Saturday, September 04, 2004
Voting Fraud? What, Me Worry?
Theresa LePore is evil, and you should all be quite afraid. Who is Theresa LePore, you ask, and why should I give a shit? Here's the scoop, fellow ne'er-do-wells.
Noted Florida DINO Theresa LePore is the Supervisor of Elections in Palm Beach County, Florida. She has just been voted out of office, to be replaced by Democrat Art Anderson, not that she didn't make every effort to turn the election in her favor. However, dear friends, she will still be there to supervise ballot counting for November's Presidential election. And she is as corrupt and crooked as they come. She was the Supervisor of Elections for the 2000 Presidential election; she delivered the Jewish precincts vote for Pat Buchanan, noted crazyman; she is very much in favor of using paperless voting machines; and she failed to do the hand count of ballots that, if they were actually counted, would have given the White House to Al Gore.
Did I mention that she counted her own votes, unsupervised, for her recent bid at re-election, and that Governor Jeb Bush is pushing for a new state law to abolish the requirement for absentee ballot counters to be supervised? And did I also mention that she received 37,000 absentee ballot requests, yet had only recorded 22,000 absentee ballots? Or that, in a massively out-of-the-ordinary move, she also marked the outside of the envelopes of these ballots with the person's party affiliation before contending whether the absentee ballot was valid or not? Or that the validity of absentee ballots depends on the employment of handwriting experts which she hand-picks herself, instead of using state-certified handwriting experts? Or that, though voters have the right to correct signature rejections, she is not required to permit challenges to absentee ballot rejections, allowing her to pick and choose as she pleases? Or that Gov. Jeb Bush is also backing new legislation to outlaw manual recounts of votes?
Worried yet? No? Then let me continue.
So, with the absentee ballots fixed, how indeed can Florida vote with the faith that thier vote be counted? Surely the voting machines are trustworthy? Well...not quite. While many blame the infamous "butterfly ballots" for voting incorrectness, at least the ballots, as confusing as they may be for old Jewish people, are definite copies that can be counted and (when people are allowed to do so) RE-counted. The same cannot be said about computerized electronic voting machines. Some even have trouble with vote recounts.
These voting machines were produced by Election Systems & Software of Omaha, a company which is owned jointly by the intensely neoconservative McCarthy Group and the also-quite-conservative Republican Senator Charles Hagel of Nebraska (whose machines, I might add, were the only machines used to vote in Nebraska when he ran for election in 1996 and in 2002). Florida counties using this technology have reported a 600% increase in voting errors when compared to the traditional paper ballots being read by an optical scanner. These errors, I might add, have mostly occurred in predominantly African-American precincts. Not that that has any bearing on racism or voting history, it's just an interesting little quirk in the facts.
Theresa LePore has been working closely with Florida Governor Jeb Bush (the President's brother, in case you were confused) to refuse the Democratic Party's (and, interestingly enough, a lot of the Republican Party members') requests for ousting the electronic voting machines and reinstating the traditional, at least semi-reliable paper ballots. Indeed, these Electronic Systems & Software of Omaha voting machines and crooked absentee ballots will be in full effect come November, and one can only imagine the number of votes that could possibly be stolen from honest voters just trying to exercise thier American right and duty as civilians.
What will happen if the 2004 Presidential Election comes down to Florida once again? What happens if they get away with it again? What, Me Worry?
You bet your ass.
For more info, check out some of these organizations and articles:
Verified Voting
Act For Change
Vote Fraud
Florida Department of State Division of Elections
Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections
What Really Happened?
Theresa LePore Fan Page (I couldn't make this shit up if I tried.)
Hoodwinked
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Theresa LePore is evil, and you should all be quite afraid. Who is Theresa LePore, you ask, and why should I give a shit? Here's the scoop, fellow ne'er-do-wells.
Noted Florida DINO Theresa LePore is the Supervisor of Elections in Palm Beach County, Florida. She has just been voted out of office, to be replaced by Democrat Art Anderson, not that she didn't make every effort to turn the election in her favor. However, dear friends, she will still be there to supervise ballot counting for November's Presidential election. And she is as corrupt and crooked as they come. She was the Supervisor of Elections for the 2000 Presidential election; she delivered the Jewish precincts vote for Pat Buchanan, noted crazyman; she is very much in favor of using paperless voting machines; and she failed to do the hand count of ballots that, if they were actually counted, would have given the White House to Al Gore.
Did I mention that she counted her own votes, unsupervised, for her recent bid at re-election, and that Governor Jeb Bush is pushing for a new state law to abolish the requirement for absentee ballot counters to be supervised? And did I also mention that she received 37,000 absentee ballot requests, yet had only recorded 22,000 absentee ballots? Or that, in a massively out-of-the-ordinary move, she also marked the outside of the envelopes of these ballots with the person's party affiliation before contending whether the absentee ballot was valid or not? Or that the validity of absentee ballots depends on the employment of handwriting experts which she hand-picks herself, instead of using state-certified handwriting experts? Or that, though voters have the right to correct signature rejections, she is not required to permit challenges to absentee ballot rejections, allowing her to pick and choose as she pleases? Or that Gov. Jeb Bush is also backing new legislation to outlaw manual recounts of votes?
Worried yet? No? Then let me continue.
So, with the absentee ballots fixed, how indeed can Florida vote with the faith that thier vote be counted? Surely the voting machines are trustworthy? Well...not quite. While many blame the infamous "butterfly ballots" for voting incorrectness, at least the ballots, as confusing as they may be for old Jewish people, are definite copies that can be counted and (when people are allowed to do so) RE-counted. The same cannot be said about computerized electronic voting machines. Some even have trouble with vote recounts.
These voting machines were produced by Election Systems & Software of Omaha, a company which is owned jointly by the intensely neoconservative McCarthy Group and the also-quite-conservative Republican Senator Charles Hagel of Nebraska (whose machines, I might add, were the only machines used to vote in Nebraska when he ran for election in 1996 and in 2002). Florida counties using this technology have reported a 600% increase in voting errors when compared to the traditional paper ballots being read by an optical scanner. These errors, I might add, have mostly occurred in predominantly African-American precincts. Not that that has any bearing on racism or voting history, it's just an interesting little quirk in the facts.
Theresa LePore has been working closely with Florida Governor Jeb Bush (the President's brother, in case you were confused) to refuse the Democratic Party's (and, interestingly enough, a lot of the Republican Party members') requests for ousting the electronic voting machines and reinstating the traditional, at least semi-reliable paper ballots. Indeed, these Electronic Systems & Software of Omaha voting machines and crooked absentee ballots will be in full effect come November, and one can only imagine the number of votes that could possibly be stolen from honest voters just trying to exercise thier American right and duty as civilians.
What will happen if the 2004 Presidential Election comes down to Florida once again? What happens if they get away with it again? What, Me Worry?
You bet your ass.
For more info, check out some of these organizations and articles:
Verified Voting
Act For Change
Vote Fraud
Florida Department of State Division of Elections
Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections
What Really Happened?
Theresa LePore Fan Page (I couldn't make this shit up if I tried.)
Hoodwinked
