Does This Image Sum Up Voter Fraud to YOU?
[Click above to embiggen: does this image convey voter fraud to you?]
Last week, I was appalled at what I witnessed at a public meeting of the Illinois Board of Elections and have been fuming over it ever since.
I went down to the Thompson Center here in Chicago to hear Sharon Meroni of DEFENDtheVOTE.com speak to the Board and was disgusted by the rude and dismissive way she was treated — most especially by Board Chair William McGuffage and Vice Chair Jesse Smart (who I’m now — and forever — calling “the ironically-named Mr. Smart”). At the Board Meeting, McGuffage kept telling Meroni to, essentially, shut up about voter fraud already and in so many words said that the Board is fully aware of all the fraud that takes place in Illinois elections — and they don’t much care.
The ironically-named Mr. Smart (just rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it?) threw a tantrum at the start of the meeting, insisting that Meroni and other members of the public were not allowed to film the proceedings. Mr. Smart, though Vice Chair of the Board, had evidently never heard of the Illinois Open Meetings Act — which requires meetings like this to be open to the public where anyone can film using whatever recording device he or she wishes. Smart very stupidly wasted close to ten minutes’ of Meroni’s allotted speaking time arguing with her about her right to film the meeting…until the Board’s General Counsel had to step in and shout Smart down so Meroni could proceed.
Do you know what Smart did then? He pouted, folded his arms, and said, “Well, if you’ll be filming this then I just won’t say nothing ’cause you might try to make me look stupid or something”. He then spent the remainder of the meeting passing notes and giggling with the woman sitting next to him, like they were in junior high school sex ed class and couldn’t contain their immaturity.
Another Board Member. Harold Byers, slept through most of the meeting; at one point, I was actually concerned he had died, until I started following a small feather or dust bunny that zoomed around his head, riding his exhales and inhales like those paragliders I’ve seen at cliffside vacation resorts. When he finally awoke, near the end of the meeting, he was incredibly well-rested but intensely grumpy. Soon after he moved for the meeting to be adjourned. I think that was because he was late for his scheduled nap somewhere else in the building.
Absolutely NONE of the people on the Illinois Board of Elections took any of what Meroni came to speak about seriously.
Meroni has prepared a detailed report on all sorts of election fraud that’s rampant in Illinois — including dead people voting, people voting in the names of cartoon characters, illegal aliens running polling centers and casting ballots unlawfully, electronic voting machines stealing votes, and labor unions deliberately leaving boxes of ballots unsecured at various “processing points” so that elections can turn out the way political parties want them to.
Meroni’s testimony was riveting — so it truly astonishes me the Board of Elections could so blatantly ignore he (or sleep through her presentation).
Honestly, I want to make it one of my missions in life to shame these people…and to shame Governor Quinn so badly that he’s ultimately forced to replace every current Board Member with someone who will actually do his or her job.
I’ve been working with my boyfriend Justin on putting together a graphic that captures the spirit of voter fraud and the battle to eliminate it. The above is what we’ve come up with so far. It’s going to be part of a larger banner we’re making for a very special project.
What do you think of it so far?
Does it communicate “Voter Fraud” and problems with our elections quickly and clearly to someone glancing at it?
The first step to shaming every last member of the do-nothing, sleeps-through-meetings, dumber-than-rocks Illinois Board of Elections is to make it ridiculously clear how messed up the elections system is here in Illinois and how much voter fraud runs rampant in Chicagoland in particular.
Does this image convey this to you?
© 2012, Kevin DuJan. All rights reserved.
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Perhaps you should put ballots in all their hands/claws/paws to make it obvious they are all getting to vote?
Kevin, it’s almost unnerving to think of how many public bodies conduct themselves exactly the same way as you’ve described this elections board. God bless you all for getting involved.
If I may offer some thoughts on yours and Justin’s graphic, I wonder about the use if friendly’ characters as the bad guys, which sends a bit of a mixed message. Mickey mouse and the robot don’t make the average American (?) feel alerted or threatened.
Perhaps a waiting line of legitimate voters mixed with obvious aliens and dead guys with baseball caps and t-shirts identifying them as …acorn..illegals …convicted felons…somebody’s granny with a dozen fraudulent absentee ballots in her bag…etc. using a one to one ratio of bad guys to regular voters. It needs to be simple and vivid.
LOL I recently heard a not-so-funny story from a neighbor whose Canadian cousins reported a big voter fraud controversy involving calls to voters in their province saying their precincts would be moved and their votes postponed until the next day. They even left messages on peoples’ voice mails and answering machines (duh). And apparently a good many voters fell for it (double duh), the outcome was affected, and when the culprits were caught they claimed they’d gotten the idea from the Americans. (Beyond duh.)
Cute, huh?
I agree with MaMcGriz. Mickey Mouse and other fictional characters are used on signature gathering petitions, while the main problem with voter fraud at the polls is “voters” who have died and moved away. Oh, and don’t forget to throw some Black Panthers in there, too.