The push to register voters for this year’s presidential election is breaking records. More than 1.9 million people are registered to vote in Harris County alone. But how many of the people listed on the voter roll are actually eligible to cast a ballot? “All-in-all, a great person, a great woman, just a wonderful person” is how Alexis Guidry described her mother to Local 2 Investigates.
“As far back as I can remember, they’ve always voted in the election,” Guidry said of her parents. The March 2008 Primary was no exception. Voting records show Alexis’ mom, Gloria Guidry, cast her ballot in person near her South Houston home. “It was just very shocking, a little unsettling,” said Alexis Guidry.
It’s unsettling because Gloria Guidry died of cancer 10 months before the March Primary.
“She’d be very upset,” Guidry said when asked what her mom would think. Trent Seibert, of Texas Watchdog, says you should be too. “This is really disquieting. It’s concerning. It’s worrisome,” said Seibert. He heads up the non-partisan news group on the web. Texas Watchdog compared Harris County’s voter registration roll with the Social Security death index and found more than 4,000 matches — registered voters that, it appears, are already dead.
Some of them, like Henderson Hill’s late wife Linda, voted postmortem. “I would like to know who did it, myself,” Hill told Davis. We don’t know who used Linda Hill’s or Gloria Guidry’s IDs to vote, but we do know if their names had been purged from voter rolls after they died, using their IDs wouldn’t have worked. “This is a red flag. No matter where you are, this should set off alarm bells,” Seibert said. “Someone needs to take a look at this.” “We just kind of work with the systems that we’re allowed to,” explained George Hammerlein, the director of Harris County Voter Registration. The county’s system for culling deceased voters from the roll seems painfully primitive. We watched employees clip obituaries from the newspaper and sort through probate records for names matching those on the roll. But, Hammerlein says while fraud is a concern, for his office, disenfranchising voters is a bigger one.
Texas Watchdog found 4,462 registered voters who appear to be deceased. In 2000, George Bush won the presidential election by a mere 537 votes in Florida.
Time is running out and they better get a handle on this, lest we have a repeat of the last election.
#20 – Gary, the dangerous infidel
LOL
#31- O’Pinocchio
“the trials”? What trials? You surely don’t think that Repug criminals (with the exception of a few lonely sacrificial lambs) are held accountable for their crimes?!?!?!?? Shit man, they control the Justice Department, haven’t you heard?
#33 “Shit man, they control the Justice Department, haven’t you heard?”
Not in Dem controlled states where the crimes would be alleged…
Remember, meds & loosen the hat..
This article needs a BS meter.
The Republicans are hyping “voter fraud” in order to create noise to distract from their election fraud.
Here is one article about it:
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States’ Actions to Block Voters Appear Illegal
Tens of thousands of eligible voters in at least six swing states have been removed from the rolls or have been blocked from registering in ways that appear to violate federal law, according to a review of state records and Social Security data by The New York Times.
http://tinyurl.com/4hyfyv
#35 “Voting fraud in national elections is generally prosecuted by the local US Attorney. ”
Actually, violation of State election laws is under the jurisdiction of the State AG.
Thanks for playing though…
#25 Misanthropic Scott, I may not be able to top truly great wordplay like “deadication,” but perhaps I can tickle you with a bit of trivia relevant to Ashcroft, since you raised the topic. What do Ashcroft, Sarah Palin, and I all have in common?
The answer is, we’ve all had past and/or present association with the same “Assemblies of God” sect of Pentecostal church. Speaking in tongues, casting out demons, faith healings, etc….. I’ve seen a fair amount of odd religious behavior, although our sect didn’t go so far as to handle snakes (Whew!!! I dodged a bullet there) 😉
Acorn were the originators of the investigation, dimwits. They submitted packets to authorities which were ignored for months.
Then suddenly the “raid” 30 days before the election. Not the first time there have been shenanigans coming from the Ohio Secretary of State.
#37 – O’Pinoochio
>>Actually, violation of State election laws is
>>under the jurisdiction of the State AG.
O’Pinocchio, if YOU are going to try and play, you might want to learn the rules of the game.
US Attorneys can, and often do, presecute election fraud cases. In fact, Dumbya and his co-conspirators even tried to use “complaints” that the US Atttorneys were not vigorous enough in prosecuting election fraud as one of the bogus reasons for firing all the ones they didn’t like:
“On March 13, White House spokesman Dan Bartlett tried to come up with one. “Over the course of several years, we have received complaints about U.S. attorneys,” he insisted, “particularly when it comes to election fraud cases….Tuesday, President Bush pressed home this claim with a similar statement during his defense of embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. “We did hear complaints and concerns about U.S. attorneys,” said Bush. “Some complained about the lack of vigorous prosecution of election fraud cases.”…Bush and Bartlett were arguing that some of the fired attorneys had underperformed by failing to prosecute the raft of offenses that make up voter fraud — things like vote buying, double voting, and voting by felons, illegal aliens and the deceased.“.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/03/21/us_attorneys/
I’ll assume that you were just ignorant of how election fraud is actually prosecuted, rather than lying. We’ve already got one lyin’ guy here (Mike), we don’t need two.
#40 Contestant Musturd said,
“US Attorneys can, and often do, prosecute election fraud cases.”
Okay. That in NO way prevents State AG’s from pursuing.
Thanks for playing.
We have a nice box of Rice-A-Roni as a consolation prize. 😉
#31 – Cow Paddy,
Third Elections Worker Indicted
Over Presidential Recount
Good enough?
#38 – Gary,
Glad you made it out alive … and apparently came to your senses. I consider that evidence of high intelligence and strong will. Good job.
For my part, I was never fully indoctrinated in the first place. So, making the gradual transition from a vague belief in god to agnostic to belief that if god did exist, the Judeo-Christian-Islamic religion (deliberately singular) had it all wrong and finally to true atheism was not all that difficult.
#41 – O’Pinocchio
>>Okay. That in NO way prevents State AG’s from
>>pursuing.
It does if they’re being pressured by the Feds to look the other way. And with those US Attorneys who didn’t toe the Bush line being kicked to the curb, you can bet that sort of thing is commonplace.
And hey, how about that Sarah Palin? Looks like she’s BUSTED for trying to strongarm the state government to settle her family squbbles; the committee’s report is out, and she’s got mud all over her face.
HAW!
Think she’ll drop out?
#44 Mister Mustard wrote of Sarah Palin, “…the committee’s report is out, and she’s got mud all over her face.”
Shucks, I saw that earlier and I thought it was just a mudpack spa treatment to improve her skin. It would be a shame to let those leftists over at Newsweek who refused to retouch her face for their magazine cover have the last laugh 😉
#28 syrinx. Yea, I also loved the pic. Real classic!
But I was wondering, in the right lens we see Bush, but isn’t that Obama in the left?
#44 – Mr. Mustard,
Thanks!! I had to find my own link to an article about it. But, I made a cagematch topic out of it.
Schadenfraude feels good!!
Panel Finds Palin Abused Authority in Firing State Official
#41, Cow-Paddy,
Can you point to ONE case where ACORN committed voter fraud? If you have a hard time there, how about just ONE case where ACORN has been indicted for voter fraud? I don’t care if it is a Federal or State case. All I want to see is ONE fucking case that is more than a right wing nut’s wet dream story.
Then can you explain where in the Constitution it states Congress is not allowed to regulate wages? It has been over two weeks now. Surely you have had some time to check it out. Then you can tell us all about that hearing you attended with Cynthia McKinney. You remember, which committee was it and who was the Chairman. And what year. Just so I can verify it actually happened.
AH-Yeah – that’s Obama on the left, McCain on his right.
# 48
Don’t hold your breath: Cons talk big, but usually have trouble with factual details.
I’m afraid the dead have a very long and honorable tradition for voting in this nation. Just make sure you know which party they are voting for. On the whole the Dems have been much better at this in the South than the Reps. Not sure about your neck of the woods.
I seem to recall some group being investagated on this topic? Acorn? I think they support Obama after all he worked for them.
#48 Mr Confusion said, “I forgot how to use Google, can you point to ONE case where ACORN committed voter fraud? If you have a hard time there, how about just ONE case where ACORN has been indicted for voter fraud?”
Sure, glad to help someone with “special” needs. 😉
The Acorn Indictments
“So, less than a week before the midterm elections, four workers from Acorn, the liberal activist group that has registered millions of voters, have been indicted by a federal grand jury for submitting false voter registration forms to the Kansas City, Missouri, election board. But hey, who needs voter ID laws?”
#44 Mr. Musturd, “It does if they’re being pressured by the Feds to look the other way. And with those US Attorneys who didn’t toe the Bush line being kicked to the curb, you can bet that sort of thing is commonplace.”
Umm, in Dem controlled states Bush can’t have any AG fired.
Nice try, but, as usual you just win a box of Rice-A-Roni. 😉
#52, Cow-Paddy,
Those indictments were for VOTER REGISTRATION, not voter fraud. Besides, the indictments were dropped because the US Attorney couldn’t prove the workers deliberately knew any of the people registered were unable to vote.
The US Attorney was later chastised by the Judge for deliberate interference in the political arena.
So, other than that abortion of an attempt, can you point to any case where ACORN committed voter fraud?
#54
I could go on but, I usually charge for Google training. If you’d like I can arrange for you to pay me via PayPal… I charge $175/hour, minimum 8 hours billing.
In Ohio in 2004, four ACORN employees were indicted by a federal grand jury for submitting false voter registration forms.
In January 2005 two Colorado ACORN workers were sentenced to community service for submitting false voter registrations.
On November 1, 2006, four part-time ACORN employees were indicted in Kansas City, Missouri for voter registration fraud. Prosecutors said the indictments are part of a national investigation.
ACORN was investigated in 2006 for submitting false voter registrations in St. Louis, Missouri. 1,492 fraudulent voter registrations were identified.
In 2007, five Washington state ACORN workers were sentenced to jail time. ACORN agreed to pay King County $25 000 for its investigative costs and acknowledged that the national organization could be subject to criminal prosecution if fraud occurs again.
In 2008, the Michigan Secretary of State office told the Detroit Free Press that ACORN had been submitting a sizeable number of duplicate and fraudulent applications to vote.
#55, Cow-Paddy,
I could go on but, I usually charge for Google training. If you’d like I can arrange for you to pay me via PayPal… I charge $175/hour, minimum 8 hours billing.
If you need to charge people then you should know something about how to do it yourself. Besides posting bogus accusations, without links, you still failed to point out anyone charged with voter fraud.
IF you claim to know how to use google so well then why haven’t you posted where in the Constitution it states that Congress does not have the authority to regulate wages?
Shit, you might even use “the google” to find out what you didn’t know McKinney kept on her desk. It took me about ten minutes to find out, an expert like you shouldn’t have any trouble though.
#56, Bryan,
Much like Cow-Paddy, you can’t tell the difference between registration fraud and voter fraud. If someone registers someone named Daffy Duck then that is probably registration fraud. BUT, if someone tries to vote claiming to be Daffy Duck when their name is really Bryan Pecker then that is Voter Fraud. Yes, there is a big difference between the two.
#57 I love the smell your defeat in the morning.
#58, pedro,
You should get a life. Have you stopped jerking off in public yet?
#59, Cow-Paddy,
Since you can’t produce any cases of actual voter fraud, I consider the case closed. Once again you have come up short. Your attempt to make good is duly noted. And dismissed as typical troll bait.
Shall we mention the estimated 50,000 eligible voters that were disenfranchised in Florida? No, there was no attempt to vote illegally, they were just removed from the registry. Yet your shorts are all in a knot over some registration errors. Oopps, my error, your “frilly undies”, you don’t wear shorts.
Oh ya, I don’t want to discourage you from digging, so if you do find some actual cases of voter fraud I’d like to hear about it.
#60 “Shall we mention the estimated 50,000 eligible voters that were disenfranchised in Florida?”
Sure, if you can show me the criminal indictments which would follow (if it were true).