The usual suspects have immediately attacked the messenger. Lest we forget.
Related: South Carolina Voter ID law would prevent dead people from voting - - Racist! :-)
Posted by Robert at January 13, 2012 7:55 AMI can't believe that you don't have to show ID to vote in NH Primaries.....insanity I say.
Obama wouldn't want to change the law.....how could all those illegal be able to vote if they had to show ID..Democracy is a wonderful thing.
Posted by: Mike M. at January 13, 2012 9:50 AMI think that this guy, James O'Keefe should get a medal for exposing the corruption that every other media is ignoring or denying. He takes a tremendous risk to himself every time yet thankfully he persists.
Funny how the MSM and people on the left go ballistic when O'Keefe exposes the corruption or the lies that nobody investigates.
We need more James O'Keefes in this world.
Posted by: Canuck1929 at January 13, 2012 9:51 AMDon't forget to vote and vote often.
Seriously, actually that this sort of thing still happens with today's technology is either pathetic or by design or possibly both.
Posted by: Ken (Kulak) at January 13, 2012 9:58 AMAnd you just know that if anybody tried to put a stop to this, they'd be "racists".
Posted by: BillyHW at January 13, 2012 10:27 AMThose attacking Mr O'Keefe claim that voter ID laws would adversely effect poor and minority voters. That these are traditional Democrat voting groups is, I am sure, a complete coincidence and doesn't factor into their argument.... oh who am I kidding. Basically, these people are opposed to a measure that would make voter fraud more difficult for Democrat supporters. Tells you something, doesn't it?
Posted by: Ellie in T.O. at January 13, 2012 10:55 AMGimme a break. Even the poor and minorities have some kind of ID. Social Security Cards are necessary
to obtain almost any kind of government assistance.
If not, then they are even more screwed than we think. The only ones that may not have ID are the Illegals and they are not allowed to vote. Or, so I am told.
He's just biased against the metabolically disadvantaged. The deadies will have to start having protest marches.
Posted by: C_Miner at January 13, 2012 11:17 AMSupply your own marching chant. I suggest "BRAAAAAAAINS".
Posted by: C_Miner at January 13, 2012 11:18 AMKen (Kulak), don’t forget the words, “DECEIT and CORRUPTION”. And, C_Miner, “The deadies [who] will have to start having protest marches” already are: remember the zombie marches!
As John Cleese said, “Satire is dead.” That’s for sure: the truth these days is much weirder than anything a comedian can write.
James O’Keefe is a hero.
aaaaaand in Floriduh, under Jeb Bush, it was the LIVE voters (mostly black) who *couldn't* get a ballot.
tit for tat I say.
Posted by: anon at January 13, 2012 12:03 PMThe bitter media reaction to this underlines the extent of their partisan bias...when they desperately defend DEMONcRAT election corruption.
There were instances during the 2010 election where TRUE-THE-VOTE poll watchers had to defend their Constitutional right to observe the poll...to POLICE....called by the DEMONcRAT poll watchers.
Posted by: sasquatch at January 13, 2012 12:03 PMThe RINO Gops pulled out all the stops on rigging the vote to stop Ron Paul. It won't work. The RINO GOP/ChickenHawk Dem cabal is being toppled by grass roots rejection of Obama and the GOP RINO Obama wannabe.
Posted by: Occam at January 13, 2012 12:41 PManon at 12:03 PM
The illiterate blacks who can't get a ballot because they didn't care enough to learn reading and writing also don't care to cast a ballot.
Ironic, huh?
Even with 'knock-and-drag' campaigns by the Dems on voting day and helping these people fill out voter forms to obtain ballots, illiterates still go into the voting booth alone and spoil their ballot because they couldn't learn how to fill one out properly for the same reason that they're illiterate in the first place.
Voter ID not only stops dead people from voting, it also stops literate Dems from voting in place of an illiterate.
(indolent Dem school teachers hardest hit) *oooh the irony is delicious*
O'Keefe doesn't seem to understand the point of his own expose,he has proven that voter fraud is POSSIBLE,but he hasn't proven that voter fraud is OCCURRING!
That said,I can't imagine anyone anywhere being allowed to vote without clearly identifying who they are and if they're eligible to vote.
In Canada we use the two pieces of photo ID and a signed declaration,which seems to work pretty well.
One of Mordechai Richler's most enjoyable columns was on how he and his friends were sent to the local cemeteries to copy names from the gravestones at 25 cents each for two of the political Parties.
Even more funny was that after his column appeared in half the Papers in Canada, no political operator challenged him the veracity of it.
Posted by: dmorris at January 13, 2012 1:17 PMGee but this sounds familiar. Let me think a minute. Oh yes, the Norther Gateway Pipeline hearings.
Posted by: Alain at January 13, 2012 1:29 PMdmorris: two pieces of photo ID aren't required to vote in cda. All that's needed is for someone else to swear you are who you say you are and that you live in the riding (a telephone bill with your name on it will suffice - imagine what you could do with a scanner and colour printer...).
I think we should be required to register and be issued a photo id card AND we should have to dip our fingers in ink. This would eliminate fraud AND it would become a badge of civic honour to have an inked finger - hopefully driving voter participation.
Posted by: Gord Tulk at January 13, 2012 1:32 PMWell said, Gord Tulk.
The democratic process should be preserved and protected.
I'd like to add that only those who are full citizens should be allowed to vote.
All I can say is that if there are dead people voting, then there have to be Democrats involved somehow. Why here in New Haven, Connecticut, the Dem-O-Crack mayor is doing his best to see that illegal aliens get to vote (P-s-s-t they already were voting, Mayor Johnny, as if you didn't know.)
Posted by: Steve in CT at January 13, 2012 1:47 PM1 1/2 hour Full length documentary investigates electronic voting booth fraud.
You will never trust the electronic vote counts again!
Hacking Democracy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVTXbARGXso&feature=digest_sat
Looks like first nation vote to me.
Posted by: a@c at January 13, 2012 2:01 PMdmorris writes, “O'Keefe doesn't seem to understand the point of his own expose, he has proven that voter fraud is POSSIBLE, but he hasn't proven that voter fraud is OCCURRING! [Agreed. But, if voter fraud is possible, do you really think the Dems aren’t using it?]
“That said, I can't imagine anyone anywhere being allowed to vote without clearly identifying who they are and if they're eligible to vote.” Really?
I guess dmorris didn’t watch the video: I did, last night. In every case, with no ID, the person presenting himself as a dead voter, was told he needed no ID, and WAS HANDED A BALLOT.
Such negligence of due diligence is a huge loophole that needs to be closed. I like Gord Tulk’s idea.
The dead are people too.
Posted by: Reginald at January 13, 2012 3:36 PMdmorris @1:17 - "O'Keefe doesn't seem to understand the point of his own expose,he has proven that voter fraud is POSSIBLE,but he hasn't proven that voter fraud is OCCURRING!
That said,I can't imagine anyone anywhere being allowed to vote without clearly identifying who they are and if they're eligible to vote."
Paragraph 1 - Democrats are trying to block legislation requiring ID to vote (on the grounds that that's racist).
Paragraph 2 - you watched the thingy, right?
Posted by: Black Mamba at January 13, 2012 4:01 PMFathom the hypocrisy of a Government that will require every citizen to prove they are insured……
but not everyone to prove they are a citizen !
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*quote of the day
Yes,I watched the whole video,and again, it's obvious,O'Keefe only proved fraud is POSSIBLE. He did NOT prove fraud was being committed.
And it doesn't matter if we don't like the Democrats,O'Keefe ONLY proved that there IS a flaw in the system.
" Such negligence of due diligence is a huge loophole that needs to be closed" - "lookout"
Without reply to the implied insult that I didn't watch the video,"lookout",which I DID, YES, O'Keefe proved EXACTLY what I said,and as you just verified.
There IS a "huge loophole", BUT he showed NO evidence whatsoever of voter fraud actually being committed.
Pretend you're giving evidence in Court,"did you see electoral fraud being committed"? "Remember you're under oath."
Gord,in the last election, my Son had lost his ID,I was allowed to swear that he is who he is,BUT I had to show two pieces of photo ID to prove that I was who I said I was.
Maybe in other parts of Canada the electoral people are more sloppy in their duties, but not here in Kelowna.
Posted by: dmorris at January 13, 2012 5:32 PMdmorris - that's all O'Keefe was setting out to prove. It's more than enough.
Imagine I smuggled a machete onto an Air Canada flight, just to prove it could be done.
Posted by: Black Mamba at January 13, 2012 6:56 PMI fear America is in for a Valdimir Putin election.
The Orwellian Vagueness Of Vladimir Putin's Election Platform
He says: “Over the last 20 years, 25 million well-paying jobs were created”. But there are now 2.5 million unemployed in Russia. The program is written for the years 2012-2018, so this will happen in six years. Why so long and why so slow?
http://worldcrunch.com/orwellian-vagueness-vladimir-putins-election-platform/4477
Mark Steyn: Ron Paul beckons GOP to Fortress America
According to George Mason University's annual survey of Freedom in the 50 States, New Hampshire is the freest state in the union, so one would expect there to be takers for Ron Paul's message. On the other hand, facing a very different electorate in Iowa, Paul pulled pretty much an identical share of the poll. It may be time for those of us on the right to consider whether it's not so much the conservative vote that's split but whether conservativism itself is fracturing.
http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/america-335544-paul-military.html
Posted by: Revnant Dream at January 13, 2012 7:14 PMQ: Why did jane fonda vote for obama?
A: Because Ho Chi Minh is dead.
Q: Why did Ho Chi Minh vote for obama?
A: Because Ho Chi Minh is dead.
mhb23re
Posted by: mhb at January 13, 2012 10:14 PMA few years ago a democrat congressman was leading the local parade in an open carriage. Standing to be better seen the congressman waved at the attending throngs. When the parade went through the local cemetery the congressman sat down. His aide quickly prodded him in the ribs. "Congressman stand up your most loyal supporters are here"!!!
Posted by: Joe at January 13, 2012 10:37 PMdmorris writes to me, I presume, 'Pretend you're giving evidence in Court,"did you see electoral fraud being committed"? "Remember you're under oath."'
Well, yes, I did see "electoral fraud being committed". As I said, "In every case, with no ID, the person [O'Keefe, I believe] presenting himself as a dead voter, was told he needed no ID, and WAS HANDED A BALLOT." If that's not electoral fraud, in the commission, what is it?
Actually, lookout, you wouldn't answer that question. Your lawyer would jump up and point out that you are being asked to give a conclusion of law, in fact the very conclusion that the trial is being held in order to reach, and that you haven't been qualified to give such an opinion. The judge would order the question withdrawn and rephrased.
dmorris has never been to court.
Posted by: ebt at January 14, 2012 5:20 PMInteresting point, ebt.
Posted by: lookout at January 14, 2012 10:13 PMWhat O'Keefe leaves out of his video is that one of his henchman had to turn tail and run to avoid being arrested. He also omits the cost of the operation. It isn't a viable way of rigging an election, it's too prohibitively expensive and too many people in the conspiracy will get arrested.
Posted by: Kevinw at January 15, 2012 12:48 PMKevinw, you make another interesting point. However, it’s quite moot re the altogether inadequate, not to say, sloppy and despicable—and should be illegal—voters’ list in NH and many other places. (The official guy in the clown hair assured his “O’Keefe” interviewer that the officials are altogether up to speed—on an ongoing basis—re the dead: “To keep our lists current, we check obituaries and vital statistics regularly.” Really?)
Add to that fabrication, the fact that voters need no ID. Le voila: isn't that a perfect recipe for voter fraud? You say, “[The cost of the operation] isn't a viable way of rigging an election, it's too prohibitively expensive and too many people in the conspiracy will get arrested.” How about our own, thuggish Liberals? Out of a host of underground, illegal activities, I believe only one Liberal has been charged and convicted of fraud. With all the usual, “progressive” enablers in place, it’s quite common for large numbers of lefties to conspire to rig elections and a host of other scams without being arrested.
Re the USA, it would seem that you're in the dark about Soros, the MSM, ACORN, the SEIU, (not to mention Obama and company, like Wright, Ayers, and Rezko—actually, he IS in jail now, for 10.5 years), and a host of other corrupt, DemocRATic subversives who are on top of the loopholes, well able to afford them, and who, generally, haven’t been arrested, so far. As such, I believe that you—probably a consumer of the Star and CBC/CTV (or reasonable facsimile) propaganda—have more than a few loopholes in your brain. If that’s not the case, at the least, it seems to me that you’re naïve if you think the NH voters’ list and voting modus operandi aren’t serious impediments to due process both being done and being seen to be done.