How to Rig an Election, the 2008 Edition

As the Republicans target ACORN and try to boot registered voters off the rolls across the U.S., new information surfaces about the 2004 election.

In Michigan, they tried to block the votes of people who had lost their homes to foreclosure. In Montana, they challenged some six thousand voters for filing change-of-address forms. According to The New York Times, nine states have broken the law by using Social Security data to purge registration lists. CBS found voter purges under way in 19 states. In Ohio, Republicans are fighting a bitter legal battle to challenge 660,000 new voters. There's a new ... Full Story »

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Mike LaBonte
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by Mike LaBonte - Oct. 23, 2008

Plenty of source links here. Clearly written from a left leaning perspective. This is about the disenfranchisement vs. voter fraud war. It barely addresses the latter, but provides a quite good overview of the former.

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Dennis A. Abbott
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by Dennis A. Abbott - Oct. 23, 2008

Excellent, hard-hitting article, thoroughly documented. Richardson reports on election fraud in 2000 and 2004, and efforts to defraud in this election. He reveals the motivation behind the McCain campaign's attack on ACORN, and evidence that Obama and the Democrats are better prepared to counter election fraud this time.

My previous attention to election fraud has made me biased in favor of this writer's conclusions.

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Chris Finnie
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by Chris Finnie - Oct. 22, 2008

As thorough as this is, I've read and heard more. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was on TV last night with Rachael Maddow. He talked about the high ballot spoilage rate in black precincts--up to 9 times that in white areas. It is also true in Native American polling places, and in other minority communities. And the turnout IS likely to be massive. When phone banking to New Mexico last weekend, several people my fellow callers talked to reported 2-hour lines for early voting places. Kennedy also talked about the voters who have been illegally stricken from the rolls--the subject of the Ohio lawsuit--in many states, especially Colorado. And about the GOP operatives recently arrested for destroying or changing Democratic registrations. ... More »

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Dwight Rousu
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by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 23, 2008

Richardson has composed an excellent report with a large number of excellent links. He omitted much discussion of the problems of private corporations with secret software code who have been given contracts for balloting machines and for machines that count the ballots outside of public view.

In 2000 it was Florida, in 2004 it was Ohio, in 2006 congressional seat votes may well have been miscounted in similar fraud. With McCain focusing on the unlikely Pennsylvania, that seems a likely target for counting fraud this cycle.

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Patricia Blochowiak
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by Patricia Blochowiak - Oct. 23, 2008

This story provides a well-linked discussion of problems with the 2004 elections and problems, potential problems, and attempts to cause problems in the 2008 election. Links often provide extensive further links, including court depositions, video interviews, etc. It provides a coherent discussion.

As a volunteer in the Ohio 2004 recount in three different counties, I can attest to the illegal process that was later verified by convictions of Cuyahoga County (Cleveland, Ohio) Board of Elections officials. As an official Democratic Challenger/Observer (different titles in different years), I can attest to the multiple people stating they were from the GOP legal team (only one confirmed by me to be a Republican lawyer, who travelled from urban polling place to urban polling ... More »

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