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GOP-Led States Work to Change Voting Rules Before the 2012 Election

COLUMBUS, Ohio (The Blaze/AP) — After years of expanding when and how people can vote, state legislatures now under new Republican control are moving to trim early voting days, beef up identification requirements and put new restrictions on how voters are notified about absentee ballots.

Supporters say bolstering ID rules helps prevent fraud. And at a time when counties face tough budgets, they contend local elections officials don’t have the money to keep early voting locations staffed and opened. Past investigations have added credence to some of these concerns:

Democrats claim their GOP counterparts are using midterm election wins to enforce changes favorable to Republicans ahead of the 2012 presidential election. They criticize such legislation, saying it could lead to longer lines in Democratic-leaning urban areas and discourage people from voting.

Below, hear some of the left-leaning arguments against the current changes being made in GOP-led states:

The process of changing voting rules may be nonpartisan on the surface but it is seething with politics just below the surface.

“We’ve had nothing short of a rhetorical firefight for years between the folks who are worried about fraud and folks who are worried about disenfranchisement – a firefight which is pretty much neatly broken down between the two major parties,” said Doug Chapin, an election expert at the University of Minnesota.

While states typically adjust voting rules ahead of presidential elections, this year provides an opportunity for new Republican governors and GOP majorities to legislate on election issues.

Put simply, Chapin said: “What’s happening in 2011 is just as much about what happened in 2010.”

New voting rules recently cleared state legislatures in what have traditionally been presidential battlegrounds, creating partisan rancor.

Plans to reduce the number of days to cast an early ballot cleared the Republican-controlled swing states of Florida, Ohio and Wisconsin. Legislatures in Georgia, Tennessee and West Virginia also lopped off advanced-voting time. North Carolina has a pending proposal. And Maine has done away with a policy that allows people to register at the polls on Election Day before casting ballots.

Each party, when in control, seeks to rewrite the rules to its electoral advantage. Below, hear Anita MonCrief, a former ACORN employee, explain how the organization purportedly engaged in partisan activities that favored the Democratic Party:

(The above video is part one of MonCrief’s talk; part two is here and part three can be found here.)

Although the reality may not be so cut and dried, both parties believe a looser voting regimen benefits Democrats because it increases opportunities for Hispanic, black, immigrant and poor people – harder to reach for an Election Day turnout – to vote.

Democratic voters held an edge in early voting during the 2010 elections, despite the unfavorable climate for the party nationally and the eventual Republican gains.

Voters in 32 states and the District of Columbia can cast a ballot in person before Election Day without having to give a reason.

Georgia and Ohio had some of the longest early voting time periods. Georgia had 45 days, while Ohio had 35. The new laws bring the two states closer to the typical timeframe, which is about two weeks before the election.

Considering all factors involved, these laws could hurt Democrats’ electoral prospects. Below, watch a video that the Obama re-election campaign put out to help combat the Ohio law cutting back on the early voting period in that state:

The move to shrink the early voting window in some states comes as others have pushed to require voters to show a photo ID at the polls.

Five states – Kansas, Wisconsin, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas – recently passed strict photo ID laws. At the beginning of the year, just two states – Georgia and Indiana – required that voters must show a photo ID in order to have their vote counted.

Other legislatures are rewriting their state’s election laws in other ways.

Florida rolled back its early voting time to one week from two in an overhaul that also makes it more difficult for groups such as the League of Women Voters and the Boy Scouts of America to conduct voter registration drives.

Ohio’s top elections chief, a Republican, acknowledged that changes to voting rules have invited an overreaction from each party.

“Both sides of the political spectrum have found it advantageous from a fundraising point of view, from a motivating their base point of view, to call into question the confidence in the election system,” Secretary of State Jon Husted said in an interview.

While Ohio’s overhaul bans local boards of elections from mailing unsolicited absentee ballot requests to voters, Husted has agreed to have the state send the requests to voters in all counties in 2012.

Ohio’s law is not yet in effect, and opponents are working to get a proposed repeal question on the fall 2012 ballot. The legislation ignited debate early this summer on the floors of the state’s GOP-controlled General Assembly.

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  • MBA
    Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:55am

    if it benefitted the democrats cheating techniques they would be all for the changes. No criminal wants their job made harder by having to follow the rules. Go figure.

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    • turkey13
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 9:32am

      The Republicans are wasteing their time. Acorn will appear in a new form to cancell your vote. Folks have never been stopped fromm voting, but we have let some states steal an election by not producing a proof of residence like we do here in Oklahoma.

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    • Sleazy Hippo
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 9:41am

      Our ability to control who wins has been steadily eroding over time, which is why the Governors finally decided to act.

      Thankfully, the American Legislative Exchange Council has off the shelf laws it has freely provided to conservative legislatures as a first step in taking back the vote.

      If we can stay the course, ten years from now we will control all elections again and life will be good again.

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    • Dustyluv
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 9:43am

      The dead will rise again to vote for a liberal…As usual…

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 10:00am

      Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) gave ACORN another $461,086 in January. The funds were earmarked for ACORN Housing Corp. in January under HUD’s Self-help Homeownership Opportunity Program (SHOP), according to the government website USAspending.gov.
      In order words, the Obama administration gave fraud-ridden ACORN nearly a half million dollars to be used on housing development.

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 10:04am

      “Democraps complain that thier Republican counterparts are…..
      preventing illegal aliens and voilent felons from voting”
      Thats how it should read…..

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    • encinom
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 11:38am

      Bascially, the GOP is making sure that nobody can vote unless they agree to support the GOP. An the Beckerheads, who scream about liberty and cheering as the right to vote is taken away.

       
    • Dont-hate-on-me-2
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 11:40am

      So basicly the rep want to make sure the people voting are who the say they are. The dems are pissed because it makes it more expensive and or more trouble to get corspes and illegal aliens to vote for them .

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    • robert
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 11:56am

      The US should institute rules requiring politicians to duke it out to settle their more contentious issues, and, of course, making dueling legal again would be of great value.

      The political ranks would then be sparse and have a minimal number of liars and cheats.

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    • CatB
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 11:56am

      Couldn’t have to do with all those ballots (all for Democrats!) who turn up in peoples trunks after elections??? Cheating is the Democrat way .. and we must do EVERYTHING we can to have a fair election. Only citizens should vote .. I know also a “radical” idea.

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    • drphil69
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 11:59am

      @Turkey… Not true, people have been prevented from voting. Didn’t you see the New Black Panther thugs in front of the voting place in Philly during the 2008 election? Or all the military being disenfranchised because the state of NY didn’t have time to get the ballots out to them (I guess they don’t see Winter coming every year either…)

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    • teddie888
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 12:00pm

      WOW, That video of the blk woman talking about how Acorn works and how Obama was selected out of Acorn in 2006 was enlightening info

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    • OhForGodsSake
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 12:02pm

      Last time I checked, it wasn’t illegal to be hispanic, black, immigrant or poor in this country. Republicans are actually trying to take the vote away from citizens of this country. That right is one of the main principals of democracy.

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    • texasken
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 2:05pm

      @ ohforGodssake– You should change your name to “strawmen-r-us”. You’re raising a point that nobody else made, and trying to make it seem that that’s the crux of the argument. NOBODY said that non-citizens should not vote, and NOBODY said that blacks, hispanics, etc should be disenfranchised. The point of these voting reforms is to make sure that each person identifies himself and casts his one legal vote. Nobody gives a damn about the ethnicity of that voter, as long as he is legally entitled to vote.

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    • texasken
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 2:06pm

      whoops. I meant to say that nobody said that CITIZENS should not vote. Guess I should proofread before I hit the “reply” button.

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    • Right_on_the_Left_Coast
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 2:32pm

      The Young Turks are clueless. There is not a voter ID problem. A study done across 3 states by the American University shows that less than 1% of registered voters lack IDs. By requiring identification, we will increase confidence in our voting system and disenfranchise practically no one that is currently registered to vote. Plus, if you do not have ID, it is not hard or expensive to acquire ID, and there is no other way to verify your citizenship. Requiring voters to be citizens is pointless if you do not verify citizenship through proper ID.

      Also, David Iglesias (The attorney general from New Mexico) was not fired for being unable to “make up” voter fraud charges. He was fired because he refused to indict Manny Aragon, who was later convicted and plead guilty to fraud and extortion. David Iglesias did not do his job.

      All conservatives want to do is ask that all voters be citizens. There is no way to do that without asking for proof of citizenship.

      If you are too lazy to get off your butt and get yourself an ID, then I don’t really have much sympathy for you in not getting a vote. I don’t care if your 85 years old, black, hispanic, male, female, poor, or whatever. If you’re above 18, you’re a big boy or girl and can find a way to get to the DMV for some legit ID. If voting is important to you, you’ll find a way.

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    • oldoldtimer
      Posted on September 20, 2011 at 2:00am

      I want at least one state that requires state vetting with verifiable birthcertificate befor they can get on that states POTUS ballot.

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  • concealled9mms
    Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:55am

    Dont be alarmed if eric holder puts a stop to this i am afraid he will tie it up in courts anyway

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    • jedidiah
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 10:07am

      You can count on it — these laws will be aggressively opposed by the DOJ.

      The biggest scandal in this sewer of an administration may not be Solyndra or Gunwalker. If you have a strong stomach, you should definitely read the series of ten posts about Holder’s hiring practices you can find at pajamasmedia.com. A one sentence summary would be, “Since Eric Holder became Attorney General, every single one of 80+ attorneys hired at the Justice Department, has a RADICAL LEFT-WING RESUME!” EVERY SINGLE ONE!

      Obviously, this includes every single new hire in the voting rights division:

      http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/every-single-one-the-politicized-hiring-of-eric-holder%E2%80
      %99s-voting-section/

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 11:49am

      How can asking for ID at the voting booths be disagreeable or unlawful?

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  • WhiteHorse
    Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:55am

    Little band aides are all fine and dandy, but what the states REALLY need to pass is a law requiring each Presidential candidate PROVE, VERITABLY, that he/she is a “NATURAL BORN CITIZEN” in accordance with the constitution of the United States.

    One or two states do that and it’s goodbye odumbo, PERIOD, END OF STORY.

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    • PAWatcher
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 9:27am

      Simple answer to a big problem is always the best. It should have been done when he was vetted and all questions answered. Media intimidation, his total disregard for the laws of the land or thuggery? What stopped the nation from getting the basic answers before 2008? Don’t let it happen in 2012, I agree a few good states could get the answers.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 9:34am

      @WhiteHorse
      You are peeing in the wind my friend. The birther movement just aint the route to go. How often do you hear Glen Beck talk birther stuff? He does not, because it is malarky. there is enough real deal stuff on Obama without making up any.

      He is a socialist, pushed socialized medicing against the will of the people

      He sat for 20 year in the congregation of a church that preached anti American messages, is anti semetic, and preaches black liberation theology

      He attended muslim schools, has a disdain for christianity, is pro abortion, anti gun (look at his senator voting record)

      He launched his run for the sentat seat in the house of a known terrorist who blew up bombs in our subways, and called for a communist revolution that would murder millions of capitalist

      He fired the CEO of GM, a symbolic move against capitalism. GM used to be the crown jewel of capitalism, and the head of GM was once as powerful as many heads of state.

      We can go on and on. The birther issue is a shinney object for the ignorant to play with. Libs want you to play with it, and ignore the real topics. Then they can point a finger at you, laugh, and make like all conservatives are birthers.

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    • sWampy
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 10:12am

      Nice name calling there buddy, why don‘t you crawl back up in your mommy’s lap and latch on to that teat and suck some more, let the big boys worry about what is important and what isn’t. The more an more liberals call names, and say look the other way, the more you can be assured there is something big there.

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    • let us prey
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 10:16am

      @ranger
      While the bc may be a moot point, it is a shame that it got over shadowed by all of his other wrong doings. The man is a sham and has ties to many other unsavory actions. The country does not have the stomach to investigate or admit that this guy could be inelligible for the seat. [Agreed] The progs love people looking into this so they can point the finger of racism and hate. Do you think that ignorant is the correct term if it viable?

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    • rangerp
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 2:30pm

      @let us prey
      I am as far right as you can get on just about every issue, from fiscal to moral. I despise everything Obama stands for, and those that support him.

      I studdied this issuse pretty deep, and I believe he was born in Hawaii. When you start to study, you always find lies tied to the birther issue that just are not so. If it is such a cut and dry issue, people would stop with the lies an fabrications.

      Once again, libs want conservatives to play the birther game. It playes into their hands. It keeps people from looking at the real issues. The man is trying to use smoke an mirrors with the new jobs bill and rasie taxes another trillion and a half.

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    • Clive
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 2:42pm

      hey rangerp, since you are so into studying, maybe you can crack a book and learn to write.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:21pm

      @Clive

      be specific? is it my spelling, my grammar? or you just do not like the facts I present.

      this is a blog, not a college term paper. I write fast, to the point, not spell check. Most folks get the point.

      throw a rock into a pack of dogs, and you will know you hit one, when it starts to growl.

      Are you a birther? Have I hurt your little feelings with the truth?

      Step up to the plate and swing if you want to debate. This is not an English essay class, it is a blog.

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  • AJAYW
    Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:54am

    Should be LAW if you don‘t have ID you can’t vote. We must show ID for everything else

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    • DrFrost
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 9:50am

      You need an ID to buy a beer but you can vote without one… Doesn’t that seem like it invites fraud?

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    • Hockeytown
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 10:04am

      We have to show our id when we vote in Michigan, I don’t see what the big deal is. I have to show my id to pick my kids up from school.

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 10:14am

      interpreting Liberish : we want illegals and the dead to be able to vote

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  • Fina Biscotti
    Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:49am

    Because ACORN offices were raided during 2008 presidential campaign – for Fraud, Vote Fraud, Voter Registration Fraud, testimony was given before The House Judiciary Committee – requesting that ACORN be investigated.

    Bc of testimony given, The House Judiciary Committee, whose jurisdiction is ELECTION FRAUD, was proceeding w an investigation of ACORN – as a Crime Syndicate involved in Vote rigging and Vote Fraud – until John Conyers as Chairman of The House Judiciary Committee – changed course and announced – in April 2009 – “the powers that be” do not want ACORN investigated.

    Coincidentally, at this very same time – the wife of John Conyers = a Detroit council woman was being held accountable for BRIBERY charges – had other criminal charges hanging over her head – when she pled guilty to Bribery.

    *****
    Testimony given before HJ committee – people who had conspired w ACORN employees to register SEVENTY-NINE times; people who voted more than once – through ACORN, etc.- people who were paid by ACORN w cash, cigarettes, and/or crack cocaine to participate in what ACORN employees were instructing them to do – to manipulate the election in Barack Obama’s favor.

    Anita MonCrief gave testimony – as former high-ranking ACORN employee – had received call from Obama campaign = they were sending over Os donor list, for ACORN to solicit donations for ACORN – since everyone had reached legal limit for donations to O – but was to kick back the money to Obama campaign.

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    • Fina Biscotti
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 9:28am

      Ms. Anita MonCrief stated – before The House Judiciary Committee – “ACORN is OBAMA, and OBAMA is ACORN.”

      ******

      Judicial Watch, a government watchdog organization based out of Washington DC, discovered that in 1992 – Obama was the Director of Project Vote, a project of ACORN, a radical-leftist organization known for its long history of Vote Fraud.

      http://www.JudicialWatch.org

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    • PAWatcher
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 9:38am

      Is all this affirmative action?

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  • Lucy Larue
    Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:47am

    Ah.., “The truth will out”.
    This is a Liberal Apocalypse.

    The true story of what Saul Alinsky, and his army of liberal droids, have been doing to this country for far too many years now feels the penetrating rays of sunlight! YES!

    Watch out libs. Even a sunblock of 50 spf is not going to save your sorry selves!

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  • Rickfromillinois
    Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:42am

    I think that it makes the difference between the 2 parties pretty clear when requiring voters to show a picture I.D. is considered favorable to the Republicans. It also says allot when some claim that it is also racist. Whenever I see someone trying to say that having to show a picture I.D. is unfair or racist I immediately know that he or she is a liar and is trying to argue in favor of cheating by their side.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:51am

      Not having someone show an ID with a picture means that people who are recently deceased can vote, because they can have an illegal alien, or even someone who “could” be that person go down and vote for them. I remember when I first started voting, you only voted on the day of the vote, no early voting. If you couldn’t be at the voting booth on the day of the vote, you could file for an absentee ballot. I never voted early, because I didn’t have the option. You had to show a picture ID. I remember voting the first time in Illinois. First off, they had to look for a Republican ballot, and I was shocked when I offered my ID and they said they didn’t need it, just looked for my name on the form. Anyone could have claimed to be me and voted.

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  • Harold B
    Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:38am

    The Constitution gives a specific day for voting and not a month to collect votes from alzhiemers patients in nursing homes. so cut the BS and follow the Constitution

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    • OhForGodsSake
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 12:07pm

      That is the most thoughtless thing I’ve read in a long time.

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    • OhioRifleman
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 7:43pm

      @ For God’s Sake

      The fact that you think it is thoughtless proves you are thoughtless. I’ve heard of exactly what he said happening – more than a few times – over the years. I also used to live in Chicago, where every election cycle there would be a bunch of ‘graveyard votes’ from people who may have been dead over 50 years and were still voting DEMOCRAT. Even a few cases where someone who voted Republican in their living past was voting Democrat after their death.

      I know you would like to think the Dems are fair-play kind of guys, but the rest of us know better. You can bin the bull, amigo, we’re not fooled. Cheating and outright fraud are requirements of the Left strategy, and as of right now it appears that bribery, extortion, thuggery and fraud are going to have to be the cornerstone of their campaign for the upcoming election. They can‘t win a conventional victory on Obama’s record as of right now.

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    • smct
      Posted on September 20, 2011 at 11:07am

      I agree with Harold B. For heavens sake people are using the names of DEAD PEOPLE to commit voter fraud. Now THAT’S thoughtless!!

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  • sacrificeforkids
    Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:35am

    This Woman has exposed more infomation on ”Voter Regestrations Fraud”" then the F.B.I. and the C.I.A….. . So I would ask those who voted for Obama,, Are you still waiting for HOPE>?

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:47am

      Also what speaks volumes is the uttermost silence from the administration and the Department of No Justice At All, against these people who admit on video the very fact of fraudulent acitivites and voter manipulation and such. At the very least they need to be investigated.

      In the 2012 elections, watch out for massive fraud and abuse along with voter intimidation; maybe with agents of the DOJ there as well to make sure “the suggestions for the proper candidates are followed by the voters, or those guys with guna and clubs may have something to say about it…”

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  • Harold B
    Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:35am

    Senator Frankin won the election on the 6th or 7th recount when a bunch of uncounted votes were found at a prison and the felons (who cannot legaly vote) elected Senator Frankin (D) What is more important winning or allowing the voters to choose their reps?

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    • Fina Biscotti
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 9:24am

      Al Franken has been ILLEGALLY Occupying the US Senate seat from the State of Minnesota – through VOTE FRAUD – with the use of forged and frauduelent absentee ballot votes.

      Eric Holder as US AG has had EXACT evidence of it – for close to THREE Years – and refuses to prosecute it – failing in his duty and obligation as US AG.

      Holder obstructs these matters from being investigated – bc any forged and fraudulent absentee ballot vote for Al Franken – is also a forged and fraudulent absentee ballot vote for Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election.

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    • uneedmorekoolaid
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:46pm

      Okay why do you need extra time to show up and vote. Democrap voters are just sitting at home, the republican voters are usually at work trying to pay their high taxes for the democrap voters to stay at home doing nothing.

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  • Sleazy Hippo
    Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:35am

    The REAL Constitution was very selective – the founders felt that landowners and merchants should be able to vote – as long as they were men. (and at the time, “European-derived-ancestry”)

    I am Just Saying – wouldn’t the country be better off if just male job creators could vote? And I am not restricting it to whites, just serious wealth owners, so Herman Cain would be able to vote.)
    One can only Dream!

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    • scuba13
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 9:51am

      After all this time you‘re still a danglingbag aren’t you Sleezyhippo?

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  • Fina Biscotti
    Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:28am

    In 2009, 16 MILLION voter registrations were discovered to be invalid – although some of these non-existent people – “voted” – prior to – and during the 2008 presidential election.

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    • IntheKnowOG
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:34am

      Why do I need to show an ID to get into the WH but not show one to let someone live there?

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  • JACKTHETOAD
    Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:26am

    Aw, c’mon now. Don’t you remember Whatshername-Schitt saying You’d have a better chance of being hit by lightning than encountering voter fraud? Hoo boy, Natasha. What a whopper that one was.

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  • ohiojo1953
    Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:24am

    Two weeks for early voting is plenty. Showing a picture ID to vote, absolutely! Voter fraud is rampant and need to be stopped immediately. Racist? Gimme a break. Playing the race card is lame.

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    • riverat1970
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:42am

      i agree. also if a voter found to be guilty of voter fraud they should lose their right to vote for period of time i believe.

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:23am

    .
    As much as I don’t like the idea. We need an electronic voter i.d. card, with a pic and some sort of bio (thumb print) to stop the fraud. Mail in votes must have a thumb print……….

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  • jcldwl
    Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:19am

    Democrats cannot win with out cheating and voter intimidation. They have been doing it since post civil war reconstruction when they were hanging both blacks and whites for being republicans. Read American History in Black and White by David Barton. It is outstanding and you can get it at wallbuilders.com

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:28am

      Also ‘Demonic’ by Ann Coulter is a stark look at the history of liberals with 50 or so pages of footnotes to back it up. Fascinating to say the least.

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    • fatjack
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 11:18am

      It’s coming!…………. Are you ready?

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  • sacrificeforkids
    Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:19am

    Don’t have a “Drivers License”’ ,,, In America its called ””PHOTO I.D. CARD” maybe they should try to get on of those..And did anyone else notice Obama‘s face while he pin’d the ‘Medal of Honor” on the young BRAVE SOLDIER…… His facial expressions says it all..

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:32am

      He should not even be allowed in the same room with our American heros. He has no respect for the military and no empathy for those whose lives were lost, or their families. They should call GW back to do those ceremonies, someone who loves our men and women fighting to protect us. God bless our military, firefighters, police and border guards, who put their lives on the line everyday.

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    • Obama>Jesus
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 7:37pm

      @grandmaof5, I feel bad for those grandchildren of yours, having a bigot of a family member like you. It was the W administration that was behind the 9/11 attacks, his lies that put us in two wars we didn’t need to be in, and his mistakes that put us in the financial disaster we’re in today. W was the worst thing to happen to this nation since Regan, and that’s saying something.

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  • steve-in-pa
    Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:17am

    Just let them take mug shots as ID,lol. This might be an urban myth but don’t you need ID when you are over 18 and out in public?

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    • jcldwl
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:21am

      It is a myth. But I am sure it won’t be long before being required to have your papers.

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    • eddvoss
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:47am

      First thing an officer of the law asks for when interacting with you is your ID, Try getting stopped for some infraction without ID.

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    • UlyssesP
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 12:35pm

      You need an ID to cash checks, collect unemployment, apply for work, etc, etc, etc.
      …to buy cigarettes, beer, porn…yeah, I KNOW they have IDs.

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  • travlman77
    Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:13am

    I do not understand how showing a government issued picture ID hurts the poor or minorites.

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    • blue_sky
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:19am

      It does not, but it hurts Democrats.

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    • ddg7
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:20am

      It’s hurts the poor and minorities because they can no longer get paid to vote multiple times.

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    • HKS
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:27am

      Voter fraud will go to new heights in this election. Big cities are especially corrupted where Acorn and other Soros funded thugs will take the election in those areas. I’m not so sure the system is viable any more as dancing with the stars is probably more reflective of the true intent of the voting. At least the cheating can go both ways in that system. The election system is broken and out of control, especially since the government is controlling it to their own ends. The solution to this is beyond my comprehension.

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  • ares338
    Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:12am

    Why it’s absolutely racist to not let Acorn members to vote numerous times!

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    • Darla_K
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 9:29am

      In my state we have to vote by mail, is my vote going to be counted or will it be left sitting off in a corner uncounted? Will acorn be there to pick up the pieces like they did when Gregorroir won the vote all of a sudden after a re-count? All of a sudden they found many votes in King County giving her the win and she has been our govenor ever since. I do not trust the way things were done nor do I trust them yet. When we voted in person I always had to show ID which is the only way to do it. God help us all that want to do the right thing.

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  • marhee9
    Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:11am

    Perhaps we could cut down on the black panthers standing outside the polling places with billy clubs intimidating conservatives. Just a thought. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DSa5zq_5LE

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    • fancydancy
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:22am

      When our Department of Justice refused to prosecute those standing outside with clubs the last time, what do you think is going to happen next year? What you reward, you get MORE of. Little old ladies will be afraid to get out of their cars to vote. The morality of our country is the problem…not the race.

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    • 100 Million Patriots Standing
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:29am

      Thats why we need to encourage early voting in some precincts. Counter measures !

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  • The_Hut_In_Co
    Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:09am

    I can hear our Justice Dept. already!
    So unfair!
    So cruel!
    So discriminating!
    So (fill in the blanks)
    So……
    So……

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    • blue_sky
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:18am

      Both left and right are busy cutting territory for political manipulation. They do not care about the Constitution, your job, your prosperity, future of your children. For them building schools in Iraq is more important than life here as long as those trade unions at Boeing and Lockheed Martin are happy.

      This past weekend was the Constitution Day.
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  • theninthplanet
    Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:08am

    Well, you know. Vote early and often.

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    • HKS
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:34am

      Maybe we could learn from the Iraqi’s, dip your finger in the ink.

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  • Ironmaan
    Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:06am

    Obama’s poll numbers, plus the removal of fraudulent votes will spell doom for his re-election.
    http://guerillatics.com

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  • ropati
    Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:02am

    Democrats claim their GOP counterparts are using midterm election wins to enforce changes favorable to Republicans ahead of the 2012 presidential election.
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    Read this sentence again. Why would requiring ID be a change favoring Republicans? Doesn’t this say it all?

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    • The_Hut_In_Co
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:11am

      Pretty Much!

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    • fancydancy
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:20am

      You mean Mickey and Minnie can’t vote this time around? We have to show ID for opening a bank account, to cash a check, to return an item without a receipt, and a host of other things, why not to vote? It would STOP a lot of the hanky panky that is going on which affects ALL of us in this great country with policies that change our lives…this is important! I have read the new machines they now have for voting can be messed with very easily to change votes, unlike the paper ballots we used previously. Sigh.

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    • 100 Million Patriots Standing
      Posted on September 19, 2011 at 8:27am

      As far as early voting; two weeks is not enough time to cast a vote?

      Poor people and/or Hispanic, black, immigrant can do what they are motivated to do, just like anyone else. If it’s important enough to them they will find a way within the time limits of the law. and

      what is an immigrant. I thought only US citizens could vote.

      I saw no mention however, of verifying the legality of the voter.

      This should be a national law that all voters must be verified to be legal voters; not that anyone would cheat or anything…….

      but it just seems like the socialist justice – equality thing to do. I would imagine it would get overwhelming support from all parties. !!!!

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