{"id":10117,"date":"2013-07-09T11:41:47","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T18:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=10117"},"modified":"2013-07-09T11:40:54","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T18:40:54","slug":"case-closed-dead-people-still-not-voting-in-sc-according-to-18-month-law-enforcement-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10117","title":{"rendered":"Case Closed: ‘Dead People’ STILL Not Voting in SC According to 18-Month Law Enforcement Probe"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the beginning of 2012, the Executive Director of the South Carolina State Election Commission demolished the claim<\/a>, put forward by the state’s Republican Attorney General, that some 953 votes in the state had been cast in recent elections by “dead people”.<\/p>\n

They hadn’t, of course, and the claim was little more than a transparent ruse to try and “stuff the ballot boxes” in support of polling place Photo ID restrictions meant to disenfranchise largely minority, poor, elderly and student (read: Democratic-leaning) voters.<\/p>\n

Unsatisfied with actual facts and stuff at the time, state Republicans tasked the State’s Law Enforcement Division (SLED) with investigating the matter and, what do you know — despite claims happily aired by Fox “News” from every Republican in the state, from the Governor to the AG to the party apparatchik last year — it turns out zombie voters are still<\/i> not voting in SC, no matter how many times the pretend claims are investigated.<\/p>\n

After an 18-month probe, just before last week’s holiday, when few suckers<\/strike>, chumps<\/strike>, pawns<\/strike>, stooges<\/strike>, Republican Fox “News” viewers might notice, SLED quietly issued a report recommending no further action<\/a>, and closed its investigation into the completely bogus claims<\/a> after concluding none<\/i> of the accusations were true — as MSNBC’s Al Sharpton was kind enough to highlight…<\/p>\n

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There once was a day when the Republican Party actually fought for legislation concerning actual, real<\/i> things, right? I seem to recall such a day, though it seems so long ago now…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the beginning of 2012, the Executive Director of the South Carolina State Election Commission demolished the claim, put forward by the state’s Republican Attorney General, that some 953 votes in the state had been cast in recent elections by “dead people”. They hadn’t, of course, and the claim was little more than a transparent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[400,106,6,28,14,172,300,248,517],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-10117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2012","category-election-fraud","category-election-irregularities","category-election-reform","category-fox-news","category-photo-id-laws","category-republicans","category-south-carolina","category-voting-rights-act"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10117"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=10117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}