A Personal Anecdote on How Easy it Is To Vote As Dead Person
Yesterday, I had lunch with a group of Tea Partiers out in Palatine, Illinois while continuing research into two important projects dear to me (stopping the Marxist indoctrination in Chicago Public Schools and preventing voter fraud). I was impressed by how passionate this group of people was, and how invested they are in doing something about ballot tampering, malfeasance with electronic voting machines, and other avenues of voter fraud here in Illinois.
During lunch, the topic of the dead voting in states like Illinois came up — and I suggested that everyone start seeing themselves as vote defenders and slayers of zombie voters. Wouldn’t it be great if the next time you’re at some event, and someone asks you, “What do you do?” you answered with “I stop the dead from voting”. Then, instead of having a conversation with a stranger about people you might know in common in the accounting or lion taming fields (depending on what you “do” as a day job), you could talk about stopping the dead from voting in American elections.
Thinking about all this, I realized that many years ago, in the 1992 elections (before I was old enough to vote), I was offered the opportunity to illegally vote in Cleveland, Ohio but turned it down because I knew it was wrong.
This happened at the polling place for my neighborhood, when my mother and grandmother went to vote and I came with them, but stood to the side. While they were behind the curtains in the little booths set up in the grade school auditorium, the woman working the table (in this very heavily Democrat district) motioned for me to come over and asked me if my name was “Joseph”. I told her it wasn’t, and that Joseph was my grandfather — who had been dead for many years.
Since Joseph was still on the voting rolls, the woman said “It’s a shame that vote’s just going to waste…why don’t you go vote for Clinton too, like your mom and grandma” and she encouraged me to sign the book as my grandfather and vote for him as if he was still alive.
I wanted to vote for Clinton — and would have if I had been old enough — but I didn’t want to impersonate my grandfather and sign the voting book in his name and take a ballot.
However, I was encouraged to do just that and could have easily gotten away with it.
This anecdote is a unique situation since I just happened to be there, no one was watching this woman (who clearly wanted Clinton to win Ohio and was doing everything she could in the race to make sure as many Democrats as possible voted…even the ones who were dead), and there were three people registered with our same last name and only two of them showed up to vote that day.
I can’t tell you how often something like this happens — but I have to wonder if this is still going on in Ohio, since there doesn’t seem to be any more barriers to such voter fraud today than there were back when I was in high school.
Have you ever had an experience like this, where someone offered you a chance to vote for a dead person?
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..given the lack of any birth/background documentation..it seems that Obama is the Charlie Chaplin of the new century…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/90…
..President Little Tramp????
How's this for fraud? A few years ago, after I divorced, I noticed that my ex-husband had signed the voting log ahead of me on election day. I told the election judges that he no longer lived at my address, and that he had moved to another district in the state. They told me that there was nothing they could do about his ballot — or my objection — and that his vote was legal.
Wow. I find it horrifying that an election worker would actually encourage fraud. My mom served as an election judge in Minnesota when I was growing up. As I recall it, you needed one judge from each party to certify the returns and back in the day you were hard pressed to find a Republican in our neighborhood, or at least anyone who'd own up to it. The boy who grew up right behind us went on to work for Paul Wellstone and was same guy who made the memorial service so politicized if you recall that incident. So the DFL fervor was pretty palpable on our block, but even so I can't imagine anyone actually encouraging fraud. Now I wonder if I was really just naive and it was going on all the time.
I have worked as an election judge and we were so careful to cross every t and dot every i. All the people I worked with were that way. That saying, I worked for the Republicans. Aren't they embarrassed at all with being dishonest? It seems for the left, the ends ALWAYS justify the means. We must make a lot of noise about these things, we must make the public aware that our election process is flawed. Of course, that's why Holder goes to Texas to protest voter ID laws. All Dems hate voter id laws. Obama used to work to sign up as many people, eligible or not, when he worked with Acorn. Fight this, people! Talk about it, spread the word!