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January 29, 2009
SOMETHING TO REMEMBER IN 2012.... Last year, Ohio's Joe Deters was the regional chairman of the McCain/Palin campaign, and was also a prosecutor in Hamilton County. Like a lot of Republican activists, he became convinced that there was widespread voter fraud underway in Ohio. A special prosecutor looked into Deters' claims and reviewed 600 accusations of fraud. Take a wild guess what the investigation turned up. (via Mark Kleiman)
Deters had claimed concrete evidence of widespread wrongdoing. It apparently wasn't as concrete as he'd hoped. And what about the one guy O'Neill found committed actual fraud? It seems a young man from Connecticut was in town to visit his sister, and went to the University of Cincinnati where he registered to vote and voted on the same day. A week later, the man felt guilty, called county elections officials, explained what he'd done, and asked that his vote not be counted. It wasn't. What's more, for those who are curious, the special prosecutor who investigated the matter is himself a Republican. Something to keep in mind the next time conservatives get hysterical about "voter fraud" claims. —Steve Benen 12:40 PM Permalink | Trackbacks | Comments (12)Comments
"Something to keep in mind the next time conservatives get hysterical about "voter fraud" claims." I sure wish the MSM had a mind to keep this in. Posted by: Cal Gal on January 29, 2009 at 12:58 PM | PERMALINKNaturally, none of these investigation results will matter when the republicans will make the exact same claims at the next election. Posted by: royalblue_tom on January 29, 2009 at 1:16 PM | PERMALINKDeters had claimed concrete evidence of widespread wrongdoing. Lemme guess... he had a list of 205 names? Posted by: bh on January 29, 2009 at 1:38 PM | PERMALINKStop using the term 'voter fraud' and start using 'voter registration fraud.' It'll help clarify people's thinking. Posted by: saym on January 29, 2009 at 1:39 PM | PERMALINKPrecisely. When the Republicans get nervous, the MSM gets hysterical, then the Repubs get hysterical, the MSM is terrified. Get ready for the headlines "CONCRETE PROOF OF VOTER FRAUD IN OHIO!" For anyone interested, I just awarded Tim Burke as Nihilist of the Day for his excellent work in using subjectivist attacks to destroy the empirical proof of our obvious voter fraud. Remember, American Nihilist is the place to go for liberal nihilists who hate stuff and want America to lose. Posted by: Doctor Biobrain on January 29, 2009 at 1:39 PM | PERMALINKStop using the term 'voter fraud' and start using 'voter registration fraud.' saym - While that's typically correct, I do believe these were allegations of voter fraud, in that people were supposedly being bribed to register and vote at the same time, which they can do during that time period. So this would involve actual votes being bought. But all the same, these allegations were ludicrous. Six hundred fraudulent votes in a county with over four hundred thousand votes?? Why bother? The booze and cigs would have set them back a few thousand dollars, and they'd risk SERIOUS jailtime if any of these people confessed to receiving compensation for voter fraud. And for what? Those six hundred votes were 0.23% of Obama's victory margin in Ohio. Why would anyone bother with that? Posted by: Doctor Biobrain on January 29, 2009 at 1:46 PM | PERMALINKThe fact that the special prosecutor was a Republican won't give Republicans a moment's pause in claiming voter fraud. Republicans are still claiming voter fraud over the 2004 gubernatorial election in Washington, even though the Republican King County prosecutor, the Republican Secretary of State, and the Republican-appointed US Attorney could find no evidence of it. (Which cost the US Attorney his job, in the Rove purge.) "Something to keep in mind the next time conservatives get hysterical about "voter fraud" claims." Read: "2010 Midterm Elections" Posted by: TBone on January 29, 2009 at 2:31 PM | PERMALINKIsn't Hamilton County the place where they witheld their ballot boxes due to a fictional "Terrorist Threat" during the 2004 Election? Posted by: CaptainTrips on January 29, 2009 at 3:28 PM | PERMALINKClose, Captain Tripps. The "terrorist threat" ballot box sequestion took place in Warren County, the county immediately to the north of Hamilton. Hamilton County (the eastern half, anyway) is the place that's represented in Congress by Jean Schmidt. Posted by: Ohio Mom on January 29, 2009 at 3:41 PM | PERMALINKI pledge to chug a bottle of Jack Daniels for every minute of time that gets devoted to telling this correctly on Fox News?. Posted by: Mark-NC on January 29, 2009 at 4:48 PM | PERMALINK
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