This happens in every close election. It happened in Washington State in the 2002 Gubernatorial Rossi-Gregoire race - Rossi won the first and second recounts, with King County Democrats finding more and more votes until Gregoire finally won - on the third recount. At which point, WA newspapers began calling on Rossi to accept the "results" and concede.
They tried to get car trunk ballots added to the tally in Ohio in 2004. They successfully got them added multiple times in the Minnesota 2008 Coleman-Franken race and a myriad of races in between.
Each time, the Democrats, their special interest groups, and their friends in the Press, from local newspapers up to the alphabet soup networks have shrieked that Republican objections to the counting of votes from "lost" ballot boxes miraculously found by Democratic activists in their closets and car trunks a week after the election which - "shockingly" - always overturn Republican leads, is because Republicans want to "suppress" the vote.
Each time, Republicans have allowed themselves to be browbeaten into silence and defeat.
What to do about it?
First is VOTE. Vote, and then get your friends and family to vote. Volunteer to GOTV by phonebanking for a favored candidate or walking your precinct. As Hugh Hewitt puts it; If It's Not Close, They Can't Cheat. If you're a poll watcher, do not be shy or in any reticent about demanding ID - demand it of everyone. Inform any idiot who would shriek that it is "racist" or "anti-Hispanic" to ask for ID that Mexico demands a picture ID before allowing people to vote in their elections - if it is not "racist" in Mexico, it's certainly not racist in America.
Let's get our guys above the margin of the car trunk and George Soros.
But what happens if it is close? First, get on the phone to the Republican's campaign HQ and offer to do what you can to help. But just as importantly, make clear your concern about voter fraud and car trunk ballot boxes and demand that they make as much noise about it as possible. The candidate should not do the "Bipartisan" thing and mince words - he should be on stage calling it as it is - fraud, and the people engaging in it - and their enablers in the Press Corps - as thieves and frauds.
Get on the phone to the NRCC (202-479-7000), NRSC (202-675-6000) and make it clear in no uncertain terms that they defend your vote. Tell them you expect to see ads on TV and Press Conferences. Tell them you expect to see lawyers by the planeloads and scorched earth tactics to rival the Mongols.
Let them know this time, unlike the Coleman campaign, you want a fight and will accept nothing short of victory.
Let Al Franken in 2008 be the last time Democrat fraud stole an election.
Now go VOTE.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Happy Election Day (aka Judgement Day)!
The sun is shining, the sky is clear, and we finally get to have our say on what the Democrats have done to us over the past two years. It's a beautiful day.
Just a few interesting bits of reading for the morning...
Here's one way we'll likely see voter fraud right out in the open. This has happened in every election I can recall paying attention to (2000 to current). Pay special attention, because we're likely to see it play out once again starting tonight when the recounts begin:
One major election pundit is saying the GOP will win around 75 seats in the House, and is giving a 50/50 chance of taking the majority in the Senate. It depends on the methodology of calculation used, of course, and there's no way to know until the votes are counted, but at the very least it's in play.
One other caution that should be mentioned: ignore any and all talk of exit polls! They are hideously inaccurate and can be skewed any direction by the pollster. They are used in every election to try to depress the other party's turnout, so don't pay any attention to it. If you plan to vote, don't let anything or anyone stop you.
Speaking for my own experience, I was in and out much quicker than two years ago. I was number 210 on the ballot box at my polling place, which I believe was a higher number than last time (I think I was about 180 then); no way to know how many electronic ballots were cast. I chose to do the paper ballot because of all the stories we've already seen of gimmicked electronic voting machines. I've heard some folks say their polling places were PACKED, and that seems to be the case on the radio, as well. However, I'm a bit skeptical of these reports of higher than expected turnouts, since we seem to hear that every year and it rarely materializes.
Feel free to drop a comment with your experiences today!
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