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The Spectacle Blog
Unless voter integrity efforts take root this year, the notion of free and fair elections could become a relic of American history, Catherine Engelbrecht warned listeners during the “True the Vote National Summit in Houston, Texas yesterday. Engelbrecht, who is the president and founder of the organization, cited specific instances throughout the country where the number of voters listed on registration rolls exceeded the actual number of eligible voters. She also said it was far too easy for non-citizens to obtain voter registration forms.
“The next few months are critical to the telling of our story,” she said. “Our goal is the make the 2012 elections the freest and fairest the country has ever seen.” Engelbrecht acknowledged this is a tall order. The various pressure groups opposed to photo identification requirements are very well funded and well organized. But they are not on the side of public opinion.
The latest survey from Rasmussen finds that 64 percent of likely U.S. voters see voter fraud as a serious problem. The same survey also reports that 73 percent of Americans do not view photo ID laws as being discriminatory.
Other speakers included Anita MonCrief, a former ACORN/Project Vote employee, turned conservative activist.
“I was very sheltered until I met the Tea Party people,” she said. “We were all black Catholics, we liked Jesus and JFK.”
MonCrief recalled a meeting in Little Rock, Arkansas, where ACORN activists outlined a “socialist wish list” that included universal health care and environmental justice. It was at this point that MonCrief began to have misgivings about the ACORN network that were further cemented when she became privy to the close connection between the 2008 Obama campaign and the Project Vote affiliate, she explained.
The collusion between President Obama’s Department of Justice and far left pressure groups that are out to block voter fraud investigations and intimidate state officials was a major theme of MonCrief’s talk.
“Our country is under attack from the inside,” she said. “The Department of Justice has gone wild; it is not working on behalf of the American people. It is working for these pressure groups.”
MonCrief also described how ACORN activists exploited loose voting standards throughout the country in the past few election cycles. Phone calls were made to the offices of secretaries of state throughout the country to identify where it would easiest to manipulate and exploit provisional ballots; these are the ballots used when question are raised about a voter’s eligibility.
Other speakers included Pat Caddell, a Fox News Contributor, and Democratic political strategist. Caddell discussed how the disputed Bush-Gore 2000 presidential race has impacted subsequent elections. The George Soros funded, Secretary of State Project (SOS), for instance, has successfully positioned key figures into office who are sympathetic toward ACORN, and other pressure groups, Caddell explained.
Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, who was elected with support from Soros and ACORN, oversaw the recount that ultimately resulted in election of Al Franken as that state’s Democratic U.S. Senator. Franken had been behind Republican Norm Coleman before the recount.
“Every stolen election is a bullet in the heart of what this country is about,” Caddell said.
Franken provided the 60th vote needed to pass Obamacare.
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bobmontgomery| 4.28.12 @ 12:34PM
Well, um, Congress doesn't seem too concerned about it, so why should we? See, it just doesn't have the danger, murder, guns and intrigue of Fast and Furious, so it's not an easy thing for a candidate for re-election to rant about because he can't paint a picture in people's minds of an atrocity or something.
Sometimes you have to quit worrying about being mean-spirited and uphold your oath of office and start hauling people in front of Congress, issuing citations and ultimately withholding funding; but our leaders don't seem to understand that. All they understand is that .....Obama won.
darcy| 4.28.12 @ 3:11PM
The only people who will paint you (elected officials in the bulls-eye of the state-run media) as being mean-spirited, are the mean-spirited leftist-liberals who intend to subjugate American patriots.
Unhappily, it is the case that there are far too few Nathan Hales, John Jays, and George Washingtons among the elected-elite.
But I have found one: Congressman Trey Gowdy of South Carolina. Did you see him ream-out Sebelius recently during a congressional hearing? Whoa, nellie. Keep your eyes on him.
Bob S| 4.29.12 @ 2:53AM
Even when Congress wises up and withholds funding, it doesn't work. Obama just overrode Congress and is sending aid to the Palestinians anyway, same thing he did with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.
Bob Grant| 4.28.12 @ 2:25PM
The 3 acts that will eventually cause Joe/Jane Six Packs' across the country to take to the streets:
1. Debasing the currency
2. Censoring of the internet and radio airwaves
3. Voter fraud, which is a form of debasing others' votes
...in all three categories we are in dangerous waters.
Oldefarte| 4.28.12 @ 4:05PM
This is an travesty of justice or a game plan for the DOJ, either one. Why are not every citizen or at least the taxpaying ones completely outraged over this matter. If memory serves me, wasn't ACORN receiving governmental/taxpayer funding to carry out its operations at one time? IOW, the government is funding voting corruption activities, at taxpayer expense!!!!!!!!!
Bob Grant| 4.28.12 @ 5:06PM
...to go along with government (tax payer) funded corruption using stimulus funds, and throw in a little TARP corruption for good measure.
Any bets on when the American Public has had enough? I suurrre how this all gets straightened out November 6th.
Bob Grant| 4.28.12 @ 5:07PM
...that would be " I suurrre hope this..."
Norm Klevens| 4.28.12 @ 10:47PM
Bush vs Bore is still considered as a stolen election, some say if they could do it, we can. And they did in Minn & elsewhere. But what Eric Shawn's special [?] did not include is the undisputed fact that all of the votes were counted again and again in FL and Bush won. And SCOTUS took the case because of inconsistency in FL ballots. Just an example of Fox going half the way to a thorough report.
Bob From District 9| 4.29.12 @ 9:14AM
Jeb Bush stole the Florida election for his brother.
The ballots were counted only by the machines. The Supreme court cut off the hand recount, but they did not stop the collection and analysis by independent non-partisan counters. Bush lost.
The Supreme court did not decide on the legitimacy of the ballots, but they did specifically say a recount that went against Bush would cast doubt on the legitimacy of Bush's election.
Hell yes it would, he lost.
That's not even counting the tens of thousands of voters pushed off the rolls by Jeb Bush's machine, the ones in democratic leaning precincts. Enough to make Gore's victory in Florida a landslide.
Remember, if Gore had won we would not have 4500 American military dead in Iraq, and very possibly not even nearly 3000 on 9-11.
DRA2010| 4.29.12 @ 1:37PM
You say "...but they did not stop the collection and analysis by independent non-partisan counters. Bush lost."
No, not quite - even the bastion of Liberal news coverage (who commisioned that hand recount) said that Bush won. [see:www [dot] nytimes [dot] com/pages/politics/recount/]
Michael P. Stein| 5.1.12 @ 4:43AM
@DRA2010 - I'm afraid that's a very selective reading of the article. It is true that Bush would have won if only four counties had been recounted. However:
"But the consortium, looking at a broader group of rejected ballots than those covered in the court decisions, 175,010 in all, found that Mr. Gore might have won if the courts had ordered a full statewide recount of all the rejected ballots. This also assumes that county canvassing boards would have reached the same conclusions about the disputed ballots that the consortium's independent observers did. "
Mickey| 4.29.12 @ 1:54PM
Bob
You live in fantasy world. Every newspaper re-count shows Bush won.
Why didn't Obama stop the Iraq and Afghanistan immediately and save the lives lost since he became president?
Crassus| 4.29.12 @ 3:34PM
Never mind Dade County where the recount showed Bush gaining votes. It was quickly cut off and Dade went back to its original totals. Then there were the absentee military ballots that were never counted which would have gone heavily for Bush. Give it a rest, dickskinner.
Lisa| 4.30.12 @ 11:40AM
"Very possibly not even nearly 3000 on 9-11"- are you delusional? That tragedy can be laid entirely at Clinton's feet. Bush had been in office 8 months- they had been in this country and planning it LONG before that. Grow up.
Nate Winterfield| 4.30.12 @ 1:59PM
To Bob from District 9: If you were a coach of a professional football team, I can hear you talking to the owner now. "Yeah we were 1-15 again this season, but it's not my fault. I've only been coach for 3 1/2 years so it was my predecessor's fault!"
WL| 4.29.12 @ 1:36AM
I understand you quoting Pat Caddell, seeing that he is an honest guy with a Democratic background...
However, he always seems to mealy mouth his criticism of his fellow democrats...while all the while knowing that they are the ones who are traitorous bastards...
I'm kinda sick of him and that Nerdy Doug Shoen.
Bob S| 4.29.12 @ 2:51AM
Don't let them forget about the New Black Panther Party.
Bob From District 9| 4.29.12 @ 9:09AM
Yes, never forget it was the republican administration of George W Bush that decided not to prosecute the Philadelphia BPP for their activities at the polling place.
Tory| 4.29.12 @ 10:55AM
Not true...the Bush DOJ did file charges, which were won by default when the NBP didn't bother to defend themselves in Federal court. In spite of that, the Obama DOJ dismissed the charges.
Mickey| 4.29.12 @ 1:55PM
Bob
What are you smoking?
Crassus| 4.29.12 @ 3:38PM
Jesus, Dickskinner, how cold the Bush Justice Department dismiss charges when it had been out of office for two years? Get your lies straight. Please.
No Bobbo| 4.29.12 @ 4:56PM
Hey, Bobbo
I think Reagan had you, and your ilk, pegged.
"Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so." Ronald Reagan.
spike59| 4.30.12 @ 6:25AM
nice try, Baghdad Bob, but...a swing and a fail!
back under the bridge with you, before the billygoats gruff catch up with you
KennesawJack| 4.30.12 @ 11:42AM
You live in an alternate reality. Where in this world did you hear the Bush administration did not prosecute the BPP in Philadelphia? You are either incredibly stupid, willfully ignorant, or consciously willing to spread leftist lies.
Bob From District 9| 4.29.12 @ 9:07AM
""I was very sheltered until I met the Tea Party people," she said. "We were all black Catholics, we liked Jesus and JFK."
MonCrief recalled a meeting in Little Rock, Arkansas, where ACORN activists outlined a "socialist wish list" that included universal health care and environmental justice. It was at this point that MonCrief began to have misgivings ..."
She's Catholic? Why did she have misgivings about universal health care and environmental justice? Those are Catholic positions. The pope recently gave a speech on environmentalism. Check the Catholic Bishops website on social justice.
http://www.usccb.org
Nick| 4.29.12 @ 11:43AM
Bob,
They are not "Catholic positions," they are leftist positions.
Just because a few bishops from the USCCB issue position papers on certain subjects doesn't mean that all Catholics have to believe everything that they contain. The USCCB cannot make ex cathedra statements.
Bob From District 9| 4.29.12 @ 9:16AM
Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, who was elected with support from Soros and ACORN, oversaw the recount that ultimately resulted in election of Al Franken as that state's Democratic U.S. Senator. Franken had been behind Republican Norm Coleman before the recount.
"Every stolen election is a bullet in the heart of what this country is about," Caddell said.
Yes, just like the stolen 2000 presidential election put in office a republican who devoted his administration to taking away your constitutional rights, and to invading Iraq in a war for oil.
Some 4500 Americans, and 100,000 Iraqis died for that war of choice, their blood in on George W Bush's hands.
Tory| 4.29.12 @ 10:57AM
So where is all that oil?
Nick| 4.29.12 @ 11:57AM
Bob,
It's 2012! Get over it. Or, Move On, if you will.
There was no way algore was going to win his attempt to steal that election. Even the New York Slimes and Washington ComPost, and several other lefty newspapers, said that G.W. Bush won Florida.
And, yes, Operation Iraqi Freedom was a war of choice. The choice was Saddam's. He chose very badly. Also, the 100,000 Iraqi dead, if it even was that high, were the victims of Al Qaeda, not President Bush.
Congress gave the president the authority to enforce the Desert Storm cease-fire resolutions. So, we went to war as a nation. Over 80% supported invading Iraq. It wasn't until the '04 election that those numbers came down, with all the naysayers, such as yourself, who used the war as a political cudgel. Just like the lefties did during the Viet Nam war.
aware| 4.29.12 @ 1:42PM
I don't see where Norm Coleman is much improvement over the unfunny Franken. Basically that he's not Franken seems to be the only positive thing to be said. Much like the presidential situation.
Plenty of those causalities occurred under the current Plunderer in Chief, and still do. So what is your point?
The "losers" of that "stolen election"(like there is any other kind possible now) implemented Obamacare as fast as the "war" on "terror". If implemented it will have taken a great leap toward bankruptcy, default, and the chaos that will ensue when the fattened dependent class discovers the check isn't in the mail. You think domestic suicide is somehow better than world policeman suicide? It's all doing its part.
It is delusional to believe any of the "approved" possibilities at a given election would mean a genuine change in the trajectory of disaster.
“The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.” – H.L. Mencken
Mickey| 4.29.12 @ 1:57PM
What about the Americans who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan since Obama? Their blood is on Obama and voters like you.
spike59| 4.30.12 @ 6:33AM
you just CAN'T help yourself, Bob, can you? you're a typical Progressive and a liar; but i repeat myself
#1-EVERY media analysis of the 2000 Presidential election recounts shows that Bush WON Florida; had the pathetic Algore campaign been able to carry his own home state of TN, FL would not have even mattered
#2-every major Democrat figure, from Gore, to BOTH Clintons, to Ted Kennedy, to Pelosi, to John Kerry, to Harry Reid, agreed on the Iraqi threat, and the Democrats voted to authorize it.
#3-'war for oil' is such a laughable claim even most Progressives can't say it without giggling
Oldefarte| 4.29.12 @ 3:18PM
And your point has what connections to the subjected title of this editorial?????????
BarocheDique | 4.29.12 @ 11:53PM
Bob from District 9 - God love you, man....you're such an ignorant non-factor in life, it must be hell for you to wallow in your self-pity while listening to the distortions and outright lies spoon fed to you from your left-wing lunatic asylum you think is the media. Time to grow up, leave your mom's house and try to find a job instead of living off the rest of us. Only then, when you experience true life, will you finally understand how you've been lied to a made a fool of every time you open your mouth and regurgitate talking points to responsible adults who know the truth about your Democrat heroes.....like Captain Sternn in Heavy Metal the movie (look it up, I know you're not old enough or cool enough to have seen that one). But, for the record, if you're unhappy now....you're gonna be insanely pissed come November 7th ;) Have a good day, idiot.
Osamas Pajamas| 4.30.12 @ 2:46AM
Does anyone remember how Romanian dictator Ceaucescu and his murderous wife died? It took the lives of a lot of Romanians to dig these bxstxrds out of their palace but eventually the government-disarmed people broke into the dictatorship's armories and liberated weaponry and got the job done. Then they gave the Ceaucescus a five-minute curbside trial, or so I am told, and then they riddled them with automatic weapons fire. Perhaps our so-called "Democrats" should reflect what can happen to them if they continue stealing elections and continue keeping invalid names on the voting rolls, and keep trying to prevent honest elections. They might really annoy their intended victims, and get shot to pieces like the Romanian dictator and his bloodsucking wife.
Chicago Nick| 4.30.12 @ 4:39AM
I remember it, they even mocked it in Seinfeld with an episode where he was dating a woman from there who was there with some circus, but yea they gave them the Czar Nicholas treatment alright.
Chicago Nick| 4.30.12 @ 4:37AM
End fraud you end the democratic party.
The only places they have footholds are the inner cities, major cities, their ghettos and illegal alien populations lopped on top of the Caucasians cheating, stealing and lying to the others to get THEM to break the laws by promising them everything you and I have to work for. (free cells, free cable, free net access, those alone are 400 a month in my house, student loan payoffs, this promise, that promise, legalize weed, you name it, he'll promise it to the dumber kids and adults who believe it all) Enough of the welfare state.
Ask Holder as he'll tell you if it's not 'his people' bringing the charges then it's not worthy of his attention. Time for both to go and get charged for their mountains of crimes. This could take a decade if they haven't already started shredding parties and the likes...
Chicago Nick| 4.30.12 @ 4:41AM
...since we know Hussein's a master at making important documents and evidence of his crimes disappear so well..he's well versed at it...
OregonBuzz| 4.30.12 @ 9:02AM
Long before America and Americans, a wise man warned us of things to come.
"A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious, but it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly, but the traitor moves against those within the gate freely. The traitor speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and wears their face and their arguments. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear." Marcus Tullius Cicero
HTuttle| 4.30.12 @ 11:42AM
Clearly all these people are RACISTS!
Tom Kyba| 4.30.12 @ 1:34PM
"Hi I'm Bob from Distict 9 or something." Soon I will reach puberty and then you right wing sort of kind of people will be sorry 'n stuff.
oldguy199| 5.1.12 @ 9:35PM
We NEED voter ID now!!! Harsh punishment for those traitors that want to sabotage our system. top to bottom anyone caught with false ID ,and/or aiding and abbetting,manufacture counterfeiting, theif,etc. DEATH This privilage we have MUST be taken seriously. To have your first amm. rites silenced by corrupt officials and their supporters NO higher autrosity can be committed against freedom-loving peoples and must be defended to death!!
Pete| 5.2.12 @ 5:50PM
Quit saying "sympathetic to ACORN". We all know ACORN is just another name for the Democratic Party. Same with Media Matters. Same with the Unions, Same with Environmentalists. We need to just call them the Democrat