. This was not innocent. During my attempts at cell phone diplomacy, the Obama "chair" hung up on me, and refused to talk to the ethical Obama organizer I was paired with at another precinct convention. As with all major attempts at fraud that we identified, this delegate count was rectified in private at the county TDP headquarters, according to TDP rules, but there were no public charges or sanctions. It is my opinion that people should be in jail, but there is not a mechanism for this sort of prosecution, certainly not within TDP rules.

      Although I have only volunteered in one state, virtually every Clinton staffer I have talked to has similar stories from other caucus states. While the Hillary field campaign operates and feels very much like typical Democratic campaigns, the Obama campaign is something new to Democratic politics. From my perspective, it looks like it has copied the worst attributes of Republican campaigns, but with unprecedented zeal.

      Ironically, only in very well-organized areas like El Paso were we able to even identify the scale of the attempted irregularities. In these areas, we were also able to rebuff most attempts at fraud, correct fraudulent delegate counts, and protect our voters. In less well-organized areas, we did not have enough eyes and ears to identify or stop fraud, and our numbers plunged.

      Although affidavits have not been made public, I have copies and records of the voter complaints for which I did interviews. Although the Hillary campaign has not gone public with evidence of fraud, the national legal team has approximately 200 such affidavits and 2000 voter complaints. The campaign intends to win the popular vote without airing these charges in public, but I suspect the campaign will provide authorities with this evidence upon request.

      • 1 vote
      #14.3 - Tue May 6, 2008 5:12 PM EDT
      Roy Batty

      then you have a problem with your browser

      BTW, I have the same problem with my browser. I can't read the page either.

      • 1 vote
      #14.4 - Tue May 6, 2008 5:15 PM EDT
      bluejohnnyd

      Firefox works fine.

      • 2 votes
      #14.5 - Tue May 6, 2008 5:31 PM EDT
      Roy Batty

      The link is incorrect. it is:

      http:////www.mydd.com/story/2008/5/2/22818/72392

      and should be:

      http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/5/2/22818/72392

      • 2 votes
      #14.6 - Tue May 6, 2008 5:36 PM EDT
      Meloney

      Thank you eric.

      I'm on a different computer (here at work) still browsing with Explorer & the link was no good. From the text you pasted I located the Texasdarlin blog with the complaint.

      Are there any other accounts that support this woman's accusations of criminal fraud? One person's experience is not all that damning in my mind.

      • 1 vote
      #14.7 - Tue May 6, 2008 6:02 PM EDT
      Scott Isaacs

      eriq:
      So you want us to trust a single blogger making these accusations? I am a strong proponent of citizen journalism but asking me to believe a single person over an entire campaign particularly when the opponent isn't making bones about it? I'm sorry, but that's too muvh unsourced material. Furthermore, this "Mrs. A" should have went on the record if she wanted to be taken seriously as there is no way to verify she exists much less confirm her story fits the way this blogger tells it. Does this blogger even provide their real name? Accusations like this should attach their real name at the least and produce contact information more frequently. Unconfirmed reports are the same as rumors and lies and, as Winston Churchill said, the truth has one leg in its pants while a lie has traveled 'round the world already."

      • 1 vote
      #14.8 - Mon May 12, 2008 5:32 AM EDT
      eriq samson

      Scott - in your typical inaccuracy you failed to notice that all I did was bring part of the article here since people were having trouble with the link.

      This is not the only blogger reporting this "mischief"/ Ann Althouse has reported similar from her sons in Texas

      Gee, I am very sorry that reality does not support your "side" in this; while you can charge some of that off to inexperience and enthusiasm, it's also called vote stealing. This is what caucuses are about, did you miss the stories here on newsvine about Washington state, etc. These stories are all over the net, denying them doesn't work, admitting them, working to fix the situation does.

      • 1 vote
      #14.9 - Mon May 12, 2008 4:05 PM EDT
      Scott Isaacs

      You haven't come close to proving reality.

      • 1 vote
      #14.10 - Mon May 12, 2008 4:11 PM EDT
      Reply
      Adam Becker

      Lake County, the home of Gary, Indiana, has been referred to as "the second most liberal county in America."

      If this were true, voters in this county would not be interested in the Democratic Party's nominee.

      • 8 votes
      Reply#15 - Tue May 6, 2008 5:31 AM EDT
      SteveHouse

      Ho-ohhhhh! (bdum, CSHH!)

      • 3 votes
      #15.1 - Tue May 6, 2008 8:06 AM EDT
      Dan Hallo, aka, Zoilus

      Safari works.

      • 3 votes
      #15.2 - Tue May 6, 2008 6:04 PM EDT
      Reply
      bondibox

      I think this is another instance of Black Box Voting blowing something up out of proportion.

      As this diary points out, the population of Indiana is 6.3 Million people. It's impossible for there to be 5.4 registered voters there, so the purge seems to bring the numbers into true proportions, given that roughly 25% of the population isn't even of voting age.

      Also, Valparaiso county, home to several colleges, had its rolls cut by more than 50% - the biggest purge in the state. This also makes a lot of sense since most of these students will live there for only 4 years, and often in several different residences there. That this happens to be "Obama country" is coincidental, IMO.

      • 9 votes
      Reply#16 - Tue May 6, 2008 9:20 AM EDT
      space guy

      Yea but this is aerobic exercise for conspiracy minded dems! It's better than coffee! (and fewer calories)

      • 5 votes
      #16.1 - Tue May 6, 2008 9:59 AM EDT
      Ben Josephs

      Yeah, I've been seeing a lot of this on the vine lately. The Obama supporters are digging up whatever they can against Hillary Clinton, even if it's blatantly false.

      • 5 votes
      #16.2 - Tue May 6, 2008 2:30 PM EDT
      Jason Ford

      Yeah, I've been seeing a lot of this on the vine lately. The Obama supporters are digging up whatever they can against Hillary Clinton, even if it's blatantly false.

      If Obama somehow loses the nomination they will be able to look back and say, "See, I told you there was something fishy going on."

      • 5 votes
      #16.3 - Tue May 6, 2008 9:42 PM EDT
      spiffie

      The Obama supporters are digging up whatever they can against Hillary Clinton, even if it's blatantly false.

      To be fair, it's not Hillary Clinton that has to deal with being called Osama, being called Muslim (as if that were a terrible thing), or has to put up with trivialities like flag pins. There's a lot of crap out there, and it's not necessarily coming from either Obama or Clinton supporters.

      • 8 votes
      #16.4 - Tue May 6, 2008 9:53 PM EDT
      mars chatterton

      o be fair, it's not Hillary Clinton that has to deal with being called Osama

      We just call her Hitlery

      • 3 votes
      #16.5 - Wed May 7, 2008 8:49 AM EDT
      Ben Josephs

      There's a lot of trivial bull@!$%# associated with this election.

      • 6 votes
      #16.6 - Wed May 7, 2008 9:33 AM EDT
      Ontological Zombie

      There's a lot of trivial bull@!$%# associated with democracy.

      • 4 votes
      #16.7 - Wed May 7, 2008 10:57 AM EDT
      Reply
      bluejohnnyd

      Purges like this are common, actually; I've not seen anything that suggests fould play, yet. The idea is to keep dead people from voting.

      • 7 votes
      Reply#17 - Tue May 6, 2008 9:38 AM EDT
      backroads

      True, but that isn't stopping the conspiracy theorists.

      • 3 votes
      #17.1 - Tue May 6, 2008 9:08 PM EDT
      bluejohnnyd

      Conspiracies are best ignored once refuted. Makes life a lot easier.

      • 5 votes
      #17.2 - Tue May 6, 2008 10:09 PM EDT
      Ontological Zombie

      There are a lot of people who hear/think up a conspiracy idea and say, "That could work! How terrible."

      I wonder how many instead think, "I think I could pull that off! Sweet!" The American people do not trust their elected officials for good reason.

      • 4 votes
      #17.3 - Wed May 7, 2008 10:59 AM EDT
      Reply
      Allan Neal

      I think this is another instance of Black Box Voting blowing something up out of proportion.

      Please tell me of the other instances Black Box blew something. I don't think Bev would like the insinuation.

      • 5 votes
      Reply#18 - Tue May 6, 2008 9:38 AM EDT
      bondibox

      Well, Bev has done a lot to sound the alarm about the insecurity of electronic voting, but Bev is somewhat of a tragic character in that *everything* she encounters, be it slightly off the path, is assumed to be fraudulent. I can't cite any specifics from memory and google is returning reams of unrelated hits so sorry if this is kind of a copout ... but when have any of Bev's claims resulted in actual substantiated evidence of fraud?

      It's a fine line to be sure, especially when validation is supposed to be coming from the institutions complicit in said fraud. Is there silence because no one is around to hear the tree fall, or did the tree really not fall at all?

      • 1 vote
      #18.1 - Tue May 6, 2008 12:45 PM EDT
      Allan Neal

      but when have any of Bev's claims resulted in actual substantiated evidence of fraud?

      Fair enough response. But I have seen videos, especially the recount ones she did in Vermont, that show ridiculous illegal procedures being carried out. She also documented the hilarious tape they used to seal the boxes. The stuff was less tenacious than painter's tape.

      So I guess it comes down to when she stopped the investigation. She has certainly shown improprieties. But maybe you're right. She hasn't gone to court and gotten these folks convicted of fraud, although Hacking Democracy should stand for something.

      • 2 votes
      #18.2 - Tue May 6, 2008 11:29 PM EDT
      hemphill

      After the reception she got in ohio last go around, I am astounded that she still tries at all.

      • 2 votes
      #18.3 - Wed May 7, 2008 12:45 AM EDT
      Allan Neal

      After the reception she got in ohio last go around, I am astounded that she still tries at all.

      One could argue Ohio is a poster child for vote fraud, but there are so many "kids" out there.

      • 3 votes
      #18.4 - Wed May 7, 2008 1:34 AM EDT
      Reply
      Mike Rupert

      Hmm.

      • 4 votes
      Reply#19 - Tue May 6, 2008 9:42 AM EDT
      cecil paul

      This is shocking. Why are we hearing this so late in the game. This injustice will certainly impact on the primary.

      • 2 votes
      Reply#20 - Tue May 6, 2008 9:50 AM EDT
      space guy

      Yes, those disenfranchised dead people!

      • 6 votes
      #20.1 - Tue May 6, 2008 10:00 AM EDT
      mysteryone57

      Yes, those dead people do tend to gum up those voting machines!!!

      • 2 votes
      #20.2 - Tue May 6, 2008 10:31 AM EDT
      GeorgeOrwell

      There has never been a case of voter fraud in Indiana concerning someone who voted who was dead. Even the Supreme Court admitted as much when it still ruled in favor of Indiana's head tax (a law which was pushed through the Indiana Legislature when the Republicans controlled it, btw).

      • 9 votes
      #20.3 - Tue May 6, 2008 12:25 PM EDT
      Reply
      The Patriot

      I have seen some... let's just call it "journalistic expression" to keep things clean, before - but the numbers just don't add up.

      Indiana has a population of around 6.3 million people. At least 20% of that population is not of voting age, the reported voter registration of 5.4 million exceeds the voting demographic. Even so, 4.3 million does represent better than 90% registration which should provide an accurate picture of voter sentiment.

      Although I discount this story and the underlying "rigging" accusations... I will say that if a voter wants to act upon his constitutionally given right to vote - there is a simple solution: register to vote, have an ID so your vote can be appropriately counted.

      • 6 votes
      Reply#21 - Tue May 6, 2008 11:18 AM EDT
      Roy Batty

      Every US Citizen should have the uber-ID, a passport. These days heaven knows when you may need it.

      • 4 votes
      Reply#22 - Tue May 6, 2008 12:32 PM EDT
      Dan Hallo, aka, Zoilus

      Bull@!$%#.

      • 4 votes
      #22.1 - Tue May 6, 2008 12:36 PM EDT
      space guy

      Dano this is another time that I am in absolute agreement with you.

      :)

      • 4 votes
      #22.2 - Tue May 6, 2008 12:54 PM EDT
      Roy Batty

      I have one so I can leave the country any time. Can you?

      • 3 votes
      #22.3 - Tue May 6, 2008 1:13 PM EDT
      Double Demon

      If the government wants to stop charging $$$ for the Uber-Id I would be all for it. Not everyone can afford the cost.

      • 2 votes
      #22.4 - Tue May 6, 2008 1:22 PM EDT
      Roy Batty

      You can always use your gas tax holiday savings ..... HAHAHAHA

      • 4 votes
      #22.5 - Tue May 6, 2008 1:26 PM EDT
      Double Demon

      Yeah, if actually got one. On that topic, what about poor people without any cars? How is a gas tax holiday a benefit for them? The poorest people I know don't own cars!

      • 3 votes
      #22.6 - Tue May 6, 2008 1:56 PM EDT
      Roy Batty

      The poorest people I know don't own cars!

      Good point. And the bus will always cost the same.....

      • 4 votes
      #22.7 - Tue May 6, 2008 2:03 PM EDT
      Dan Hallo, aka, Zoilus

      Roy Batty, do you think you are an elitist? A Jet Setter? Or are you just a member of the Hereditary Aristocracy, the nobiliy? Have you seen Paris Hilton lately, how is she?

      With the terms being thrown about these days, I wonder as to whether anyones knows what they are saying anymore or what they mean?

      Aristocracy, oligarchy, and plutocracy are sometimes so confused. All mean some form of rule by a small elite. Aristocracy is rule by a traditional elite, held to be made up of 'the best' people, and is usually hereditary. Oligarchy is literally rule by a few. Plutocracy is rule by the (necessarily few) very rich.

      All think they are better then others and would rather have a world were the "common Man" had no say or vote at all. This is what America fought a revolution against in the first place.
      An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.Plato

      • 2 votes
      #22.8 - Tue May 6, 2008 4:39 PM EDT
      Roy Batty

      No, just when the @!$%# hits the fan, I'm heading north at 100 miles per.

      If any of your assumptions of definitions of being "elite" are defined by being able to afford $49 for a US passport, feel free to brand me that way.

      However, you did catch me on one thing. I just got off the phone with Paris and she thinks you are a pseudointellectual blowhard too.

      • 3 votes
      #22.9 - Tue May 6, 2008 4:55 PM EDT
      Dan Hallo, aka, Zoilus

      That's not what she told me last time we went out... the two faced bitch, I'm calling her right now.
      I was being sarcastic, nothing to get your dander up about. Just making a point. It's not American, It's not fair. If only one person is denied his rights it is on too many.

      In addition, after all was said and done, the time spent, the crappy photo, mailings to the state, getting replies, copies of my birth certificate, and other information, my passport bottom line cost was over $75 dollars.

      • 3 votes
      #22.10 - Tue May 6, 2008 6:23 PM EDT
      Roy Batty

      HAHAHA. Thanks.

      I had to get a passport in an emergency back in 2001 (it was before 9/11.) The good news was I had one in three days. The bad news was the expedite process brought the total to over $350.

      • 2 votes
      #22.11 - Tue May 6, 2008 6:31 PM EDT
      space guy

      using passport for ID for voting = Poll tax.

      Total agreement with you Dan on this one

      (please do not let it go to your head).

      :)

      • 4 votes
      #22.12 - Tue May 6, 2008 6:43 PM EDT
      Roy Batty

      Don't get me wrong ... I don't believe anyone should need a passport to vote. However, its a killer ID for a lot of things.

      • 3 votes
      #22.13 - Tue May 6, 2008 6:58 PM EDT
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      Diane B.

      The above address to the Texas Caucus Fraud up date is a live link and a very good article on what happened in the caucuses, just click the link if it takes a minute wait, if you need click it again. It does load.

      • 2 votes
      Reply#23 - Tue May 6, 2008 1:51 PM EDT
      Aunk (The Cultural Health Guy)

      Hetep and Respect Freed, you can not be too careful. Obama and the Humanists, especially the young are on the move. The anti-humanists are fearful and may do anything to prevent facing justice.

      Remember the Bush and the forty thieves' Help America Vote Act. They have been putting African Americans and Latino Americans in cages by the millions all over America. It would be irrational to expect Indiana would be an exception. Click here.

      This last ruling of the Bush/McCain kangaroo court is an outrage against the American people and the second attack on our constitution by this court. The members of the Supreme Court should be impeached for treason.

      Bush/McCain's Guantanamo should be converted to the Treason prison, Bush and the forty thieves should be placed in it subject to the same rules they implemented, as an example to all other anti-humanists that would violate the constitution of the United States of America.

      IMHO, deception of the American people including Voter suppression is treason.

      We will be watching Indiana.

      • 2 votes
      Reply#24 - Tue May 6, 2008 1:53 PM EDT
      jfmonahan

      IMHO, I have no idea what you're talking about. FAIL.

      • 1 vote
      #24.1 - Tue May 6, 2008 2:53 PM EDT
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      jfmonahan

      I don't believe this for a second because

      1.) Where are these figures coming from?
      2.) This is obvious a biased source.
      3.) No linkage.
      4.) It comes from a source that isn't credible.
      5.) I highly doubt that 1/6 of the population of Indiana had their votes purged.

      • 1 vote
      Reply#25 - Tue May 6, 2008 2:52 PM EDT
      SteveHouse

      1. Seriously? From the article: PDF Note the "cancellations" column.
      2. The numbers are good, biased or not. They're taken from the Indiana Election Commission.
      3. LOL, what? You read the article?
      4. See 2.
      5. That's because "canceled" can also mean "replaced." But yes, it's unlikely. That's why this is uproarious news.

      • 4 votes
      #25.1 - Tue May 6, 2008 2:58 PM EDT
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