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Bill Ouren, True the Votes national elections coordinator, is presenting before a group of about 50 recruits in Boca Raton, Fla. He stands beneath a banner bearing his organizations name, alongside that of the Koch brothers SuperPAC Americans For Prosperity, and the Franklin Center for Government & Public Integritys Citizen Watchdog, a rightwing group that teaches people how to become investigative journalists. Hes telling the story of how True the Vote grew from a small posse in Harris County, Texas, in 2009, to a deployed army of over 1,000 poll watchers across most of the state the following year. Ouren brags that the 2010 recruits reported over 800 individual incidences of voter
irregularities.
Irregularities is not a common term in the True the Vote vocab. Usually, its just called fraud. Seeing that the wording change has brought confusion to some of his audiences faces, Ouren offers an explanation. I use the word irregularities because we dont know if people did it intentionally or if they just didnt know better. That kind of logic isnt normal for the group either, so he immediately adds, So for those people who say voter and election fraud doesnt exist, Ive got 806 answers to that. It absolutely does in one election.
http://colorlines.com/archives/2012/08/true_the_votes_large_and_growing_far-right_network.html
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)Nothing like sitting outside a polling place practicing your 2nd amendment rights
mercuryblues
(14,537 posts)We just recently learned that there are over 900 individuals who had died before the election (and had voted) and at least 600 of those individuals had died way outside the window that an absentee ballot could have been sent, so we know for a fact that there are deceased people whose identities are being used in elections in South Carolina.
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson (R), on Fox News, Jan. 21, 2012
We found out that there were over 900 people who died and then subsequently voted. That number could be even higher than that.
Wilson, on Fox News, Jan. 12, 2012
Without Photo ID, lets be clear, I dont want dead people voting in the state of South Carolina.
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R), in an interview that aired on Fox News, April 21, 2012
more at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/the-case-of-zombie-voters-in-south-carolina/2013/07/24/86de3c64-f403-11e2-aa2e-4088616498b4_blog.html
the breakdown after the state spent hundreds of thousands of tax dollars investigating this claim? the 900+ claim was over 73 different elections during a 7 year period. So the state concentrated on the 207 fraudulent votes from the last election. What they found was clerical errors, crossing the wrong name off the list, John Doe SR died, but John Doe JR voted. They even claimed that dead people were voting. As it turned out 2 people requested an absentee ballot then died and it was never returned. Sensitive scanners. People were erroneously counted as voting because of a stray pencil mark on the sheet.
In the end only 4 or 5 votes could not be confirmed. IMO there is no reason to suspect fraud considering the outcome of the other 202 claims. Nor is there any reason to suspect that the other elections would be any different if those were investigated.
Of course the investigation results were only made public after SC implanted voter ID laws. Republicans like to scam their way to the top. Embarrassing them with facts does not even phase them.