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Von Spakovsky: 1982 Feels Just Like Yesterday

Rick Hasen over at Election Law Blog has a great find from a recent FOX News opinion piece written by legendary voter suppression guru Hans von Spakovsky:

One doesn't have to look far to find instances of fraudulent ballots cast in actual elections by 'voters' who were the figments of active imaginations. In 1984, a district attorney in Brooklyn, N.Y. (a Democrat), released the findings of a grand jury that reported extensive registration and impersonation fraud between 1968 and 1982.

Other things that happened in 1982:

  • The end of commercial whaling
  • The first compact discs -- commonly known as CDs -- are released in Germany
  • The Double Stuf Oreo goes on sale.
  • The Dow hits an all-time high of 1,065.49.
  • Michael Jackson releases Thriller.
  • Time's "Man of the Year" is given to the first non-human: The Computer.

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"fraud between 1968 and 1982" -- 1969 is also between '68 and '82, so I don't think we're limited to anything even as recent as '82.

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Breaking!! Leonid Brezhnev replaced by Yuri Andropov, new direction for the USSR?

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Ah, but 1982 was nothing compared to 1981... The dawn of GOP vote caging.

New Jersey 1981

The notorious 1981 New Jersey gubernatorial election between Republican Tom Kean and Democrat Jim Florio provided a window into voter intimidation and suppression techniques, vote caging in particular. The Republican National Committee used vote caging to compile a list of more than 45,000 voters, mostly Black and Latino, to challenge at the polls.[2] Republican “ballot security” teams hired armed guards with armbands to police polling places.

Kean won by less than 2,000 voters, but only after an almost month-long recount. Both state and county prosecutors launched investigations into voter intimidation. A federal court eventually entered a consent decree that prohibited the RNC from engaging in vote caging.

http://www.clcblog.org/blog_item-152.html


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The United States of America does have a serious voter fraud problem. The voting machines have been shown to have serious security issues, and they are made by firms headed by avowed Republicans. In addition, these machines have been seen to change a person's vote from Democrat to Republican, but no documented cases of Republican to Democrat vote failure. The companies making these vote computers don't want to release the source code to the software, either. In cases where they have released the code, voter security issues have been detected by computer scientists.

A fictitious voter is no worse than a changed vote, and we have seen many more documented cases of voter machine problems than we have of actual personal voter fraud. There is a real problem, and we are not addressing it effectively.

BP

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Old sparky cannot point to any incidence of actual voter fraud occurring as the result of ACORN. There has been zero incidence of voter fraud so there is no precedence for Bohner and Sparky to make such accusations. Having nothing to base it on does not seem to matter to them because they make it up in their minds so it must be true. We are so done with these goobers. They've done absolutely Nothing helpful to society in their positions except fear monger. Worthless wannabes out to make trouble for the citizenry.

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Time's "Man of the Year" is given to the first non-human: The Computer.

It totally didn't deserve it

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