The Right's New Lie: Obama Suing to Keep Soldiers from Voting

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Another of the great zombie lies--that Democrats want to stop military members from voting--is rearing its ugly head once again.

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Anyone who wants to can view the actual complaint filed against Ohio.

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The very first sentence of the actual complaint reads:

Plaintiffs bring this lawsuit to restore in-person early voting for all Ohioans

during the three days prior to Election Day – a right exercised by an estimated 93,000 Ohioans in the last presidential election.

The request is simple and direct: expand early voting for all citizens, not just military members.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/03/1116257/-The-Right-s-New-Lie-Obama-Suing-to-Keep-Soldiers-from-Voting

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Impeach and Deport!

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Early voting generally leans more towards the Democrats. The military vote generally favors Republicans. Absentee voting favors Republicans. Since Republicans cannot mobilize actual majorities, the only avenue for them to still win elections is to keep as many of the non-Republican vote away from the polls as possible. Limiting early voting is one of these efforts. They've done this here in FL, too. We used to have two weeks of early voting and will have only one week going forward. They weren't as painfully obvious as to the actual goal in FL. What's happened in OH is nothing but limiting the early voting which favors Democrats while preserving the regular early voting opportunities for the one segment that favors Republicans. These lawmakers ought to be fired if not sent up the river.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Yes, because dead people, felons, non-citizens, and folks with multiple personality disorder rarely vote Democrat.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Deisy Cabrera, Hialeah Woman, Arrested In Absentee Voter Fraud

An investigation into voter fraud has apparently widened throughout Miami-Dade after a Hialeah woman was been arrested for allegedly illegally collecting at least 31 absentee ballots in the August 14 local election.

Deisy Penton de Cabrera, 56, was pulled over on July 25 after a tip from a private investigator prompted detectives to follow her as she collected ballots from various Hialeah residences and delivered them to a local post office. Investigators said that between stops, Cabrera was also spotted submitting a stack of absentee ballot request forms at the Miami-Dade Elections Department.

Police were tipped off to Cabrera's activities by private investigator Joe Carrillo, who met with police July 23 after filming Cabrera and a second woman collecting ballots. He turned over to detectives a business card with Caberra's name on it, on the back of which was scrawled in handwritten Spanish, "When the ballots arrive, call me because I work all the elections."

According to the arrest warrant, one of the locations to which a detective followed Cabrera was a nursing home, where she visited an elderly and ill woman referred to a "Z.G." Cabrera was overheard informing Z.G. that Z.G.'s sister had sent her to collect Z.G.'s signature, but when police tried to interview Z.G. immediately following the visit they found her unresponsive, uncommunicative, and unaware of her surroundings due to illness.

Police reported finding a note written at the top of Z.G.'s ballot reading, "The lady who is my sister signed this way because I have arthritis... it's hard for her to sign. Thanks." Z.G.'s sister Olga Gomez told police that Cabrera had helped her fill out her own ballot before leaving with Z.G.'s ballot, but that it had been blank and Gomez did not write the note.

Nineteen ballots dropped off by Cabrera were recovered at a local post office, according to the arrest warrant, and an additional 12 were found in Cabrera's car.

One senior Hialeah resident told Local 10 that Cabrera had tried to sway him to vote for current Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez, who is up for re-election. Another woman told El Nuevo Herald that Cabrera filled out ballots for her and her husband twice last year and offered to move them up a public housing waiting list.

The Miami Herald reports Cabrera was seen in the building that houses the Republican Mayor's Hialeah campaign office and has been photographed at Gimenez events, but the Mayor and his consultants have denied she is on the payroll.

Carrillo has refused to tell the State Attorney’s Office, which has opened its own investigation into the case, who hired him to investigate Cabrera, according to Local 10.

Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle indicated in a statement released Monday that the fraud is likely far-reaching.

“We intend to thoroughly investigate all ballot related matters, including the additional complaints from other parts of Miami-Dade County that have been forwarded to us and the police,” she said in a statement.

UPDATE, August 3 10 a.m.: Fernandez Rundle recused herself from the case Thursday, as first reported by Crespo Gram. In a statement, she said:

"Unsubstantiated allegations have recently been brought to my attention that a person who has been assisting in my campaign was alleged to have been seen in the company of this defendant. I am therefore taking this action to avoid even the possibility that my pending election will cause any distraction to the prosecution of this case."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/02/deisy-cabrera-hialeah-voter-fraud_n_1733665.html

Obviously another story made up by the opposition to claim voter fraud.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Obviously another story made up by the opposition to claim voter fraud.

Actually, this is a story that highlights the uselessness of these voter ID laws in preventing voter fraud. Important to remember here that not a single one of these voter ID laws that are supposed to fight voter fraud would prevent this. Not one. Why? Because all of them left absentee voting untouched. Why is that, you ask? Well, because absentee ballots happen to favor the party that has been busy putting up these voter ID laws. Now what?

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Actually, this is a story that highlights the uselessness of these voter ID laws in preventing voter fraud. Important to remember here that not a single one of these voter ID laws that are supposed to fight voter fraud would prevent this. Not one. Why? Because all of them left absentee voting untouched. Why is that, you ask? Well, because absentee ballots happen to favor the party that has been busy putting up these voter ID laws. Now what?

I don't know about Florida, but in California, all absentee ballots are examined with the same scrutiny that would be used in a recount. The ballot has to be signed, signatures have to match, and either political party can protest the ballot and request a resolution by a third party agreed to beforehand by both political parties.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

I don't know about Florida, but in California, all absentee ballots are examined with the same scrutiny that would be used in a recount. The ballot has to be signed, signatures have to match, and either political party can protest the ballot and request a resolution by a third party agreed to beforehand by both political parties.

So then no voter fraud actually occurred here. What's the issue, then?

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

So then no voter fraud actually occurred here. What's the issue, then?

Yes, like Florida is a bastion of purity.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Yes, like Florida is a bastion of purity.

I didn't say that. But what good would these couple of dozen absentee ballots do if they are scrutinized so closely as to root out fraudulent absentee ballots?

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

I didn't say that. But what good would these couple of dozen absentee ballots do if they are scrutinized so closely as to root out fraudulent absentee ballots?

You are assuming Florida has the same high standards as California?

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

I didn't say that. But what good would these couple of dozen absentee ballots do if they are scrutinized so closely as to root out fraudulent absentee ballots?

Better answer: The attempt was made and somebody will probably go to jail, and an incumbent elected official may have just forfeited the election. I would not think the authorities would say that all is forgiven, because your attempt was futile due to our methods of maintaining the integrity of the election process.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

You are assuming Florida has the same high standards as California?

Florida has no standards. We're 100% governed by Republicans.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Florida has no standards. We're 100% governed by Republicans.

That is what you get for living on the right coast.