I think it is much ado about nothing
MLive has an article on the FBI investigation into the absentee ballots in Detroit.
As voters were casting their ballots Tuesday, the Justice Department said it was investigating allegations that votes were cast in the names of dead people and that the city clerk improperly helped incapacitated people to vote by absentee ballot.
At the request of the FBI, Chief Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Mary Beth Kelly ordered the secretary of state to preserve all absentee ballots, the applications to get them and the envelopes in which they were sent.
The ballots will be counted, according to the order, then held by the state.
“Now we can be satisfied that the ballots will be there and that the documents will be there,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Lynn Helland, who sought the order, said after the hearing.
The judge also ordered preservation of records of City Clerk Jackie Currie’s “Project Vote” program, in which ambassadors go into the community and help senior citizens and disabled people prepare absentee ballots.
Steven W. Reifman, attorney for Currie, called the order an unnecessary intrusion into the clerk’s power and said the FBI investigation is based on allegations from a disgruntled candidate who has sued Currie.
“I think it is much ado about nothing,” Reifman said.
It is a start on the fraud we see at the polls
November 9, 2005 - 06:28 AM on November 9th, 2005
But Currie was voted out of office last night. As well as one of the city council incumbents.
Martha Reeves (yes, that one) won a seat on the council. The Vandellas will back her up.
So even if it meant re-electing the nation’s first hip-hop mayor and his entourage, at least one good thing happened.
November 9, 2005 - 08:19 AM on November 9th, 2005
Unless Currie is extraordinarily stupid, I don’t believe there are any hard copy records available confirming her vote fraud. Democrats are too practiced at the art of creating chads in punch cards and intimidating the elderly and infirm to allow “ambassadors” or “election aides” to fill out and sign their ballots for them.
November 9, 2005 - 10:04 AM on November 9th, 2005
2-They sent auditors around last week PCD. The auditors witnessed the law breaking and have had the documents since that time. There was no destroying of anything. This is a great first step to stopping the voter fraud!
November 9, 2005 - 10:17 AM on November 9th, 2005
3, I guess one city at a time. When will this happen in LA, Chicago, Philly (to Kilo’s relief), Atlanta, St. Louis…
November 9, 2005 - 10:19 AM on November 9th, 2005
It will NEVER happen in Philly…our MAYOR was wiretapped by the FBI, for god’s sake, his Treasurer was jailed, his “power broker” Ron White, indicted, his ally and “muslim cleric” was JAILED!!!! and this fuckface who actually uttered the following:
“The brothers and sisters are running this city…RUNNING IT!”
still sits in in city hall. For god’s sake, one of the polling places was in the office of a Democratic State Senator!!!! aaaarrrrgghhhhh dosen’t this violate the most basic law of a fair election????
and don’t get me started on the cats, dead people, and vote buying with kools and malt liquor.
aaaaaaarrrrrrrrggggggghhhhhhhh1!!!!!!!!!!!!
November 9, 2005 - 10:49 AM on November 9th, 2005
…and ring dings and ho-hos and strawberry soda…:lol:
November 9, 2005 - 11:11 AM on November 9th, 2005
November 11, 2005 - 02:48 AM on November 11th, 2005
Well Kilo, you can always solve your mayoral problems with the good old fashioned 20 cent solution. It worked for Arch Duke Ferdinand and Jimmy Hoffa. It used to be the 6 cent solution but the cost of ammo has gone up. Damn inflation. LOL
Hell the Philly police might call it an accidental death. Suicide from 500 meters.