Author Archives: J Christian Adams

“Election 2012: Why didn’t 94 million Americans vote”

The unofficial tally currently shows Obama with 61 million votes and
Romney with 58 million votes. After election officials finish processing
hundreds of thousands of absentee and provisional ballots, Obama’s
final tally could reach 64 million.

But no U.S. president in
the last century has come remotely close to winning as many votes as
there are people who refuse to participate in the democratic process.

“Democracy
is in trouble,” said Curtis Gans, director of the Center for the Study
of the American Electorate that tracks voter turnout rates.

Read more at the link.  The number of non-participants in the voting process is amazing.  Who knows what the impact is having on our democracy for better or worse.

“Florida elections chief concedes vote could have been handled better”

On CNN, Detzner twice demurred when offered a chance to say he was sorry
for inconveniencing so many voters. He said the length of the ballot
and record turnout of 8.4 million contributed to bottlenecks that forced
people in Miami-Dade to wait several hours to vote. He did concede that
the state should have allowed counties to add more early-voting sites.  Link to story

NY translator’s fraud proves “people cheat. Even when they don’t need to.”



It seems “irrational” – and yet:

A case of election fraud occurred in Flushing when a Korean-American translator helping voters at PS 20 was caught directing them to vote for Democratic candidates. A volunteer poll watcher confirmed the incident.


 


The translator, Sang Soo Park, was expelled from the polling place for breaking the law by telling at least three voters to choose the Democratic slate, according to the observer, attorney Daniel Baek.


Baek is a certified poll watcher appointed by the Dan Halloran campaign who was charged with overseeing nine polling places including PS 20…


 


“He basically stated something to the effect of, ‘You are Korean and therefore you want to vote for Obama, and you know what? Go down the list for all Democrats,’” Baek said.


 


More here.


“Election Board Investigates Possible Voter Fraud in Oklahoma County”


Imagine finally getting to the front of the line at your polling station only to find someone else already cast your vote. That’s what happened to man here in Oklahoma City on Tuesday. . .


 


When Jay showed his ID to a poll worker today, she said he’d already voted.  “Her initial statement was, ‘well, you’ve already voted,’ and I said, ‘no, I haven’t, and I showed her my ID and my signature on my ID. I said that’s not my signature,” Kelly said.


 


Equally troubling as the stolen vote – the poll worker’s response:  “So [the poll worker] suggested that I sign and vote as someone else in that person’s place instead,” Kelly says.


 


How many more instances of in-person voter fraud were committed remains to be seen. 


 


Story and video here.

GOP “Outreach” to Hispanic Groups Won’t Work

A story of betrayal from the 2006 Voting Rights Act reauthorization.  Fool me once…

” But the vote this week was extremely racially polarized, and deliberately so. Sixty-two percent of whites voted for Romney. Ninety percent of black voters and 71% of Hispanic voters went for Obama. That’s how the race groups working for the Democrat Party want it. They are very very effective at keeping the races politically polarized. 

Those numbers are frightening, and no amount of traditional “outreach” is going to change them, even a new-found acceptance of illegal immigration. Those calling for outreach to minorities are only half right. Something needs to be done, but they naively prescribe the mistakes of the past that will forever alter the demographic character of America, without altering the vote totals for the GOP.”

WSJ: “Voting Glitches, Partisan Disputes Mar Vote”

 Wall Street Journal: 


“In Columbus, Ohio, poll watchers for True the Vote, a group linked to the Tea Party, were denied access by county officials at precincts around the county.


True the Vote’s president, Catherine Engelbrecht, called the actions “dangerous and offensive” and denied that volunteers had broken any ethics rules. Ms. Engelbrecht said this was “a final, desperate attempt to deny citizens their right to observe elections.”