Monday's interview with Rossi campaign communications director Mary Lane about the election contest and revote campaign is now available in streaming video at the Seattle Channel website. Mary gave a really informative interview. I highly recommend it.
If you prefer to watch the show on an actual television, it will be on SCAN-TV (cable 77 in most of King County) Thursday at 5pm. It should also be broadcast on the Seattle Channel, although it's not scheduled yet. Check the online schedule for updates.
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at January 26, 2005 09:32 PM | Email ThisThe Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel has a flash announcement on their website that local, state, and federal resources will combine to investigate voter fraud in Milwaukee in November 2004:
Local and federal law enforcement authorities are finalizing a task force that is to look into potential fraud in Milwaukee in the Nov. 2 election, sources confirmed today.
The details are being worked out between Milwaukee County District Attorney E. Michael McCann, U.S. Attorney Steve Biskupic, Milwaukee Police Chief Nannette Hegerty and the local office of the FBI.
The task force comes in the wake of Journal Sentinel revelations that more than 1,200 votes came from invalid addresses and that there were other problems with how the election was run in the city.
Posted by: Sandy P on January 26, 2005 11:26 PMAnd sandy P. , that is great news! This is great for the whole country, as I suspect that WI would've gone for Bush except for all the democrat fraud in heavily democrat Milwaukee. (notice how most fraud is always in 'heavily democratic'-described counties.---NOT a coincidence, methinks)
Posted by: Michele S on January 26, 2005 11:45 PMI wasn't able to attend - but my sister was going to try to make it.. I'll have to give her a call and see if she went!
Posted by: Deborah on January 27, 2005 12:35 AMThe Seattle Channel Website does not list this program in its TV schedule for today. I watched the streaming copy, but I wondered if the Seattle Channel folks has any interest in making sure as few people see this as possible?
Posted by: Jeff B. on January 27, 2005 07:55 AMSOURCE: http://www.conservativeaction.org/resources.php3?nameid=votefraud
How Democrats Steal Elections - Top 10 Methods of Liberal Vote Fraud
1. Over-Voting. In Democrat strongholds like St. Louis, Philadelphia and Detroit, some precincts had 100% of their registered voters voting, with 99% of the ballots going to Gore. Clearly, multiple voting resulted in extra tallies for Gore in the 2000 election. (New York Post, 12/09/00).
2. Dead Voters. This classic Democratic method of vote fraud goes all the way back to 1960 in Chicago and Dallas. The 2000 election was no exception. In Miami-Dade County, for example, some of the 144 ineligible votes (those which officials actually admitted to) were cast by dead people, including a Haitian-American who's been deceased since 1977 (Miami-Herald, 12/24/00).
3. Mystery Voters. These "voters" cast votes anyway but are not even registered to vote. In heavily Democratic Broward County, for example, more than 400 ballots were cast by non-registered voters. (Miami-Herald 1/09/01)
4. Military ballots. Many of these votes were disqualified for the most mundane and trivial reasons. At least 1,527 valid military ballots were discarded in Florida by Democratic vote counters (Drudge Report, 11/19/00).
5. Criminals. Felons are a natural Democratic voter and they're protected on voter rolls across the country. In Florida at least 445 ex-convicts - including rapists and murderers -- voted illegally on November 7th. Nearly all of them were registered Democrats. (Miami-Herald 12/01/00)
6. Illegal aliens. These voters have long been a core liberal constituency, especially in California. In Orange County in 1996, Rep. Bob Dornan had his congressional seat stolen from him when thousands of illegal aliens voted for Loretta Sanchez (Christian Science Monitor, 9/2/97).
7. Vote-buying. Purchasing votes has long been a traditional scheme by Democrats, and not just with money. In the 2000 election in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Democratic workers initiate a "smokes-for-votes" campaign in which they paid dozens of homeless men with cigarettes if they cast ballots for Al Gore (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 11/14/00).
8. Phantom Voters. These voters don't really exist, but their ballots do. In the 1996 Lousiana Senate race, GOP candidate Woody Jenkins had the election stolen from him when he discovered that 7,454 actual votes were cast but had no paper trail to authenticate them (Behind the Headlines, F.R. Duplantier, 4/27/97).
9. Dimpled chads. Those infamous punch-cards were a ballot bonanza for Al Gore. Democratic poll workers in Palm Beach, Dade and Broward counties tampered and manipulated thousands of ineligible ballots and counted them for Gore, even though no clear vote could be discerned. (NewsMax.com 11/27, 12/22, 11/18, 11/19/00).
10. Absentee ballots. Normally it's assumed that Republicans benefit from absentee ballots. But in the case of Miami's 1997 mayoral election, hundreds of absentee ballots were made for sale or sent out to non-Miami residents. Fraud was so extensive in the race that the final results were overturned in court (FL Dept. of Law Enforcement Report, 1/5/98)."
Good list. I've seen or read most of that information and agree with it. It's true, "if it is close, they can steal it." I believe Bush definitely won WI, and may have won PA.
Stefan,
Fantastic job with the interview. Not only are you a good mathmatician/ statistician, a tireless blogger and activist for this important cause, but your a damn good interviewer too!
Thanks for all your work, I can't say it enough times.
-Jeff
Posted by: Jeff B. on January 27, 2005 08:21 AMMary Lane is kinda cute. Is she married?
Posted by: DeadManVoting (aka Iguana) on January 27, 2005 08:58 AMDemocrats are unconcerned. Their attorneys have argued that Republicans should have challenged improperly registered voters before the election.
So now its the Republicans job to challenge voters before an election??
Eric from Atlanta
Posted by: Eric on January 27, 2005 09:09 AMVery little, if any, of what the Demos are saying makes sense. I can't follow the doublespeak, and their minimizing of all the election problems. I think it is mostly political posturing. They hope that if they something often enough the public will believe them. I don't think their strategy is working.
Posted by: JG on January 27, 2005 10:04 AMI really feel that the people in charge of running the elections haven't been doing their jobs. If Sam Reed, Ron Sims, and Dean Logan were working for a public corporation they would've resigned or been fired by now. The only reason Democrats are defending them is because their party has benefited from all the illegal and negligent activities. If the shoe was on the other foot they'd have been screaming for their heads!We need to make sure that the people in charge are held responsible. The buck has to stop somewhere. Anyone looked into Sam Reed being recalled? How can we get rid of Dean Logan and Ron Sims?
Posted by: SweetNSassy on January 27, 2005 10:07 AM