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Posted at 5:58pm on May 13, 2008 Alert to MS Dems! Free Hamburgers if you vote for Childers

By Soren Dayton

Earlier today, Moe covered outright lies by the DCCC in their attend to defeat Greg Davis in today's special election in MS-1.

They have another problem. Dems are passing out free hamburgers:

If you hurry, you might get one. I would also ask if Republicans can get them too. If not, they are probably committing a crime.

H/T ElectionJournal.org

Posted in 2008 | Democratic Party | Electoral Corruption | Greg Davis | Mississippi | Travis Childers — Comments (7) / Email this page » / Read More »

Posted at 1:29pm on May 6, 2008 IN Dem Gov candidate campaigns illegally

He is breaking the law on election day; Just imagine what he would do if he won

By Soren Dayton

Election Journal, which should be at the top of your Election Day must-read list, catches Dem Gov. candidate Jim Shellinger breaking the law.

What's wrong here? It is illegal to campaign inside a polling location. Click through to Election Journal for the details.

Note that the Obama campaign is doing it too.

Posted in 2008 | Democrats | Electoral Corruption | Indiana — Comments (9)/ Email this page » / Read More »

Posted at 2:53pm on May 5, 2008 Protecting the Military vote

It's the right thing to do. That's why the Democrats probably won't

By Soren Dayton

There was an important article over in the Weekly Standard by Hans A. von Spakovsky and Roman Buhler about military voting:

A survey by the Election Assistance Commission shows that of almost 1 million ballots requested in the last election by overseas and military voters, only about one third were successfully cast and counted.

Some of it is illegal and deliberate. For example in 2004, Pennsylvania Governor ("Fast Eddy") Rendell tried to deliberately disenfranchise military voters while running a GOTV drive in prisons. But much is accidental, logistical, and structural:

The most common reasons for this failure were that the requested ballots sent to voters were returned as "undeliverable" and that marked ballots were received too late to be counted.

This is a tremendously important issue both morally--making sure that our soldiers have their basic rights--and politically. Undoubtedly, the Democrats, ACORN, and their allies will continue to commit election crime while Congressional Democrats will try to find ways to undermine military voting. Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA-22) has introduced legislation on this and von Spakovsky and Buhler have their own suggestions about other options.

Over the next 6 months, we are going to watch the Democrats make promises that help their corrupt allies, like Barack Obama's promise to stop oversight of the Teamsters, those pillars of ethical management. Here's a simple thing that they could do for America's heroes. Somehow I doubt they will move on that.

Posted in 2008 | Democrats | Electoral Corruption | Military voting — Comments (4)/ Email this page » / Read More »

Posted at 10:50am on Apr. 30, 2008 Why the country needed the voter-ID decision

Why register people who don't exist?

By Soren Dayton

I have written already on the voter ID SCOTUS decision. When the crazy left objects to voter ID, they cry suppression. But Abigail Thornstrom, the Vice-Chair of the US Commission on Civil Rights points to, perhaps, the simplest sentence in the decision, "There is no question about the legitimacy or importance of the State’s interest in counting only the votes of eligible voters."

The problem for the far left, is that we are on to their strategy. Every year, ACORN tries to register zillions of non-existent voters. Watch this to see how they do it in Washington state:

The far lefties need to explain out why exactly ACORN is trying so hard to register people to vote.

If they don't exist.

H/T Election Journal

Posted in ACORN | Elections | Electoral Corruption | Electoral Fraud — Comments (13)/ Email this page » / Read More »

Posted at 8:25am on Apr. 29, 2008 For Obama, it is always your problem

Obama, voter-ID laws, and Obama's faux-reform agenda

By Soren Dayton

John Fund has a provocative piece on voter fraud in today's WSJ. He contrasts the reformist records of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, no conservative, with that of Barack Obama. We learn more about Obama's background, his record of reform, etc. The tastiest bits:

Barack Obama has approached Chicago politics differently. ... All of this may be smart politics, but it is far removed from Mr. Obama's call for transcending the partisan divide. Then again, Mr. Obama's relationship to reform has always been tenuous. Jay Stewart, the executive director of the Chicago Better Government Association, notes that, while Mr. Obama supported ethics reforms as a state senator, he has "been noticeably silent on the issue of corruption here in his home state, including at this point, mostly Democratic.

So we have the irony of two liberal icons in sharp disagreement over yesterday's Supreme Court decision. Justice Stevens, the real reformer, believes voter ID laws are justified to prevent fraud. Barack Obama, the faux reformer, hauls out discredited rhetoric that they disenfranchise voters.

The story that emerges from this is one that is becoming familiar. It is never Obama's problem. Ethics are not a problem for him and his friends. Only the other, Republicans. Racism is not a problem for his friends. Only for the other, like his grandmother. And when he says something offensive, it is not because he misspeaks. It is because you misinterpreted.

In Obama's worldview, he can help you overcome the bad people so you can become like him. Because it is never your fault, and he is never, ever associated with bad people. Together with him, "Yes, we can."

Posted in 2008 | Barack Obama | Electoral Corruption | Ethics | Reform — Comments (3)/ Email this page » / Read More »

Posted at 12:14pm on Apr. 28, 2008 SCOTUS approved Indiana's voter ID law

But the AP ignores the problem

By Soren Dayton

I am not a lawyer, I am a political hack. I am sure that one of our lawyers will give a very scholarly review of today's Supreme Court decision upholding Indiana's voter ID law. Here's the AP's report. And here's the part that shocked me:

There is little history in Indiana of either in-person voter fraud -- of the sort the law was designed to thwart -- or voters being inconvenienced by the law's requirements. For the overwhelming majority of voters, an Indiana driver license serves as the identification.

I refer you to the 2003 East Chicago Democratic primary, which has been in the news recently. The teaser is the closing paragraph of the first story I am going to cite:

The task force filed charges against 53 people, Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter's office reported. Of the 52 concluded cases, 45 individuals were convicted, four cases were dismissed, one person died and two people have been found not guilty at trial.

45 convictions. How did we figure this out? Read on for more details

Posted in Electoral Corruption | Indiana | Law | Supreme Court — Comments (18)/ Email this page » / Read More »

Posted at 10:32am on Apr. 20, 2008 Obama, Philly street money, and the criminals that make it work

This must be that new politics he keeps talking about

By Soren Dayton

Last week, Barack Obama made some news. He wasn't going to play the walking around money game in Philadelphia. Here's what our own Moe Lane said:

Like Ed Morrissey, I'll grant this right off the bat: Senator Obama's taking the high ground on this one. While what he's refusing to do is actually legal, it's not particularly ethical*, either, and doing it would clash horribly with his perceived campaign style. Not doing it is a risk for him, so if it works out, he's going to reap considerable political benefits from it.

If it doesn't work out, he doesn't just lose PA. He loses PA filthy.

Our friend Barry was going to do the right thing.

Not any more. But, somehow, that wasn't an LA Times story or a big press release. Besides, "walking around money" and "canvassing money" are totally different. Read on.

Posted in Barack Obama | Blogosphere | Electoral Corruption | Electoral Fraud | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania Primary — Comments (13)/ Email this page » / Read More »

Posted at 12:43am on Mar. 24, 2008 Yeah Right

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

No one is foolish enough to believe that there is not fraud afoot in Zimbabwe:

Zimbabwe's main opposition party has accused the government of printing millions of surplus ballot papers for the presidential and legislative polls.

The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) says leaked documents show nine million papers have been ordered for the country's 5.9 million voters.

But, the head of the electoral commission rejected suggestions that the extra papers might be misused.

Judge George Chiwese told the BBC that the vote would be free and fair.

Just let the chutzpah soak in.

Posted in Electoral Corruption | Foreign Affairs | Robert Mugabe | Zimbabwe — Comments (1)/ Email this page » / Read More »