Just keep telling yourself that.
We’ll start off with the original from TheHill
“Several Virginia Democrats have asked the Justice Department to investigate allegations of voter fraud surrounding a GOP firm working in the Old Dominion and other battleground states.
Reps. Jim Moran, Bobby Scott and Jerry Connolly say recent allegations of registration fraud by Strategic Allied Consulting in Florida — combined with last week’s voter-fraud arrest of a Republican operative linked to the firm in Virginia — merit a federal probe to determine if the episodes “are connected and constitute a broader conspiracy of voter registration fraud.”
“The number of allegations in a multitude of locations would seem to suggest something more than the isolated acts of ‘a few bad apples,’ ” the lawmakers wrote Tuesday to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.”
More from NBC
“The request comes five days after Pinpoint contractor Colin Small, 31, was arrested and charged with 13 felony and misdemeanor counts of voter registration fraud. Sheriff’s deputies in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley say Small tossed voter registration forms into a trash bin in Rockingham County.
Pinpoint was contracted by Virginia’s Republican Party to register voters.
Its parent company, Strategic Allied Consulting, is under investigation in Florida for more than 200 allegations of voter registration fraud.”
Sounds serious, I hope they’re punished if there’s proof. Regardless of party affiliation.
Which brings us to the next one, where there’s actually video.
Yes, he did it again. James O’Keefe strikes again.
But what makes this even more interesting is the person in question is none other than the son, and campaign worker/member of Rep Jim Moran. Yes, the son of one of the man crying vote fraud on the other side is helping educate people how to commit vote fraud. Needless to say, he’s now officially resigned.
Someone’s projecting. And note that some of the footage takes place in the Obama’s Organizing for America local office.
Language Warning! if you watch the video.
“Project Veritas has released a new investigation that exposes Representative Jim Moran’s Field Director, Patrick Moran, conspiring to commit election fraud.
When approached by an undercover investigator for advice on how to steal the votes of more than 100 people, Moran advised falsifying documents to satisfy Virginia’s new voter ID law. He said, “Bank statement obviously would be tough, but they can fake a utility bill with ease.”
Moran went on to clarify that, “You’d have to forge it.””
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=gT77qP2Nai8
And more attempts at voter intimidation in Florida.
From NBC
“The FBI and U.S. Postal Service agents are investigating bogus official-looking letters sent to voters in at least 28 Florida counties questioning their citizenship and their eligibility to vote, NBC News has learned.”
“It’s not clear who sent the letters, which were machine postmarked in Seattle. Couvertier said the FBI in Tampa is working with its Seattle office to track down the perpetrator.
Cate said a “significant majority have gone to Republican voters, but not exclusively. We’ve got Democrats who received the letters, we’ve got independents. We’re telling everybody to be on the lookout.”
Wandering Views 
I have been praying about voter fraud for awhile now. I have felt Romney should win the election, but voter fraud could alter the results. Where there is a will there is a way. And voter fraud is not acceptable on either side.
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I have been praying about that as well…and that people think for themselves and are not completely uninformed. However, you would not believe the “facts” that I have heard from some young voters at my school…
Romney, apparently, will end all financial aid for students and take away any and all food stamps!
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When I was growing up, Nixon was going to make us all go to school on Saturdays. 🙂
There’s always some voter fraud in every election — it’s only when the results are so incredibly close, however, that it can actually tip the scales and make a difference in who wins. Scary.
That’s why this election and these really-close polls in some of the swing states are making me somewhat nervous at this late stage.
Unless Romney (or Obama, for that matter) manages to pull ahead by more than a percentage point or two, the results could be so close that we’ll be stuck in another 2000-style aftermath scenario.
Only this one would be potentially much worse and more contentious, everyone’s so on edge lately. And then we could wind up with a good portion of people who simply won’t accept the final results, whichever way they go.
(Twelve years ago, I had a colleague who continued to pointedly refer to Gore as “The President” — or at least “his” president and the “real” president — for the better part of 2 years, maybe more, following the 2000 election; and only half joking, he was.)
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I’m sure Al was president of something…
I was just reading an article that mentioned how frustrated pollsters are because only about 9% of the people they contact will answer the poll…makes you wonder who the other 91% plan to vote for…
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And the rapid proliferation of mail-in ballots, a “voting” period that now spans more than a month (2 months?) and no voter ID regulations only open the way to these kinds of shenanigans perpetrated by the cut-throat partisans on both sides.
I’m hoping after this election, however it turns out, we can maybe turn our attention to tightening up the process a bit.
Although — let me guess — that would probably only be perceived as trying to “prevent” some groups of people from voting.
Am I right? 😉 Someone call the UN.
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Donna,
But then you would be disenfranchising the old, infirm, minorities, and illegal voters.
And it would make you a racist.
🙄
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Inbutnotof — I’m hoping the polls aren’t telling the whole story and that it’s not nearly as close as it seems.
Polling, by the way, also has become more of a challenge in this age of cell phones, caller ID and other less standard/sure ways of contacting “real” people.
And maybe when the nation is this divided, it makes people less inclined to participate in polls when contacted. Let’s hope there’s at least a 5% spread — and that the same candidate wins both the popular & electoral college votes. !
Especially let’s hope that the swing states also provide returns that clear the margin of error with enough leeway that endless recounts, charges & counter-charges, and second-guessing won’t take us all into Christmas or beyond. 🙄
Watch the road, sharp turns ahead in these next (now less than) 2 weeks.
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Here is the link that my CA friend since to show me that my concerns are not valid about voter fraud: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/debbie-hines/voter-fraud-statistics_b_1139085.html
Somehow I feel my concerns are being dismissed because I only listen to what the Evangelical Christian views are. This makes me sad. When Bush was president I did not feel our country could possibly get more divided but with BO it has happened.
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Janice,
I left you some links that may help on the Daily Thread.
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Janice,
And I read the HuffPo link and I’ll just say that given the data you’ll find at the links I provided, she’s obviously wrong in her assessment. There have been many more prosecutions, and convictions, than she’s admitting. And the data I looked at didn’t include the RNLA data she thinks she’s refuting.
I think she’s being willfully ignorant in her attempt to convince everyone that Voter ID is unnecessary.
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Thanks, AJ. I sent my friend the report you linked, from Minnesota, that has the chart, thinking she might at least make time to look at the chart. I would have sent all of your links, but she might feel overwhelmed from the right side. It is too hard to go anywhere in a political conversation with her and others I know.
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