do you think there will be vote fraud/disenfranchment in the 2006 elections?

Question

I think it may have started personally..

it is supposedly (according to a informer who was at a republican gathering in Ohio) going to be similar in 4 states..one is Ohio, I wonder which are the other three states where tons of democratic voters will be purged from the roles to give republicans victories since they are doing so bad??


http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_rob_kall_061018_ohio_lawsuit_to_rein.htm\

http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2006/2181

angels..well, they must have gotten this trick from the reps as they called democrats anfd told them brecause so many people will be voting in 2004 presidential election that reps were voting Nov 2 and dems nov 3rd. I believe they even mailed this info in lookalioke BOE literature. How low can you go?

Also why are the rebulicans always the only ones on here in the middle of the night (4 am) consistently every nioght. I am a night owl mostly on here themn and dems are rarely on here in the wee hours. That's funny considering how all we here on yahoo answers from your side is how NONE of the dems work...how odd then they are all sleep and you reps are all awake.

EDIT to ranger-again going back to the 20's and 70's --we are talking about recently...especially since it is now mandated that all precincts in US go to electronic voting machines and congress funded it with billions of dollars.

It isn't a matter of they cheat and win due to intelligence..it is due to money..the lack of intelligence is shown in the fact that so many discovered the fraudulent acts like the Columbus freepress etc but with both pasrties corrupted and beholen to the powers in charge behind the scenes, the knowledge does us no good. also in Ohio all the judges are republican and threw iout all the evidence and didn't care that bush and Cheney ignored answering their depositons when they werwe sued. They should not be above the law.

very good point--open for one and we need instant runoff voting,,

Answer 1

If the GOP gets its way, yes. This is the only chance they have to stay in control. They willl soon flood the airwaves with misleading political one-liner ads to terrorize the voters, and then they will have the red-state election officials conveniently have "accidents, machine breakdowns, and unplanned eventualities" like they had in Florida and Ohio. They will carefully scrutinize all Democratic voter registrations, and cause long lines at polling places where hey anticipate losing, thus discouraging voters. If they cannot win fair and square, Republicans have no moral problem with robbing the American citizens vote. They have done it twice before, why not a 3d time?

Answer 2

The fraud in voting starts with the process to determine who will be on the ballot.

Most states give Republicans and Democrats a pass. They can name whomever they want for the ballot without any questions asked. The state committees for the "independent oversight" of elections and voting are controlled by these parties by law, sometimes in state constitutions.

Independent candidates have an uphill climb with the petitioning requirements that have a very short window and a large number of signatures to be gathered. It's slightly easier to become a third party candidate than it is to become a Saint, since a Saint would have to still perform a second miracle.

Even then, the media is going to decide early on who the contenders really are. Take the Connecticut Senate race for example. You have Lamont and Lieberman, as Democrat and Independents. The media occassionally mentions Schlesinger, the Republican, and I have yet to hear them mention the other two candidates from the Green Party and the Concerned Citizens Party by name at all. This furthers the problem for independents, by making it a self-fulfilling prophecy that the contest is between these two and no one else has a chance.

The real vote fraud is in the ballot access procedures, and the media selection of coverage.

Answer 3

There was fraud committed by both parties in many states. It's sick that people would take the sacred gift of Voting away from the common folk in order to remain powerful and rich.

In the face of that, the Democrats and Republicans have run to the middle so much and placated so many people with money, that there's not a thin dime's difference in their overall performance.

Getting more people to vote in the first place will help diminish the power politicians have of buying groups' support with campaign promises. The more voters, the less the fraud will effect an election result.

For me, I vote third party only. You have more choices than you are led to believe. To see ALL of the ballot choices in your district, go to Project Vote Smart. non-partisan

Answer 4

One instance of calling voters with erroneous polling information triggered a lawsuit filed by the Ohio Republican party against the Ohio Democratic Party, Greene County Democratic Party and ACT Ohio, a 527 political action committee. The suit claimed that Democrats misinformed Republicans about the date of the election and told them certain documentation would be needed to vote. A temporary restraining order was issued.[13] The Democratic Party chair for that county acknowledged that mistakes may have happened, but said that Democrats had made no attempt to mislead voters.

Answer 5

Both sides cheat. If you think the Democrats don't then just check out the history of elections in places like NYC and Chicago from the 1920's through the seventies. Dead people voted in many of those races. and the dem's won.

It happens everywhere all the time and both sides have their ways. But think about it. The winning side is the smarter of the two. Better to have a smart group in office than the dumb ones. 8-)

Answer 6

There is fraud to some extent in every election. You may not like purging the voter lists but it is not illegal. I personally think no one should be allowed to vote with out a photo ID. You can't cash a check without proving who you are so why should voting be any different.

Democrats here in Louisiana have a long history of "walking around money to Black Preachers, Dead people voting and speed traps at heavily white precincts. Back in 1967 I voted twice in a local election. Incredibily I went AWOL from Vietnam .....came back to Louisiana .......voted twice ........and got back to Vietnam the same day. Now I know if happened that way because Democrats are fine moral upstanding people down here and they would never do anything like frauduntly cast two votes in my name now would they?

Answer 7

Why not? Both sides tend to cheat egregiously whenever they can get away with it. Mayor Daley and LBJ were notorious for the shenanigans they pulled in elections. And the Mafia helped JFK get elected by helping him in Indiana at the behest of Frank Sinatra. Nixon had the decency not to contest it because he felt it would be bad for the country to have a big battle over it.

Answer 8

We all know that Democrats invented and perfected vote fraud. Their big cities always have political machines and labor unions to bribe, extort, intimidate and generally connive people into voting Democrat. And then they always make sure dead people's vote counts too, for good measure.

Answer 9

The worst fraud ever with Republicans

Answer 10

There won't be no fraud charges in this coming election, because George W. Bush isn't running. If there was any wrongdoing before, it was done by Bush supporters. Our elections never had any kind of wrongdoing until George W. Bush was involved.