Kentucky Voter Fraud

This is just make believe, because certain leftwing nutcases say voter fraud is a myth, it just can't happen.

Prosecutors say more than $400,000, part of it drug proceeds, was pooled by Democratic and Republican politicians over several elections, and spent to buy the votes of more than 8,000 voters, usually at $50 apiece.

One voter was even able to bid up the cost of his vote to $800.

In the Eastern District of Kentucky alone, more than 20 public elected officials and others have either been convicted or plead guilty in various vote-buying cases just in the last two years.

On Tuesday, former Breathitt County School Superintendent Arch Turner pleaded guilty to conspiracy during the 2010 primary election, admitting he handed out money to buy votes. On Thursday, two others will be sentenced after they were convicted of vote-buying-related charges in the same contest.

I must be dreaming, this really isn't possible... or is it? Now cue the dingbat!!
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/07 ... -kentucky/

Buying votes? Doesn't everyone buy votes, from massive spending on advertizing to handing out pork....

...I would sell my vote for $800.

Too bad they haven't had a case of in-person voter-fraud in ANY of the states up there in years... And people "buying" people's votes is not going to be stopped by ANY vote-ID suppression laws.

LJ is right. It is so much easier to do it the Chicago way and just stuff the ballot box in Dem districts.
Rahm is probably already collating the info from local cemeteries.

:Snooze

"help....help.....fraud...."

And voter-suppression laws don't stop anything except in-person identity problems....(Which hasn't happened in years--in ANY state...) :Snooze

Rather than being sterling constitutional scholarship, what Holder and the Department of Justice are saying, in effect, is that it is too hard for minorities to get photo IDs so a mandate that they produce them before voting amounts to government-sponsored disenfranchisement. This is, of course, utter nonsense. No one can operate successfully in contemporary America without a photo ID. It's needed to cash a check, drive a car, board an airplane, or even to be admitted to the Justice Department in order to meet with the attorney general. In fact, a photo ID will even be necessary in order to participate in many of the new healthcare programs anticipated under Obamacare.

It is not unreasonable to ask someone to prove their identity before receiving a government service or being permitted access to a government building. Why, therefore, is it unreasonable—even discriminatory—to ask someone to prove their identity and their legitimacy before being able to vote, as Attorney General Holder apparently believes? In the last 10 years there have been voter fraud convictions in 46 states.Over the last year Indiana, New York, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Minnesota have all had voter fraud cases in their courts.

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/pet ... epublicans

Pets, deceased receive forms to vote in Va., fueling complaints

Voter-registration forms being mailed to Virginia residents are addressed to dead relatives, children, family members in other states, non-U.S. citizens, people with similar names, existing registered voters and residents' cats and dogs.

The errant forms are among tens of thousands being distributed in Virginia by a national voter-registration group that pre-populates the documents with key information, including names and addresses of prospective voters.

The mailings have become a source of confusion among many who receive them and are creating headaches for local registrar offices, which must spend time in a busy presidential election year investigating which of the forms are legitimate.

The mailings also can create opportunities for voter fraud, election officials say.

Virginia election officials have contacted the nonprofit group, the Washington-based Voter Participation Center, to express their concern and ask it to adjust its methods.

http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2012 ... r-2074543/

Nothing to see here... move on.

See, I knew the dingbat would chime in with a mouth full of BS.