PA Has Voter Fraud? So What!
Mike Kilo has brought up the voter fraud that he has witnessed first hand and reported. This is what he can expect:
Take the bill the GOP-controlled Legislature passed, which would require voters show a form of official ID or a utility bill; another bill would end Philadelphia’s bizarre practice of locating over 900 polling places in private venues, including bars, abandoned buildings and even the office of a local state senator. City officials admit their voter rolls are stuffed with phantoms. The city has about as many registered voters as it has adults, and is thus a rich breeding ground for fraud.
But Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell vetoed both bills last month, saying that in a time of voter apathy “the government should be doing everything it can to encourage greater participation.” He warned that requiring an ID could disenfranchise the homeless, nursing-home residents and the poor. Mr. Rendell says there is no evidence people routinely impersonate others to vote. He also says requiring an ID at the polls doesn’t combat absentee ballot fraud. True enough; election officials properly worry that some 25% of voters now don’t show their face when voting. In 1998, Austin Murphy, a former Democratic congressman, pleaded guilty to fraudulently voting absentee ballots for nursing-home residents near Pittsburgh.
But Mr. Rendell’s history doesn’t inspire confidence that he takes fraud of any kind seriously. In 1994, Philadelphia Democrat Bill Stinson was booted from office as a state senator by a federal judge who found his campaign had rounded up 250 tainted absentee ballots. Mr. Rendell, then Philadelphia’s mayor, had this reaction to the Stinson scandal: “I don’t think it’s anything that’s immoral or grievous, but it clearly violates the election code.” In 1997, Mr. Rendell admitted to the Journal’s editorial board that Philadelphia judges had “a rich history of corruption” that called into question how fairly city laws are enforced.
Now governor, Mr. Rendell isn’t eager to depart from business as usual. In 2004, a court had to order him to make changes in the deadlines for absentee military ballots so they would be counted. At the same time, his secretary of state asked prison wardens to post a document outlining how prisoners could vote absentee. When GOP Rep. Curt Weldon held a news conference to denounce illegal voting by prisoners, a TV camera crew captured voter operatives behind him carrying absentee ballots out of the prison.
It appears that it will be business as usual for the voters of PA!
April 13, 2006 - 08:38 AM on April 13th, 2006
Yet another example of how the Democrites engage and in fact depend on massive voter fraud to gain and hold on to power. Yet they still complain that Bush “stole” the 2000 (and some even believe also the 2004) election!
They’ve problem stolen more elections that they can count.
That’s why I call them “Democrites“.
April 13, 2006 - 08:41 AM on April 13th, 2006
hahaha
business as usual in PA…. Rendell will do anything, Lynn Swann is coming hard!!!! Our next governor and former STEELERS great! And a fantastic Black republican candidate…it dosen’t get any better than that!
Watch the racists on the left out attacking him.
April 13, 2006 - 11:35 AM on April 13th, 2006
God I need a Doctor:roll:
April 13, 2006 - 01:36 PM on April 13th, 2006
Can you imagine the electoral results if it weren’t for the rampant fraud in PA????
It’s a shame, because, outside of Philly and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is the reddest of red states.
Take a look
April 14, 2006 - 12:38 AM on April 14th, 2006
I’m waiting to see the results for the PA Gubernatorial race. All of the union steel workers and other union members will be naturally drawn to Swann while their unions will be throwing everything they can behind Rendell. I think the Republicans need to start pushing the “Do you know where YOUR union dues are going?” angle. Show lots of pictures of Swann in action on the grid iron and lots of lists of Rendell’s continued failures. Really get the blue collar voters’ blood flowing about Rendell’s failures and then start listing how much money each union is pumping into Rendell’s campaign. followed by a statement along the line of “do you really want your union dues going to support someone who has repeatedly failed to protect you and your families from crime while denying you the right to protect yourself?”