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For those who ponder voter fraud, especially those who dismiss it, this post opens with poll results from Oct 20, 2008 on how many people link ACORN with voter fraud.

45% Say ACORN Trying to Register Illegal Voters

Monday, October 20, 2008

Forty-five percent (45%) of voters say the liberal activist group ACORN is trying to register voters illegally, but they’re divided over whether Barack Obama has ties to the group, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.

Only 25% think ACORN, under investigation in several states for possible voter registration fraud, is not trying to put illegal voters on the rolls.

It just keeps getting better. With those on the right continuing the fight to eliminate voter fraud from the likes of the Obama supported ($800,000 from his campaign) ACORN activist group to the liberal leaning MSM and Democrats continuing to dismiss voter fraud as an attempt to bar legitimate voters from the rolls, the state of California is a fine example of muddying the waters of voter fraud.

Orange County offers drive-through democracy

Registration and early voting without leaving the car will be available today, the last day to register for the Nov. 4 election.
For those registering to vote, election officials will hand the paperwork through car windows, or people can fill out the forms at a well-lighted table outside.

If illegal aliens or others with stolen identities drive up to the registrar of voters in California what is to stop a fraudulent registration from becoming an illegal vote? To those who wish to dismiss concerns here is a concession. It is probably just as likely that a fraudulent registration and vote done the old-fashioned way will be overlooked as well. Even in Mexico they have an ID with photo, fingerprint and other security measures to avoid fraudulent voting. But in this country a national ID was criticized and those supporting called racist or xenophobic. Is that still the current argument for allowing voter fraud?

SoCal voters cast ballots in drive-through style

By AMY TAXIN –

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — There were no burgers, car washes or lattes at this Orange County drive-through — just democracy.

Eager voters pulled their vehicles into the county registrar’s parking lot on Monday to either register or cast ballots at an electronic drive-through poll station.

The one-day-only offer came on the last day of voter registration for Californians. Only Orange County was offering the drive-through electronic voting service.

Another California example that voter fraud may be getting easier. If getting everyone eligible to vote requires instant access does that not increase the chance of fraud and decrease the government’s ability to verify voter information as valid. What was so wrong with requiring those interested in voting to register far in advance of an election to be able to vote? The answer is it does not facilitate fraud. Even using traditional voter registration methods sometimes left the door open for fraud. So instead of tightening registration requirements we, as a nation, have made it simpler to cheat and discredit the process.

Old-fashioned voting on the wane

Changing preferences lead to cuts in counties’ number of polling places
By Will Oremus
MediaNews
10/18/2008

Every year since 1972, Evan Economos of Palo Alto has been among the first people in line when his polling place opened on Election Day.

The financial analyst and father of two had to move up his morning routine a half-hour or so to keep on schedule, but didn’t mind. In fact, he looked forward to it.

“Often the people at the polling place know who I am, because they’ve seen me there before,” Economos says. He signs his name, casts his ballot, and saves the “I voted!” sticker to affix to the wall of his office at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.

Not this year.

Two weeks ago, Economos got a letter from the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters, informing him that there is no longer a polling place for his precinct.

And some voters are not even given the chance to do as they have done for years. It is not so much that old-fashioned voting is on the wane as it is those interested in subverting one of the most small d democratic processes in this republic. The author of this blog looks forward to the visit to the local polling place also and has for many years. It is a right. It is a responsibility to do one’s part. It aids in conducting a legal and legitimate process. And the social exchange of participating in traditional voting methods strengthens the process as well. But that does not favor a party, the Democrats, who have supported ACORN and others bent on doing whatever it takes to turn around their habit of losing important elections including fraud.

They vigorously complained about the 2000 and 2004 elections but no longer. As they have found a way to stack the deck in their favor there will be no complaining about voter fraud this year.

Mail ballots available for Nov. 4 election

Vote-by-mail ballots for the Nov. 4, general election are available from the Sonoma County Registrar of Voters.

County Clerk Janice Atkinson said that voters who wish to vote by mail must submit a signed request for the ballot to the Registrar of Voters office. Requests can be in person or by mail. Registered voters should receive a sample ballot and voter information pamphlet before the election. The application on the back of the sample ballot can be used to request a vote-by-mail ballot. Requests can also be made by sending a personally signed letter to the Registrar of Voters

Drive up and vote. Mail in your registration and vote. Vote early, vote often is no longer a historical footnote on past election fraud. Voter registration offices all over the country are making it easier to cheat rather than limiting the possibility of fraud. If they do not have the people or the time to properly check voter registration then that is the strongest case for requiring enough time to do it right. Since the voter fraud king, ACORN, has been around for nearly forty years if they were legitimate they would have had enough time to register voters the right way. Their complaint that voters are being kept from voting by registration restrictions falls flat. It is simply a nonsense excuse to perpetrate the fraud. If people cannot get registered the old fashioned way it may be more proof they are dead. Since ACORN has a habit of registering dead people the more anonymous the registration the better for them.

Absentee Ballots Mandatory in Many Santa Clara County Precincts

SAN JOSE (KCBS) — So many people have chosen to vote by mail that county officials will not staff polling places in hundreds of precincts this November.

Sixty-eight percent of the county’s 759,000 registered voters have switched to absentee ballots, said Elma Rosas, a spokesman for the Santa Clara County Registrar.

Another fine California example of making it easier for those intent to commit fraud. Mail it in folks. Can it get any easier to cheat? It probably can.

A little humor in this unfunny story. Does anyone remember receiving advice not to offer incentives to potential voters for registering?

Voting advice from the top

On Monday’s deadline to register to vote for the Nov. 4 election, Secretary of State Debra Bowen will be sponsoring a dawn-to-midnight voter-registration fair on the sidewalk across from the state Capitol. Perhaps its chief value will be as a visually interesting place for TV cameras to get live shots as they remind viewers on Monday that this is their last chance to be relevent in the 2008 election.

Bowen also has laid out a useful list of voting do’s and don’ts — something worth passing along for the political activists who read this blog:

DON’T: Offer incentives to voters for agreeing to register to vote or to vote a certain way. This is illegal under state and federal law.

No kidding. The insanity of the voting process marches on. There was a time when telling the truth, registering to vote and casting your vote was an honorable exercise. Not that we are all saints but at least voter fraud may have been limited with rare exceptions throughout history. Now voter fraud may become the rule rather than the exception. A large public outcry to return to the sanity of traditional registration and voting may solve the problem. The question is are enough people interested in fixing the problem or not. There appears to be plenty of doubt.

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