DEMOCRATS AT IT AGAIN -- STRIKE OUT AT THE MILITARY VOTE ONCE MORE!
As they did in the 2000 election when they attempted to disqualify military absentee ballotsin the vote count in Florida, the Democrats and the Obama campaign are once again attempting to restrict military voters, this time in the swing state of Ohio:
"On July 17th, the Obama for America Campaign, the
Currently, Ohio allows the public to vote early in-person up until the Friday before the election. Members of the military have three extra days
Democratic National Committee and the Ohio Democratic Party filed suit
in OH to strike down part of that state’s law governing voting by
members of the military. Their suit said that part of the law is
“arbitrary” with “no discernible rational basis.”
to do so. While the Democrats may see this as “arbitrary” and having
“no discernible rational basis”, I think it is entirely reasonable given
the demands on servicemen and women’s time and their obligations to
their sworn duty.The National Defense Committee reports:
[f]or each of the last three years, the Department of
Defense’s Federal Voting Assistance Program has reported to the
President and the Congress that the number one reason for military voter
disenfranchisement is inadequate time to successfully vote. (And the Dims say there is "no discernible rational basis for treating the military differently?)
So now we see the Democrat playbook come out again. We see the praise
of the lips while they drive the knife into the back of our service men
and women that they are using abroad in unconsitutional wars. While I
disagree with Mike Flynn that they “have more right to vote than the
rest of us,” I emphatically agree that they have the right to vote and
that right should be defended by those of us at home.
While Republicans have been battling for Voter ID laws, maybe they
should include in that battle protection of the military’s vote.
We all know what is coming in November. The race will probably be
close and this is the Chicago style thuggery of applying pressure where
the Democrats can in order to cheat in the elections. Make no mistake
about it, attempts to restrict the military’s vote is an attempt at
voter fraud.
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Gracie - Proud Conservative 2012/08/03 22:24:56
+6Despicable and predictable! They want non-citizens to vote but not the soldier serving our country. They are anti-American, no matter how you want to slice it!
it.
How Gore Cheated American Troops Serving Overseas
NewsMax.com
Wednesday, May 9, 2001
Part one of Bill Sammon’s blockbuster book, "At Any Cost: How Al Gore Tried to Steal the Election," revealed how the networks cost George W. Bush at least 10,000 votes in Florida by making an early - and completely false - call giving the state’s 25 electoral votes to Al Gore.
Al Gore, who kept insisting that "every vote be counted,” robbed American troops serving their country overseas of their right to vote, according to Bill Sammon's investigation of Gore’s shameful, underhanded fight for Florida’s crucial electoral votes.
To illustrate the depths to which Gore sank in his effort to steal the election from George W. Bush, Sammon tells the shocking story of Navy Lt. John Russell, a heroic career officer who had just fought to help save the crew of USS Cole after it was bombed by terrorists in Yemen.
He tells how Russell was rousted out of bed days after the election to take a phone call from his wife that stunned him. His vote, she told him, had been disqualified. He had been deprived of his right to vote
"Mrs. Russell explained that she had just gotten home when she received a phone call from a woman ...
How Gore Cheated American Troops Serving Overseas
NewsMax.com
Wednesday, May 9, 2001
Part one of Bill Sammon’s blockbuster book, "At Any Cost: How Al Gore Tried to Steal the Election," revealed how the networks cost George W. Bush at least 10,000 votes in Florida by making an early - and completely false - call giving the state’s 25 electoral votes to Al Gore.
Al Gore, who kept insisting that "every vote be counted,” robbed American troops serving their country overseas of their right to vote, according to Bill Sammon's investigation of Gore’s shameful, underhanded fight for Florida’s crucial electoral votes.
To illustrate the depths to which Gore sank in his effort to steal the election from George W. Bush, Sammon tells the shocking story of Navy Lt. John Russell, a heroic career officer who had just fought to help save the crew of USS Cole after it was bombed by terrorists in Yemen.
He tells how Russell was rousted out of bed days after the election to take a phone call from his wife that stunned him. His vote, she told him, had been disqualified. He had been deprived of his right to vote
"Mrs. Russell explained that she had just gotten home when she received a phone call from a woman at the Duval County elections office who said her husband´s absentee ballot in the presidential election had been disqualified at the urging of Democratic lawyers on behalf of Vice President Al Gore, the party´s presidential nominee,” Sammon wrote.
"A few minutes later, Mrs. Russell told her husband, she got a call from a man with the Republican Party. He confirmed that Lt. Russell´s ballot had been disqualified - along with hundreds of others that the Democrats had protested.”
Russell’s reaction was heated, he told Sammon. "I was hot. Here I am, deployed overseas. I´ve done everything I can to cast my ballot properly. And I find out my vote doesn´t count because of a lousy postmark - even though they received it before Election Day."
In early November, Russell was in the midst of a six-month deployment to the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean aboard the USS Tarawa. His ship had been detoured to Yemen because of the terrorist attack on the Cole. On arrival this dedicated officer volunteered to take charge of a tugboat to move the damaged ship to a safer mooring.
Knowing that the mail was slow and undependable, he took pains to mail his ballot early enough so that it would reach Florida by Election Day. Russell tells how he had arranged for the Duval County elections office to send him an absentee ballot.
"One of the things I´ve learned when you´re deployed overseas is the time it takes the mail to get back," Russell told Sammon. "I don´t care how quickly you throw it in the mailbox. It can take up to 30 days to get back to the States. So as soon as I got my absentee ballot, I got it witnessed [and] dated, and threw it back in the mailbox."
His ballot arrived at the Duval County elections office Nov. 6, the day before the election, about the same time he was helping play host to the grief-stricken sailors of the Cole and allowing investigators to take over his office on the Tarawa. Russell, who is proud of the fact that he had voted in every election since he was old enough to cast a ballot, was infuriated to learn from his wife on Nov. 18 that his ballot had been thrown out by Gore’s lawyers on the grounds that because it lacked a postmark he could have sent it after the election - despite the fact that it had arrived the day before the election.
"Oh, I was torqued," the lieutenant told Sammon. "Especially after that Palm Beach crap. They weren´t confused about the ballot. And yet it looked like their votes were going to be counted. But to hell with the military."
Gore’s atttempt to invalidate the votes of America’s servicemen and women was part of a strategy outlined in a memo that fell into the hands of GOP lawyers. The memo outlined the steps Gore’s lawyers were to take in challenging absentee military ballots.
One of Bush’s lawyers was a Panhandle attorney named Ed Fleming. He had been recruited to join the small army of legal experts to help stave off Gore’s attempt to reverse the election results. "There was a rumor that there was going to be concerted, organized opposition to try to keep out the military votes, and so they asked me if I would monitor the situation here in northwest Florida," Fleming told Sammon. "I knew the county attorneys around here, so I called Tom Dannheisser, who´s the county attorney in Santa Rosa County."
Dannheisser told Flemming that he had gotten his hands on a five-page memo from a Democrat lawyer dated that day that spelled out the Gore team’s shoddy game plan to disqualify military ballots. It was written by Mark Herron, a lawyer working for Gore in the postelection battle.
"Herron distributed what obviously was intended to be a confidential memo to their lawyers, to give them reasons to challenge the ballots," Fleming told Sammon. "But one of the attorneys that they hired locally to do that said, 'Well, gee, this seems good. I´ll just send it to the county attorney in advance, so he´ll know what points I´m going to make at the canvassing board meeting.´
"So he sent it to the county attorney of Santa Rosa. It was one of the dumber lawyers that had been retained by the Florida Democratic Party," Fleming said.
After having determined that the memo was a public record by virtue of having been sent to Dannheisser’s in his capacity as county attorney, Flemming carefully read what he realized was the Gore team’s "smoking gun."
The memo instructed Democrat lawyers to make "pettifogging objections” to military ballots, especially those not postmarked.
"I sent the memo up to Tallahassee that afternoon, and it all started from there," Fleming recalls with a chuckle. Upon receiving the Herron memo, the Bush command center in Tallahassee faxed it to Republican lawyers in all 67 Florida counties, Sammon wrote. The military ballots were to be publicly tallied the next day by canvassing boards across the state.
The main battlegound was Duval County, home to more military families than any other county in Florida. Duval had more absentee ballots from overseas than any other county - 618 of 3,500 cast statewide. Five Gore lawyers showed up at the elections office at 9 a.m. Friday to disqualify as many of those ballots as possible."
And oh, by the way, there were two Gore v. Bush cases to go before the Supreme Court, and one was 5-4, but the other was 7-2 in Bush's favor -- so claim that one was politcal!!!
Kennedy won the popular vote over Nixon, 49.7 percent to 49.5 percent, and there were wide-spread charges of fraud in two states which Kennedy/Johnson won, Illinois and Texas (Johnson's home state), where they won by narrow margins. Many urged Nixon to challenge the outcome, but to his credit he refused to do so for the good of the country. Gore doesn't come off looking too good even compared to the disgraced Richard Nixon.
Well now we have our answer as to why Bush and Rove loved Bev so much. From http://www.benzinga.com/news/... and http://www.freepress.org we learn:
“A new filing in the King Lincoln Bronzeville v. Blackw...
Well now we have our answer as to why Bush and Rove loved Bev so much. From http://www.benzinga.com/news/... and http://www.freepress.org we learn:
“A new filing in the King Lincoln Bronzeville v. Blackwell case includes a copy of the Ohio Secretary of State election production system configuration that was in use in Ohio’s 2004 presidential election when there was a sudden and unexpected shift in votes for George W. Bush,” according to Bob Fitrakis,
Cliff Arnebeck, the lead attorney in the King Lincoln case, exchanged emails with IT security expert Stephen Spoonamore. He asked Spoonamore whether or not SmarTech had the capability to “input data” and thus alter the results of Ohio’s 2004 election. His response sent a chill up my spine.
“Yes. They would have had data input capacities. The system might have been set up to log which source generated the data but probably did not,” Spoonamore said. In case that seems a bit too technical and “big deal” for you, consider what he was saying. SmarTech, a private company, had the ability in the 2004 election to add or subtract votes without anyone knowing they did so.
SmarTech was part of three computer companies brought in to manage the elections process for Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, a Republican. The other two were Triad and GovTech Solutions. All three companies have extensive ties to the Republican party and Republican causes.
In fact, GovTech was run by Mike Connell, who was a fiercely religious conservative who got involved in politics to push a right-wing social agenda. He was Karl Rove’s IT go-to guy, and was alleged to be the IT brains behind the series of stolen elections between 2000 and 2004.
Connell was outed as the one who stole the 2004 election by Spoonamore, who, despite being a conservative Republican himself, came forward to blow the whistle on the stolen election scandal. Connell gave a deposition on the matter, but stonewalled.”