Election Fraud

Election fraud has been going on for a long time and is not anything new. Mayor Daley in Chicago found tens of thousands of deceased people to vote for John Kennedy in the 1960 presidential election. There were similar claims in Texas during the 1964 Presidential election. In the 2000 and 2004 Presidential elections fraud was claimed by the Democrats. The media wants Americans to believe that new voting machines are not going to count the public’s vote correctly. Voter fraud is going to happen regardless if the vote is done by machine or by paper. The argument is that it is much harder to hide and cover up if there is a paper trail. That may be true, but it is still debatable because there has been accusation of fraud throughout the history American Presidential elections.

Today, it seems only a Republican can steal an election and it is beneath Democrats. Take the 2006 election cycle as an example. During the 2006 elections the Republicans were on the opposite side of a lot of close races. Incumbent senator George Allen of Virginia lost to Senator Jim Webb by less than six thousand votes and had the right to a complete recount. He requested to canvass a few precincts but saw no irregularity and conceded the following the day. That same day Democrat Senate leaders such as Charles Schumer of New York stated publicly that Allen needed to concede and not request a recount that was within state margins for him to do so. These are the same Senate leaders who backed Al Gore’s fight for the presidency in 2000 and did not want him to concede. The Democrats are being hypocrites and they are certainly not following the motto preached throughout this text to treat others the same way you expect to be treated. Like Allen, all Republicans that lost close elections conceded the next day. Not one claimed any fraud or demanded hand counts despite the high number of elections throughout the country decided by a few thousand votes or less. Over sixty percent of the closely decided elections went against the Republicans. The only seat contested and is still in litigation is Florida’s thirteenth district where Republican Vern Buchanan defeated Democrat Christine Jennings by three hundred and sixty nine votes. The recount confirmed the results, but Jennings still has not conceded a year later. Her basis for contesting the election is because Sarasota County had a very large under vote of eighteen thousand votes, nearly one in six voters did not vote in the race. Jennings won Sarasota County by six percentage points meaning eighteen thousand under votes could gain her over one thousand votes. However, this election was highly contested with a very heated campaign where both candidates got nasty with each other. There was a lot of mudslinging. Many people polled about why they opted not to vote for a candidate indicated it was because they both turned off voters with their personal attack campaigns. This is another good reason to implement the “None of the Above” category on ballots. For people who select “None of the Above” there is no dispute as to the voters’ intent. This way, election officials can make it clear that voters should vote for each race. If they do not like the candidates they should choose “None of the Above”. This approach would certainly clear up any under votes in an election. This double standard that exists that only Republicans cheat and commit fraud is preposterous.

In the 2008 election, only Fox News is reporting the corruption of Acorn. Acorn is backed by liberals (Obama contributed 800K and worked for them in the past) to get people registered to vote. That is a noble cause, but when one of three people Acorn registers is under question, that is unbelievable. The city of Indianapolis has 105% registered rate. An 80% rate would be high and obviously any rate over 100% means there are more registered voters than people that live in the area. Although no fraud was found in the 2000 and 2004 elections, the conspiracy theorist Democrats are sore losers and want to make sure those so called “fraudulent voting machines” do not steal another election, they themselves are turning to fraud. It is a sad world we live in when it comes down to this. The unfortunate thing about the Acorn registration drive, it is possible that people with the right to vote may be purged from the system accidentally because of their attempt at corruption. The bottom line, their attempt at fraud does not help anyone and could in fact hurt their candidate and effort.