Beyond Obamacorn: Democrat Party voter fraud in Louisiana
From KSLA in Shreveport, Louisiana: A group funded by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee to mobilize a voter registration drive on behalf of Dem. Sen. Mary Landrieu is under investigation for voter fraud by the Louisiana Secretary of State.
It’s not just Obamacorn.
The scoop:
“They walked in here just mounding up cards,” said Registrar of Voters for Caddo Parish, Ernie Roberson while looking over a box full of thousands of voter registration cards. “They” are a group called Voting is Power, that went door to door in Caddo Parish to register people to vote, “They turned in about 8600 applications, out of that number 1400 new ones, sorted out the new and then we had around 1400 address changes, the rest of them were non existent,” says Roberson.
Before the organization ACORN starting appearing in headlines for reported registration fraud, VIP caught the attention of Louisiana authorities over the summer. “They swamped all of us with a lot of applications but we haven’t had the problem since we aggressively started dealing with that group and I think they just picked up and left Louisiana,” says Roberson.
The Louisiana Secretary of State’s Office is investigating the group, Voting is Power. The Secretary of State won’t comment on the investigation, only to say all the findings will be turned over to the parish district attorneys in the parishes where the cards were turned in. The fear here in Caddo is: The damage has already been done “What I’m afraid of is a lot of people think they are registered, and that’s going to cause problems on election day,” says Roberson. That’s because many of the applications turned in, even with real names, were incomplete, a big headache resulting in thousands of man hours. “It costs money, democracy is very expensive whenever you have to sort through hundreds and even thousands of forms that are either duplicates or completely bogus that costs us time. Ultimately costing the taxpayer money.
Background from yes, the NYTimes:
Democratic officials said the Louisiana drive, which was called Voting is Power, had produced 74,000 applications by the time it concluded last week. Registrars in the four main parishes where the drive operated report numbers closer to 50,000, but there is no breakdown of how many were submitted to other parishes.
Registrars have reported that as many as a third of the applications cannot be entered into the system, and many of the rest require more information. The state Republican Party called the operation “the Dems’ phony registration drive.”
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Sounds about right.
It’s to the point where fraud is like breathing clean air to these people.
Shocking. Almost as shocking as the NFL suspending PacMan Jones again.
(translation for non-football fans: totally expected).
I’m not surprised. But, you do have to show picture ID in LA to vote or at least I always have.
According to the article, nobody got on the voting rolls who should not have. This is registration fraud, not voter fraud.
McCain’s transition team head lobbied for Saddam Hussein (the guy from Iraq) in the years before the invasion. Two of his partners went to jail for doing that lobbying illegally. That’s sleaze you can believe in.
A guy at a Palin rally yelled “Kill him” about Obama today.
This is why ACORN’s activities raise a red flag: It’s not so much the worry that “Jive Turkey” is going to vote 70 times, as much as the likelihood that Mr. Turkey, Mr. “Shep,” Mr. “jkjkjkjkl” and Mr. “Mouse” are going to serve as a smoke screen for something else that’s much, much larger.
ACORN is but one front organization for the donkey party. As its credibility is already shot, ACORN is making the sacrifice fly so that somebody else can steal home plate.
ACORN fraud by any other name is still ACORN fraud …
So what is your point? Fraud is fraud ACORN needs to go.
BINGO
pearls before swine..do not feed the trolls.
lgm said:
You sound like a man with an iron-clad job with little or no wealth.
On October 14th, 2008 at 5:44 pm, lgm said:
According to the article, nobody got on the voting rolls who should not have. This is registration fraud, not voter fraud.
translation: “Curses! foiled again!”
A guy
at a Palinrallylgm’s class yelled “Kill him”aboutObamadirected at their dear lgm in his own classroom today, for shame the brainwashed kids of the liberal schools.I don’t understand how this does not outrage each and every American Citizen regardless of polical party.
Again there are over 2 dozen democratic vote registering groups out there (including organized labor and the NAACP)
We can rail on ACORN all we want but its just the tip of the iceberg
See, Obama is right he doesn’t need ACORN. They can fraud this election home without them; they don’t need no steenkin’ ACORN
No wonder so many people are apathetic.
Another thinkless post by lgm.
What’s interesting to me is that everything that McCain / Palin does lately is being called out as “panic because they’re so far behind in the polls” by the democrats.
If this were true – then why all the voter fraud by those same democrats? One would think that with that much of a lead that it’s causing your enemy to panich you wouldn’t need to engage in systematic voter fraud to steal an election that you shouldn’t have any difficulty in cruising across the finish line.
Unless in your own private polls you’re so far behind – even with the help of the media in the tank for you – that voter fraud is the only way you can win.
nlebou said (#8):
Maybe, but they are not illegally influencing the election.
Obama talks about the economy and McCain talks about Ayers and ACORN. Obama is ahead because he’s on the issues that matter.
Maybe you should wait till after the election before you claim there is no fraud lgm
Because if fraud does show up will look foolish.
lgm:
Hey! lgm found the Obama plant in the Palin rally today!!
Let’s just make election fraud, including registration fraud,(I call it lgm’s law) a hanging offense & call it a day.
Obama usurps Marxist economic policy upon voters in the guise of helping the economy. He’s really not tackling any issues.
I see, Mr. Polly-wanna-cracker. That makes all the difference in the world, sure. Like the member of a criminal gang who thinks it’s a winning argument to claim in court that he didn’t rob the bank with the others, he was just the getaway car driver. Or the guy who thinks he’s the next Clarence Darrow when he says that he didn’t commit perjury, he only suborned others to do so.
Your fixation with this distinction-without-a-difference is bizarre. Have you put any thought at all into it, or are you just parroting again? I think the question answers itself.
The difference between Osama and Obama is just a little BS
MEANT AS A JOKE !
And the Dems will come back and say the Republicans are suppressing the vote!
That’s their excuse every time voter fraud is exposed.
Exposing fraud = voter suppression (according to nutty liberal thinking)
Obviously the dems think they can’t win without cheating. I agree.
MORE VOTER FRAUD? WHO KNEW?
Poll workers clash at Falls nursing home
They might be old but they seem frisky.
Enjoy.
God Bless America except for the blue states.
I am anxious to see how Gov. Bobby handles all this. Perfectly, if I had to predict.
I hope Governor Jindal(sp) will get to bottom of this. This man does do his job and he a good man. Please Governor, do your job.
L
Just WTF does this have with fraud on the part of the Democrat Party?
And the punchline is that this crap will go on until third-party vote-registration groups are banned, and people have to spend a couple of minutes downtown at City Hall and prove who they are to register, and then have to show up in person on election day and prove who they are in order to cast a ballot. It’s not exactly a hardship or an imposition.
Seems to me an honest election is a precious enough thing to pay that small price for.
While a gal at an Obama rally battered a McCain supporter.
VIDEO
The headline I expect to hear any day now:
2008 Presidential election postboned due to masssive national voter registration irregularities, Bush to remain in office indefinitely.
Not yet. Still stoned, or just stupid?
ECS
Correct.
That’s all that needs to be said.
Channeling and paraphrasing Claude Rains:
I’m shocked…shocked…that the socialists would cheat!
I believe you have something here. Perhaps the liberal parsing of this being registration fraud and not “voter” fraud might be telling.
It would be a means to artificially inflate the voter rolls. Then, once the corrections are made (at the expense of the taxpayer), they can claim that Republicans were suppressing the vote by the margin of thousands.
Clearly, something is motivating this as it is not isolated. Even if what folks like lgm say is true and it’s only about the registration, there is still an underlying reason. Even if it is only to inflate their “success” numbers to get additional funding for the next election.
I take this back. This is already a voter fraud issue in Ohio where those that registered where able to cast a vote in the same day.
That’s a lie. The “Kill him!” remark was aimed at Ayers, not Obama.
I repeat: what does that have to do with voter fraud – registration fraud or anything of the sort?
lgm, one guy at a rally. ONE guy. Is that all you’ve got? Thousands of dems are frothing at the mouth but you’ve got one guy. Wow.
Let’s see…they are “visually inspecting” registration applications to determine if they are valid or not.
QA rules say that a single level (100%)of visual inspection will catch 63% of defects.
So…400% visual inspection still leaves 2% of “defects” in the sample.
What was the percentage difference between Bush and Kerry’s (he served in Vietnam you know) vote totals in Ohio in 2004?
What was the percentage difference between Bush and Gore’s (he invented the internet and has a zero carbon footprint) vote totals in Florida in 2000?
Gee…2% would be MORE than enough to swing this election.
Someone get a good grip on lgm and see if they can reverse the recto-cranial inversion.
When those who do so, please hit your knees tonight to ask God for His will for our Republic. I pray it won’t be bho.
L
Amen to that!
Gomer Pyle:
and then
I pray for all corruption in both parties to be exposed, prosecuted, convicted, and prevented.
Obama can’t “win” without massive fraud.
Thank you, Jesus, that this corruption was exposed!
I am truly thankful.
Is an autopsy photo good enough? Or does it have to be an open casket shot…
They were just role playing. Its all about the make up nooky.
letget, I have here my father’s Armed Forces Prayer Book, 1941 edition. An excerpt from page 107, Prayer for the Government:
“…Enlighten and sustain with Thy power those whom the people have set in authority: the President & his counsellors and advisers, the judges and law-givers, and executives, and all those who are entrusted with our safety and with the preservation of our rights and liberties…”
just saying.
We must forgive lgm and his ignorance. While someone yelling “Kill Him!” at a rally may have worried lgm that his favorite meat puppet’s life was in danger, that an ineffective, absentee half term senator may get what’s coming… lgm has completely forgotten about the assassination chick that he and his ilk have subjected the President of the United States to, in violation of federal law and to the embarassment of thinking people everywhere.
Sadder yet – lgm actually thinks that by bringing up isolated events on the right (and somehow ignoring the flood of outrageous, dispicable, disgusting and illegal behavior on the left) he’s going to be able to overcome the crap storm that’s headed Obama’s way. I really hope there’s something left of the lad from Hawaii when the news that Bill Aeyrs ghost wrote his books hits the front pages.
It’s going to be a thing of beauty
Not for lgm however.
There’s going to be fighting in the streets if somebody in authority doesn’t stop these crooked bastards.
BR,
You have a treasure from your father. Please keep it, we can hope (gads I hate to use that word) it will not not go down in vain. It would be interesting to know if these words are still in the Prayer Book.
L
calamityville said (#40):
I have not seen a single one. An Obama supporter at an Obama rally saying “Kill McCain”? Hasn’t happened.
McCain has terrorist supporters on his staff. His transition chief lobbied for Saddam just before the invasion. That’s a lot closer than Ayers.
This has reached the point where the election itself should be delayed. The entire electoral role needs to be purged, and every citizen required to register anew if they wish to vote. Registrations should be carried out ONLY by government agencies, with multiple audit procedures followed to minimize registration fraud. Two forms of ID and a social security number should be supplied AND verified to register, and similarly on election day identification should be required to vote.
When some areas have more registrations then there are voters, other such as this example have up to 66% of registrations invalid or fraudulent, this is just too big to ignore, or to hold an election on, particularly when these are ALL being submitted by liberal pro-Obama groups. This is no less fraudulent than Mugabe’s Zimbabwe election scam, and those responsible should be charged with treason in attempting to illegally change the government.
My mother gave me my dad’s (he’s still around!) 1944 edition prayer book a while ago.
Yes, indeed, a treasure.
Yep.
Definitely.
I started thinking that a couple of weeks ago.
Hey lgm…glad you could chime in. You know – guns generally don’t kill people – bullets do. So why on earth are all you libs out there trying to ban guns?
I have to say – for a math teacher, your logical progressions seem mighty stunted.
Will someone help lgm to the sand box.
Just make sure a grownup keeps an eye on him, so that he doesn’t eat any sand.
Better yet, show him to the kitty litter and bury him there like the smelly little turd he is.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_101408/content/01125113.guest.html
HEY LGM:
“Iraqi leaders met Tuesday to review a draft of an agreement on the future of U.S. troops in Iraq, a senior adviser to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said. A senior Bush administration official said the text calls for U.S. troops to leave Iraqi cities, cease street patrols and return to their bases by June, unless Iraqis request support.” (link)
That must really ruin your day huh – now you can’t take the credit for withdrawal from Iraq and continue to call Bush a warmonger. That must REALLY pi$$ you off huh. Guess you’ll have to find some other worthless, baseless illogical ’cause’ to rant about.
To get back on topic this is nothing new for Northern Louisiana. We were stationed at Barksdale AFB, LA from Jun 1985 – Nov 1988 and never saw so much corruption at all levels of local government in the Shreveport area. I agree with other posters that despite party affiliation it is time to take out the trash at all levels of government. Too bad the Democrats are so good at it!
Welcome to the United Socialist States of America! We’re boned!
Its fraud LGM why are you excusing it?
Use your brains LGM, if you have any; once these names are accepted onto the roles, then these liberals who put them there can go from electorate to electorate and vote again and again using the names enrolled – remember, ID is not required in most places, and as long as the name is there, they can vote. There’s your fraud. Happy now, or are you like a PC and need the facts punched into you?
So, is this change we can believe in? Or just the theft of our government by the Left? And what are we going to do about it? Will the RNC be prepared to go to court? It sure looks to me like we’re going to have our freedom stolen right from under our noses by Acron and similar minded left-wing organizations. I can hear the cries of voter suppression already, but there are some voters (the unqualified ones) who ought to be suppressed — and jailed for fraud where appropriate.
lgm wrote
Hey, how are things over at DailyKos? What’s new on HuffingtonPost? Got any juicy truths to be screamed at power? No, I guess its just the same old bull crap.
Oh really. How long have ACORN been around? Yet registration fraud is only just being discovered now. If they can add tens if not hundreds of thousands just in recent weeks, how many millions of false registrations are already on the roles from the last year? How about before that? Seriously lgm, get a clue.
Voting is Power has history.
This is no surprise (especially the part about the drive being on behalf of Senator Landfill), but our Secretary of State is a stand-up guy, and he will deal with this accordingly.
Incidentally, I have always had to show ID to vote here.
And it is ACORN – they used the MAS name Voting is Power
Someone at an event that turned into an impromptu Obama rally shouted that she was going to get her big, black brothers to gang-rape Sarah Palin. And how did the liberal media respond to this violent hate speech against a Republican? The Washington Post raved about Sandra Bernhard’s anti-Palin ranting, and the Washington Examiner joined in, with the headline “Comedienne delivers enraged optimism.” No, no double standard here.
me too CantCure..and I have been voting here since 1976.
So if I were to push you off a cliff, it would be simple assault, not murder, right? All I did was give you a little push.
No, John Deaux that would be public service.
sorry I couldn’t resist
lgm just refuses to believe that her poor mistreated Dems could break the law. When a teenager is registered to vote 73 times and when Mickey Mouse has tried to register with ACORN’s help, you can call it what you want, but it is still fraud.
And what MUST be driven home again and again is–what party is ACORN most affiliated with? The Donkey party. The GOP hasn’t. ACORN had one dalliance with McCain over immigration but other than that, and on that issue, McCain is 180 deg out-of-phase with the Republican base anyways. Face it, LGMs of the world–ACORN is a Democrat party-loving outfit.
This LGM guy will have some nonsense to say about this I’m sure, but hey, no biggie! People defended slavery after the war was over and some Nazis never gave up.
At this point, I am starting to wonder if the people yelling this type stuff are agent provocateurs planted by the Democrats.
It’s a textbook socialist trick.
I’ll answer that for you. There are too many people like the idiot who posted at:
#5, #19, and #53 (lgm).
See, he proves the point that all bad can be ignored if you just keep saying, “McCain is worse, McCain is worse, the sky is falling, the sky is falling, who will get booted on Dancing…” Idiots like lgm just do not care about the evil in the process and there are just too many of them. It is sad really – very sad.
One can always hope rplatt, yes we can
Yell “Kill Willaim Ayers”? Who would do such a thing? Oh perhaps tinker with one of his bombs so they explode early.
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ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND FIREARMS
Should be a convenience store
NOT a Government Agency
Fed Court: Ohio must check registration
Short fusing a grenade is always a good way to accomplish that. “Let’s see, pull pin, release spoon, count to ..BAM”
It is getting to the point where you shoudl be required to show up in person to register to vote. If groups want to do reg. drives they should only be allowed to give out pamphlets with contact information of the Registrars offices in each city. Nothing more, nothing else.
Political argument turns ugly in Port St. Lucie
I am willing to bet money the 26 year old Johnny Morales is an Obamanite. Too many times judges have considered political violence less sever than other and given the thugs minimal sentences and fines. Which ever side he is on Johnny Morales needs some jail time to think about his attitude and temper.
Violence in the streets? Bring it on.I still have a score to settle with those people.
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ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND FIREARMS
Should be a convenience store
NOT a Government Agency
For those keeping score at home, if true that would make McCain 2 degrees of separation from Saddam Hussein. Obama to Ayers is only one.
Sorry, lgm. Thanks for playing.
Require IDs when you vote!!!!
Let me explain it to you. I have a friend who has been chugging the Obama Kool aid for months now. Today he posted a comment to twitter about “supposed ACORN fraud.”
The not so subtle message, of course, is that it’s all Republican propaganda intended to help them steal the election through the courts when McCain loses.
Understand now?
You misunderstand lgm’ brilliant observation!
The thread is about Democrat voter fraud.
lgm’s comment is about Democrat campaign fraud.
BOTH instances underline Democrat fraud!
BRILLIANT! lgm! Finally a thoughtful post! Congrats!
The Louisiana Landrieu political family and “Shady” potential illegal activity? Oh my…can’t be true.. (Sarcasm).
Their whole family is listed as Professional Politicians.. with the bulk of their close and extended family’s wealth coming from the “gub-mint” handouts and Pork.
Photo ID-or two alternative IDs- has been required in Arizona for several election cycles now. When it passed all the usual suspects of the Left cried foul. What if you don’t have a drivers license? Poor people can’t afford it! A state issued ID is $12. Persons over the age of 65 and those who receive Federal Supplemental Security Income disability checks will have the fee waived. But still ACORN, La Raza and such whined. Shows what their real agenda is.
Don’t feed the Trolls.
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ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND FIREARMS
Should be a convenience store
NOT a Government Agency
Which is why I really did not want Jindal to be V.P. That would leave Mitch Landrieu as our Gov. God forbid.