Election 08 Voter Fraud Alert

by Gregory Franklyn
GLFranklyn

The first election I was eligible to vote in was 1972. I lived in Arizona at the time. Nixon and Humpfrey were tearing into one another and I had just registered to vote for the first time. I registered as a Democrat but when my voter registration card arrived in the mail it said I was a Republican. I really didn't think much of it at the time. Sometimes typographic errors just happen and it's nobody's fault.

Shortly thereafter I was watching the local news and noticed a story that said there were about 17,000 new voters in the state of Arizona who were complaining that they too had registered as Democrats but got their voter registration back saying they were Republicans. I pretty much figured out that my voter registration wasn't just a typo by some overworked secretary getting a little tired late at night sitting at a typewriter.

The reason I'm telling you this is because of a news story I saw this evening on my local news. I live in Oregon now, and have for roughly 20 years. A woman who lives about 3 miles from me got 2 mailings from the Republican Party containing an official request form for an absentee ballot from her old state. Take a wild guess what state it was. Yup, Florida! She said she has lived here and voted in at least 3 elections since leaving Florida years ago. She showed the reporter the two mailings and right there on the front was a picture of John McCain!

The reporter went on to say that the elections office here was receiving hundreds of reports from voters living and voting in Oregon who have received similar ballot requests from New Mexico as well as Florida and the mailings were coming from the Republican Party. In case you didn't know, there is no national voter registry. Elections are state run and they don't check up on each other to see if voters are voting in multiple states every 4 years!

Later this evening I was watching Countdown with Keith Oberman and there was a story about Republican "Caging" in my childhood home of Macomb County Michigan. If you are unfamiliar with what "Caging" is, it refers to challenging the validity of a ballot once it has been cast. It appears that Republicans are looking up voters in Macomb County, mostly black, whose homes have gone into foreclosure and sending them a mailing. When the mailing comes back, they are added to a list that is used to challenge the validity of that voter's ballot based on the fact that their address is not current on their voter registration.

Keith's guest was an X-Convict whose crime was voter fraud and he talked about a number of dirty tricks he used to do for the Republican Party to help them steal elections. He wrote a book about it and that's why he was a guest on the show. A few of the tricks in his book are also what got him thrown in prison.

You may remember similar stories coming from Florida in 2000 when thousands of minority voters' ballots were invalidated because they had the same name as someone who had committed a felony. You will also remember identical stories coming from Ohio in 2004. Republicans are targeting Black and Hispanic voters to cancel or invalidate their ballots because these voters traditionally vote for Democrats in huge numbers.

If you watched the Republican National Convention you know what I mean about Republicans and minority voters. That convention was a virtual ocean of white people. I was watching with a friend when I noticed how white that crowd seemed. So we made it sort of a game looking for Black faces in the cut-a-ways when the camera was focused on the crowd. We saw 4 that evening. The arena contained about 20,000 people!

The following passage contains strong language and is entirely inappropriate for viewing by children. Reader discretion is strongly advised:

My point is that Republicans are some scurrilously amoral mother-f@#$%ers who have no issue with criminal activity when it comes to elections and they've been at it for a VERY LONG time. These criminal tricksters are not some rogue elements unknown to the Republican Party Leadership, they are operatives that get their paycheck from them. These party leaders are the same people who talk about good Christian Moral Values, wrap themselves in the American flag and insist that they are the trustees of your Freedom and Democracy.

If the poll numbers are close in this election, John McCain will almost certainly become our next president and these reports of voter tampering foreshadow the reasons why! Don't let them get away with it AGAIN! Keep a careful eye on your states election and speak up if you find irregularities. Your vote should be counted, it should only be counted once, and it should be counted in the column YOU selected!

Just so you know!

Much Love,

Gregory

Article submitted Saturday, September 27, 2008 & read 86 times.

Gregory Franklyn is a 50 something native of Detroit, now calling the Pacific Northwest his home. He is a former “small fish in a small pond” rock star of the first magnitude. He is a published author and boasts a background in Television Production and National and Foreign Policy dating back to BoysTown High School in 1966, where he and his partner Brian McGinty walked away with second place in state in varsity debate in 1970. He writes and maintains a political opinion blog at http://glfranklyn.com.

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