Democrat withdraws from 1st District congressional race after allegations she voted in two states
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Wendy Rosen, the Democratic challenger to Republican Rep. Andy Harris in the
1st Congressional District, withdrew from the race Monday amid allegations that
she voted in elections in both Maryland and Florida in 2006 and 2008.
It was unclear, however, whether she could remove her name from the ballot
with the election less than two months away. Under state law, a candidate has
until 70 days before an election to remove his or her name from the ballot. The
deadline for the Nov. 6 election passed on Aug. 28.
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http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-wend...
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Elaine Magliacane 2012/09/11 14:42:04This is what U can expect from Democrats and liberals
+8It is ALSO A FEDERAL CRIME... her butt should be PROSECUTED for ELECTION FRAUD. I believe it is a 10 year JAIL sentence. Lots of 'SNOW' birds in Florida and SC vote absentee in their Northern home state, and go personally to the polls in their winter home states... TOTALLY against the law.
But what do the actions of one democrat say about the whole party? If you subscribe to that line of reasoning, you must accept that all republicans are secretly seek out gay prostitutes in public toilets -- because one of them did it a year or so ago (actually, more than one did, so clearly ALL republicans do).
This is a pathetic generalization, and it really just shows how unable we are to talk decently to each other as fellow citizens. To most of you reading this question, I am probably a liberal and a democrat -- and therefore, not a reasonable human being. I am worthy of insulting, but in your minds there is no value to trying to do anything else because I am too brainwashed to actually have real ideas.
If all we do is ridicule and attack each other, nothing gets done. It's not just conservatives bashing liberals -- both sides do it. I find the conservatives to be more eager to attack, but that might be because I feel their rage more often (because disagreeing with anyone on SodaHead usually brings on angry tirades). Most posters, right or left, are VERY willing to make up facts to support their case -- or a...
But what do the actions of one democrat say about the whole party? If you subscribe to that line of reasoning, you must accept that all republicans are secretly seek out gay prostitutes in public toilets -- because one of them did it a year or so ago (actually, more than one did, so clearly ALL republicans do).
This is a pathetic generalization, and it really just shows how unable we are to talk decently to each other as fellow citizens. To most of you reading this question, I am probably a liberal and a democrat -- and therefore, not a reasonable human being. I am worthy of insulting, but in your minds there is no value to trying to do anything else because I am too brainwashed to actually have real ideas.
If all we do is ridicule and attack each other, nothing gets done. It's not just conservatives bashing liberals -- both sides do it. I find the conservatives to be more eager to attack, but that might be because I feel their rage more often (because disagreeing with anyone on SodaHead usually brings on angry tirades). Most posters, right or left, are VERY willing to make up facts to support their case -- or at least pass along something they read somewhere as fact (without having verified it at all). Some posters -- maybe most, I don't know -- no longer know which facts are actually true... so they have started to simply accept as truth things that already agree with their own opinions, and as false things that disagree.
Stop the rage, stop the attacks, stop the biased questions. At least give an "Other" option -- because I am not Undecided on this issue: if she did this, she really needs to go to jail (or whatever the punishment is for this crime).
It is also very interesting to me that NONE of the Voter ID laws the republicans have passed to protect against voter fraud would have done ANYTHING to protect in this case, because it was Absentee Ballot Voter Fraud.
Isn't it ironic that every republican law passed against voter fraud specifically ignores ANY sort of protection against absentee voter fraud, even though every study on the subject shows that 99.99% of all voter fraud is via absentee ballots?
Why is that, do you think? Is it because republicans are not smart enough to read reports, or is it because they understand that absentee ballots tend to skew republican -- and they have no desire to suppress voter turnout that helps their side, even if that is where the illegal activity occurs?
Where did you find that statistic that 99.99 was absentee. I have not seen that before.
I did skip the 3rd paragraph on the shortcut. Thank You for pointing that out.
He got it from a political science professor who studies voter law in many different countries, including our own. Sadly, experts like him are rarely given any credibility by either side -- because they don't always agree with the political "truths" that side maintains.
to want to see who's calling you but not to want to know who is voting in the elections.
Of course she will not be prosecuted, she's a democrat. Eric Holder anyone??
Why is that, do you think? Do republicans not read their own reports? Or do they just prefer not to adress absentee voter fraud because absentee ballots usually break for the GOP -- so they don't care about the fraud?
The worst part of the whole thing was that this clerk had actually done this once before to benefit a republican in state-wide office, and nobody had fired her. This time she did get fired, but there was no absolute proof of forged ballots.
I do not know about the cases you mention, but I am sure fraud occurs by both parties -- and it is wrong whoever does it.
Over the past few years under Obama's Presidency, the Democrats have been caught in one scandal after another in relation to election fraud and then there were the issues like the New Black Panthers outside voting booths where it wasn't w...
Over the past few years under Obama's Presidency, the Democrats have been caught in one scandal after another in relation to election fraud and then there were the issues like the New Black Panthers outside voting booths where it wasn't whites they were intimidating because these were black voting districts... it was black Americans they were intimidating to vote for Obama.
Things like this do take place in every political party, you are correct on that. But it seems like Republicans get caught on ethics issues where Democrats go after them on traditional lines of religious faith and integrity while Democrats get caught on multiple issues relating to voting fraud and crime.
It's more that since the advent of unions and their growing power in the US, Democrats have been the ones representing unions and unions unfortunately are often in bed with organized crime / gambling interests. If you wish to say so are Republicans, you'd be correct but to a far lesser degree. When you hear about a Republican caught in a child molestation case, it's untrue they do this more than Democrats but because they run on religious themes they get caught committing adultery, being addicted to porn and of course there are homosexual Republicans which most Republicans seem to oppose homosexuality to a much higher level than Democrats so that the sum total of sex related issues falls far more heavily on Republicans.
The old joke where Republicans are concerned is that Democrats attack them as liars and when Republicans try to retaliate, Democrats say "Hey, we're not the one's telling people we don't lie to get elected".
You can't CATCH voter fraud if you're not looking for it..
Why is that, do you think?
I oppose the voter ID laws for (general) in-person voting, but I cannot imagine why a person who asks to change how they vote -- whether registering for the first time or getting an absentee ballot or whatever -- is not asked to prove who they are in some significant way.
Most absentee fraud, I think, occurs like the case from this article -- people vote absentee in one state and on-person in another. On the other hand, there may be other kinds of absentee fraud that I simply can't imagine -- I'm really not that good at sneaky, illegal activities in general. Sadly, there are people who probably make a living at it -- and they are in great demand from both political parties.
Since the number of cases of in-person fraud is extremely small and the number of cases of legitimate voters without ID is much, much greater than that, it is a case of causing significant harm to fix a small harm... sort of like cutting off an arm to prevent a finger rash from spreading.
Basically, if you prevent large groups of people from being able to do what the Constitution guarantees, you harming democracy in a big way. There has to be a very compelling reason to do so, and there isn't in this case. The number of in-person fraud cases is simply too small to warrant harming this many legitimate voters.
In Wisconsin, you can get the ID free if you come to the government building during a two-hour period on a FIFTH Wednesday of a month... which of course only happens about twice a year. So... four hours a year there is free ID. Guess what? The line is longer than two hours long, so the people at the end of the line have to pay -- unless they are willing to wait another five or six months.
In Wisconsin, another part of the law specifically prohibits college students from voting unless they can show a Wisconsin car registration. Never mind that most don't have cars...
So, yes, some groups are specifically blocked from voting. On purpose.
Wonder why republican initiatives didn't want to target the actual source of voter fraud...