Interesting Huff Po comment on voter fraud:
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THERE IS INDIVIDUAL NO VOTER FRAUD.
In spite of allegation of voter fraud by Republicans, it has been repeatedly proven that there is no voter fraud.
1. BUSH LOOKS FOR FRAUD. Between 2002 and 2005 the Bush administration made it a high priority to find voter fraud cases. This is what they found: Individual Voter Fraud:
26 Cases - 12 convictions, 14 aquitals/dismissals
Less than four case per year.
2. JOHN ASHCROFT COULDN'T FIND VOTER FRAUD. Bush's Attorney General dedicate his entire time in office to finding voter fraud. After several years of intensive efforts, Ashcroft found 95 cases over a three year period and only 40 were convicted. Out of millions of votes cast, that's only 14 per year One of his attorney generals said "you more likely to get hit by lightening than to find voter fraud."
3. REPUBLICAN LAWYER COULDN'T FIND FRAUD. The Republican National Lawyers Association attempted to prove that there was wide-spread voter fraud. They combed through the records and here's what they found:
Over a 15 year period of time, they only found 310 allegations of voter fraud. Many of the cases were later dismissed. That's only about 20 cases per year.
4. SOUTH CAROLINA COULDN'T FIND ANY FRAUD. In October of 2011, the South Carolina election commission announced that they had no record of voter fraud in any recent election.
5. THE CARNEGIE CORPORATION COULDN'T FIND VOTER FRAUD. The Carnegie Corporation spent 12 years analyzing voter fraud. This is what they found:
They asked all 50 State Attorney General and 1,000 counties for all record of voter fraud between 2000 and 2012. They received 2,068 reports of alleged election-fraud. But of those 2,068 case only 10 were the type of voter fraud that ID card could prevent. The rest of the cases were committed by Campaign Officials, and Election Officials, which cannot be detected by voter ID.
6. MOST ALLEGED VOTER IS FRAUD IS CLERICAL ERRORS. The Brennan center examined 30,656 cases of voter fraud including Double Voting, Deceased Voters, Fraudulent Addresses, Felony Voting, Noncitizen Voting, Registration Fraud and Vote Buying. It turned out that 99.9% of all these cases of supposed voter fraud turn out to be clerical errors by the election commissions.
7. VOTER ID SUPPRESS MINORITY VOTE BY 10% According to Rutgers University, just requiring a NON-PHOTO ID reduced African American turn out by 1.050-million voters.
Bottom line: Voter ID Laws Are 97,402 times more Effective at Suppressing Democratic Voters than they are at Fixing Voter Fraud."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/el ... 35933.html
And another one:
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"The only thing the GOPTea cares more about that taking away the rights of women and taking away the rights of workers, is taking away the rights of voters and passing voter-suppression laws in all the states where the GOPTea control the State Legislatures and governorships.
In the 2012 election the GOPTea:
-Passed a law in Florida banning The League of Women Voters and Rock the Vote to register voters. The law was eventually overturned but that left only a few months to register voters and the damage had been done to vastly lower the registration of Democrats.
-Erected billboards in low-income neighborhood to intimidate voters with headlines like “VOTER FRAUD IS A FELONY” or “PHOTO ID NEEDED” when in fact it wasn’t, as in PA.
-Robocalls telling people they could vote by phone (no you cannot!)
-Robocalls giving the incorrect voting date.
-Phony letters telling voters they were ineligible to vote.
-Civil Rights, Human Rights and Labor organizations, including the NAACP, the Hispanic Federation and the AFL-CIO urged True the Vote and its affiliates to immediately halt its national campaign to assert challenges to the eligibility of voters.
-GOP employers told their employees how to vote: The Koch brothers sent out 26,000 letters telling their employees to vote for Romney.
-Cut back voting weekends, days and hours which caused voting lines to be 8 to10 hours long, etc."