On Voting Republicans Out Of Office

Hmm.... so your argument is something that represents a risk that is less than .001% of the total risk is something I should worry about?

I think I would worry more about your sanity than the risk of disease from an immigrant.

How about the 99.99% chance the laws are not being followed for political gain?

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About the same time the Democratic party were in with the KKK and the likes of Margret Sanger.

Republican Arrested After Allegedly Attempting to Vote Twice in Nevada
A rare case of actual voter fraud, though another one which would not have been deterred by GOP polling place Photo ID restrictions...
By Brad Friedman on 11/3/2012, 2:46pm PT



Hey, look! We may have an actual case of voter fraud at the polling place! An attempted case anyway...
Investigators today arrested a Southern Nevada woman suspected of trying to vote twice this week at two different polling locations.

Roxanne Rubin was taken into custody as she arrived for work at the Riviera hotel-casino, investigators said. Rubin, 56, is a registered Republican who lives in Henderson, according to the Clark County Registrar.

Rubin allegedly cast a vote Monday at the Anthem Community Center in Henderson. Later that day, she tried to vote a second time at an early voting location on Eastern Avenue, investigators said.

When Rubin arrived at the second location, a poll worker conducted a routine database check and found Rubin had already voted. When confronted by the poll worker, Rubin denied having voted and claimed the database used by the poll worker was wrong.
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Rubin was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on one felony count of voting twice in the same election.
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While allegations of voter fraud or faulty voting machines are common during a busy election, Clark County Registrar Larry Lomax said this is the first time in his 15 years on the job that a voter has been arrested for trying to cast two ballots.

While NV election officials are crowing about safeguards in their system which they say worked to stop Rubin from being able to vote twice, in fairness, we'll note that she deserves a trial before anyone decides for certain that she, indeed, carried out the crime she is accused of. It could very well turn out to be true that she didn't try to vote twice, that somehow, someone else voted under her name in the first instance. But we'll see.

In either case, this points up once again just how rare it is that folks commit actual voter fraud at the polls. (Doing so via absentee ballot is far more common, and another reason why systems like Oregon's all Vote-by-Mail system --- where state officials are now investigating ballot tampering by a GOP election official after she allegedly filled in unvoted ballots with Republican candidates --- remains a terrible idea for democracy.)

Neither voting twice, as alleged in Nevada above, nor crimes via absentee ballot fraud, are deterred in any way by the disenfranchising polling place Photo ID restrictions enacted by Republicans in a dozen states recently, despite their wholly unsupported claims that such laws are needed to stop "voter fraud". The only type of voter fraud that can possibly be deterred by those kinds of laws --- which study after study has found to disproportionately disenfranchise elderly, minority, student and poor (read: Democratic-leaning) voters --- is the incredibly rare crime of in person impersonation fraud.

A recent exhaustive study of all election fraud crimes in all 50 states since 2000, carried out by the investigative news consortium News21, found just ten (10) cases of in-person impersonation fraud out of hundreds of millions of votes cast across the nation during the same period.

Concerns about insider election fraud, however --- such as the gaming of voter registration rolls, or the ability of a single election insider to flip the results of an entire election with a few keystrokes in a matter of seconds, with little possibility of detection --- remain a very serious concern, as hundreds of computer scientists and security experts (as well as The BRAD BLOG) have been warning about now for years to little notice.

Republican Arrested for Voter Fraud in Virginia

By Aviva Shen, ThinkProgress

20 October 12



ennsylvania resident Colin Small was arrested Thursday after he was caught illegally destroying voter registration forms in Virginia. Smalls worked for a firm hired by the Republican Party of Virginia to register voters, but was spotted throwing away 8 voter registration forms in a dumpster on Monday, the deadline for registering to vote in Virginia.

The 31-year-old man was charged with four counts of destruction of voter registration applications, eight counts of failing to disclose voter registration applications and one count of obstruction of justice. Small was spotted by the owner of a store in Harrisonburg, Virginia, who became suspicious when he saw Small's Pennsylvania license plate.

The Los Angeles Times has the details of the discarded forms:

Three of the voters turned out to be already registered, according to Donald Palmer, secretary of the Virginia State Board of Elections. The other five were not registered, and have since been added to the voter roll. Registration closed on Monday.

In Virginia, and other states, it's a crime to accept a voter registration form and not turn it in. Small is charged with destroying voter registration applications and obstruction of justice.

"There is no indication this activity was widespread in our jurisdiction," said a statement from the Rockingham County Sheriff's Office. The investigation is continuing, the sheriff's office said.

Small worked for Strategic Allied Consulting, a registration firm now being investigated for submitting fraudulent registration forms in Florida. The Republican National Committee paid more than $3 million to SAC but quickly cut ties once the fraud came to light. As for Small, Virginia Republican Chairman Pat Mullins said he was fired as soon as the allegations surfaced. RNC spokesman Sean Spicer said Small had "made a mistake" and that the RNC "fully supports" the charges against him.

Though this is now the second criminal investigation against voter registration employees hired by the Republican Party, it hasn't halted the shady registration practices still operating in at least ten states.

Man arrested in voter fraud
Mark Jacoby, owner of a firm hired by the state GOP, allegedly broke the law with his own registration.
October 20, 2008|Evan Halper | Times Staff Writer

SACRAMENTO — The owner of a firm that the California Republican Party hired to register tens of thousands of voters this year was arrested in Ontario over the weekend on suspicion of voter registration fraud.

State and local investigators allege that Mark Jacoby fraudulently registered himself to vote at a childhood California address where he no longer lives so he would appear to meet the legal requirement that all signature gatherers be eligible to vote in California. His firm, Young Political Majors, or YPM, collects petition signatures and registers voters in California and other states.

Jacoby's arrest by state investigators and the Ontario Police Department late Saturday came after dozens of voters said they were duped into registering as Republicans by people employed by YPM. The voters said YPM workers tricked them by saying they were signing a petition to toughen penalties against child molesters.

The firm was paid $7 to $12 for every Californian it registered as a member of the GOP.

Dan Goldfine, an attorney for Jacoby, on Sunday denied any wrongdoing by his client and called the charges "baseless."

He said the arrest outside an Ontario hotel, which involved seven squad cars and nine police officers, was part of a "long pattern of harassment against Mr. Jacoby for an entirely valid voter registration effort."

Goldfine said the case that prosecutors are bringing against his client involves charges that are rarely pressed.

Jacoby was released on bail Sunday evening from the West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga, Goldfine said.

After complaints by voters and Democratic Party officials, several agencies launched investigations into Jacoby's activities. They included the Los Angeles County district attorney's office, which issued the warrant for his arrest earlier this month on felony charges of voter registration fraud and perjury.

"We contacted people at the addresses where he registered, and they have no idea who he is," said Dave Demerjian, head deputy of the public integrity unit at the L.A. County district attorney's office.

Goldfine said his client does business in many states, traveling frequently, and his permanent address has been his parents' Los Angeles County home, where he received mail and registered to vote.

Demerjian said his office is continuing to investigate allegations that YPM workers improperly re-registered voters with the GOP.

Several dozen voters recently told The Times that YPM workers said they had to become Republicans to sign the petition, contrary to California initiative law. Other voters said they had no idea their registration was being changed.

YPM has been accused of using bait-and-switch tactics across the country. Election officials and lawmakers have launched investigations into the activities of YPM workers in Florida and Massachusetts. In Arizona, the firm was recently a defendant in a civil rights lawsuit.

In a written statement Sunday, the state Republican Party called the charges against Jacoby "politically motivated." The party said the charges do not support accusations from voters and Democratic officials that YPM has been duping voters into joining the GOP.

The statement accused Secretary of State Debra Bowen, who announced the arrest, of "using her office to play politics."

Former FL GOP Chair Arrested

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ByBen FruminPublishedJune 2, 2010, 2:22 PM EDT
Former Florida Republican Party Chair Jim Greer was arrested this morning and charged with grand theft, attempt to defraud, and money laundering the Orlando Sentinel reports.

Greer -- a close ally of Gov. Charlie Crist -- was reported to be under criminal investigation for a contract worth around $200,000 that he awarded to himself and the state party's executive director. The Florida Republican Party revealed the news in March, saying it had uncovered the contract in the course of its annual financial audit, and referred the matter to authorities.

It's not yet clear if that incident was the basis for Greer's arrest. The Sentinel reports today:

Florida Department of Law Enforcement agents brought Greer, of Oviedo, to the Seminole County jail shortly before 10 a.m., a Sheriff's Office spokeswoman confirmed.

State law enforcement officials will hold a press conference at 11:30 a.m. ET to "announce a major arrest."

Greer was appointed by Crist in 2007 to run the Florida Republican Party, but was forced out of the job in January, after reports of lavish party spending, much of which went on the credit card of the party's executive director, Delmar Johnson.

Gosh. I love your made up statistics. Do you have anything else that you want to present as evidence you are out of touch with reality?

Jobless claims fall to lowest level since early 2006

By Lucia Mutikani

WASHINGTON Thu Jul 24, 2014 9:13am EDT
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(Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell to the lowest level in nearly 8-1/2 years last week, suggesting the labor market recovery was gaining traction.

Initial claims for state unemployment benefits declined 19,000 to a seasonally adjusted 284,000 for the week ended July 19, the Labor Department said on Thursday.

That was the lowest level since February 2006, and confounded economists' expectations for a rise to 308,000.

The data provided further confirmation that the labor market is tightening. Employment has grown by more than 200,000 jobs in each of the last five months, a stretch not seen since the late 1990s.

"This is consistent with another payroll reading for July, but it will probably not be as strong as June," said Sam Bullard, senior economist with Wells Fargo Securities in Charlotte, North Carolina.

U.S. stock index futures held on to slight gains after the data, while the dollar erased losses versus a basket of currencies. Prices for U.S. Treasury debt fell and yields on the 30-year bond hit session highs. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen cautioned last week that the Fed could raise interest rates sooner and more rapidly than currently envisioned if the labor market continued to improve faster than anticipated by policymakers.

Economists currently do not expect the U.S. central bank to start raising interest rates before the second half of 2015. The Fed, which is wrapping up its monthly bond buying program, has kept overnight lending rates near zero since December 2008.

"The Federal Reserve will look at this (jobless claims data) as a favorable development for the jobs market as they look toward timing for normalizing monetary policy," Bullard said.

While jobless claims tend to be volatile around this time of the year, when automakers shut down plants for retooling, a Labor Department analyst said there were no special factors influencing the state level data.

The four-week average of claims, considered a better gauge of labor market trends as it irons out week-to-week volatility, fell 7,250 to 302,000, the lowest level since May 2007.

The claims report showed the number of people still receiving benefits after an initial week of aid fell 8,000 to 2.50 million in the week ended July 12, the lowest level since June 2007.

The so-called continuing claims data covered the household survey week from which the unemployment rate is calculated.

Continuing claims fell 68,000 between the June and July survey periods, suggesting the unemployment rate could decline from near a six-year low of 6.1 percent.

The unemployment rate for people receiving jobless benefits was unchanged at 1.9 percent for the week ended July 12.

The decline in continuing claims indicates some long-term unemployed Americans are finding jobs, a key metric for Fed policymakers.

(Reporting by Lucia Mutikani; Additional reporting by Richard Leong in New York; Editing by Paul Simao)

Michele Bachmann hints she may make ’16 GOP primary 37% more hilarious by entering it
By TBogg
Wednesday, July 23, 2014 16:54 EDT



Fom the Department of Good News That Really Makes Us Happy and Promises Lots of Hours of Childish Glee and Clapping of Hands, America’s Favorite Crazy Girlfriend, Michele Bachmann, is saying that she kinda sorta might be considering thinking conceivably about possibly perhaps who knows running for president again, if someone were to ask her real nicely, hint hint, bats her eyes, undoes top button of her blouse, licks lips lasciviously in a way that oddly has no effect on her husband Marcus.

Yup. The Girl With The Faraway Eyes, as Charlie Pierce calls her, is thinking about giving it a shot again and it is a befuddlement and a wonderment to her why no one who writes in-depth about the 2016 GOP presidential horse race is taking her seriously.

I know. So weird, right?

“The only thing that the media has speculated on is that it’s going to be various men that are running,” she replied. “They haven’t speculated, for instance, that I’m going to run. What if I decide to run? And there’s a chance I could run.”

Yes, there is a chance! It could totally happen! And it should!

And why not, despite the fact that she is stepping down from her current seat because she appeared to vulnerable after a narrow 2012 election, and also there is some icky-sticky campaign finance issues, and she has that habit of saying interesting things like the HPV vaccination makes people get the “retardation,” or The Lion King makes kids gay, or the Founding Fathers got rid of slavery with the Constitution.

You may call those pearls of wisdom ‘Crazytalk from Loonytown,’ but her staff insists that they are ‘gaffes,’ when what she really meant to say was, “Jesus loves you. Unless you’re a homo.”

Face it, who wants to watch Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Rick Santorum, Mike Huckabee, Chris Christie, Marco Rubio, and Bobby Jindahl try to out-pander each other by throwing the bloodiest of red meat to the slavering Tea Party hordes who have forced them to turn the GOP debates into a circus geek chicken-head bite-off, while Michele stands on the sidelines radiating the heavenly glow of God-given insanity?

Not me. Nope.

Of course this could turn out to be one of those Palinesque ‘maybe-I’ll-run, maybe-I-won’t’ come-ons designed to attract PAC money and speaking gigs and adoring crowds, in which case we can expect a Minnesota-Alaska No-Holds-Barred ‘G’-droppin’ Grift-Off which will be equally entertaining.

Either way, it is a win-win for America.

U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A! etc. Infinity. Amen.

Number of people in labor force is also at an all time low. 92 million Americans do not work. The number who are under employed(part-time) is also growing. Smoke, mirrors, and numbers that tell only one part of the story.

In other words, propaganda.

Well **** ass let's get Bush and Cheney back they will help the economy...

Why not? Obama has resurrected Karl Marx with his redistribution and other collectivist policies, which have and are failing. Government dependence is not the way to grow an economy.

Where exactly are Obama's economic policies failing?

Where aren't they?

Do you mean when republicans lowered our global credit rating?

Looks like the truth upsets people here.