{Blogged by Brad on the road…}
Well, whaddaya know…Despite the unsupported ravings of Republican operatives and cynics hoping to paint “Voter Fraud” as an actual issue of great concern in this country to deflect from the very real concern of Election Fraud, it looks as if an actual case may have been found.
The alleged fraudulent voter: Karl Rove!
Political watchdog organization, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), announced the latest news yesterday:
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“I have lived in Kerr County for the past 15 years and have never even heard that Mr. Rove or his wife lived in the area,” Frances Lovett said today. “Reading about Mr. Rove’s illegal voter registration in the paper, and knowing that a complaint could not be filed unless a Kerr County resident took action, I resolved to take this next step and send a letter to District Attorney E. Bruce Curry.”
According to a report in The Washington Post on September 7, 2005, Mr. Rove and his wife, Darby, registered to vote in Kerr County in 2003 after they sold their Austin, Texas home. County property records show that Mr. Rove and his wife have owned two tiny rental cottages in Kerr County since 1997, the largest of which is only 814 feet and is valued by the county at $25,000. In contrast, the Roves’ Washington, D.C. home is valued at over $1.1 million. Other local Kerr County residents have stated that they have never seen Mr. Rove in the area.
Texas law requires that a “qualified voter” be a resident of Texas and the county in which the application for voter registration is made.
Of course, such laws only apply to those who are actually bound by “the rule of law,” which, as we all know, ceased applying to Republicans as of January 20, 2001. Just ask Ann Coulter.
In the meantime, we’ll remind readers unfamiliar with the issue that Voter Fraud, though it undoubtedly happens in the United States, is far from an epidemic rocking our election system. A recent study by the League of Women Voters in Ohio, for example, of more than 9 million votes in the last two national elections there, found four cases of actual Voter Fraud (voters voting twice, or the spouse of a dead registered voter sending in an absentee ballot for them). More info on the phony hype over Voter Fraud here.
On the other hand, hundreds of thousands, if not millions of votes in America are routinely ignored, thrown out, not counted, or voters are disenfranchised by not being allowed — by various means — to cast their vote in the first place.
Nonetheless, we’re happy to see all cases of Voter Fraud properly prosecuted. Including that of the the most insidious, anti-American, anti-democracy advocate of them all: Karl Rove. (Though in most states, felons aren’t allowed to vote anyway…so Rove’s voting rights may not be long for this world anyway.)
Frances Lovett Thank you so much. You are a true patriot!
(sniggering)
I don’t agree with your comment that there is little voter fraud in the U.S. You are talking about the wrong kind of voter fraud. The fraud we have experienced, at least in the last two major elections, was where the votes were changed at the main computers by someone who electronically manipulated the votes. It was really easy – just hit a few buttons and the wrong person is voted in. I have read several articles on this subject, one written by the person who did the manipulating. You should do some further investigation. The Free Press is one of the reporting entities.
Barbara #3 you are misunderstanding what Brad means when he says "Voter Fraud" … he means "fraud perpetrated by voters" … when you talk about votes being "changed at the main computers by someone who electronically manipulated the votes", that’s one of the things we mean by "Election Fraud".
As for your suggestion that Brad should do more investigating, LOL! Clearly you aren’t a regular reader!
Barbara J. McVein #3
We make a distinction between Voter Fraud and Election Fraud.
Voter Fraud = Fraud committed by an individual person such as voting more than once or voting in a district where you are not a resident. (Rove)
Election Fraud = Manipulation of the votes through many means such as vote switching by the tabulators, destroying votes without counting them, not providing sufficient machines for people to vote on, registering voters then throwing away the registrations of a particular party, intimidating voters to turn them away, etc. etc. (All of which happened in the last 2 presidential races. Diebold, Ken Blackwell, Kathleen Harris, States of Florida, Ohio, New Mexico etc. etc.)
Thanks for covering this. In most other blogs, people are missing the point of this whole story.
The United States elections depend on the principle of "one person one vote." Voting sends representatives to Congress who are supposed to represent what the local residents want.
KR lives his days in DC, so he should be voting for someone to represent his interests as a resident of DC.
Winter Patriot #4
Hopefully Barbra will become a regular visitor and we can all enlighten her, or she can bring new ideas here.
Hopefully she doesn’t take your parting comment wrong.
Rest of my post…
Remember, folks, DC doesn’t have voting representation in the US Congress. Texas’ open "intent" laws are an invitation for the disenfranchised to exercise their constitutional right to be represented. And add some blue to the Texas rolls….
Tom DeLay is a representative of Texas. One less fraudulent voter in Texas = one less vote for DeLay.
And remember, people in Cincinnati were turned away from voting (or had their ballots canceled) because they were in the wrong city precinct. Unlike KR, they were not in the wrong state.
That Barbara every one is picking on? could her last name be(bush) just asking. Karl Rove, was just doing his job. When he voted in Texas. Does any one know if he voted in washington DC?Maybe thats why he’s being called back to the grand jury?
Bluebear re #7: agreed
Barbara had better not take my parting comment wrong! 😉
Hang around Barbara and read … please! There’s a ton of good stuff here — and Brad is one of the best Election Fraud investigators there is!
The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
We got this recently on Rove and Plame that Bush will pardon them all if convicted. Praps Rove moved to texas 🙂 virtually 🙂 to max up the chance of pardon.
And more Bushit hits the fan:
Linked from Truthout.org
"Outside Inquiry Sought on Prosecutor’s Demotion
By Philip Shenon
The New York Times
Friday 07 October 2005
Washington – The ranking Democrats on three House committees called Thursday for an outside investigator to determine why a prosecutor in Guam was demoted in 2002 after opening a criminal investigation of Jack Abramoff, the Washington lobbyist now at the center of a federal corruption investigation."
More
Another article of hope:
"Fall of the Rovean Empire?
By Sidney Blumenthal
Salon.com
Thursday 06 October 2005
Drunk on power, the Republican oligarchs overreached. Now their entire project could be doomed."
More
Nothing to see here, Rove wouldn’t commit voter fraud…..Nah not that guy, and not election fraud too!
Great going!!
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Doug
I’ve seen claims that a number of Republicans lost elections because of dead voters and such.
Not that I trust anything the righwingers throw into the fan.
Phil said
"I’ve seen claims that a number of Republicans lost elections because of dead voters"
If all this goes well it may be the only way the Repugs can win the next one.
If Karl Rove gets away with it, he could be setting up a huge precident for other D.C. disenfranchised voters.
I can see it now, a mass emigration, in voting only, of D.C. residents to Texas. Since D.C. voters are mostly Democrats, this could tip the political majority in Texas back to the Democrats.
Thanks Karl Rove, for being such a dishonest butthead. Keep up the lies and smear campaigns that everyone now finds unbelievable. Keep marching the Republican Party lemmings lockstep over the cliff and into the sea of unpopularity… or to jail
Karl Rove has stepped in the shit
Lawyer explores legal options after getting fired by the Texas Secretary of State, for discussing Karl Rove’s illegal voting behavior.
"What was Reyes’ alleged violation? She had answered a reporter’s questions about whether rental property Rove owns in Kerr County, Texas, qualifies him to register to vote in that county.
Reyes says she didn’t know the person asking questions was a reporter and she didn’t know that the reporter was asking about Rove. In a correction published on Sept. 10, The Washington Post acknowledged that the reporter never asked about Rove by name. But Gabe Escobar, the newspaper’s city editor, says the reporter did identify herself to Reyes.
But after Rove called Texas Secretary of State Roger Williams, Reyes was terminated.
Williams, a Gov. Rick Perry appointee who has served as secretary of state since January, confirms (that Rove called him after The Washington Post published the article.
"He and I are friends," Williams says of Rove.
He also broke the law, Mr. Williams. What the hell are you going to do about it? Obstruct the law?!??? Looks like its time for a JURY!!!!!
Doug Eldritch
This is exactly what I was fuming about last week..not so much the voting but making a call to Williams and getting someone fired for stating a policy. How rotten is that?
Williams is a multi-thousand contributor and Rove has his personal phone number, Williams had stated that. Rove was "displeased" that Reyes had spoken with a reporter.
I e-mailed everyone I could think of hopefully someone with clout will follow up. Remember Nuke kept saying, Oh Rove lives there. Sure and no one ever remembers seeing him or his wife.
Hey, laws are for every one.
:crazy:
This is truly BUSHIT!!!!!!!!
Rove lives in Texas the same way little Green Men live in Washington……Only in our dreams, I hope!!!!
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Doug E.
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